New-York tribune., 1900-12-01
METROPOLITAN'S PLANS.
EXTENSIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS OUT
LIKED BY PRESIDENT vREELAND.

President Hreeiand OF the Metropolitan street
Railway Company In an interview yesterday
.utIined in detail the plans OF the company for
xtending its lines and improving iis serNlee'
nd took occasion also 10 deny absolutely me
urnors that the Metropolitan purposed securing
control OF the Manhattan Railway Company
Nr. greelsnd said:
We VII not begin Operating oar Broadway
sna nv electrfcity before the spring. but We
have placed contracts for materlal 10 oohIieCt
he qhird-ave and FouTth>ave, aud other last
side lines with the Broaawsk hnS anu SUN %
sfter we begin operations with electricity on
'se Broadway line We viii be able 20 run cars
4 these lines as well as those OF the siNth-aEe ,
me right down TO South Ferry. This VIII faci-
tate greatly the handling OF traffic -,
After these lines have been connecteG VIII
Broadway, transfers at a NUMBER ol Poil1o
where passengers now ehange 10 bIoao ,'SsS
Etn be discontinued. As an example OF VIA ma
mis- change viii mean. 1 may state that tIe
average number Of transfers issued al AstoI
Place IN the course OF Gay amounts 10 aoOS'
sizteen thousand This involves that the Broad,
ray cars going up 10 Astor Place are croNoso
3uring rush hours hat much or the IaLno Sl
.annOt be accommodated and rs lost AHese
same cars. having passed Astor Place. are % co1h-
oaratively empty. When we run the foefu-
ave. and Second-ave. cars down 10 me BIy BatIeIy
ne Broadway cars viii be used Tor purely
sroadyyay business. and there win be ample ac-
eoumOdation for all our patrons. = ,,-
We have contracted for the materlai loI ~ ~
vifb construction work IN the spring as carry a.
fhe weather viii permit. The canal-st piahSn @ U
ID The SiNth-ave. and Elghth-afe. 1lhes va = =.
extended 70 Brooklyn Bridge, maieIiai Iof AIle' ne
sxtcnsion having also been contracted loI- W
hsve fuet completed sixteen miles Of extensions
OF the HucklebeTTy system m Ihe bronx, W
On which has been going on during the sunni
The storage battery cars IN Ihirty y-Aoui IA -
and the. compressed air cars IN twenty g-slsi~ilA mn
and Txepty-ninth SITS are proving NeIs saNis
Factory but Il Is impossible 10 say any tilAs III
regard 10 the relative merits OF the TWO sgsle
as unsn about a week ago We dld nol HaNs
Sufficient number Of cars 10 operate siIe ~! ~
fully and those running were hainl'treo ~ S.e
borsecars I can say however. that the remain
Ing lines OF the system viii he IN time opera ateu
bv one or other of these powers, even tle D. D.
Line where the liability 20 Hoods "oulu ~ laAe
the operation Of the underground uoles 'HPos
sIble. n,,.
I have repeatedly denied the rumor mat Net
ronolitsn would lease or in some other way a.,
ouire the Manhattan elevated line, ana again
emphatinally deny IT, The fact that we are SUP
plylng power for the operation OF the MAMMA Ms-
that street railroad companies are SINKING dielI
petty differences and assisting one announcer III
.diA5culties as the steam railroads do.
NV early training has been in connection win
steam roads and what I learned there III re-
pard TO mutual assistance ! still carry out IL is
untrue 20 say that the experiments with eiec-
frical operation on the Manhattan lines are De
ing carried under my direction, ana knew
hing whatever Of the details Of Manhattan =
plans until 1 rode the other day on the expert
mental train. -
surprised me. Last year earnings Ia Octooer
and November were abnormal We had SWhuVo
and So 600 days. Nevertheless we are doing
better this month. / did not look Tor anything
so good.