New-York tribune., 1901-06-05
VREELAND REACHING OUT.
THROUGH CARS FOR FERRY PAssEN-
GERS HIS AIM
IN t"o WEEKS EIGHTH AND SIXTH AVE.
LINES WILL BE OPENED To THE
CORTLANDT-ST FERRY

notwithstanding the fact that H H Vreeland
mas expended fully s35 100000 in the improvement and
extension of the Metropolitan Stret Railway system
during the eight years since he became president of
the company he is to-day hard at work laying out
more money for ferry connections and yester-
day he reached a point where he was able to an
nounce positively that in two weeks more he would
De running the of the Sixth and Eighth ave-
leS 10 terminal directly opposite the CortIandt-
st ferryhouse of the Pennsylvania Railroad Mr.
Nreeland also announced that he had lust given the
order for the construction Of underground trolley
tracks in Battery Place to connect the present
southern terminus of the Sixth and Eighth ave
cars at Battery Place with the Broadway tracks
running to South Ferry
Mr. Nreeand was also able yesterday to inform,
the patrons of his road that he would soon begin
upon the tracks which bring certain Sixth-ave
ana kighth-ave cars to Broadway at CanaI-st
and ne would extend them across Broadway along
Canal-st. far east as Centre-st. where CON
hecton would be made with the Fourth-ave tracks
For the thousands of suburbanites who visit Man
haitian Island daily. arriving by way of the Chris
topher-st. ferry Mr.. Vreeland had also good news
he announced that those Sixth-ave. cars which
now run only far south as Fourth-st would
soon be sent speeding down to the Chrtstopher-st.
ferry. Three other important undertakings which
Mr. Vreeland will prosecute this summer are the
changing of the motive power of the Seventh-ave.
line from horse TO trolley. the extension Of the
Amsterdam-ave. tracks from One-hundred and
siXty-frst-st to the Harlem ship canal, along the
Kingsbrdge Road, and the laying down of about
twenty miles of tracks in the Annexed Dis
trict, in connection with the Union Railway.
A BUSY SUMMER MAPPED OUT
You see" said Mr.. Vreeland yesterday to
Tribune reporter, we have mapped for
selves a fairly busy summer. These ferry con-
necttons consider of great Importance The pub
lie demand for them has been insistent for some
years and many the complaints I have re-
ceived through the mails that did not build them
sooner. The great obstacle in the way has been
the cable system Broadway. Columbus and
LexinGton-ave. lines. Now that these cables have
been abandoned for the trolley. whole system
is on the road to become homogeneous. and cars
from he switched 10 another avenue
whenever traffic tends to become congested. This
could not be done before. but that the great
feat Of dispensing with the cable has been accom-
plished I find time push the ferry
tions TO early completion.
That the Cortlandt-st ferry 1 now feel safe
In saying will he finished IN two weeks. The
tension begins West Broadway and Fulton-st.
and runs by way Of Greenwich Dey and Washing
into Cortlandt. The terminus will be
directly opposite the Pennsylvania Railroads
ferryhouse. Through cars will then be run from
that ferry Harlem Piver the Eighth
tracks. and to Fort George over the Sixth
ave. and Amsterdam-ave tracks. This will take
shoppers from Jersey City right into the heart of
the retail district OF Manhattan with comfort and
speed. our patrons who desire to ride from the
to leave the SIxth-ave and Eighth-ave. at
Battery Place and take the horsecars for South
Ferry. Since the installation OF the trolley in
Broadway I have ordered work 10 begin
nection between the Sxth-ave. and Eighth-ave.
tracks and the Broadway tracks This connecting
link Will through Battery Place. and before
long will be carrying from Fort George and
the Harlem River to South Ferry without change.
Four weeks will suffice. / estimate, TO establish
this ferry connection.
But more important connection than either
OF those already mentioned is the line 70 the
Christopher-st. ferry. This ferry does business
of 100000 passengers annually and four ffths of
them when they land here go north for their
business pleasure Those whose business takes
them south OF ChristOpher-St. generally land at
Barclay-st. The crosstown the Chris
topher-st. line drawn by horses, hence We
cannot run through from the avenues 10 the
ferry. I will begin to install the underground
trolley the crosstown line and then those Sixth
which now run only as far south as
Fourth-st will be switched off SiXth-ave. at
Eighth-st and to the ChristOpher-St ferry.
Certain Eighth-ave cars viii also TO the ferry
without change. our transfer system will OF
course give passengers who board the
Chrisopher-st ferry easy to any part of the