New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-10
RAPID TRANSIT,S GROWTH.
RAILROAD MEN TELL OF ITS ADVANCE
HERE
LINDENTHAL SPEAKS FOR MOVING BRIDGE
PLATFORM COMMODORE WANDER
RIT HAD PLANNED UNDER
GROUND ROAD.

Members of the Transportation Club, of New
York of which Senator Depew is president. had
their annual dinner last evening in their ciubroons
on the top floor of the Hotel Manhattan. About
two hundred members present. Immediately
in front of the guests table We're number Of
miniature trolley cars. symbolic of the transporta
ton business, which run about on tiny cir
cular track, propelled by dimlnutive electric mo-
tors. Just above Senator Depew's head were the
initials -. NJ. D. in electric lights.
The Senator the first speaker. said that while
the railway men had developed inland commerce.
the traffic yet remained an unexpected field
He discussed the advances of rapid transit and
ended by saying that when the new rapid transit
tunnel completed, and the New-Gork Central
had its traios running electrically underground in
and of the Grand Central station, this city
could boast of the greatest system of rapid transit
In the world
President VreeIand. of the Metropolitan Street
Railway Company. talked OF the advancement Of
the street railways from the old horse car sys-
tens to the overhead trolley. and finally up TO the
third rail system in present day use. He declared
that New York's system greatly ahead OF
similar lines of Europe and that he frequently had
railway from Europe in his office who Won
dered and marvelled at the system.
John p Green of the Pennsylvania road spoke
about the coming of his road to this city.
We felt" said he. that mission had not
been hlled until planted our system squarely
in the centre Of the greatest commercial centre
in this country"
William Barclay Parsons followed Mr. Green.
and said among other things that the subway dis
ease catching. From what | read Of Mr..
Wiguss plan, suspect he IS going to give ns
something like the loop the loop a" he said
At this juncture Senator Depew got up. and after
shaking hands with a few gentlemen present left
the room George II. Daniels. vice-president OF
the club his place presiding officer remark
ing: Senator Depew's wife has just sent for him.
and he had go home right away
Mr.. Daniels in introducing Bridge Commissioner
I.indenthal said he felt certain that MT Linden
| thai had a number of suggestions 10 make to Mr.
Greatsinger. Mr.. LndenthaI said that neither he
nor Mr.. Greatsnger asked wanted any sugges-
tons; they in AT the rate OF sixty day
Mr.. Lindenthal said he felt sure that the .solu-
zion of the bridge problem would the moving
platform. The trolleys he stated could handle but
eighteen thousand hour. while the moving
platform could take over sixty-five thousand an
hour. all seated.
Mr. Daniels spoke Interestingly "A Glance
at the Evolution of Rapid Transit on the New
York and Harlem Railroad
1T is n far cry said Mr.. Daniels. from April
1902 the time when three small horsecars We're
operated continuously during the week days from 6
O'Clock in morning to $50 o'clock night to
handle the immense passenger traffic OF the Har-
1T is even far from January %: 1851 1902
metropolitan Street Railway Company. and pos
sibly also interesting TO me president or the Brook
Ign Rapid Transit Company to hear the resolution
of the Board of Aldermen orthe city of NewYo rk.
passed on January e 1891. which directed the Har-
| lem Railroad II station a hagman at the corner
| OF Bowery ana Broome for the purpose Of
warning pedestrians, and those persons driving
vehicles Of the nigh approach of the raicars as
they turn the corner of Bowery and Broome-st
In closing, | beg to say that the present
agement of the New York Central and their prede-
| cessors back Commodore Vanderbilt have been
interested in the question Of rapid transit for New
York, and early 1872 the legislature granted
| Vanderbilt a charter for the construction of an
| underground railroad by the NewYork City Rapid
| Transit Company from the City Hall to the Grand
| Central Station. Local opposition. however pre-
vented this scheme from being carried out, but |
have II on the authority of f. D. Worcester sec
| rotary of the New-York Central, to whose charge
the details of that enterprise ntrusted. that
the Commodore had expressed his intention to pre-
! sent this rapid transit plant the city of New
York when 1t should be completed"