The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-25
THE NEW HAVEN ROADS TERMI-
 NUS IN NEW YORK

NUS IN NEW YORK.
 Although the plans of the New Ha- ven railroad company for improved ter minal facilities in this city are not fully revealed, several features of it's pro-
 gramme are already manifest. Closer
 relations with the Long Island and
 Pennsylvania systems are to be sus- tained than have existed in the past
 What is known as the Harlem branch
 over which the Washington express
 from New England now runs, will be extended over the East River near Hell
 Gate, and thence downward to the Long
 Island network of lines. Eventually
 the particular train just mentioned will make use of t..e projected tunnels un-
 der the East River across Manhattan
 island and beneath the hudson, instead
 of going by ferry from Port Morris
 Until these tunnels are built, however,
 temporary provision must be made for reaching Jersey City from the vicinity of Long Island City. Several routes are possible. and a choice among these
 is yet to be made, or at least to be an nounced.
 If the transfer boat should start from Long Island City the distance covered would be five miles shorter than if the train embarked at Port Morris. This would be distinct gain, because far better time can be made on land than on water. Still another advantage would be secured, though, by making a detour around Brooklyn, by means of the Long Island tracks, to Bay Ridge. The water route would then avoid the paths of large number of local fer ries in the lower East River and the chances of collision and delay be mate
 rially reduced To be sure, the final stage of the journey on land before New York Bay was reached would be rather circuitous, but the merits of the plan would more than offset that draw
 back, especially since the arrangement would not be permanent.
 One cannot but speculate on the pos
 shle consequences of bringing that Washington express to and past the proposed Manhattan station of the Pennsylvania road. The first effect will be a saving of time between New Eng land and the south. But how about ex- press and suburban trains which are not to go beyond New York? Will they. too, switch off at New Rochelle, come down the Harlem branch to Long Island City and make Thirty third street, instead of Forty-second street, their terminus? The New Haven com- pany is non -commitai on this point, and perhaps wisely. It may prefer to leave the question open for the present and develop it's policy gradually. Whatever be it's decision, though, the new route into this city would certainly prove more attractive to the traveller than the old one through the Central tunnel. Such change might also rescue the New Haven company from serious di- lemma. It could defer the adoption of electricity as a motive agent little longer, inasmuch as the Pennsylvania people could haul the New Haven trains in from Long Island City, where as public sentiment will not tolerate steam locomotives in the Park avenue tunnel much longer.
 It is also desirable to know whether the service which the New Haven road now renders to Pelham and Mount Ver- non will ever be abandoned as result of opening up new route to this city. There are about four miles of track be- tween New Rochelle, where the two lines diverge, and the point at which the New Haven trains reach the Har- lem division of the Central. If trackag rights over the latter are ever surren- dered what will become of the people living on that. short bit of road? If they are left In the lurch the Port Ches- ter line will doubtless accommodate them fairly we'll Besides, Mount Yer non already gets some benefit from the Harlem It does not seem probable, however, that that city will be deserted by the New Haven company, even if Forty-second street is abandoned as terminus. Mount Vernon's patronage is too valuable to throw away. This could be retained and much new busi- ness picked up if an extension from the end of the New Haven's own track southward to Port Morris were built.
 Finally, it will be interesting to see how much of an obstruction to com merce the New Haven company's bridge over the East River will prove to be. Inasmuch as the Tribune's dis patches refer to a draw in the proposed it may be assumed that the latter will be too low for large schoon- CTS and steamers to pass under it at all times. There are several drawbridges over the Harlem, but very little ship ping goes up that stream. A much greater amount passes up and down the Sound. The entrance to that body of water, moreover, is already beset with peculiar embarrassments, The erection of bridge in that vicinity therefore will not be regarded with per feet complacency by ship owners and York Tribune.