New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-10

The granting Of the application Of the New
York and Port Chester Railroad Company Tor
a franchise by the State Railroad Commission
Yesterday which will permit the construction
Of a four-track electric railroad from one-hun-
dred and-thirty- -second-st and Willisave. along
the Long Island Sound shore far as Port
Chester and the State line is regarded by w. c,
Gotshau president Of the Port Chester Railroad
Company, as a cogent argument for an East
Side branch of the present rapid transit
scheme II has been open secret for some
time that the Port Chester railroad would he
used as an extension of the rapid transit road,
and that through trains would be run as soon
as both roads were completed, from the Ci,:
Hall to the northeastern end Of the Port Chester
line. It is also well known that Bemont-Mc
Donald interests are back of the Port Chester
line. and Will ii feeder. with con-
nection with the eastern branch Of the rapid
transit system at its terminal at OHe-hundred-
and-seventy- seventh st and Boston Road The
Port Chester road will run most of the way on
private property, which has already been Sc
cured by options. Mr. Gotshan yesterday said
TO a Tribune reporter:
The rapid transit ~ysten as It is now being con
structed cannot accommodate the traffic which viii
be brought TO 1t by the Port Chester railroad
What VIII have to be built is East Side sub
or Way rden a P0 OF road W o form 6n an and M
offer rapid transit facilities 70 the residents OF
New-Rochelle Larchmont. Mamaroneck. Rye and
Port Chester.
THE ROAD TO HAVE TWO TERMINALS.
The line is to have two terminals. one at One
Road. and the other at one hundred and thirty
secondst and Willis-ave., not far from the Willis
terminal Will connect with the present rapid
to- be an eIeInted structure the central or express
tracks OF the Port Chester road will be gradually
elevated so as to make the junction at this point
complete. and thus permit our trains to take the
central or express track Of the rapid transit road
Willis-ave. and One-hundred- and thirty seconds
thus offer an outlet for the congested district a,
the southeastern end Of the Borough of The
reach Of the rapid transit system.
Park running north and south in Lexington-ave
and connecting with the main line either at Forty
service must necessarily be sent over the eastern
branch of the present rapid transit system, which,
as far as the Harlem River. then becomes a two
ave, and cutting under the northwest corner OF
Central Park connects with the main line at One
sructed only two tracks in this branch of the sub
way: II can easily be seen tnat M our tnr9ugh eA.
section Of the rapid transit system between the
cause trains will be compelled to slack up at all
The Lenox-ave. route is also somewhat round
aPout way for from the upper rfr OF
the -hundred-an seventy -seventh-st junction
VIII pr serious, VIII ueIdN tihS mere ~ some
extent.
EAST SIDE SUBWAY NEEDED
BY the construction of East Side subway the
whole situation Will be relieved. Passengers from
the Long Island Sound shore stations no bound
for the downtown section of Manhattan would then
take the express trains of the Port Chester Rail
road, which would connect at WilliS-ave. with a
central express track of the subway. Local trains
would also connect with the outside track and st Oh
all stations the East Side branch. BY glance
the map it can be seen that such East Side
subway offers short cut between The Bronx nd
the lower end of Manhattan The congestion likely
road One-hundred and seven -seventh-st would
also be relieved.
| have wondered that such agitation an
East Side subway did not Itself long before
The needs of the East Side for rapid transit are
imperative In the development of the CITY the
East Side should have part. as it contains the
greater part of the population of Manhattan Island
north of Fortysecond-st-. and pays than ha II
the taxes Not only would such a subway be vel
coined by the residents of the East Side but as T
have shown. by the people of The Bronx and of