New-York tribune., 1903-01-31
ROOM FOR 1856 MORE.
ELEV4TED SCHEDULE.
Goes Into Effect Monday on Al
Lines Except Thrd-aUe.

Albany Jan. 30.-An increase Of 2I1 trips,
which will include 1876 cars. and make room
for 1855 more passengers than are now car
ried by the Manhattan Railway lines. is the
final determination of that railway. indorsed by
the State Board Of Railroad Commissioners.
The road promises to find. beginning on Feoru-
ary . seats exclusive of standing room. for
S37, ,072 persons daily. For this purpose it prom
ises to make on its four lines 1881 train trips
an hour with 1T439 cars. With the standing
room also available. the road will probably find
accommodations for more than million per-
sons a day.
The details OF the additional service include
an increase OF trips on the Third-ave- line OF s..
on the Sixth-ave line Of %. and on the Ninth
ave. line of 81. There is no increase Of trips on
the Second-ave. line but 1S6 cars are added
On the Second-ave. line it is proposed, with the
increase of cars to give S92S additional seats.
on the Third-ave. line 53.952 additional seats. on
the sixth-ave. line 79,2O0. and on the Ninth-ave-
SO. .436.
On the second-ave. line fourteen extra six-car
trains will be run between 4:37 m and 9:34
a. u but from that hour until 3 p. m the num-
Der of trains will be reduced from the present
schedules The schedule from 3 p m TO mid
night is unchanged
On the Third-ave line the South Ferry service
from midnight to ) a. m is reduced by two
three-car trains but from ) a. m- to 10 a. m it
is Increased by twenty six-car trains From I'D
a. m. to go D. m. there is a reduction Of eigh-
teen trains. but an additional is placed on
each train so that the car capacity is little les
sened From 2:3O until s p. m. there is an in
crease of twenty-eight six-car trains.
In the City Hall service on the Thrd-ave- line
the principal change. between > m. and mid
night. is an increase in the headway of trains
by putting on nearly two hundred additional
trains IA cars.
On the Sixth-ave. line the changes are mostly
in the headway of trains between . a M and
midnight On the South Ferry and Rector-st-
service about forty trains added, with 1OSO
cars In the FTfty-eighth-st. service there Will
be an increase in the electric trains of four and
an enlargement of all the trains from three TO
five cars giving an increase of 344 cars in the
day. The steam service on the Fifty-eighth-st-
line will be increased by 22O cars. or forty-four
trains.
On the Ninth-ave. line there will be an in
crease of seventy-six trains for the local service.
OF J92 cars while in the express service there
will be an increase of five trains of five cars
each There will also be specials sixteen
fve-car trains between 7:02 and $50 a M
The commissioners in presenting the report
and adopting the schedule. say;
The rush hour trains not run on any shorter
headWay. the additional trains DtlIS dIl p.CNl3CN
for the non-rUsh hours; but the longer trains dLs
nut in service earlier and continue later. anu more
cars are run in botn rush and uOn-rISn hourS- ~
the new additional cars are receivsd eaGh ~ montn
+hev will be into service dr,< sun 'SLe@lSI
seating capacity will thus be anordeS Ihe hedc,
Uav is shortened between many trains, IN az
NtTsr than rush hours. The schedules which give
This Increased service were approved laSt ngll Dy
tbe hoard and will go into effect on Monday on
~ Second-ave. Sixth-ave and Ninth-ave. lines
The company advised the board thaJ. IN c9Ise- 1
oIence of the non-cOmpletion of the Bronx Park
STATION and terminal it will not be poSslDle 70 puS
the full Thrd-ave- line schedule INTO erect Hiltis ~
Eabr1Iarv and the board granted an extension or
time for one week. until February 3 ror Ihat
iine To attempt TO put that schedule INTO erect
bafore that terminal is completed would certainly
Tes1it i'm a blockade. and might result in accident
and the board would not take the responsibility
of such occurrence