New-York tribune., 1903-06-07
TO IMPROVE STATIONS.
Plans to Encourage TraUeI on Ete-
Uated Roads.
Mr.. BELMONT TO PUSH THE WORK.

MR. BELMONT To Push IftE NoIeh-
President August Belmont OF the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company has directed that WORK
be begun at once on substantial changes IN hlaiiy
stations Of the Manhattan elevated lines. Inc
work of reconstruction is being done to give
more comfort to passengers at points whicn lor
several years have been overcrowded during the
rush hours. Jams have occurred Oh 'p' o
ways OF those stations.
The stations to be remodeed first are those
at Rector. Cortlandt and Barclay SITS, on the
Ninth-ave line. The station at One-nuhureo-
and-sxteenth-st and Eighth-ave. Will DC re-
built partly New elevators Will be lnstalleo
and other changes will be made president bei-
mont is also considering plans for rebuilding
the One-hundred- and twenty y-ffth-st station on
the West Side.
Drawings have been prepared for changing
entirely the system OF handling passengers at
Tbtrty-third-st and Sxth-ave. One plan has
been prepared which calls for a large stairway
and escoIator near the entrance of one OF the
large DEPARTMENT stores there Passengers de-
string to go uptown would be taken ov the
escoator to the level OF a passageWay TO De
built over the elevated tracks and thence by q
short flight of steps to the uptown train plat
form instead Of risking life and limp waking
across Sixth-ave. This crossing is one OF the
most dangerous in the city. 1t is also planned
to put an escolator in the uptown station SO
that persons going up Broadway from theatres
between Twenty-fourth and Thirty-second SIS.
and desiring to take downtown elevated trains
can do so without crossing the Junction Oh
Sixth-ave. and Broadway
In many of the stations Of the downtown sec
ton of the Ninth-ave. line the station plat
forms are now only five feet in width When
express trains reach them in the rush nours VI
the morning people crowd the narrow platforms
and jam the starWays. At the Rectof-sI- anu
Barciay-st stations the platform adjoining the
downtown track will be made ten feet IN Wlotn.
Several plans have been prepared for improving
the facilities at the Cortlandt-st- station
A plan has been perfected so that the inter-
minglng of passengers going In opposite dlrec-
tions will be reduced to a minimum. IN tne
morning when the trend of travel is downtown,
passengers will be admitted through two large
doors, while the few passengers coming uptown
will 60 out on the street through doors dag
onally opposite to those being used for incoming
for the e-hundred-and-sixteen station IS
to keep the tides of travel from fnterm1ngling,
that person desiring to go In the opposite
direction from the crowd will not be allowed TO
wedge and elbow his way through. Next to the
City Hall station the One-hundred- -and-six-
teenth-st. station is the most important on the
elevated lines. Last year more than five million
passengers used this station.
In less than 8 month there will be new sta
ton opened at Seventy -third-st., on the Second
ave. line. Last week a station was opened
at One hundred and tenth-st. and Eighth ave.
The new station is the best equipped Of any on
the elevated lines. Four large elevators carry
passengers from the street level to the platform
level alongside the trains.