New-York tribune., 1903-07-11
WEST SIDE SUBWAY NEXT
ITS COST JUMPS S5, ,O0O, 900.
Through Trains on Second-aUe. EIe-
rated and BronG Rapid Transit.

The subcommittee plans of the Rapid
Transit Commission yesterday afternoon tenta-
lively agreed TO ask the commission 20 take i'm
mediate steps toward building new subway be-
tween the Battery and Forty-second-st. The
committee also decided to allow the Interborough
company to connect the Third-ave elevated with
the Bronx portion of the subway system, thus
enabling the people living near West Farms to
ride from their homes to the lower end of town
over the elevated part of the subway in The
Bronx and the second-ave. line to the City
Hall and South Ferry.
Incidentally it became known that the city will
have TO pay about S5O00,000 more to build the
section of the subway between Union Square
and Forty-second-st. than it would have had to
pay two weeks ago under the alternative propo-
sition made by the Belmont people more than
a year ago There was i time limit in the
proposition which left it without binding ef-
feet after July l. 1903 At the time that the
Belmont syndicate bid for the oui:ding OF the
Brooklyn extension Mr.. Belmont offered TO build
the Broadway section referred to for substan-
TALLY $1,1O0,000, if he got the franchise along
with that for the Brooklyn extension. The COM
mission feared legal complications if it accept
ed the offer. Now the Iuterurban interests will
receive for building it, it is thought, about
$6,0O0,O00 or $7,O00,O00.
Present at the meeting yesterday were Presi-
dent Orr and Commissioners Smith and Starin
and Controller Grout, of the commission; Presi-
dent Belmont of the Interborough, his general
manager, E. P. Bryan; Chief Engineer Will
lam Barclay Parsons and Edward N. Shepard
counsel to the commission. Under the plans pro-
posed by GIr. Parsons last spring the Second
ave. line will be made a four track system.
Mr.. Belmont said yesterday that if the connec-
ton were made there would be free transfers
at hundred and forty -ninth-st., and that a
tive-cent fare would carry a passenger from the
upper Bronx to the Battery.
over the proposition to have an extension of
the subway built between the Battery and
Forty-second-st. the committee talked for an
hour. The city, under the Rapid Transit act,
can spend about $S000OO0 for subways without
additional legislation. 1t was decided yester-
day TO go ahead and build the section between
Union Square and Forty-second-st. with the
money in sight, and after the necessary legis-
lation is secured to drive the extension from
Union Square south to the Battery. 1t is doubt
full about its being built in Broadway. 1t is
more likely to go down Seventh-ave. and
through West Side streets to the lower part of
the city When Chief Engineer Parsons was
asked about the probable plans Of the commits
sion he said:
1T is hardly proper to say much about the
plans until after the meeting of the commission
Thursday next | do not see how it will be
practicable to begin advertising for bids for the
to-day I expect to have plans for the eXten-
sion ready for the first meeting of the commits
sion in October. After that it will be necessary
to get the consent of the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment and of the aldermen. Still later
the consents of the property owners along the
route will have to be obtained. Very likely
there will be a station the subway at
Tt frty- fourth-st with sort of connec-
ton with the Pennsylvania station"