New-York tribune., 1903-01-29
TO GIVE OUT Plans SOON
Co-0peratiye Management. for Sub7cdy
and E2eUated Lines.

A communication received yesterday by the
Merchants Association from Colonel Ashley w.
Cole chairman of the State Board Of Railroad
Commissioners, makes known the important
fact that the Interborough Railway Company
will within few days publish plan for the CO.
operative management Of the elevated road ana
the subway as soon as the latter is in running
order. The letter was written on behalf OF the
commission in response TO the communication
which was delivered to the commission on tues
day by Mr.. Mead, the assistant secretary OF the
association, and in which the attention OF the
State Railroad Commission was recalled to the
points contained in the brief Of suggestions hled
by it relative to the operation of the elevator
system in this city. The letter from the RaIl-
road Commission says, among other things;
The only schedules of train movements rs on sin9 io
Manhattan Railway which have been IN possession on
OF d th nT6g 4odrd to aGe he @ and the pro
posed schedule received by the poaIu sssrg ~
VIII With the boards orders to the company. WHICH
we're TO be made effective yestsrdaay; oI-r sub
Committee on engineering and uansport tatlon some
MasG to-s1 an" IN t6e he once These schedules
composed of elaborate sheets Of figures and the the
board has duplicates of them should you ya SUI
desire have copies we will endeayor TO procure
and forward them to you Dpt IT VIII Ill, iaAe + 6s ef
fective until the board has had time TO analyze Il
that 1t has been found impossible to put it into
effect prior to February / In the mean Tme We
have already Changed the Fifty-eighth-st and
We have also added cars and trains to the service
in both rush and non-rush hours upon al ths liz &
board expects 10 receive details of these additions
with respect to your inquiry covering. the i've
separate propositions for Improvement, the board
exit from the cars and the improvement and en-
largement Of the starways and staIoR p pIateoftFs F
fective practicable changes 1t will recommend the
enforcement of ordinances relating 10 cleanliness
md also
ing of the cars. Regarding the fifth proposition.
the board knows OF effective way Of protecting
the third rail from snow and sleet other Ter tnan nt by BY
scrapng brushing it nor OF using It by a SLOT OF OF
persohs' E,Gs RzeSSuis' - - '-''-----'
board m feaK advs9d Sc Mr. Mead that We have been in
formed that at an early day probably curing I4e
which is TO operate the new ne EawIi eie
cEaracter for the JOINT operation Of the two
te saeh aefs nfs plans s Io Of the third tracks
alterations OF route aG f 0Re5 R{tsTv or the C Han
station etc The board believes that the public in
eation Of these plans, SO that there may
crossfire of plans and purposes unless mature e1
may be modified or altered with advantage The The
beard 6Sa5 o vii rbe ne6 eeTsfed Poads s
In response to your last inquiry, the board is not
able as yet TO advise you what action IL vii! take
looking toward the Improvement in the service on
surface transportation lines IN Ihe brohN t3. at5e no
Manhattan, but will inform you on the SUBJECT as
soon as practieaeie-
William F. King, chairman Of the committee
on franchises and transportation Of the Mer-
chants Association, said yesterday that a city
official. a member of the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment with whom he conferred, SAID
that he was strongly in favor OF the appoint
r7ent of local railroad commissioner, to be
under the control of the Board Of Estimate ana
Apportionment the commissioner to be pract1-
cal engineer and transportation man, IaiIlilldL L
With the conditions existing in this city. Such
a commissioner Mr. King thought, would PROB
2 bIv become absolutely necessary in the near
future IN view of the large urban traf11c 70 De
created as the result Of the building OF the
Pennsylvania tunnels and the other tunnel
under the North River.