The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-27
LONGER RIDES FOR A NICKEL
MET EXTENDS ITS
TRANSFER SYSTEM.
All the Old Third Avenue Lines Taken In.
Except at One or Two Points Where
Transfer IL Risky-BrOadway and 23d
street One-In Effect by August.

EXCEPT At One or TWO HOints Wnere
Transfer Il Risky-Broadway and 23d
street One-In Effect by August.
1t was announced by the lnterurban
Street Railway Company yesterday that
arrangements are being rapidly completed
to establish between forty and fifty new
transfer stations on the street surface line
in Manhattan. These, it was said. will
permit the free exchange of passengers
between the Metropolitan and the Third
Avenue systems and will include every
important point OF intersection.
The company's representatives said that
when these changes have been made there
will remain only two or three OF all the
transfer points concerning which there
has been recent controversy by which
the system may not be extended. These
are points like Broadway and Twenty
third street, where great and obvious danger
of accidents would be incurred by the
attempt to effect transfers.
1t was explained that this has not been
done sooner because OF contract existing
between the Third Avenue company and the
Manhattan Elevated This contract was
made before the Third Avenue was leased
to the Metropolitan. Under its terms,
passengers were to be transferred back
and forth between the Third Avenue surface
lines and the elevated for an eight-cent
fare, and each company was bound to make
no transfer arrangement with any other
company.
When the Third Avenue properties were
taken over there was no other thought
than to permit transfers at all intersecting
points until the forbidding clause in the
Manhattan Third Avenue contract came up.
So strong however. has been the public
demand for the transfer privilege that the
company hes decided to extend the system
to all Third Avenue lines, notwithstanding
the terms of the Third avenue contract.
The principal new stations now to be
established will be along the Third Avenue
line and the l25th street crosstown line
Transfers will he given on the Third Avenue
line at these points.
One Hundred and Twenty-ffth street and
Amsterdam avenue east or west on the cross
town cars and south on all broadway cars;
at lo5th street and Eighth avenue going
south; AT l25th street and Lcnox avenue
going south; at l25th street and Lexington
avenue going south. at ll6th street ana lhlrd
avenue going east or west: at 10th street and
| Third avenue going east or west; at Eighty-
| sixth street and Third avenue going east or
| west: at Fifty-ninth street and Third avenue
going east or west or south on Sixth avenue
| cars in Forty-second street east on all cars
| and west on the Forty-second street oros-towr
| cnrs. at Twenty-third street going east or
| west: at Fourteenth street going east or west
| at Houston street going west and at stanton
| street going east; at Delaney street gong
cast or west: at Canal street going east or
west and at Duane street going east or west.
Transfers will also be allowed at l62d
| st rect going north on Kingsbridge cars
| On the l25th street crosstown line transfer
| tickets will be given at First avenue going
! south, at Second avenue going north oil
! south: at Third avenue going north or south
at Lexington avenue going north or south
at Madison avenue going north at Leno'
avenue going north or south; at Flghtf
| avenue going north or south: at Amster-
! dam avenue going north or south, and at
Rroadwav going south on all cars.
Tickets are now being printed in prepare
ton for these additions to he transfer serv
| ice and the new arrangement will go into
effect as soon as the tickets can be printed
and put out, at the latest by Aug. /. i
was said at the Metropolitan Office yester
day that the transfer system has grown
% enormously that, notwithstanding thu
| long and continuous routes over which
| ride can be had without oange, few fare
are now paid that do not involve one o
more transfers, and that there can he NJ
reason to limit a system which has become
so popular except where danger from acc'
dents would he incurred.