The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-15
FOUR HOURS
FROM wAsHINaroN TO NEW
 YORK CONTEMPLATED
Plans of the Pennsylvania--New Schedule When Terminals are Finished-Save an Hour
 and . Half.


 Philadelphia Letter to The Washington
 The Pennsylvania Railroad is to cut the running time between Washington and New York to exactly four hours. ing of one and one-naif hours each way between these two cities, or three hours on the round trip. is to be put into effect on the completion of the New York and Washington terminals. work on both of to rapid completion. There is mot only to be saving Of time between the two cities. but with the construction of the New York tunnel pas sengers are to be landed right in the heart of that city, thus obviating the te- dious ferry and the crowded street cars from the water front.
 This announcement. made to The Star correspondent today. is the first official information from the company as to the practical results of it's new terminal pro- 1ects so far as they are to benefit the
 It has been demonstrated over and over again to the complete satisfaction of rail- road officials that the saving of time to the travelling public increases to a pne- norncnai percentage rhe amount of travel between any two given points. It has also been demonstrated that the convent ent location of terminals in dty has the same tendency. and these are the two Iished by the Pennsylvania Railroad in It's Washington and New York terminal
 Views of . Traffic ofnciaI. In discussing this point traffic ofiiciai of the road said today:
 convenient terminals and shorter running time do in the way of tncreaang the trafiic. When We completed Broad Street station right here in the heart of Phil- adelphia the directors of the road, or a number of them, declared emphaticaily that the structure was at least twenty years in advance of the times Today we have definitely decided to construct new station farther out and divert through trains there, that we may get trains enough into the Broad Street station to handle the trafiic. Besides this we are also to build additional train sheds at the station. This is done for the simple reason that it IS absolutely impossible to get trains enough into the station to ham dle the traffic.
 "rhe phenomenal travel to Atlantic City is another illustration of the fact that people regard time in travelling more than anything else A few years ago our run ming time from Philadelphia to Atlantic City was one and one-half hours. today few years ago you could have shot a cannon ball along the board walk without hitting a person. Today there are 5O,0O0 people at Atlantic City This change we ascribe entirely to the shortening of the running time between not only Philadel- phia and Atlantic City, but between Washington and that place and between New York also. for there are many New Workers now there. Another Pertinent Illustration. '"The present railroad situation in New York city illustrates this point also. The New York Central Railway has its ter minals practically in the center of the city. This road does 50 per cent of all the passenger business in and out of New V-~.f kk- 4Al tU A3- vided up it leaves about 1T per cent for the Pennsylvania. This condition, we be- leve can be ascribed entirely to the lack of convenient terminal facilities for the Pennsylvania road in New York. When a person has the choice of two routes he would rather take train which lands him directly in the heart of the city than one which runs only to the water front. with a ferryboat journey ahead and then a street car ride.
 We not only predict that our pro- posed new terminals will increase the travel to New York, but will place the Pennsylvania on an equal footing with the New York Central. and thus make a more equal division of the traffic already in existenee.", -.
 Anent the Terminal Here.
 In discussing the Washington terminal station, there was some doubt expressed concerning the convenience to the public in It's location. This matter, however, is regarded as settled now, and the work of elevating the tracks, digging the tunnel and constructing the station will be be- gun and completed in accordance with the legislation just had and with the least delay possible. The engineers of the roads have made detailed estimates of exactly what these improvements are to cost, including all of the changes which are necessary. This estimate shows that before the work is completed there will have been spent in the city of Washing ton just $1S,723,476 by the two railway companies.
 Easing the prediction on the increase in the Pennsylvania S traffic wherever ter minal facilities have been improved and running time cut down, iN Is estimated that when the new time table noted above goes into effect the traffic between Washington and New York will increase at least 50 per cent.