New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-29
BIG PLANS FOR BRONX TRANSIT
NEWHAVEN TO SPEND s8O00000-SIX TRACKS TO NEW
ROCHELLE
Third Rail Quick Seice also to Mount VernOnConnecon zth Inter
borough and PennsyIUana-No Grade Crossings
ROCHELLE.

Eight million dollars more is to be expended
By the New-York, New-Haven and Hartford
Railroad Company for improved rapid transit
The Bronx and that part of Westchester
County lying along the Sound This announce
ment was made last night by President Charles
s. Mellen.
Plans have been made and estimates submit
ted for ''six-tracking'' the Harlem branch OF the
New-Haven road running from the Harlem
River at Willis-ave. and Observation-Disclosures
ty-third-st to New Rochelle. The work awaits
only the formal approval of the State and city
authorities. The directors Of the road are now
considering a further plan for branch from
West Farms along the Bronx Valley TO Wood
lawn. In the southern part OF Mount Vernon. II
is proposed to make connection with the IN
terborough system at West Farms. and 1t IS
the plan eventually to give a through service
from the Battery to New-RocheIe and Mount
Vernon.
The money for the improvements is TO ne raised
by an issue of S15000000 Of bonds the balance
being devoted to the repayment TO the New
Haven of money advanced in the last thirty
years on account of the Harlem River and Port
Chester Railroad the titular owner Of the Har-
lem branch of the New-Haven The New
Haven has been without bonded Indebtedness.
so that the announcement Of the proposed bond
issue will interest financial circles. The bonds
have been underwritte- at a premium
The railway officials announce that the recon-
struction of this portion of the'r line viii he
done in the most thorough manner possible. and
will amoun+ to the building of an entirely new
road. The route Of the existing line VII be fol-
lowed except where slight divergences are re
qJired to eliminate curves. The rebuilt line will
be practically without grades and curves and
entirely free from grade crossings, and the num-
Der and arrangement Of the tracks will allow
exceptionally fast time to he made. Bridges
will be put in even where streets exist on paper
only to avoid the possibility of delay in the fut-
ure. when the streets may be built
FOUR TRACKS Fer ELECTRIC SERVICE
OF the six tracks from the Harlem to New
Rochelle four will be electrically equipped with
the third rail system. and two viii be left for the
use of steam trains. Two of the electric tracks
will be for express trains running every fifteen
minutes and the other two for local trains, with
the same headway The two tracks to ne used
for steam traction viii not only handle the
freight but will be the outlet for the New-York
Connecting Railway, running from the Harlem
over RandaTs and Wards islands Astoria,
where a connection with the Pennsylvania Rail
road will be made Trains from the South and
West tlTefi rIr over Pea. .syyan-a tnsse s
through the tunnels under New York 70 Long
Island City, thence over the Connecting Railway
out over he Harlem branch through to Boston
and the East.
II is announced that the additional land re-
quired for the "six-tracking' has already been
acquired. To make possible high speed and TO
insure public safety grade crossings will he
eliminated throughout the line The road VIII