The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-04
TO Goth ST. In 10 MIN. 40 SEC.
SUBWAY TRAIN MAKES 1l5TH
ST. IN 8 MINUTES MORE.

standard Six Car Train Makes Record
on Exhibition Trip-Track Excellent
Cars Comfortable, Air Good-start.
ling Swing Around 18th 81. Curve
A party of one hundred or more news.
paper men travelled seven miles In New Vol
yesterday faster than was ever before
known In the history OF the city. II is a
trife over seven miles by the route which
they took from the Brooklyn Bridge
entrance to Ninety sixth street, and they
covered this distance in 10 minutes and 46
seconds. 1t was 2:s7 P. M. when they left
the Bridge; 1t was 2:47:45 when they reached
Ninety-sixth street. The train In several
stretohes reached speed OF about forty-five
miles an hour.
The underground railway mana cement,
In order to show how near to perfection the
operating plant Of the company has at
tanned, issued invitations to men In both
the editorial and business depar tments OF
all the newspapers In New York to come
and see for themselves. E. P. Bryan,
vice-president, represented the company
as host, and he and Mr.. Hedley the general
manager, accompanied the train. The
time and place for starting were 2:30 In the
afternoon, at the City Hall station There
was some little delay. however, caused
by the guests themselves for the most
part, In getting away, and 1t was not until
seven minutes later that the train had swung
around the loop under the Post OfIoe and
reached the great underground chamber
which is to connect the subway with the
Bridge
uara 4 hat th1 TN 1911 4
was made. 1t had been limited before
leaving the City Hall that the train would
make a record run. 1t did. Some Of the
passengers got their watches out and
started in to time the train. But they
nearly all gave 1t up very soon. 1t made
them dizzy. There was an official time
keeper however. on the front platform,
with a stop watch and almost everybody
was willing to let him have the job all to
himself A few, however. were resolute
and held their watches to the end, with the
result that they verified the timekeeper's
record. or, at all events, found it 80 near
to their own that 1t couldn't be questioned.
OF course there were no stops made
In tho run. or 30 mu oh ground never could
have been covered In 80 short a time. 1t
was one swift rush from the time the train
got its full momentum until it began to
slscken as 1t approached It's destina-
ton. Naturally, however, there we're slow
downs for the curves. The swing around
the bend at Fourteenth street into Union
Square, however, was made at such speed
that the entire train Of six cars seemed
to rise up from the outer rail and settle
down again with a wrench that was little
startling. In Forty second street both
curves were taken at a reduced speed and
without any noticeable oscillation.
The train was a standard one, such as
will be used at hours Of the day when the
travel is heaviest. The forward and rear
cars were OF the steel type. with interior
fittings in aluminium. They were par
tcuary bbaigh. and cheerful fbI. The others
has long been familiar on the Second avenue
elevated road.
At Ninety tn street there was a stop
and then the train made another swift
rush for. l4Sth street, reaching, there in
the Bridge to l+5th street. including one
STOP Just 10 minutes. One the return trip
the train was switched at Ninety ixth
street over to the Lenox avenue line and
again went to l4sth street; From there
downtown again 1t was lesurely stroll
compared with the dizzy speed of the up
town trip. Stops five minutes were made
at the Grand Central Station at Forty
second street and at Twenty-third street
to let the party see the big underground
stations at those points vast, roomy spaces
in both instances, with great underground
store having wide plate glass windows
at the Twenty-third street station. Mr.. |
Bryan said it was to be a great under
ground arcade in the end, extending west |
ward as far as Broadway
Three things were demonstrated beyond |
ali question by the run. First, that the |
roadbed is about as near to perfect con-
iition as it we'll could be. Second, that |
the subway trains can run as fast as any
body will want to ride. Third, that the |
air In the long tunnel Is seemingly as good
rs 1t Is on the surface.
The schedule of the run uptown was as
'ollows:
Brooklyn Bridge. 2se; Worth street. e:37n
Canal street. 2:3s: Spring street 2:ss:54
3leeoker street 2:sori: Aston place. ,?:ss4o;
street 2:4o:a5; Twenty third street.
:l,:0i: Twenty eighth street 2:4tI5: Thirty
bird street. 2tl;2o; Fiftissth street. 2;Hio;
l5: 80: Seventy second street, 246: Seventy
,inth street. 2:48:so: Eighty-sixth street. 2:47:
Ninety first street. 2:47 80 Einety-si1th street
47.t6.