The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-09-06
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Iof making important Improvements,
improvements on large scale, COM
mensurate with the roads big develop
Iment, is creating wide attention and
approval The cost will be heavy, but
the outlay is necessary and in the end
THE road, with the stringent economies
now being resorted to and the consum-
nation Of the new Improvements, will
be bigger Garner than ever. Presi-
dent Mellen's recent reduction In the
number Of trains, made with view to
lcurtailing and reducing expenses where
Iexpedient, appears now more fully to
the public as justiffable in view Of the
great improvements that must come
and in view also of his restoration Of
various Of the trains where it could be
done without positive loss, and his re-
adjustment of the time tables wher-
lever the public could, with reason, be
accommodated, also without loss to the
road. This readjustment of the train
service was a matter to be studied in
iorder to find out what trains paid and
what did not. The general policy of
Eretrenchment is better understood now
that it is seen that the company has
such big and costly improvements in
view. all rendered imperative by exist
ling situations. Here in New Haven
the road is beginning highly important
and extensive improvements, made
necessary by the roads big growth and
a long existing need. The railroad cut
here of forty years ago is wholly mad
equate for the roads track and train
service Of to-day. So, too, at the New
York end. The roads policy of open
ing the Bronx receives most hearty
commentator from New York jour-
mails, which take back now what they
have hitherto said about the Consoli-
dated road being too slow" for this
modern age.
Concerning President Mellen's pro-
gramme which involves an outlay of
$S,OOoOOo in "six-tracking" the Harlem
branch of the Consolidated, from the
Harlem River at willis avenue to New
Rochelle, the New York Mail and Ex-
press says: "This money is not to be
sunk in acquiring sites and removing
obstacles in congested downtown neigh
borhoods where realty commands al
most prohibitive figure. 1t is to go
into track building in the Bronx and
along the Sound edge of Westchester
county. That large northern and north
eastern metropolitan district, whose
possibilities have been only partly de-
veloped, whose wants only imperfectly
served, will be built up and brought
into closer communication with the
heart of the city. The plan means more
and better trains as well as a signffl-
cant expansion of electrical operation
in railroading; four Of the six tracks
are to be equipped with the third rail-"
Equally important are the arrange
ments projected for Joining with the
Interborough system and with the
Pennsylvania system at Astoria" by
which connections through local trains
can be run from the Battery to New
Rochelle and through Pennsylvania
trains from Philadelphia into New
England.
The New York Globe and CONNER
cial Advertiser is equally enthusiastic
over this programme in question, re-
garding it as boon to New York and
as further evidence that the Harlem
River is not hereafter to be regarded as
New York's boundary" 1t further
says: 1.-THE people of the Bronx along
the line of the New Haven have for
many years been straining their eyes to
catch sight Of the long promised but
long deferred rapid transit. At last
their vigil seems certain to be re-
warded." sy
The Consolidated is no longer wholly
a local road, but is a great system, and
up-to-date developments of the system
are required.