New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-29
SUBW4Y DELAYS MANY.
Bryan Denies Shake-Up Report
Sirth-are. Tunnel FaU0red.

Delays in express and local service worse than
at any time since The subway was opened charac-
terized the train service yesterday. There have
been many slight blocks and delays all along the
lire since The LenoX-ave. branch was opened
An accident To the brake apparatus on a Lenox-
ave express just above the Seventy second-st sta
ton IN the rush hours yesterday threw the entire
express service out of joint for two three hours
and produced brushes at all the stations below
Seventy second-st.
At the Grand Central Station, where there was
already q capacity house congregated the
passengers on the disabled train told to get
out. Those already at the station seeming trou-
be. made mad rush for the local, which had
Just reached the station, and that, and the few
following II, Were thronged the limit. The rush
get aboard caused delays which threw the local
schedule out Of gear, and 1t took the officials
Of the morning TO get the trains 20 running with
their usual regularity.
II was reported yesterday that there would be a
Ehake-up OF department heads In the Interborough
10 Try what effect a readJustment would have on
the service. 1t was said thai n S. Merritt VINO
has been superintendent OF the subway division
would be put In charge of the elevated lines and
s D. Smith, now in charge Of the elevated would
take his place at the head Of the subway system
This report Mr. Bryant denied
There IL no intention tbs part of the officials
10 make any changes in the superintendent said
he. NO sEske-up is contemplated The officials
are not satisfied with the service. in that they
want 81 bettered II i can be possibly. but We think
eonzoeIlng the tIe the subway has been IN opera
ton We want Ia have IL run smoothly with no
blocks or delays, but that VIII take time
Ms Lizzie Penney. who IS employed as a mil
liner ia Mercerst. near Bleecker-st and who lives
No. $50 EIfJh-ave. Brooklyn. was painfully in
5uTed at thc city Hall station Of the subway yes
terday. As she was about to board a train the
leaving the train ana the score or mora
struggling 10 get pushed ner into the Omen
ing between the Platform and the car
At ulr meeting OF HE Rapid Transit Commission
On Thursday, William Barclay Parsons will submit
q report ca the merits Of the proposed tunnel nm
SlNtA-aEe. Tor which President McAdoo of me
New : ok and Nev-Jersey company has asked per-
mission Tao route proposed is from Mortop-st
11e criminal OF the Jersey tunnel. up Sxth-ave to
Thirty -fuurth-st, where the subway would connect
with the Pennsylvania railroads terminal Tbsrs
is mucc Sent .ent in favor Of the propoeitfon htr
Parsons IS not willing 10 express his opinion ahon
y YET but cannot see that il has any glazing
fault and the plan : declared perfectly fessiti9
The tunnel, being forty feet l;ndereToIrD.4SS
according 20 MI McAdoo's agreement wo1i6 ~,
lntererf with any proposed municipal shuge1, -
siKtn-<..e There has been much expression ~
FAVOR o. me plan from merchants along Si,tb
and from suburbantes who do their tra 5j,f, . e
some members OF the commission are g
the plan, and Jhe only opposition 70 :. eenre Aor
from the New-York city Railway Company 70 De