New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-17
10 RUN BEFORE JUNE |
DART or SUBWIT REIDT.
NJ 15,th-st. on Vest, list on
East Side.

80 learned Yesterday that the INTERIOR
:. porf5 Transit Company is planning 20
- -. s,,bv-ev for traffic before the middle of
=, Tho svsterr viii De operated on the upper
-. SIDE ss far as One-hUudred-and-ffty- y-sev-
-, and On the East side to the Harlem
- % One- -hlndred-aud-forty- y-first-st. There
=, A.. d.. rsr IN the system between oue-huD-
- "a -eor+v-frst-st. and One-hundred-and-
,,-,,--irtb-st. on the opposite side Of the Har-
- t,,+ this viii not prevent the company from
,,.,-s-inr the easterly branch of the road from
o., r,,rs-e5 nd -forty-ninth-st. north 10 the
.,s- pro-r i is probable that passengers
III te transferred from the upper Bronx 10 the
.-ht-5-sve elevated at one-hundred-an and-forty-
,-,-.b-s- until the tunnel under the Harlem is
completed.
--r-o NJ tbe seven giant dynamo engines ~
49, r-if+v--ir+h-st and Elevcuth-ave. power
-, viu be ready for business by May ].
me- are seven engines in au and, Of course.
,be road cannot ne operated 10 its fun capacity
,,r.u more mower units" as they are called are
ready for duty.
III is irnpracticahle Tor any n us 70 say when
che road will open for traffic said Nice-fresi-
6er, Bryan yesterday 10 a Tribune reporter. FOR
,ba reason that labor conditions ere much un-
settled and any prophecy made now might come
% grief The work on the power plant is going
forward nicely now. however and two of The big
engines win be ready for work ly the middle Of
May There is good reason 20 assume that the
road wiz ne partly operated I'm June. II we had
10. bs-o DELAYED boy labor complications the
road would have been running six months ago.
We have many cars Of equipment. on which we
are paying demuuage. ready for use, but We
cannot use IT because Of some particular branch
Ala T-r.a +-t1-f -H
have even bought the ticket chopping boxes and
furnishings for the stations. This does not par
tcular}y help us. because Of the fact that the
work on the power plant is backward
The unprecedented cold winter has greatly
retarded our work at the power plant. II has
been SO cold that the men could not even after
putting up temporary heating boilers. work az
winding armatures ana other difficult tasks that
must be done by human hands Now that
warmer weather has come We shall work double
shifts, and the work viii be jumped along rap
idy, unless the labor union people impose COM
picatons that we do not know about just now.
No one ls more anxious 10 see the work
progress than the owners Of the road. We
spent about S8lpIO in boarding up parrS Of the
power plant this winter so that work could he
prosecuted on other parts of the building The
large Investment or which the company Is pay
ing interest makes us want TO get the road run
ning al the earliest possible GATE. We have sew
efal huncerd cars all ready for traffic lust as
soon as the tunnel is ready. There Is enough
work on the tunnel under the Harlem 10 keep
The contractor busy Tor two or three months Vet
and the tunnelling under Fort George is ia about
the same shape
win the power plant ready 10 furnish 1900
horsepower by June !. however. there IS strong
LIKELIHOOD that the system viii be operated he
tween the Battery and One-hundred-and- a fly
teFenth-st. on the West Side and up 20 one
hundred Land -forty-drst-st. the East side.
on me upper Bronx line the cars can be ofyer-
aied between One-hundred-and forty int n-st.
ana the upper Bronx. and transfers may ba
mace 10 the Third-ave. elevated pending the
completion of the tunnel under the Harlem
The steady Increase in traffic warrants the
use oI the subway at the earliest rosSfbIa date
ana. barring labor complications i do not see
anything 10 prevent our carrying passengers by
June l. However. I do not care 70 say that the
road VIII be running then. for the reasons al
ready stated"