New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-10-14
SIMPLE SUBWAY OPENING
Il CITY HALL CEREMONY.
VreeLand Protests against Proposed
Sirth-aUe. SUbzcay.

TIE ceremony to mark the formal opening OF 'he
subway, on Thursday, October a. VIII De Simple
President Orr. Of the Rapid Transit
told the board yesterday he believed II "ouiu
be well 10 secure one or two rooms "a INC oily
Hall on the day OF the opening. There the MayoI'
aldermen and other officials could be met ana Iheh
The subway contractor could turn the Work over
10 the city After this ceremony the entre party
could proceed TO the City ball station ana MAKE
an official inspection.
The board unanimously voted 10 adopt this melh-
Cd Of celebration. and designated Controller Grout
and Commissioners Starin and Langdon TO CONFER
with Mayor Mcclellan
The operating officials have had some Thought Oh
beginning the sale Of tickets Immediately after MO
night the morning of October q. in order tlA'
q rush OF travel may not take place at the start
II the sale of tickets begins in the afternoon, aIter
some formal celebration OF the opening. 1t Is eA-
pected that the rush OF travel at the start may
possibly overtax the facilities OF the road
A temporary schedule for the running Of the
trains has been made as follows. to be changed
when the company gets more cars:
EXPRESS TRAINS
$50 a m 10 a every aye minutes; a m to
ten minutes; p m; to p m; every SIX m W. ia
p m, every FIVE minutes; 10 N. to II p. m. every
LOCAL TRAINS.
Midnight TO n, every ten minutes; m, TO
utues.
Letters were received from August Belmont. pres
ideat of the PETERBOROUGH and John b. Mcdonald
the subway contractor They said that the West
side section from tho Postofflce to Broadway and
one-hundred- and-forty-hfth-st. would be ready for
regular traffc on October % The East Side sec
ton. Mr. Belmont declared, from one-hundred- and
forty-hfth-st and LenoX-aEe. connecting with the
main line ut One-hundred- and-fCurth-st. and
Broadway. would be ready within two weeks after
the opening OF the West Side section. Mr.. Melon
aid asserted that the entire East Side section would
be completed not later than November S.
William Barclay Parsons told the board that the
West Side section, between the POstofice an5 one
hundred-and-forty- ffjh-st. not entirely COM
peted but sufficiently for the operating of trains
Mr.. Belmont. IN a communication. suggested thar
permission be granted TO place station at Broad
way and Two-hundred-and-seventh- because
there was not a station within 2.1OO feet OF that
point. The board voted TO have a station placed
there.
On the suggestion OF Mr. Parsons the board
adopted a resolution authorizing the placing Of
vault lights, which will admit natural Light. in the
parkway along Broadway at Sixty-siXth, Seventy
NINTH Eghty-sixth and Ninety-irst SITS.
letter received from President Vreeland
Of the New-York City Railway Company protesting
against the board granting the application of the
New-York ana Jersey Railroad Company. for an
extension % its lines from Washington Morton
st, north along Greenwich and West Tenth SITS,
thence along West feminist. TO sixth-ave, then
north along siXth-aye 70 Thlrty-tirst-st.
interested in this application, inasmuch as Metro
pOlitSn interests expect TO be bidders for the
subway system. proposed by the board. He
marked that the proposed extension Of the tunnel
OF the NeW-NOrk and New-Jersey company from IT'S
present terminus near Christopher-si. 10 Thirty
tnrd-Gf., al S'ytE-aye., makes the line OF this
foreign corporation g competitor OF the existing
surface lines, ana OF the proposed subway Tor one
and three-quaTteT miles IL OF the most i'm
portant paris OF the city He further stated that It
diVerts to this mel large number Of passengers
who now received by the surface lines at the
ferries on the North River and distributed through
out the shopping district. The desired extensions
OF the New ork and New-JeTsey tunnel would
seriously conflict. according 10 Mr.. Vreeland. with
subway routes already proposed. and would prac-
tcaiiy parallel the subway line for the lower
West Side for about and half miles. and
would divert much business which II was expected
would he done by the proposed subway lines and
V1iCh he believed belonged 10 the corporations
which now were operating the local transit faciu
ties Manhattan Island.
Mr.. Nreeland said that HIS objections did not
apply TO the extension of the New-Iork and New
Jersey tunnel directly across the cit 70 terminus
n ThirG-ave. or Fourth-ave.. because such ex-
tension would serve an important ana legitimate
purpose Of furnishing a connection between tho
tunnel from New-Jcrsey and the various longi-
tudinal passs ager lines on Manhattan Island
The board viii give a hearing on the subject