The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-17

In building the trunk line rom bay Ridge to Glendale Junction, a distance of eleven and One-half miles, over which the Long Island railroad already has right of way, one hundred and f1f- teen. grade crossings will be eliminated, the tracks running in part through an open cut below the street level and i'll part on an elevated embankment. Two of. the tracks will be used for through freight and two for local freight and passenger traffic. The work will take about three years and will cost seven million dollars. of which S2,500,00O will be paid by the city, which is interested in the abolition of the grade crossings, and the rest by the railroad company.
 At Glendale Function, the proposed New York Connecting railroad, which will run from the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford tracks at Mott Ha- ven. crossing Wards and Randalrs Is- lands and the Hell Gate rapids on steel bridges will effect a junction with the Long Island railroad completing the loop.
 While the Pennsylvania road has been digging up the bottom of the bay on the New Jersey shore, the New York, New Haven and Hartford has been building an enormous freight yard near Barretts Point, which is on the East river, in the borough of the Bronx. When completed this yard will contain more than eighty miles of tracks in ad- dition to transfer docks, together with the roundhouse and local repair shops. The work at Barrett'S Point included the filling and leveling of total area of two hundred or more acres, and IS now practically completed. The new yard will take the place of that at Mott Haven, where an average of three nun dred and twenty-two thousand freight cars are handled each month, and ] where the passenger traffic Is daily ln- creasing as the city spreads to the 1 northward. The location at Barretto Point will immediately simplify the . transfer of freight because navigation 1 in the East river is not so hazardous as in the crowded Harlem with it's eX- ceptionally swift tides
 l The change in the freight facilities or 1 the New Haven system has an impor- l tant bearing upon passenger tranlc' 1 With the opening of the yard at Bar 1 retts' Point, the old yard at Mott Ha- ven will be used in carrying out the l improvements in the New Haven road l suburban Aervice to this city from points along Long Island Sound. An order recently passed by the board of estimates and apportionment, closing l eleven blocks of city streets at Mott 1 Haven, enabled the railroad to enlarge | its land holdings there so that the to- | tai track will include about eight hun l dred and forty-nine acres. Many of | the streets existed only on paper and 1 others were little more than alleys the buildings which will be removed being of little value.
 The new station will be reached by
 the New Haven systems Port Chester l branch which runs from New Rochelle | connecting with the Second and Third avenue elevated roads at One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street. As already l announced, the Port Chester line is now being reconstructed and will consist ot six tracks, on four of which fast elec- tric trains will be run from points along the Sound. They will handle a traffic so large that it is expected that almost as many passengers will daily pass through the new terminal as the number which now arrives and departs from the Grand Central station, It is the intention of the company to make the new buildings architecturally
 worthy of their importance. With rap i'd electric service from the most remote
 suburb on the shore of the Sound and
 with the possibility of ultimate subway
 connection with the City Hall, the
 greater part of the New Haven subur-
 ban traffic will be withdrawn from the
 Grand Central station and will flow
 through the Mott Haven terminal.
 Curious possibilities are seen In these
 extensive changes in railway facilities
 in this region. Among other things il
 is pointed out that as a result of tht
 building of the new line around the oit
 city of Brooklyn manufacturing indus
 tries will spring up on a large scale
 The territory traversed by the new
 loop is now in large measure thinly
 populated and is in the highest degreC
 suitable for the establishment of manu' | recurring pldIltS' "ltI L"o BIcd'
 trung line systems, the Pennsylvania
 and New York, New Haven and Hart
 ford tapping this section, it is obviou:
 that the traffic facilities will be extra
 ordinary, and a remarkable develop
 ment may be expected. But it is New
 England, the chief industrial section o
 the country, that will derive the broad. 1 est benefits from the mprOVements
 which will remove the greatest stum'
 bling block to New Englands railroad
 intercourse with the rest of the United
 States.