The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-13
NO TRUNK SUBWAY IN S4TH ST.
THE WOVING PLATFORM SCHEME
NAY GO THROUGH.

a,ndlcatc TO Install an Experimental Pant
In the FOrty-secOnd Street Elevated
Structure-NO Double Decker In Sec
ond Aviation station az Battery.
Another change has been made In the
mans for the Use OF Tbirty-fourth street for
an underground railroad. The Rapid Tran
OF Commission decided yesterday 10 make
This route an independent Crosstown sub
way. instead OF part Of the north and south
trunk line that the Metropolitan system Is
ready 10 build.
The alteration IN the plans was not an
arbitrary one on the part Of the commission.
4 few days ago the engineers Of the Metro
politan lines and Of the commission had a
consultation and the conclusion was reached
that Thirty-fourth street could not be used
advantageously for a four track subway TO
ioin the Lexington avenue and the lower
West Side routes asked for by the Metropol-
t,p because Of the difficulty Of carrying the
four tracks around the curves, especially
at Fifth avenue, and because an attempt
10 use such subway for both through and
crosstown traffic would inevitably lead 10
congestion
The Metropolitan representatives init
mated that they would be willing TO make
the crosstown junction between their two
trunk lines by running two tracks each in
1hirty-ffth and Thirty-sixth streets. By
dividing the four tracks between those two
streets there will I've no trouble in making
easy curves. Tho result OF this under
standing was that the commission resolved
Yesterday 10 reserve Thirty-fourth street
FOR IN entirely independent subway 10 be
free Of all functions with other subways.
Il is to be built below the level Of the north
and south subways.
This action on the part Of the commission
gives another opportunity TO the moving
platform scheme. The formal resolution
describing the route provided that the
motive power should he electricity The
massage Of such a resolution would have
shut out the moving platform, but the
heads Of the Continuous Transit Securities
Company, which owns the moving plat
form patents, made such a strong appeal
that the commission concluded 50 TO word
the resolution that they may il desired
give Thirty-fourth street over TO the NOV
ing platform.
Ia a letter sent to the commission by
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Stuyvesant Fish and
Max f. Schmidt OF the moving platform
syndicate, an offer was made to install,
for demonstrative purposes, a moving
platform on the Forty-second street elevated
structure. As the adoption Of the alternate
plan for Thirty-fourth street did not com
NIT tho commission TO anything definite,
It was decided to let the syndicate go ahead
and prove the probability Of it's platform.
TheMetropolitan system will undoubtedly
-f,rrV - aNr oh
in addition to the north and south lines.
for the reason that il will tap the new Penn
sylvania terminal ard would serve as a
feeder not only for the subway routes
wanted by the Metropolitan, but also for
its surface system. The moving platform
people are working in agreement with
August Belmont.
The Interborough company was author
lied, subject 10 the necessary consents,
10 extend the present subway system on
the West Side from Kingsbidge to Van
Courtlandt Park and 1t was minated by
the Mayor and the Comptroller that II the
resolutions regarding the routes were
adopted al Yesterdays meeting the Alder
men might be relied upon 10 pass them at
once before their franchise granting rights
are taken away. 1t Is understood that
Alderman Sullivan and other leaders Of the
board have told the Mayor that they are
desirous to facilitate the building Of new
subways.
An effort was made by August Belmont
70 induce the commission TO delav adopt
ing the resolutions yesterday. He wrote
that his engineers had only received copies
Of the resol tions on the day befor' and
that they had had no time TO 20 into them.
He asked for al least a weeks delay and
protested against the board taking pre-
cipitate action.
Mr. .Belmont's plea for dehy was not
heeded. The subways planned for Man
haitian were then adopted. The resolutions
now go 20 the Aldermen for approval.
The commission adopted a resolution re-
frsing the request Of Aug st Belmont to
convert the Second avenue elevated road
into a double decked structure. Commits
sioner Charles Stewart Smith suggested
that the lnterborough company should he
invited 10 apply for permission TO provide
an express route 10 Harlem on It's elevated
system by aiding one track 10 the Second
avenue line and another 10 the Third avenue
route. The commission declined 20 listen
70 the suggestion. They decided that II
MI Belmont wanted these additional lines
he would have 10 apply for them himself.
In view Of the fact that the southern
loops Of the new Eubwavs will be at the
battery the commission Is considering the
ACCESSIBILITY Of building a sort Of union
station there. II was decided to take up
the matter at the next meeting II was
announced that the lower Broadway eX-
tension will be in operation TO the Battery
IN six weeks
The tunnel under the Harlem River has
been turned over to the marlborough
company by the contractors and IL Il eN-
pected that within a week trains will be
running through IL.