The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-30
WESTMINSTER COUNTY HOMES
SUIT An PURSES AND ARE N
FAVOR WITH COMMUTERS.

there's q DiE Migration AeroVs the CT,
Line ONtnE tO Assured BetteFmentt
In suburban acknowledgements
Houses Are Selling - Past as Built
The tide Of city workers migrating Ia
suburban homes within easy committing
distance Of New York has reached unsI'
ampled Roadway this spring. Agents who
deal In this class Of property report that The
s,Ipply OF houses for rent u not equal to the
demand and that the investment market Il
strong and healthy. For the first time m
many years land values are moving notably
upward. and there h every indication that
the movement has only begun.
There are two main reasons for this,
The first Ia the oonEested condition Of hous-
InRs In Manhattan Island and the consequent
hse In realty, which Is rapidly bringing
about the elimination Of the private house
for the man Of moderate means. The
second reason. which Is working concur
rently with the first, Is the satisfactory
transit facilities that arc promised by the
Identification Of the suburban ,servics Of
four OF the main railroads leading out OF
New York.
There are many people who do not take
kindly 10 the crampsd dwelling afforded
by the Fat or apartment house. They
vent something more individual, moro
exclusive, than a name plate and push
button in the vestibule, and q front parior
and a string Of airshaft rooms sandwichOd
In somewhere upstairs between the abldin g
places Of Tom, Dick and Harry. Fifty
dollars, q larger amount Of money than can
~ Nk,n ina AnTn
Yorker, will secure but q very modest nat
IN Manhattan; the oonveniences Of the
modern elevator apartment houae arc out
Of the question. But $50 in the suburbs
puts a man on a far different footing. He
can secure a roomy, modern home, with
ample breathing space about It, In desirable
neighborhools
Heretofore the discomfort and danger
Of the New York Central's tunnel and the
inoonvenienoes Of ferriage across the
Hudson and the East River have acted as
effectual bars 70 any noticeable migration
to either westchester county. Long Island
or New Jersey. Another and perhaps the
greatest bar TO out-of-town residence was
the necessity imposed on city-Workers OF
regulating their homo and business Life
by the arbitrary timtt lble ofa railroad.
TIE gigantic railway improvements now
going on IN and about New York promise
an early removal OF all these difficulties.
The tunnel that Is being bored from Thirty
fourth street under both rivers will do
away with the ferry moon venienoe for all
Of Long Island and for tho large section
Of New Jersey served by the Pennsylvania
Railroad The smoke nuisance In the
Contral's tunnel will very likely DO sbatod
within year, when the company intends
20 run trains from the Grand Central station
70 O union station in The Bronx by cleo
tricity. And when the entire electrihoation
Of these roads is completed speed will be
increased and the time between trains cut
down, so that the catching Of a particular
train viii not be the momentous question
that Il is under the present steam engine
schedule
On account Of the railroads that gridiron
Westchester county from north to south
that section is receiving very large share
Of this springs exodus suburbanward.
All Of these railroads connect directly with
the present rapid transit system in this city,
and all Of the proposed subway routes
now being considered by the Rapid Transit
Commission have been 90 planned that they
will tap either terminal or union stations
Of these railroads. II Is even possible that
traffic arrangements may be made bet ween
tho railroads and the subways, by which
a through suburban service may be
mAint aimed. II was stated last week by
one Of tho engineers Of the New York Cen
raj that the new terminal station at Forty
second street isto be 90 built that the Sub
urban service Of that road, which is TO
como in below the street level, can be run
through to the Fourth avenue subway
tracks. He added however, that no such
traffic arrangements had yet been en-
tered into. The same policy Of through
service was, perhaps, forccasted In the
st statement recently given out by the New
York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad,
in which official ASSURANCES were given OF
he friendly relations existing bet ween that
railroad and the Metropolitan Street Rail-
way. which Is endeavoring to secure a
franchise for an extensive system Of sub
ways in Manhattan Island.
In tbs Hudson River Valley section Of
county the main line OF the
New York Central Is being four tracked
and electrified as far north as Croton.
The power stations and electrical equip
ment are being built for far heavier ser:
vice than the present needs Of the road
demand. Ths company has announced
mt III lhltnNa % lOllO" u lutfAA PoINy %
10 additional train service and such new
stations as growing communities may
warrant At Bingsbridge this road will
be tapped by the Broadway branch OF the
present subway system. At Mott Haven
! union depot has been proposed. The
East Side subway route for which the Metro
1olitan has asked franchise viii run south
rom the site Of this union depot.
The Putnam division will feed what may
)e considered the sub-union depot at Kings
bridge, and will also run down to the ibSth
Itreet terminal Of the elevated railway, a. at
present
The Harlem division, on which the cleo
.roal service IL 10 be installed as far north
ls White Plains will run through the MOT
haven union depot, and - also viii che
New York, New Haven and Hartford, This
after railroad is six-tracking lie suburban
,ervice from It's terminal station At l2eth
Itreet and Third avenue. At this point
he Second and Third avenue elevated ran