New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-17
BAYTER-ST. IL" HERRING.
Only Solution, Says President Wsn'
ter-Opponents Out IN Force.

The room OF the Rapid Transit Commission was
crowded yesterday with friends and enemies oi sio
proposed Baxter-st elevated bridge loop i"oFe
Brooklyn organizations favored the plan ano one
opposed Il.
Alfred r. ConIllfn declared that property
holder he would get injunction II the ooaiu
adopted the plan.
F. w Hnrichs speaking for the Citizens Union
declared the project to give certain prlVieSeS
to the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Have you studied the crowds going to the
bridge. Mr. orr" he asked OF the president Oh '"'
commission. ~ -
"1 have" answered Mr. Orr. You can't tell me
anything about It l know eli ABOUT II VIC 49,"
to our business here. sir -,
ct beg your pardon. Mr.. Orr. for having sa1o
that" said Mr.. Hinrichs. 49,,
II NAV saw right here" said Mr.. Grout' mat
wa are going to recommend subway loop ana
the question is whether we STILL re0"AN
Il loop in addition"
Calvin Tomkins, president or the Municpal ar
Society declared that an East SIDE me cohneo's
the congested terminals OF the two bridges "ouiu
soon tend unduIy TO longest the East Side streets
of Manhattan in addition 70 encumbering theIl
with excessive foot travel to and from the brooA-
Ign cars.
The construction of a four track tunnel subway
under The river TO Brooklyn along the genera
route recently indicated by the colnHissio" s
at once be begun. he commended - ,.
Mr. Slower said the East Side Civic Club. was
opposed to all elevated structures or loops
Miss Lillian D. Wall, settlement WOiF>1A' Sos
an elevated structure would be an injustice 10 the
children and Lawrence Weller spoke against a loop
on behalf of the City Club 49,, nro+ronolitan
Eugene A. Philbn said that the MetToP OPP
Parks Association of which he is preslaent, on
posed the loop because 1t would dsnguS ' nuTnoss
parks and Fairgrounds, and deIeaL 'he pU4 P'90
for which these parks were co9sIrucFeq Froolslvn
RAMA ,5'' transit Company spoke in favor OF the
pian. He said the loop would do away with Ihe
ngea a o. BaIeY of the Title Guarantee and Trust
Company of Brooks spoke in faEoT OF e cen
afad
boards Of trade of that borough were In favor
Borough President Lttleton, of Broollyn replied a
rather warmly to the declaration OF MI f nbeTne
that Mr.. Litteton was the father OF ne ne Rrook
and had formerly been connected Win the DrooA-
y did not think that | would be called on to
answer the ridiculous II not Bprneh Pres
dent "A man who can in five minutes pass from
Herbert Spencer to such remarks as ne HA@u0 40
we have got to deaf with the Brooklyn Rapid
facies Of ana IN Brookiyn Ts company offers
to build elevated loop and that Is Lne TO-
subway where there is choice of the Two, f 8y
cons oGP VIE n Broofyn viii be relieved Il you
build this loop win get cG9FGi o6 OF the The neck
Of the system. and you can strangle them 10 ue''n
President winter Of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company said that. after careful consideraton OF
an ae e if9s p5 loop was the only solution
thirty seconds between trains could be maintained"
Mr. WELLER for the City GI6 Brdge p Prob
e.
lem. and Its Solution -" prepared by special COM
mittee of the club This said in part
We suggest as a remedy for the congested condl.
lions in regard the trolley cars that lnSteao VI
having the trolleys turn in eight dinerent loops
he WesthOund continue by means OF q SUI
way running In straight line IN a WesIe[ly u 4t1
ton beneath the present subway IN Manhatt e
and directly under the City Hail Park unoer Ine
broad street which is directly back or the ClLy
Hall and the County Court House, conIllulllS
then in a straight line westward, beneath Broad
way and under Warren-st, until Washing Ion-sC
is reached: this trolley subway to turn up GIeen
wich-st. and loop at Chambers-st. running unoeI
meath Chambers-st. as far back as Washington
St. and down Westinghouse. back TO Warren-s.t,'
and returning under Warren-st. by the same route
This line be modified as circumstances may re-
| To accomplish this it viii be necessary for the
| present trolley cars to into a SUBWAY at sohIe
! distance back on the Brooklyn Bridge:
this plan there VIII De a station Ior Lhe TOIleS
subway on the west side of City Hall Park, per-
hitting passengers to take the Broadway cars run
ming north and south: another station at warren
Chambers-st station Of the 6th-ave. L. road, and
nerrnitfing passengers TO take the 6th-aVe. Il
cars going north and south and the 6tn-aVe sur
face cars going north; a station at warren t an.
efh-ave. IL cars running north and south, While
the last station would be at Chambers and WASH
ington SITS giving access to the Chambers-st Terry
end being far from the Barclay-St Terry
we propose to relieve the present conditions IN
regard to the Il" trains at the terminal on the
Manhattan side by sending the Interborough u
bridge looping at the Brooklyn terminal and re-
turning back the bridge and uptown on the
Rlattar than the plan Just outlined. however.
| Railroad Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
| Company by which the cars OF both companies
| would run INTERCHANGEABLE over the Sd-aVe INES
| in Manhattan and the entlre Brooklyn lines OF the
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