The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-01
R. 7. Board Committee Plans
S25O,00O, 900 Worth.
TO Be EIGHT IN MANHATTAN
Private Capital Is Expected TO
Build Some oil Them.

1t Won't Cost Much More 10 Tunnel a
spur to Fort Hamilton-Three East
Side IInes-J. W. Gates and the
Fort Chester People Ready 10 Build
Ono for Nothing-wcst Side Line
Moving Platform Across Town At
3Ath Street and Three More River to
River Routes Mapped Out--subway to
Queens from Union Square-Two sys-
tems In Brooltlyn-IIope Is TO DO Al
This GradualIy-Cty Has Only Set
Aside $50. 900. 900 for such Work
New subways and elevated railroad eK-
tensions serving all boroughs except Rich
mond and calling for an expenditure Of
about $3.50 600 900 have been planned by
the Rapid Transit COMMISSIONS committee
on contracts. The committee after many
protracted meetings finished it's work yes
terday, and its recommendations will be
submitted to the next meeting OF the conf
mission.
For Manhattan the committee has laid
down three routes from Harlem TO the Bat
terry on the East Side and one on the West
Side. Four lines extending across the city
are suggested, and In The Bronx several
extensions 10 existing subway and elevated
lines have been determined upon. The
three East Side lines are presented as alter
nate routes, but the committee expects
that it will not be many years before all
three are built.
For Queens q subway running from
Union Square under the East River to
Jamaica is planned. Two subway sys-
TENS are apportioned to Brooklyn. One
will have its terminal at Fort Hamilton.
Staten Island temporarily has been left
out in the cold, but the cost of building
spur from Fort Hamilton under the Mar
rows will DO relatively small
ALL ROUTES INDEPENDENT.
The committee. which consists Of Alex
ender f. Orr. Comptroller Gro't and Charles
Stewart, explained that it IS not intended
to construct all these lines at once. The
committee has simply mapped out a COM
prehensive system of now travelling facili
ties intended to meet all requirements for
many years.
The plans have been 50 drawn that each
proposed route can be an independent
line. thus admitting bidders outside OF the
existing railroad corporations In fact.
the committee has not provided for
junction with the Interborough subway,
such s has been asked for by tho company
at Forty-second street and Lexington
avenue. A moving platform is recon-
mended under Thlrty-fourth street, where
the Metropolitan company asked for
subway.
oArEs WILL BUILD ONE ron A FRANCHISE.
IT, a. the committee expects, the com
petition to build and operate the new sub
ways is keen II will be only few years
before all the routes are constructed Mr..
Orr said that it was expected that bidders
in several instances would agree TO build
the ronds with their own capital. John W.
Gates and others behind the Port Chester
Railroad Company have already offered
to construct a subway under Third avenue
from Harlem to the Battery at their own
expense This route Is one Of those sug
gested by the committee
Out oil It's present margin Of debt incur
ring capacity the city has set aside $50 100000
for new subways but it II believed that
it will not be asked 10 pledge any Of it,
credit for the more important lines to be
constructed in this borough and Brooklyn.
MANHATTAN PLANS.
The routes planned for Manhattan begin
with line starting in West Chester running
under the Southern Boulevard thence to
Westminster avenue. to l3sth street, 10
Third avenue, passing under tho Harlem
River to Lexington avenue, 10 Forty-slsth
street, at which point a spur will be run
to the Grand Central Station, continuing
down Lexington avenue TO Fourteenth
street. to Third avenue. 10 the Bowery,
New Bowery. Pearl, Beaver and Whitehall
streets to Battery Place. Here the line
turns around a loop and goes north on the
West Side under Greenwich street, West
Broadway, Fifth avenue, Twenty-third
street and Seventh avenue, to Forty-second
street
Another route begins at l3sth street,
runs under Third avenue 10 the Bowery
and then follows the course described in
the first road TO the Battery and up the
West Side.
A third route runs from l3sth street
under First avenue 70 Houston street.
then under Essex, Rutgers and Madison
streets, the New Bowery Ferry street.
Water street and Whitehall street, with
a loop there carrying the line up the Wes,
Side under Washington street to Eighth
avenue, thence under 81. Nicholas avenue
and Broadway TO DyciSman Meadows
ACROSS Town.
The first Of the four crosstown lines
hid out will Ice under Grand street joining
the Hudson River ferries with the Williams
burg Bridge; the second will be under ru-,
teenth street, becoming at Union Square
part Of the tunnel to be built to Queens \
moving platform Is advised for Thirty
fourth street. Tho fourth Inc will be under