The sun., 1907-08-23


what oughtpropcriy TO bs charged 20 opera
ion account and thereby initiating the value
Of the equipment Tor which the city would
have to pay when II took over the road at
the end Of the seventy-hve year lease.
Counsel for the Tnter-Nlet on Wednesday
commended that the city would pay for moth
ipy hut the tangible equipment owned Ivy
the company. andfhat even this property
would be paid for only al an appraisal made
under the supervision of the Supreme
Court.
Al the opening Of yesterdays session
MIR. Ivips told the commission that as the
contract provided that the city should
purchase at u fair valuation" the entire
equipment Of the company including power
houses. rolling stock, tools. appliances
and all renl estate Of which such an equip
meni was part, the presumption was
that the expenditures of the company
which had been placed under the head OF
the equipment and which had no right
there would have to be taken into con
sideration when the appraisal was made.
One new point made by Mr. WINS yes
terday In connection with the making up
Of the construction account was that legal
charges which apparently had nothing
to do with the subway and which amounted
to f2sD had been added to he cost as
IL appears on the books ~ the company
of the equipment of the subway.
The greater part OF yeste terdays session
was given over TO inquiring into the oper-
atinR OF the subway. Chairman wilcox
and Mr.. lvins were anXious to asceTta ain
from Mr.. Bryan IL the use OF "A side door
car in the subway would not be advisable
and tend To more rapidity in the move.
ment OF trains. Mr.. Bryan conten ded
that the traffic conditions in this city ana
the curved platforms at the express sta .
tons in the subway would not permit OF
the use OF the side door cars with safety.
Take the case Of the Illinois car. said
Mr.. Bryan. -On the Illinois Central when
train pulls into the station they eke
everybody that is on the platform, fhe
man can see everybody il aboar 4 and close
his train. He does not have a lot of wild
people as we have in New York running
down the stairs three steps at a time who
rush up and put their foot in TO keep them
from closing the door. to get in. We have
men who have had their arms broken and
men who have been struck trying TO keep
persons from hurting themselves That
Ia what We have to contend with.
Commissioner Wilcox asked IL this Diff
Guilty could not be overcome by having
the side door cars such as are used in Boston.
with platform man to look afterthe closing
of the doors. Mr.. Bryan replied that to
Use the side door cars il would be necessary
TO have a moving sort Of shelf TO fill up the
gap between the car and the platform
caused by the acute curves in most OF the
subway STA ions.
That gap platform must be drawn in
under the station platform" Mr. Bryan
said. before the train can go. and while
the man at the side door ia giving the signal
10 draw back the shooting platform the
danger is that some one might attempt to
board that train. Standing on that moving
floor he might he pushed off by the crowds
which surge around such stations al Forty
second street and Brooklyn Bridge. Four
teenth street il one OF the places whore we
would have to put II, and South Ferry,
and that has been our objection TO it. We
feel 40 strongly about IL. | mean we men
who have been operating these roads in
New York that we would fear to take an
order from the commission to do that. |
would noi do It under the Instructions of
anybody unless il was an order. ! con-
slider il absolut ely dangerous to do H."
Mr.. Bryan told the commission that the
service OF the subway could be vastly in
creased il the platforms we're heightened
so as TO allow Of the running OF trains with
more cars than now. Mr. Bryan also said
that the company could improve lts SER
vice il il could build the terminals il had
planned for at Dyckman street. in The
Bronx. on land which the company had paid
for out OF it's own pocket but had been pre-
vented building upon because OF the oppo-
sition OF the local authorities
Suppose asked MIR. WINS. starting a
formidable hypothetical question. you had
the local stations extended TO 400 feet. sup
pose you had certain OF the express sta
tions so altered az TO give you additional
station room; suppose You were to 80 ar
range that during the rush hours there
should be no direct transfer from locals
TO express trains. and suppose that you
were TO put in operation all the new cars
which you are now constructing and hope
to put in operation some time al least early
next year. how much would those matters
as a whole in your judgment increase
your facility for the carrying OF passengers
in the present subways as they exist.
barring the particular changes that have
spoken OF and always assuming also that
you had the station for the handling of your
cars that you speak Of as "A terminal at
Dyckman street?'
Il think" said MIR Bryan. III would in
crease the present capacity of the subway
nearly one hundred million passengers per
annum"
THAT would be how much in terms Of
percentage2"
swered Mr.. Bryan.