The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
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The New yerI travelling public, land that includes everybody in Goth am), and our contemporary metropol- itan papers are teenaing with wonder ful stories and immeasurable civic pride And why? Wonders of wonders, the Interborough Company, which leases the subway from the city, has succeeded in reducing the average length of the stops ot the express trains at the stations to forty-iVe sec onds, thus enabling them to run thir- ty trains an hour
 Our much7quoted General sher- mans remark about war seems to have more and more immediate appli- cation to New York life At least that Is the way it seems to us country yil- Ilagers in New Haven 4 year ago President shonts was running about twenty-three express trains an hour on an average But at that time the men on the station platforms, who did their best to get the trains away with the best available speed, were practically pewerless, as any one must have lnown who came in contact with them. The best they could do was to swear roundly at the defenseless passengers, plant their elbows in the middle of the latter's backs, and practice few of the fundamental principles they had previously learned in sardine fac tories To-day they have uniformed platform men, special policemen with the power to arrest any surly passen- ger who dares to raise an eyebrow in
 objection to their strenuous methods
 and they do the deed. Surely New
 York and New Workers are progress ing.
 The subway is carrying about 675,-
 900 passengers a day at present, in
 spite of the fact that it was only built
 to carry 5o0,o0O. It would be amusing,
 if it were not 50 pathetic, to read a
 news account of the efforts of the off,
 cials to save time. One says: At the
 Grand Central there is a despatcher
 for uptown trains and another for
 downtown trains Each one has a stop
 watch with which he registers the
 length of stops of all trains. On a
 sheet before him he records the
 schedule time of the trains, the actual
 time of arrival and the length of the
 stop. His instructions are to limit the
 stop to 45 seconds or less. unless it is
 necessary to prolong II to allow people
 to get off His elevated station give; him a clear view of the whole lengtf of the train and when he sounds the starting gong the special officers close the doors and the train proceed; promptly. It is sometimes necessary tt { prolong the stop beyond the limit q 45 seconds when there is an unusualIt , large number of people getting off ol when it is necessary to extend thu 5 loading time to prevent the platform f from becoming overcrowded, but [, compensate for these delays 1t is of [ ten possible to get train away il e less than 4s seconds, With an aver 6 age stop of forty-ive seconds tw' V minute headway. or thirty trains al hour can be maintalned. and this what is aimed at"
 t Until another subway is ready an t in running order there seems to b e but one more possible scheme to b |. worked out Why could not Presiden
 Shonts apply to the Yale football ali h thorities and get a squad or two Q j, the husky gridiron warriors to g :, down to help him pacE his cars at th s most troublesome stations It woul '. be good Winter and Spring praeuc !, for them With the power given ther a to arrest anybody Who showed bacl e there seems to be little doubt that th 1t tactics they used against Princeton T. after a little training, might result 1 d getting thirty-ohe or thirty-two train
 mast in an hour