The sun., 1908-03-22

era conferences for the purpose Of inducing
the Public Service Corporation 10 put on
through car service, without transfer, IRON
Fort Lee 10 the present tunnel station Al
Hoboken, Col, Heine Of the Public Service
Corporation has expressed himself a. favor
able 70 the proposition II the change Ia
made It will shorten the time TO lower Man
haitian about fifteen minutes. besides erecting
q saving Of hye cents each way,
Residents Of North Bergen have been
promised through car service 70 the McAdoo
tunnel for some time past, This now be-
comes fact through the Public Service Cor
poratiOn running a through car from its
Bergen line terminal TO the tunnel The new
service goes into immediate effect and does
away with many tedious delays and changes
which have heretofore been necessary to get
the benefit OF the tunnel connection with
New York. II Is estimated that large num-
her who have heretofore crossed the Forty
second OF Fourteenth street ferry Will now
travel TO the Wall Street section via the McAdoo
tunnel. The effect on realty values along
the route OF this new road will OF course oe
most marked,
With the fourth Pennsylvania tube TO
Long Islano actually opened and the Black
wells Island bridge connected up the last
week may fairly be considered the most
important In the whole history OF Queens
borough from the point OF view OF real es-
tate owners. The long promised transit
facilities are now actually In sight and seem
certain to be in use before the end Of the
year
What advanta ges residents Of Queens
are to derive from the new tunnels and the
bridge has long been a question for discus.
sion and now becomes a matter Of practical
demonstration The RickeTt- Finlay Realty
Company has prepared table showing
graphically the changes which the new routes
insure and the saving OF time between various
points In Queens and various points w Man
haitian. For a single trip this new schedule
shows in some cases a saving Of as much as
forty-ave minutes, while in no case does Il
amount to less than twenty minutes.
The chief factor in the problem Ia the eX-
istence of BlaCkwells = Island. stretching for
TWO and half miles between the two bOr-
oughs, which has always made ferries impos-
sibie For this reason trip from the Plaza
ai Fifty-ninth street TO the heart OF Long
takes fully an hour, but with the bridge open
II will he a matter Of less than fifteen minutes.
This ia an extreme case. but other comParl-
sons in the table are no less interesting. Even
from the Grand Central station, where the
existing route ia straight instead OF tortuous,
the Belmont tunnel cuts down the time OF
transit from thirty minutes TO five. what
ever points are selected In the two bOroughs,
similar reductions IN time are ionnd, ann from
the business centre at Herald Square i now
becomes evident that Queens will be before
the end Of the year the most accessible OF all
the outer boroughs.
Arrangements have been completed by the
officials OF the New York Central to extend
the electric zone from High Bridge TO Yonkers
ON the Hudson division on March 20, and in
strlction IL being given to mOtormeni con-
ductors and signalmen In the service, IL was
originally planned 10 run trains by electricity
on March l. but the burning Of a factory from
which important parts OF the signals are pur-
chased has caused delay Of nearly month:
Now everything IL In readiness. the thlTd ran
is laid, and a complete system Of block slgn{a,is
progressing. and before long II will be in oper-
alton to Harmon, the terminal