The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-06
COMMUTERS In SUB-CELLAR
4 NEW PUZZLE INSTALLED AT
THE GRAND CENTRAL STATION.
II You're GOING to New Rochelle or Port
Chester You wander Th roush slipping
Alleys Down Il the second Level and
Uptown 4 P1ece-You Mustn't q

Chester You wander TIL 0uBh Siopine
Alleys Down to the second Level ant
Uptown . P1ece-You Mustn't Run
Commuters from Port Chester and New
Rochelle are getting a ongar walk for
their money at the Grand Central Station
these days than they enjoyed before.
The long covered alley leading from the
station proper to the Lexington avenue
terminal, which has been In use for a
year or more. is pretty good for leg work
but 1t is q mere stroll Compared with the
series Of alleys now in use. which give
you q walk OF three or four blocks an
land you away down in the biz hole that is
being dug for the new station.
OF course this arrangement is only
temporary, and the wonder OF II Is that
the railroad has bsen able TO rig up any
plan to accommodate it's immense sub
urban traffic in the great transformation
that is going on. When the new station
Ii q reality the New Rochelle and Port
Chester and ell other commuters will be
landed about Forty-third street. but
down in the hole-in the very sub-cellar
In fact. These two up 10 date towns
have merely beaten the others to It,
Moreover, when the station is completed
the ascent and descent will be by esca-
lators or some such oontrivanoes. n not.
This new fsuburban station down in
the hole was opened on Monday. By this
time New Rochelle and Port Chester are
getting pretty well trained nj ~ follow
the alley signs without q slip. but for one
precautions OF the railroad people. there
Q good deal Of confusion.
The New Rochelle and Port Chester
trains used to come In on the express
running into the Grand Central
proper, but the time has come
when the human moles that have been
digging away over on h Lexington
slde have got to turn s to the Te p
traokage running into the old station,
and by degrees as the new station arises
the trains will be run down on the two
levels Of tracks that are being built in
the big excavation. For a year or SO the
Central and Harlem suburban trains and
most Of the New Haven local trains have
been leaving. from the partly completed
The New Rochelle and Port Chester
folks under the present arrangement
pursue their way with the rest of the
crowd through the boxltke alley leading
from the promenade OF the Grand Central
Station toward the Lexington avenue
terminal. Just before they strike that
terminal, however. they turn into a broad
shoot with galvanized iron sides ard a
iron roof. The decline is about
10 per cent. and is fine IL you are In a hurry
and the railroad guards don't nab you.
This straightaway finally turns abruptly
to the right and there Ia q more gentle
descent for a few yards. Also there Is a
guard at the corner who tells
you not to I'll (going down, that rs; no,
not upl.
and turning sharply to your. left proceed
to another uniformed guard: who
chants monotonously. Don't rum! Don't
hurryI Ease up there This lands you
On q level platform. II you don't happen
% inhabit New Rochelle or Port Chester
md have lost your bearings back in the
Il salvation here. Turn to your right
md mount the steps and you are out OF
New Rochelle Port Chester society. and
ninRling with folks from Stamford,
.an6ury, White Plains and Tuckahoe.
But II you are in right you turn to
left, descend two short flights Of
steps and turn to your right. You are
now b, the heevy wire net
and gates. Once through them
ION are down in the suburban station
IN the second level Of tracks and you
walk straightawsy for a block OF two.
The railroad officials went to all sorts
trouble to make II as easy as possible
'or the passengers in the construction
the station. For n thing they made
models Of inclined walks and then tried
a dozen or more men over them to
IL ~.- -kAkhnr IL una na0lar Onln 0
hat way than BY steps. They have made
he alleys Of galvanized iron 80 that the
hanger from Are would be reduced to a
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