The sun., 1909-02-14
BELMONT co. MOVES NOW
N'4DOO PROPOSAL LEADS IT
TO RENEW PROPOSALS..
Would Build South Under Broadway
From Fortysecsnd street and North
From Grand Central Public Service
Board to Welcome Private Capital.

Would Build South Under Broadwa!
From Forty .secsnd Street and NortI
From Grand Central Public Servic,
Board 10 Welcome Private Capital
Since IL has become known that tn,
MoAdoo company wants TO build sub
way on the East Side 70 connect its Crane
Central terminal with the Cortland
street terminal the Intefborough com.
pany has suddenly become active and Il
preparing to lay before the Public Services
Commission plans for the extension, OF
the present subway routes. There have
already been some informal conferences
between members Of the Public Service
Commission and representatives OF the
marlborough company on the advisa-
bility Of constructing new branches OF
the existing subway.
Further conferences are 20 be held,
and the outcome will undoubtedly be the
fling Of applications by the Interborough
company for franchises TO build line
under Madison avenue from the Forty
second street station Of tho subway 10
the station at Lenox avenue and 10th
street. The present Lenox avenue line
Of the subway makes q detour at 10th
street across town and joins the Broadway
line Of the subway at l03d street. A
straight cut through Madison or Lexing-
ton avenue from 10th street to Forty
second street would avoid this roundabout
route and mean great saving in the
expense OF carrying passengers from the
upper East Side to the downtown bust
ness section. 1t costs the Interborough
20 cents per car mile to operate its trains.
One Of the routes laid out by the old
Rapid Transit Commission provided for
a subway under Lexington avenue south
OF the Harlem River. but II is understood
that the Interborough company in the
application il contemplates making will
contend that Lexington avenue Is too
narrow for subway without encroaching
beyond the building line and that Madison
avenue would be a more advantageous
route.
II was also learned yesterday that the
Interborough company is preparing TO AJAX
the Public Service Commission for fran
chise to extend the existing subway from
Forty second street and Broadway south
under Broadway. Greenwich avenue,
West Broadway and Greenwich street TO
the Battery.
BY means OF the extension north under
Madison avenue and the extension south
from Forty-second street 70 the Battery
the Interborough company would obtain
two trunk lines on the East and West
sides Of the city. In the event Of these
plans being carried out the Interborough
company would only run shuttle trains
in Forty-second street. Similarly II Is pro-
proposed to run shuttle trains across town
from Lenox avenue and 10th street to
the Broadway line.
So far as could be learned yesterday
there has been no mention Of the terms
on which the marlborough company
would he willing to build the new extern
s.ons. but /: is believed by some of the
chlciais Of the Public Service Commission
that the Interporough IL IL could obtain
tho franchises would agree 70 lay out the
new routes with it's own capital. practi-
cally as the company did in the case Of the
extension OF the subway to Brooklyn.
Although none OF the members OF the
Public Service Commission would dis
cuss yesterday the contemplated plans
OF the Interborough company there il
no doubt that the board in view of the
flna ncial inability OF tho city TO advance
money for new subways would pass favor
ably on any feasible and practical prof.
ect for the development OF the Inter
subway system.