New-York tribune., 1909-06-02
ALTERS TRANSIT PLAN
FROM UNION TO TINES SO.
WoUiHg Platform Company UdntS
Franchise Under BrOddTGY.

Max Z Schmidt president of the Continuous
Transit Securities Company, submitted an AMENDED
offer 10 the Public Service Commission yesterday
irl regard 20 the construction of moving platform
routes he said that jn view of the passage OF the
rapid transit law amendments. his company was
ready &c bid on the construction and operation OF a
moving platform subway under Broadway from
Union Square 10 Times Square. An arcade VIII be
built in connection with This route If the commits
sion approves
Two alternative moving platform routes were
slso proposed IN case the commission did not ap-
prove the Broadway arcade plan One OF the al
tentative routes is q crosstown subway under o4lh
street from Second avenue to Ninth avenue rms
is the original moving platform route, Tor pernls-
sion TO build which application was made several
wears ago by the same company 70 the RAPID Tran
SIT Commissioners.
The other alternative route apparently contem-
plates the operation OF the bridge loop subway
which is nearing completion AS proposed by MT
Schmidt, this route would begin at the BROOKLYN
plaza Of the Williamsburg Bridge, would cross the
bridge on an elevated structure 20 the Manhattan
plaza and would continue by subway under De
lsncey street and Centre street TO the Manhattan
end OF the Brooklyn Bridge, thence under Park
Row Nassau street. Broad street and Beaver street
10 connection with the present subway at Bowling
Green.
In view Of the fact that the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company has refused TO operate the bridge
loon subway and there is no operator in sight for
81 1T present believed that the Public Service
Commission would be glad TO take up any feasible
proposition. Mr. Schmidt said that any one OF the
three routes proposed would cost IN The neiGhooF-
hood of slO.00000o 10 construct
The original proposition OF the Continuous Tran
sit Securities Company, which was presented 10 the
Public Service Commission February IS, contei-
plated eight moving platform routes This PROPOSE
ton is now withdrawn, as the company does not
believe that the time IS ripe for the construction OF
ali the routes first outlined It was suggested
last night by several traction experts that the tf-
fc in Broadway between Union Square and Times
Square seemed 10 be comfortably handled at the
present tine by the surface lines
Theodore P Shonts president OF the InterboroGgh-
Metropolitan Company, was in conference yesterday
with William r. Wilcox. chairman of the Public
Service Commission. in regard to the 1nterboroughs
amended subway development plans. which VIII
soon he presented to the commission. After the
conference Mr.. Wilcox said that he was bound 10
secrecy but he volunteered the information thai
the Tnterboroughs plans would be more ex-
tensive and costly than the &a0oo.ocO proposition
submitted the commission several months ago
tt IS understood that the Interborough will Of
fer TO spend al least 800 oooo in subway and ele-
waited development. The extension or the present
subway south from Times Square under Seventh
avenue 10 the Battery and north from the Grand
Central station to The Bronx by way OF Lexing
ton avenue by means of twO-track express routes
was the Interboroughs original offer These
routes have been made four-track in the amended
plans. il is understood. An extension TO Brooklyn
as the extension OF the present Brooklyn subway
from its present terminus at Atlantic avenue
The directors OF the Interborough Rapid Transit
Company Will meet to-day and take up the
amended plans They will probably go to the
Public Service Commission late this week
Arthur ]. Baldwin. counsel for the Bradley
Ganney-Steers Company, which wants TO build
subway route under Lexington avenue from The
Bronx to the bridge loop, called on Chairman
WILCOX OF the Public Service Commission yes
terday and told him that the company would soon
file with the commission its plans amended
under the Travis Robinson law
Chairman Wilcox sent a letter Controller
Metz yesterday in support of the proposition for the
McAdoo tunnel extension TO the Grand Central Sta
ton, which is at present before the Board of Esti
mate and Apportionment Mr.. Wilcox said that
the commission would see to It that neither the
McAdoo tunnel nor its stations I'm 42d street would
interfere with any possible extensions Of the Stein
way tunnel or the present city subwa--
Frank Hedley. general manager and vice-presi-
dent OF the Interborough Rapid Transit Company
opposed the McAdoo franchise before the Board Of
Estimate and Apportionment on the ground that
the franchise. as prepared By the Public Service
Commission, did not confne the NcAdoo extension
TO the south side of 42d street Metz supported
Mr. HedleT and wrote to the commission asking
That this point be Strengthened out. Mr.. McAdoo
also wrote 10 the commission that his company in
tended 10 keep on its own side of the street"
Mr. Metz said IN his letter to Mr. WILCOX that
lac would bring the McAdoo franchise before the
Board Of Estimate and Apportionrnent on Friday
provided the commission Strengthened cut the
point IN doubt before that time. 1t looks now as
" the McAdoo franchise viii go through before
'ae summer adjournment if other objections are
brought az.