The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-12
CITY TO OPEN SHRINWAY TUBE
LONG ACRE SQTARE VIII M
THE MEN TERMINAL.

mana runnPt To Glneenp-New Pro-
psaaI FrOm TIE InterOorOagh:-Oo
seesad Iseadway I'nner the IIUasSa.
The Stsinway tunnel under the Fast
River 10 to hs opeNed for trafIio ~ part
Of the plans for the development Of rapid
transit. according 90 a remark made
yesterday by Mayor OaynOr at another
airing held by the Board Of Estimates
COMMITTEES which Ia considering new sub
ways.
One Of the speakers who came from
Queens vas complaining that the plans
a. now prepared did not provide for
additional communication between this
borough and Q'Iesns The Mayor then
said that it was the purpose al the city
that not only should the stsinway tunnel
he put into operation hut that " should
be extended to Long Acre Square from
it, present. terminal near the Grand Cen
trail station under Forty -second street.
The Mayor added that this project
was part Of the plans for the new subway
systsm and that the operation % the
tunnsl wOnId be one Of the first things
undertaken Ivy the city.
This Statement from the Mayor caused
surpriss. because IL WINS known that the
Public Service Commission refused the
demand made about year ago by August
Belmont that tho city should buy the
tunnel and allow the company tn operate
IL on terms which the company itself
nxed These terms were that the city
should pay the company for the tunnel
u .7Ss. ia. the actual cost % cOnstruc-
ton. and should snter into an Operating
contract with the New York and Queens
County Railroad Company. another Boil
mont concern. whereby the company
should take all the through fares and the
city the fares Of persons travelling to-
tween Manhattan and Long Island City.
From statistics which the commission
gathered IL was found that the greater
part OF the travel through the tunnel
would 10 through traific and that Il was
fairly certain that tho local passengers
would continue 10 pay the thres cent
ferry fare rather than the i've cents de-
man,led in the tunnel.
II was figured ont Nv the experts % this
Public Service Commission thai after the
city had paid the interest on the pur
ohaae money aud PROV ided Tor other fixed
charges ths city would 10 loser To the
extent 81 between SIN nO and Ss0OO ON
a year. 10 the commission turned down
the proposal.
When MAYOR Gavnor was asked yeSter-
day Il the remark no made ht the hearing
meant that another proposition had been
made 60 the city he rsfus-d % say any
thing except that the openinE of the Stein
way tunnel wo'Ild he one 81 the plans the
city would put into effect.
Chairman Wilcox 20 tho Public Service
Commission said Yesterday that since th"
board had rejected the company's scheme
n had received mn other propo~Al. II II
understood. however. that whale nothing
has b,-.n suggested officially "a the com
mission or the BOARD of Estimate. those
h,dies have reasun to know that the com
pany would agree 70 operate the tunnel
without insisting GA In purchase by the
city II u could he assured 20 privileges
which could be counted AZ an equivalent
These privileges u 10 believed. are that
the company be permitted 20 build its
southern extension 81 the present sub
way from Long Acre square down Seventh
avenue to the Battery and the northern
eItenaiOn from Forty street and
Fourth avenue through Madison avenue.
and that il he allowed to carry itA Stein
Way tunnel route as far acrO-s town Rs
Long Acre Square.
The effect Of this scheme would bs that
the proposed Bruadway-I.eHinEtOH venue
route would have TO Eight serious haDdi-
cap. because the seventh and Madison
avenue extension would NOT only pa ra lIel
IL. bat the steinway tunnel cro~stown
line wOuld act a. a feeder To the Inter
borough subways aud 90 the slsvated
roads. which aIso are owned 10y the Inter
borough.
william q. McAdoo. president ~ the
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Com
pany. said yesterday that in March !.
I.sos OF passeDgen had been carried
through the Hudson tunnels The trnfiic
for the ninth was the largest the company
had had ~ far. In the rush hours a
schedule ~ ninety seconds Roadway.
was maintained. which Mr. McAdoo said
was a record uneauallt-d by anv railroad