New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-15
BETTER In SUBWAY
HEDLEY HAS HOPES
FOR HIMSELF.
Thinks He Nay Be Decent
Citizen Yet" as He Sees
Working Of Nesg Plan.

~ OIbtHS " " t1C 4 Uft'
7 believe ! viii yet be regarded as
decent citizen OF this town" remarked
Frank Hedley. general manager of the
frterborough Rapid Transit Company,
as he climbed down from the cupola on
the uptown platform Of the Grand Cen
t-sI station. shortly after $50 o'clock
rast night He had been posted there
<or almost en- hour, watching the effect
n the new schedule put on yesterday
se COMPROMISE between the old sched-
Me and that prescribed by the Public
Service Commission
S+-ar-hanging was Sill IN evidence
on the subway at the rush hour. both IN
The morning and evening. but the addi-
lions n the rush hour service and the
baeirriDg Of the two-and-a-half-rni minute
service in the middle Of the day i'm
proved conditions.
shortly before Mr.. HedIey had come
down from his perch William p Wilcox,
chairman Of the Public Service Commits
sion. had passed along the uptown plat
form He had just come from his Office
End had been q passenger on a local
train.
What Go you think of the new sub
way sevice?" was the question put TO
tHe head Of the commission by a Tribune
reporter.
Wei. have not had sufficient infor-
nation 70 express a definite opinion"
said Mr.. Wilcox 7 know this, however,
That 7 have always been able to set
seat ar the Brooklyn Bridge station on
my way uptown on the local train. The
trouble with a good many people is that
they VIII insist on getting on the ex-
press trains 10 the Grand Central when
they could get seats If they would take
The local train. The difference in time
Is only q very few minutes.
7 VIII say I believe the company IS
Going lis best 70 give the best possible
service. If everybody cannot get a seat
- rush hours, well, that IS no fault of
the company. We are determined that
the maximum service be given at the
rush hour, and II that is not sufficient,
then the public must do the best It can.
People must rot forget that the subway
vas built to carry 100000 people, and
nov It is carrying 100000 New sub
Vavs must be built al the earliest posi-
he moment and that Is what the Public
Service Commission IS striving to bring
about as early as possible
Shows Marked Improvement
TIE service a. it was worked out yes
terdzy certainly showed Z big improve
-=-- Trains went by the Grand Cen
rial Station between and : 2. II. at in
-ervaIs Of less than the fixed schedule
n che minute and forty-eight seconds
most OF the time. The average stop at
that station was between forty-five and
fifty seconds during that time one
rrslr- however, vas held at the station
che minute and seventeen seconds by
actual count The reason was that the
-as- car was filed with Immigrants, in
charge Of q careuaker. They had 10 wait
orders, and when they were told TO get
of. each had To carry out a bag or q
small trunk. This took time. and the
schedule vas accordingly interfered vi b
30 that extent. Between 2:56 T. m.
Vnen the maximum service was put into
erect and $50 .. m. the service had
osr four minutes on the oue-minute-
and-forry-eighr-sec Roadway.
I an more than pleased with the way
The service has worked out" said Mr.
Hedlev. While there have been many
er1wded trains, the schedule has been
maintained. There * one thing YOU
must observe. however: that Is that Z
delay Of two minutes on a sOuthbound
81 The service for an hour and a quar-
r-- Nov. take this evening. one south
bound Broadway express train was just
twenty seconds late. II was turned
around IT The South Ferry terminal, Yet
p West Farms train got ahead of it at
Bowling Green, and three Bronx Park
trains ran between Broadway trains all
-ae way 10 96Jh street"
Eng nes- Connette Satisfied.
+. o. Coun=rte. Transportation engi-
re=- of The Public Service Commission.
vas vel satisfied with the first day of
me new schedule. Between 1I.3O .. m
and 1870 %. m. yesterday Mr.. Connette
had Inspectors on duty II the l4th street
~cou. They reported that twenty-six
trains passed ncrlh5oua and twenty
four trains had passed southbound The
en-T-four trains sourhbouDd fulfilled
t-e schedule promised by The company
TWO and a half minute headway in
taa non-rush hours, from 1870 a. n to
IS p. rn
Henry P. Waugh, Of the Interborouga.
called 3Ir- Hedley's attention to the diff
Guilty q boarding trains ~ the 33d
street station The people all seem 20
bo punched UP IN the front part Of the
rs." he said. 'and il is almost impos-
Idle 10 get into q train"
That - because everybody wants 70
-sr or a. the Grand Central Station 10
-anster 10 an express train" remarked
general manager.
SIR Hedlev said the company vas
about - place d further order for sew
enty-five cars for the subway within
year we expect 10 have the platforms
"H'ended 50 that we can run ten-car
cypress trains and six-car local trains"
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