New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-06
PUBLIC NOTICE.

SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION
FIRST DEPARrMENT.--IN THE MAT
TER OF the application OF MANHATTAN
RAILWAY COMPANY for the appointment Of
three Commissioners 20 determine and report
whether additional tracks and facilities on the
railroads In the Borough OF Manhattan. In the
City OF New York. determined by the Public
Service Commission for the First District OF tho
State OF New York, ought 10 be constructed
and operated.
Ninth Avenue Additional Tracks and Facil.
tiles
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that.
pursuant 10 the provisions OF the Rapid Transit
Act, being Chapter OF the Laws of 1891.
amended. Manhattan Railway Company will
apply 10 the Appellate Division OF the Supreme
Court OF the State OF New York In and for tho
First Judlcial Department. at term therecf
70 be held at the Appellate Division Cours
House. Madison Avenue and 18th Street I'm the
Borough or Manhattan, CITY OF New York. on
the 2Oth Gay OF March. 1914 at 1000 o'clock
in the forenoon OF that day. there
after as counsel can be heard. for the appoints
ment or three commissioners In the above
titled proceeding TO determine and report. after
due hearing. whether an additional track or
tracks and facilities on tho Ninth Avenue Line
or route OF its elevated railroads I'm the Bor-
determined by the Public Service Commis-
sion for the First District Of the State OF New
York, ought TO be constructed and operated.
The papers upon which the aforesaid applica-
ton Will be made are the petition OF said Man
haitian Railway Company, dated the 9TH day OF
February, 1914, and the afndayits and papers
filed in the office OF the Clerk Of said Appellate
Division on the 9Th day Of February 1914 and.
in addition thereto. such other papers as shall
be presented 10 tho Court by said Company
The said additional treck or tracks and faci-
tiles are determined and authorized by the
Public Service Commission for the First Dis
trict In It's certificate dated March 49, 1873
and are described therein and in the papers
FLED herein aforesaid with the Clerk OF the
Appellate Division. and are described generally
Tnon tho Ninth Avenue Line. additional ,
tracks hereinafter referred TO as NINTH AVE 3
NUE. ADDITIONAL TRACKS as follows. A
third track from point at near Battery
Place and Greenwich Street. through Green
wich Street Ninth Avenue and Columbus Ave
nue. 10 l09th Street; thence through private
property, 10th street and private property.
crossing public streets. 10 Eighth Avenue
thence through Eighth Avenue TO the Harlem :,
River. AT sd Street and Ninth Avenue, I'm
order 10 provide for crossing the Sixth Avenue
elevated railroad converging with tho Ninth
Avenue Line at that point, tho third track may
be reconstructed and with the necessary grad
uated approaches may rise above the existing
tracks at an elevation Of not exceeding twenty
feet above them.
From point on Eighth Avenue at or
18th street 10 a point at or near llsth Street.
and from a point at or near I22nd Street 20
point at or near Nth Street. the present exist
ing structures may be widened six feet on each
side thereof, and the present tracks may be
spread 20 permit the reconstruction and
locating OF the present inter-trsck stations and
platforms which are now located at and known
as the 1l6th Street and tho 18th Street ststionb
OF the Manhattan Company. This reconstrucs
ton may be made to allow the express and
local trains 10 serve these stations from their
tracks All the tracks and station
platforms. between these points. may be con-
structed on the present level
The object Of the aforesaid Application II -
obtain the appointment ~ three commissioners
who shall determine, after hearing Of az tho
parties interested, whether said additional
track or tracks and facilities ought ~ be con
structed and operated, and shall report tha
evidence taken 10 said Appellate Division, to-
gether with a report OF their determination.
Which report, n I'm favor OF the construction
and operation OF said additional track or trscks .
and facilities ias said Manhattan Railway coJns Z
psny will ask that IL shall be-. shall. when
confirmed by the said Court. be IN lieu OF ths
consent Of the property owners along ths hnS
OF said route.
Dated New York February 9th, 1914.
MANHATTAN RAILWAY COMPANY,
JAMES I. QUACKENBUSH.
Attorney 10 Broadway. New York city.