New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-13
PUBLIC NOTICE.

SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION
FIRST DEPARTMENTAL THE MAT.
TER Of the application ~ MANHATTAN
RAILWAY COMPANY for the appointment Of
three Commissioners TO determine and report
whether additional tracks ana facilities on tho
ninth Avenue Line or route OF its elevated
railroads I'm the Borough OF Manhattan, I'm tho
city OF New York as determined by the public
Service Commission Tor the First District Of the
state of New York. ought TO be constructed
and operated.
Ninth Avenue Additional Tracks and Facil
tiles
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that.
pursuant 10 tho provisions OF the Rapid Transit
Act being chapter Of tho Laws OF 1891. a.
amended, Manhattan Railway Company VIII
apply to Tho Appellate Division OF the supreme
Court OF the State of New orls I'm and for the
First Judicial department at 2 term thereof
10 DO held at the Appellate Division Court
House, Madison Avenue and 18th Street. IN the
Borough OF Manhattan. CITY of New York, on
the Goth cay OF March, 1914. az 1000 o'clock
in the forenoon OF that day. or rs soon there
after as counsel can be heard for tho appoint
ment Of three commissioners IN the above
titled proceeding 10 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 in the Boz
ough OF Manhattan, IN the city OF New York.
as 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 afiidavts and papers
accompanying inc SAME All OF which Wers
filed I'm the Office OF the Clerk OF said Appellate
Division the 9Th day OF February, 1914 and
In addition thereto, such other Papers as shall
be presented 10 the Court by said Company.
The said additional trick or tracks and facil-
tiles are determined and authorized by the
Public Service Commission for tho First Dis
trict IN its certincate' dated March 10 1913
and are described therein and in the papers
filed herein as aforesaid with tho Clerk OF tho
Appellate Division, and arc described generally
follows:
Unon tho Ninth Avenue Line. additional
tracks hereinafter referred 10 as NINTH AVE-
NUE. ADDITIONAL TRACKS ~ follows. A
third track from point az near Battery
Place and Greenwich Street. through Green
wich Street, Ninth Avenue and Columbus Ave
nue. 10 l0stli street: thence through private
property. 10th street and private property.
crossing public streets. 10 Eighth Avenue.
thence through Eighth Avenue 10 the Harlem
River. At sd Street and Ninth Avenue. In
order 10 provide for crossing the Sixth Avenus
elevated railroad conyergng with the Ninth
Avenue Line az that point, the third track may
be reconstructed and with the necessary grad
uated approaches may rise above tho existing
tracks at an elevation OF not exceeding twenty
feet above them.
From a point on Eighth Avenue az or near
18th street 10 point at or near llsth Street.
and from a point az or near lend street 10 a
point al or near 127th street. the present exist
ing structures may be widened six feet on each
side thereof and the present tracks may b.
spread to permit the reconstruction and re
locating or the present inter-track stations and
platforms which are now located az and known
as the 18TH Street and the 18th street stations
81 tho Manhattan Company This reconstruc-
ton may be made TO allow the express and
local trains 70 serve these stations from their
tracks. All the tracks and station
platforms. between these points, may DO con
structed on the present level
The object Of the aforesaid application IL IN
obtain the appointment OF three commissioners
tho shall determine, after hearing OF al tho
parties interested whether said additional
track or tracks and facilities ought 20 be con
structed and operated, and shall report ths
evidence taken TO said Appellate Division 10
which report IL I'm favor OF tho construction
and operation OF said additional track or tracks
md facilities (as said Manhattan Railway Com
oany will ask that II shall be-, shall when
confirmed by the said Court. be in lieu OF tho
consent OF the property owners along the lne
If said route. 49,
Dated New York February 9Th, 1914.
MANHATTAN RAILWAY COMPANf.
JAMES +. OUACKENBUSH.
Attorney. los Broadway. New York CRY.