The sun., 1916-01-17
ELEVATED EXPRESS
TRAINS RUN TO-DAY
No Speeches or Brass Bands at
Opening Of New Third
Tracks for Use.
LIKE ROLLER COASTER

Several things may he said about the
beginning of express service on the new
third tracks OF the elevated railroad
lines this morning. ono Is that II Is
tho consummation of one OF the greatest
engineering feats OF the age. another Is
that II will he welcomed without speeches
or brass bands, and a third II that II
may bring to many folk tho giddy pleas
ures OF "A concy Island roller coaster.
The third tracks will add many airy
undulations to the elevated lines. For
example. the Third avenue express trains
will take different levels according to
their destinations. II they are destined
for the Brooklyn Bridge. they wiil run
southwark on the lower level. but II
they are bound for South Ferry they
will begin to ascend to the upper level
BY a rise In the track which begins at
Canal street and which will carry them
over the city Hall trains at Chatham
Square, from which point they will
descend gradually. reaching the old level
NJ Franklin Square.
Enough 10 stir Poetic Souls.
Bronx and Harlem residents with
poetry IN their souls and a lucrative
business in wall Street or some other
section Of downtown Manhattan will
Immediately begin, after riding to their
Offices OF the new express trains to-day,
10 chant metaphors. making the ele-
waited comparable to a carefrcc swallow
in flight. children Of tender years,
abandoning their rocking horses and
ecofiing at their perambulators. may be
expected to deliver to their mothers such
ultimatums as the following:
Mamma. Take baby h e-bye on ell
waited cxpess'"
a., .
her child this Indulgence. far sighted
father may present the argument that
q roller coaster ride on the u costs
only five cents whereas a trip to Coney
necessitates carfare of 10 cents. after
which comes the additional expenditure
OF ticket for n trip through the clouds.
or a journey over the Rocky Road TO
Dublin-whatever the name by which
the pleasant whirl through space is
0weetened.
Whether or not the digging ride up
and down past chimney pots and tene-
ment windows will have any effect upon
the stability of breakfast snatched In
haste by tardy stenoeraphers Is a spec
uiation which hasn't been dreamed of in
the philosophy OF the Public Service
Commissioners-a least they have is
sued no official bulletins on the subject.
Great Changes Quietly Made.
AZ all events. the opening Of the cx-
Dress service means that New Workers
will be carried swiftly past scenes which
have undergone great changes during
the relatively unnotlced construction OF
the third tracking. SO busy are busy
people in the greatest city in the world
changes which meant the altering OF
Grades, the replacing of pillars, the run
ming UP of double decks whore ono" th're.
was only a single level the erecting o'
seventeen express stations right on top
Of local stations. tho remodellng of
other stations. the Use OF 100000 feet
Of new railway tics. the putting OF OF
10000 gallons OF paint. the putting down
OF $500 tons % new steel rails. and
other achievements tp 30 recorded IN
figures. so dear 10 the heart of statisti-
cal persons Md all this has taken
place on tho Second. Third and Ninth
avenue lines from the Battery to The
Bronx.
Tho opening Of the cypress service
means auoih hcr thing To Frank licdley,
general manager of the lut'rhoroush
Rapid Transit Company. IL means, a.
hc said yesterday:
"Thc biggest ioh Of engineering ever
done in this city or I'm any other city
IN tho country And there Is going n
he no ceremony "a usher Il IA. \ fcw
years ago such an event would bc ac-
conrpanied With brass hands. speeches
and an array ~ official and distinguished
personagc>. liut uowtd newspapers
print more SIN than engineering. Isn't
II So"
Mr.. Hcdlcy added that experimental
trains ver, run over IN" lIues yesterday
and the day before. AMI that tho prac'
ticc runs Wcrc made without hitch
Tho hours for the express service are