The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-01
EXPRESS SERVICE PROVES BIG HELP
 10 ELEVATED co.

HNew York, Aug. 1.-New York's ca- pkcity to furnish crowds for rapid \ nnt roads is shown by figures given d&e yesterday by the Peterborough Hhpid Transit Company, on the effect oh subway traffic of the opening of the iUew elevated tracks.
 Express service on the new third
 lacks of the elevated was established
 b January IT, 1916. The number of
 Rssengers carried for six years prior that time was 2S4,000.00 in 1910.
 p1.000.000 in 1911. so4,000.00o in
 P12, 307. 100000 in 1913, 311.00O,00
 I914s and 302,O00,000 in the year
 nding June 30, 1915, an average of
 p3,ooo.oo0 year,
 In February, 1916, the first full
 honth the new elevated lines were in Operation, there was an immediate in- NFease in traff1c resulting in an in-
 fease passenger receipts over Febru-
 ry, 1915. of 7.s6 per cent; March
 lad an increase of S.75 per cent; April, H23 per cent; May, 10.36 per cent,
 Ind June, 7.04 per cent.
 E Interest on the cost of the new ele- lated lines was charged to construc-
 Ion until they were put in operation:
 1fter that this rental was charged to Xperating expenses. The amount of
 he company's per cent. bonds issued 2p provide for the third tracking im-
 rovements placed in service January k7, and for the improvements in the
 bower station and sub-stations of the 81Svdfed lines, was $14,75s,000. the in- forrest on which is 61,491.67 per month.
 The increase in operating revenues Tor February. 1916. was $13e,s50; Adarch. $153.413; April. $141.53e; May $1s5.o22 and June, s111.ss7. InGease in Tranic.
 ' The significant feature of this in- fcrease in trahic on the elevated lines t1s that it was not taken from the sub- 5way says the company. For the year h1ust ended on June 30--during five land one-ha1f months of which the new Eservice was in operation-passenge Eearnings of the elevated increased k$521D15, or 8 1-2 per cont, over the |.previous year. while the subway show Fed an increase of $1.29S,S7e, or ap- lproximate1y 1-2 per cent.
 No matter how. fast rapid transit Zines are built in New York city, the transportation needs of the popula- stion always ssem to keep ahead of them. the report says Every addi- tional transit facility in New York ap- { pears to develop new traffic while fthe old lines soon regain what is lost 7 by competition with the new lines. and continue to carry . constantly in- screasang number of people This was true when the elevated lines were extended in the. late 70'ss 1t was true when the subway was open- ed in 1904. and again when the third tracks on the 'L were brought into sservice early this year.
 Records of the street railways show that in 1904 the receipts from passen- ;gefp wsre $1ssl15,7 ,75o, while In -1aoS, l the first full year the subway was in | Operation, receipts from passengers were $1s.66s,605. decrease of about @7b0.ooo. In just one year. however, the street-car lines showed passenger revenues of $1s.53o.53s. an actual in. crease of $10O.00o over 1904. before fhexsuBway had been opened. During the year ended June 30, I 1905, when the subway was first open n for operation. the trafiic on the elevated lines fell from 2se,000, 900 m 1904 to 3s0,000,000. In 1906 it 6as 257.0O0, 900; in 1907, 2S3,000,0oo; 2tn 1908. 2S3.00o,ooo and in 1909, 27e.. 90o.o o.o00. and in 1910 2s4, ,0oo. .ooo pas 6engers. -tm-eiewsport1 4sationloc. Fish