New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
Operation of Trains Starts
Tomorrow, Just Before
Midnight
Five-Cent Fare
Zone To Be Extended
Many New Lines of Com
munication To Be Opened
During Coming Year

The new Broadway subway Is eX-
rected 20 be in operation for local ser
vice between Forty-sccond and Rector
streets tomorrow Just before midnight.
The announcement was made yesterday
a. tho Office Of the Public Service Com
mission. together with a forecast Of
what New Workers may expect in the
new year in the way Of new transit
service.
Word was received yesterday by The
Public Service Commission from John
J. Dempsey. yice-president &C the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, that
his men were working night and day 70
install the remaining equipment on the
new Broadway line 80 that cars could
bcCir running late tomorrow evening
The Broadway subway at present IS
in partial operation I'm connection with
tho Fourth Avenue subway IN Brooklyn
hv way % the Manhattan Bridge, Canal
Street and broadway 20 Fourteenth
street. The service is operated over
the Sca Beach line 10 Concy Island and
20 The Ihirty-cighth Street cut in
Brooklyn, where connection IL made
with the Culver and West End lines.
The new s,rricc will make possible the
extension of the Gye-ceGt fare from
Brooklyn northward in Manhattan as
far rs Forty-sccond Street The now
stations o. be used are Rector Street,
Cortland street. City Hall, Twenty
third Street. Thirty-fourth street and
Fortv-SeconG Street.
The year 1918 will witness the be-
ginning Of train operation upon large
number Of new rapid transit lines OF
tho dual system, not yet in service.
Estimates have been made by the engi-
nccr5 Of tho Public Service Commits
sion that It viii bc possible, unless
there are urduc delays in the delivery
OF materials, 20 have upward Of 50 per
cent Of the total track mileage Of the
new Lines Of the system in operation
by December !, 1915. The remaining
lines, u is believed. will be ready for
s.ryicc by the midsummer Of 1919, or
shortly thereafter.
There have been many delays in the
work during the last year The neces-
stiles Of the government. particularly
as 20 steel, have made il impossible
for subway contractors 10 obtain many
Of the materials needed within the
time limits specified by the commits
sion.
At the beginning Of this year only
five contracts out Of the approximate
iy ninety general construction con
tracts into which the city owned lines
Of the dual system were divided re-
NAMED TO be awarded. Two Of these
sections comprise the route Of the
Nassau street subway, which may be
further DELAYED The other three are
the extension Of the greensboro sub
way from Park Avenue to Times
Square: the elevated portion Of the
Fourteenth street eastern route IN
BROOKLYN and Queens and short
section Of the Culver Rapid Transit
Railroad in Brooklyn. II IS expected
that contracts will be let for the last
two named sections carly in the new
year.
H. is expected that the following sd-
ditional lines will be placed in opera
tion during 1918:
The Lexington and Seventh Avenue
eubways; jerome Avenue branch, now
opcn only 10 Kings bridge Road, 20 he
extended 20 Woodlawn; Southern
boulevard and Pelham Bay Park
branch: Clark Street tunnel line, TO
Rrooklyu. Eastern Parkway line; Nos
trand Avenue subway Webster Ave
nuc extension: Culver Rapid Transit
Railroad: Jamaica Avenue line; Non
taguc Street tunnel line, Brooklyn;
Brighton Beach line: East New York
Improvement and the Concy Island ter
miual