The sun., 1918-09-29
SUBWAY SHUTTLE
Is RUNNING AGAIN
Loop Between Grand Central
and Times Square Presents
New Problems.
BEATS i DAYS WALK
Passengers Enjoy Varied Ex-
periences in Trying to Reach
Broadway Underground.

DTOduWuy Underground
The announcement Of Chairman Hub
bell Of the Public Service Commission.
touching on and appertaining to the
shuttle system OF the subway. that
"ont quality which distinguishes New
Yorker. Is their almost infinite patience"
was found to be perfectly sound yes
terday when tho shuttle service under
Forty-second street was reopened.
Tho shuttle trims connect the Lex
ington avenue and Seventh avenue sub
ways between Grand Central and Times
Square. Their running time Is three
minutes from point 20 point The waiting
time at either station varies according
TO the time of day. the number of pas
sengers and the temperament of train
men. Ten minutes Is a fair wait
Twenty Is not exceptional. A small and
reluctant subway clientele used the smut
ties yesterday. but the bulk OF subway
riders followed the advice OF Editor
Henry p. Waugh in the Subtody Sun OF
Friday and avoided the shuttle eto-
gether.
For one. however, who loves walking
and underground scenery and does not
believe too implicitly in signs the shuttle
service, with Its entrances. exists, SUD
terranean passages and ramihcations'
offers an interesting experience. Lovers
Of the aesthetic in interior decoration
- will be edited also by the green and
black overhead stripes which have been
painted on the ceilings OF stations ana
passages to guide travellers.
directions
any one desiring to leave a train at
Grand Central and shuttle to Times
Square:
stroll Through tho Mystic Maze.
First you leave the perfectly good
train in which you have been riding.
You alight on a platform and neatly
painted sign advises you to 60 down
flight of stairs. You descend It. Then
another sign advises you to 60 UP an
other, arriving at the top OF which you
discover that you are at the exact spot
where you left your train some minutes
before. So you stand still and walt
until q subway guide directs you to an
other stairs, down which you descend
humbly.
At the bottom Of this stairs you start
up another. go. down another, and go up
still another, and after walking several
miles on the nat enter at last white
tiled passage with green stripe painted
overhead
This passageway proves to be many
miles In extent. but It's tedium Is re-
heved by the occasional sight Of ticket
chopperettes and guidettes exchanging
persifiage with subway employees Of the
so-called holder sex. None pays any at.
tention to the passengers unless inter
rupted and asked for Information con-
corning the shuttle service. Then the
manner OF the men becomes peremptory
and the manner Of the women naughty
Ultimately. having walked uncountet
leagues and having stepped or SPRUNG
over those fellow passengers who have
fallen from exhaustion, you arrive at th'
shuttle train platform. Several hour!
later a train appears. It's guards do no
understand the secret of opening its sid,
doors, which accounts, no doubt. for thei
tubilant demeanor. An hour or so Is los
while passengers leaving the train com
init felonious assault upon the persons o
another swarm Of passengers trying Il
enter.
Times squarel All oati All In!
After several more delays. a false star
or two. and a lparangue directed by tn
train conductor against a woman VIII
complained when he tried to cut her ii
half with tho car door. the train i
started and arrives at the Times Squar
station.
Here there Is another free for all fgh
between the passengers who want to ge
out Of the cars and those others who de
sire to come in. Upon the platform
there 10 q multitude Of signs telling hov
to go back to Grand Central. but none
until after patient search-teliing how t
find the Seventh avenue or Broadwa,
trains. The ticket chopperettes at thi
station remain unaffected when inter
rogated as to directions. They hav
been engaged by the Interborough ap
parently for their placid indifference 4
human distress and their inability to I'm
derstand the English tongue
The walking at the Times Squar
end Of the shuttle Is more Oversize,
than. II not quite so long as. at tn
Grand Central end. Passengers comin
in the opposite direction and endeavorin
to knock one down supply the relic
from tedium. However. finally you ar
rive at your train. Then upon consult
ing your wrist watch you find that yo
could have walked to Grand Central an
back several times in the time II ha
taken to ride the distance once Com
fort and fresh air must be eliminate
from your consideration of the problem
In fairness to the marlborough.