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will meet on the meZzanine Of the new
Grand Central station, which Is a dag
onal connecting link between the old
tracks south OF the point and the new
Lexington avenue line, and will take a
special train at S45. This train will
take the official party south to the Bat
terry, around the Battery loop into the
new Seventh avenue line and thence
north to the new connection at Times
Square.
Express Service Friday.
There the party will leave the ira in
| and the Subway band will lead 1t over
| to the Hotel Astor. where Chairman
| Charles Bulkley Hubbell or the Public
Service Commission will preside over
| formal exercises. The Governor, the
Mayor. President Theodore p Shonts Of
the marlborough and other prominent
men will speak.
While the talking Is in progress the
connections will be completed and the
| new express service will begin Friday
| morning.
| The connections will be started at s AS
| o'clock tonight. That hour marks the
| permanent change in the subway sys-
| tenn After that time no more trains
| going south will turn east at Times
| Square and no more trains going north
will turn west at Grand Central. What
| ever trains are already in the old sub
way at that time will continue north
| from below Forty-secohd street by way
| OF the Lexington avenue line and any
| trains that are in the old subway north
| of Forty-second street will continue
| south by the new Seventh avenue line.
( The types OF service in the new subways
! and their markings are:
West Side subway:
| Express trains to 242d street and Van
Cortlandt Park. two red lights.
| Express trains to Dyckman street.
white and red lights.
| West Farms and 1S0th street ex-
| presses. red and green lights.
broadway locals, two white lights.
Lenox avenue locals. two green lights.
Wall and william Terminus.
The West Side trains will run by the
| Seventh avenue line to Chambers street
| and there be diverted to the Park place
| and William street branch, terminating.
until the line is extended TO Brooklyn, at
Wall and William streets.
All locals on the West Side subways
| will start at Broadway and 137th street
and LenoX avenue and l4Sth street and
will go to the Battery by the Seventh
! avenue line.
East Side subway:
Jerome avenue express to l67th street
green and red lights.
Jerome avenue express to li9th street
| white and red lights.
Jerome avenue express. 18th street
to Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn-two red
lights.
West Farms express to Atlantic ave-
nue.. Brooklyn--two red lights.
Locals-Ereen and white lights.
| L., ~
tween the City Hall and the station at
l3sth street and Third avenue on the
Pelham Ray Park branch, which is as
far as that branch will now be used
Operation TO Hunts Point road will be.
gin within a few weeks.
Two West Farms Routes.
Half Of the West Farms expresses
come over the present route into III,
old subway and the other half are
diverted to the new line by the con.
nectou at l49th street.
1t is planned to use at latter time
two of the four tracks Of the shuttle
between Grand Central and Times
Square for an extension OF the Queens
boro subway. Guides will be posted al
both stations to aid passengers who
wish TO change at either OF them to the
other branch. Where passenger
wishes to change from the East Side
to the West he will ascend to tn.
mezzanine OF the new diagonal station
at Grand Central and go through 6
passageway leading to the mezzanin,
of the old Grand Central station. Tenn
porary arrangements will be made a
Times Square to meet a like condition
at that end.
The stations on the H lines are a,
follows:
EAST SIDE SUBWAY.
Northbound from Brooklyn: Auanti
| avenue, Nevins street, Hoyt street, Bor
cough Hall; Manhattan; South Ferry
Bowling Green Wall street, Fulton stree;
Brooklyn Bridge teNpress) and City Hall
Worth street Canal street, Spring street
Bleecker street. Eighth street, Fourteenth
| street teNpress), Eighteenth street
Twenty third street. Twenty-e!shth street
| Thirty third street. Grand Central tney
| dlagonall station (expTess), Fifty FRS
street. Fifty ninth street, Sixty eight
street-Hunter College, Seventy seventI
street. Eighty-sixth street express,
Ninety-sixth street. losd street. llOt
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