The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
How to Know the InterboYough
Subways From the b. n. r.

How to Know the Interborough
subways From the b. n. T.
| The friction which has arisen be-
tween the Interborough Rapid Tran
sit Company and the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company over the use Of the
word subway" Is regrettable because
1t will not get-either side anywhere.
Mr.. HEDLEY's suggestion that his COM
pany, the marlborough, as practi-
cally entitled TO copyright the word
Subway" indicates at once his burn
ing loyalty to his organization and
his forgetfulness Of the copyright law.
Subway" was In the dictionary,
meaning ian underground way" long
before Mayor VAN WICK used the
spade in front Of the City Hall.
Mr.. HEDLEY expresses belief that
the r. II. T., which invaded Manhat-
tan under the dual system and which
runs trains under Broadway from
City Hall to Forty-second street, is
getting a number of nickels from per-
sons who. diving down the Broa dway
subway stairs. think they are about
to entrain upon the rolling stock Of
the marlborough, whose old familiar
tunnel is under Broadway above
Forty-second street. Mr.. HEDLEY
Is probably right in this, yet the pa
irons of the underground lines do not
let their nickels 60 astray with NAL
ice aforethought. May we suggest
that passenger who takes the tube
on the west side Of City Hall Park,
thinking that It will bring him to
Broadway and West 10th street, and
then, diving into the news from Paris.
presently finds himself in the Borough
Of Queens, has not done this In order
to keep his nickel out Of the Inter-
borough Golfers? He has made a dis
agreeable mistake, and one that Is due
to the neglect Of both OF the subway
arrangements.
The neglect of which We speak Is
due to the common human error Of
assuming that everybody knows
where a subway goes; whereas, we
fancy, even some of the engineers
who laid out the subterranean net
work must now and then pause to re-
member which tube leads whittier
The Sun several months ago made
the suggestion that some pine boards
painted white AND lettered in black,
at the entrances to the subways would
do away with the travellers confu-
sion. Now that labor is at least theo-
retically seeking employment, perhaps
the signs could be made of enamelled
iron. II concrete example is de-
sired OF the lettering which would
make things plaih to the traveller,
we suggest the following for Mr..
HEDLEY's subway entrance ut Park
Place and Broadway, a point peril
ously close TO B. r. T. stairway:
THIS IS THE WEST SIDE SUBWAY.
UPTOWN TRArNs RUN UNDER WEST
BROADWAY, vARrcK STREET AND SEVENTH
AVENUE TO roRrY-sRcoNp STREET,
THENCE UNDER BROADWAY TO 242D
STREET. CHANGE AT NINETI-sIxrH
STREET FOR LENox AVENUE AND THE
BRONX.
DOWNTOWN TRAINS RUN UNDER
WILLIAM STREET TO WALL, THENCE TO
CLARK STREET AND OTHER POINTS IN
BRooKLIN. THERE IS ALSO SPUR
LINE TO SOUTH VERY, WITH STOPS AT
coRrLANpr AND RECTOR STREETS AND
BOWLING GREEN.
NO CONNECTION WITH OUR rMrrA-
TORS ACROSS THE STREET!
SEE THAT TOUR hard EARNED NICKEL
TAKES YOU TO THE RIGHT PLAcDl
WE REALLY GIVE SEVEN CENTS
WORTH. STEP LIVELY!
WATCH YOUR STEP! HAVE THE Elk
ACT CHANGE READY!
The Brooklyn company has done
something in the way of signs above
It's stairs on Broadway alongside City
Hall Park, but the Public Service
Commission might induce 1t to be as
specific az the sample we have sug-
gested. For instance:
THIS IS NOT THE SUBWAY You HAVE
ALWAYS USED. BUT a BETTER ONE.
UPTOWN SIDE: ALL POINTS ALONG
BROADWAY TO FoRTY-sEcoNp STREET;
SEVENTH AVENUE TO FIFTT-EIoHrH
OVER THE BRIDGE TO QUEENS.
DOWNTOWN side: RECTOR, corr
LANpr AND WHITEHALL STREETS AND
ALL POINTS IN BROOKLYN.
HAVE YOU TRIED OUR NEW SEATS?
THIS Is THE BIG SCENIC ROUTE
LONGEST RIDE IN NEW FORK FOR
HALF DIME.
WE ARE NOT THE COMPANY THAT
RUNS THE SHUTTLE.
THIS LINE Is IN THREE BoRoUoHs
AND RECEIVERS HANDS.
Just as the public cannot be edu-
Gated up TO seven cent fares at a
luncheon for two, so 1t cannot he