The evening world., 1922-05-31
100000 STANDEES
GET SEATS TODAY
ON SUBWAY LINES
lnterboro Operates " More
Trains Than Increase Com
mission Ordered.
INSPECTORS ON JOB.
Schedules Work Perfectly,
MCAneny SayS-Over IS
Per Cent. Increase.

Subway passengers of the Interboro
Rapid Transit Company got better ser
vice to-day than at any other time in
recent years.
The company not only obeyed thu
order of the Transit Commission for
increased service. but actually provid
od seventeen moro trains than the OIL
Ter called for. This was announced by
Chairman McAneny OF the commission,
who added that the commissions in
spcctors had made preliminary reports
showing the new cshedules to be
working perfectly.
1t was estimated that more than
100. 900 passengers. who otherwise
would have been standees were com
fortably seated to-day because of the
increased service.
The inspectors reported that the
company was operating six more
trains than ordered on the Lexington
Avenue line. and eleven more than
ordered on the Broadway seventh
Avenue hne. The yxtra trains
thrown in for good measure were
both local and express.
The schedule that went into effect
this morning provides more than 15
per cent. increase in the number of
trains, reducing the interval on the
main lines during the non-rush hours
to 31s minutes. 1t requires the en-
ployment of the Interborough's full
force Of reserve crews, numbering 800
men. and affects nearly all lines and
branches Of the Interborough subway
division except the Qucensboro sub
way.
Beginning at once 246 additional
trains will be operated daily. the
number of car trips each twenty-four
hours being increased by 2,014. This
means more than 1000, 900 car-seat
miles will be added. The new
schedule will bring into service every
trained man the lnterborough has
available. Already training hah
started of 300 men who will man cars
in September. when the service will be
further increased.
The road will run 400 cars per houI
in each direction during nom rush
hours, compared with 240 per hour
operated in 1916 on the one subway
then in use.
Washington Heights will gain 1S
per cent. non-rush hour service. Van
Cortlandt Park expresses will operate
on a seven instead of eight minute
Roadway. Local service, terminating
at 137th Street, will be increased 20
per cent. Lenox Avenue express
trains will be placed on the same head
ing, and be increased from eight to
ten cars. This will give AZ per cent.
| increase in express service and 20 per
| cent. increase in local.
On the West Farms branch In tho
Bronx will be an addition OF 1.700
| seats an hour to the express service
% per cent. On the Pelham bay
| Park branch 10 Hunts Point Road
the interval will be decreased tC
three and one-h half minutes. On tho
Jerome Avenue branch the interval 1:
| reduced to seven minutes and trains
will be increased from six to eighi
| cars. This amounts to 81 per cent
| increase.
The service past Borough Hall IN
| Brooklyn will be at two and a quarter
minute headway and l3 per cont. in
crease will be made betyecn Atlantic
and Franklin Avenues, Throughout
| all the lines the rush hour service will
be brought TO the maximum possible
| with the present equipment.
The InterborouSh has advertised OF
bids for 100 additional cars for Sep
| tember