The New York herald., 1922-07-15
B. R. 7. TO INCREASE
SERVICE 100 TRAINS
AUG. 15AND3SLATER
Will Buy Fifty New Cars
on Orders of Transit
Commission.
NEEDS NO NEW MONEY
Plans to Provide a Seat for
Every Passenger in Nom
Rush Period.
TO SCRAP WOODEN CARS
Augmenting Of Daily Capacity
as High as 20 Per Cent. on
Some Divisions.
TO SCRAP WOODEN CARS

The Transit Commission announced
Yesterday that it had ordered the sub
way and elevated lines Of the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit Company to opera ,e
100 additional trains daily and to pur-
chase Immediately flfty new steel cars
to replace the old wooden or partly
wooden cars now operating in the
Centre street loop.
The orders were served on the COM
pany and its receiver Lindley NJ. Gar
rison. on Thursday afternoon, and be-
come effective on August Is.
Sixty trains will be added to the nom
rush hour schedules and forty to the
rush period. Next autumn the COM
.pany will be required to provide a
further addition of thirty-five trains
daily.
Pending delivery of the fifty new
steel cars the company will be per-
mitted to use 100 metal sheathed cars
In the Centre street loop. but the $50
old wooden cars now in service viii
be withdrawn in a short time and an
all steel equipment will be put on the
rails.
No New Money Needed.
Mr.. Garrison. speaking for the COM
pany. already has accepted the orders.
He said
THE service order as the commission
points out. having been worked out In
cooperation with Judge Mayer and thu
receiver. will be accepted. The ordel
for fifty new cars was likewise th'
result Of conference and will be ac
cepted. The purchase Of the new car.
will not require any new financing. a
1t is understood that they are to bs
purchased out of funds now on hant
which the depreciation fund board Gre
ated under Contract No. t.
The order includes provision for in
creased service during the middle OF
the day via the Montague street tunne
between Brooklyn and Manhattan. The
present schedule provides for sixteer
trains per hour. and this will be in.
creased to twenty-four per hour. or ar
interval OF 2ia minutes between trains
via the Montague street tunnel
The Transit Commission also said:
The additional car mileage. effective
August Is. will be approximately 300
during the non-rush hours and 3.cO
during the rush hours.
"In non-rush hours all the lines are
required to provide the equivalent of q
seat for every passenger.
The company is directed TO order al
once and to equip fifty new steel cars
so as to permit the removal OF the las,
Of the partial wooden cars from tn.
Centre street loop. Every effort Ia u
be made to have thfs new equipment
ready for service during the cominf
winter.
THE commission stated that in pro
viding the increased subway and ele
waited service and in the provision mad,
for the financing of the purchase of new
cars 4 II has had the active and sym
pathetic cooperation both OF Juag,
Mayer OF the Federal Court and of Re
ceiver Garrison. About $75o.cO will b,
spent upon the cars. Notwithstanding
the fact that the company Is still II
recoivership.
How the Service VIII he Helped
THE headway between trains will b,
affected as follows:
"On the local tracks OF the Broadway.
Fourth avenue subway there are nov
three lines operating. giving combined
interval of two and r half minutei
between trains In service from White
hall street to Fifty-seventh street. Man
haitian. The extension OF this servic,
to Prospect Park. Brooklyn. which tn,
rnnffUuoA IN pa