The evening world. Newspaper, October 27, 1904, Page 20

— Who Conrractor McDonald, Who Bult the Great Subway, ls Proud of It. FOR WHE EVENING WORLD SUBWAY SOUVENIR, BY JOUN B. MDONALD, re INCE the subway was completed and the rails $10,000,000 of the elty’s money has been well done to S were laid thousands of visitors have inspected insure safety, speed and com the work, beginning with Mayor MeClelian n of 300,000,000 people uw yea New Year's Day, and including railroad men, m line chanical and mining engineers, bank re and bu men, I have not heard Adverse criticism work has been done I feel to-day in turning tvt j York this great improvement for 1 The undertaking has not been aecomy 1 with Out a great effort on the part of those In whose hands the contsruction and equipment rested as well as on 5 \ the part of the Rapid Transit Com and its aoe ay, 4 Dirnatel: Obie Engineer, who planned it. The expenditure of Subway Will Enable the Business Man to Go to Luncheon at Home. FOR tHE EVENING WORLD SUBWAY SOUVENIR. BY E. P, BRYAN, Vice-President of the Interborough Road I": express train feature of the Subw mug Pas rex m4 ; now being rated to-day Is ¢ ing effoot. 1 vice brings New York within te ess section. It will be 1 ut and their employees to go home for lu ' fered get back, at their desks within the stated hour | Heltah In all other cities of this country where any al fapid transit midday facilities prevall, it ts found 0" that they are wagerly availed of by the male popu er a tive ending June 30, 194, than were Few if any out-of-town people know anything abo i year, the exprees train service on the elevated roads, an ees few of the citizens of New York are familiar wih Traffic Will Soon Adjust Itself the elevated express © unless they have ocea- ‘The distribution of the traffic between the Subway sion to use it night and morning, This table and the elevated roads will soon adjust itself accord to the fact that the ele 1 ing to f isera of elthe operative only one way, dows p a ige New Yorker ter iit his at night, oo ao Lvqne y A Model for All the World, rap with which traffic | W reach the The opening of the Subway ¢ t peor ' 1 am 7" r New York a first-class ra ery f ud * without t further extenstohe of fully up to the s'amlard of the by But ‘ od : thereby assuring a smooth and raptd Rapid Con ' Pi unlike the interw é ° the worl!. Its 0 be . ne the every interest of the New Y w 1 poy upon by the people of all th ft the ' ies. wi Having solved the interurban pr m. I P rf ing to state that Mr. Charles T Yerk gng the new London tunnel 1 ’ large order with the American Car & Fou r , ide wilieanbiaaik 4) .% REN TT STO RR PT EN A a a ET ee NR THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1904, vm John B. McDonald, JOHN B. M$ DONALD AT THE DESK IN His OFFICE WHERE IE TAS WORKED DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TUNNEL, ih Subway Employees Chosen with Due Regard to the Safety of Passengers. | FOR THE EVENING WORLD SUBWAY SOUVENIR, By General Manager FRANK HEDLEY. HE present schedule on the west side section of tor j the subway from One Hundred and Forty-tifth et to and including the City Hall schedule $ been required z an examinat to qualify for rough Company's examin 1 few months, with prope an examination | ct to chang ments of traffic arise transportat 000 persons a da s in mortate 100, » ty fh who would at all times ‘ d to-day employs men act in a courte and g manly manner. The ele d and picked out from about vated railway men who go into the subway have a Each motorman has been required full understanding of this requirement yn regarding the op- Every modern device for the comfort of the publte ke system, the has been provided, and trains in the subway will be trunk steam rally ope it intervals as essary to 1 10,000 appl to pass @ mechanical examina eration and working same as is required by pro’ nodate all persone presenting themselves for » the post: transportation. ways before & man is ma Each employee who has beea assigne Subway Passengers , Should Bear in Mind These Important Facts. eration of the subway will formally start k, when the t side r Hall to ¢ 1 e fifth «# thrown open simultanaausly, and the taking of fares begun ex Here are some usetul points for the subway travel: tiated t ler to keop In mind entrances to the stations Passengers may enter the body of any station with: winter and provided wtih electric fans In summer. ; out paying fare, as the train platforms are separ- Although the inaugural express trains to-day come | ated from the body of the stations by railings, prised five cars, it is the purpose of the management } You may after reaching the train platforms pass Jater on to have some of the flyers comprise eight ¢ from local trains to express trains and vice versa cars, The express phitforms are built for trains of { the stre every station, These rooms are ven ity Hall loop yugh the hollow columns of the kiosks or ¢ ey will be heated in 5 } without the payment of an additional fare the latter size ‘There is a separate express train service with its ‘Pwenty-five miles an hour will be the speed for the own tracks. but only below Ninety-sixth street, express trains and fifteen miles an hour for the locals which is the northern express terminal, while the wii) be the starting galt, The maximum spoed of the Brooklyn Bridge ts its lower terminus Ivara will ba donteries At all local stations. except at One Hundred and 1, the rush hut pe Tenthy street and Lenox avenue. whic t® not opened’. yet, the train platforms are outside of the tracks At express stations there are two istand platforms niles an hour, eventually, o-morrow morning, between © exp trains will be four ¢ local trains « three mins between the express and local tracks, one for up an town and one for downtown traffic nd In addition there are the usual local platforms at Th pas r Brooklyn Bridge, Fourteenth s will be carried northward between 4 P. M. and 7 sixth street, At the remaining exp: P.M. w he same r hour dule will prevail , ty-ne street and Madison ay thi net 1 Harlemite second street, there are no local ph ms outside of Just no wthe company has but 40 cars, street and the tracks. local and through traf ¢ island ordinary V we must go platforms. nto the shop 1 day, and thip ‘The island platforms at Brooklyn Bridge, Fours procedure will down the available cara to % teenth street and Forty-seoond and Mad venue ‘per day, 1 mpony rdered (00 ordinary are reached by mezzinine footways from the local ad 90 steel cars from thy ding. conceius: Bee platforms. SOFT EET TB sy eee ae al - x eh La ac A CHARACTER STUDY OF MR. AP dy DAN siTT r Dé ; * * ii wih ebededed Sone 2 ali: clits mint sbi Rae 4) bli