The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1905, Page 9

B. R. T. PLANS TO STOP PERMANENT BRIDGE TERMINAL While the Mayor and Other City Officials Talk of Using the Staats-Zeitung Block, the Corporation Schemes for a “’Tem- porary” Structure, ONE B. R, T. EVIL THAT MR. BEST COULD REMEDY IN FIVE MINUTES, Every truck that passes over the Brooklyn Bridge pays toll to tho wretched Broollyn Rapid Transit Company as Its wheels bang against the paving blocks loft sticking up for months by thé incompetent track repairers Five minutes of Commissioner Best's time would fix it and relleve the horses of half their daily toll, does not now possess, are ounn! large part Tek tramc, which Js not rush hours, The whole thing ia fies Gee crying yor McClellan The Hvening World for rellet ge who am going to C next Ma 2 but tt home to Brooklyn e' wef bweineas \@ Best plan 5 \ It le Called a Sham. ingly devised to net aside rellef. hi fonger any valid exouse fon the so- Why called ‘temporary terminal, which Bridge Commissioner Best proposes to carry across Park Row and set up in City Hall, Such a bird-cage-stepladdor monstrosity as Commissioner Best and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company have in mind is not intended to give re- let to the people who use the bridge every day, ‘The real echeme te to provide a storage yard and loading place for the Coney which the Brooklyn oon by ihe fect ais ‘od v yy. scoverad y bythe evening World no plan in bridge terminal, plan to show to any! tole has no plan. Tho Brid missioner has no plan. Chief $n Nichole plan, which white one, All that these amiable ig a dream—a vaguo dream id, hoautiful — $8,000,000 which 1# to tower to the skies, has 01 ta aqperation next summer, not care anything about the ondinary But they have an, dally traMo over the bridgy, It does Ab MTC want to. Saka & Company Broadway, 334 te 34th Street. FOR SATURDAY WB HAVB ORGANIZED A Sp Fur, Fur Lined and Cloth Coats At Greatly Reduced Prices. Hith Grade Fur Coate of fine Seal, Persian Lamb or Broad- tall in the post season long and short coat models. Regularly $125 to $600. At'$89 to $295, Goata of Near Seal in effective blouse models, Regularly $40.00 and $45.00. At $29,00, land Goats of Broadcloth in gray, champagne, white, cream or red, lined with squirrel fur, collar and cuffs of Persian Lamb. Regularly $50.00. At $29.00, Lang Ceate of black broadcloth, loose model, lined with su- perlor Squirrel fur, large shawl collar of Persian Lamb. Regularly $58.00. At $39.00. Juang Goata of fine broadcloth in black, tan, red, brown or champagne, or of tan velvet, lined with superior squirrel fur, large shawl collar of Persian Lamb, Mole, Mink or squirrel, Regularly $75.00. At $48 kang Goata of black broadcloth, tight fitting, strapped seam models, lined with satin, Regularly $25.00. At $14,50, Lang Goats of black broadcloth In loose fitting models, trim- med with braid and lined with white or black satin, suitable for street or evening service, Regularly $32.50. At $19.50, White Dresses for Graduates So that they may be of service beyond the specific function for which they are intended, we present an extensive collection of white dresses in impres- sive models which anticipatethe authoritatiy Spring and Summer styles, The fabrics embrace white lawn, mull, organdy and net trimmed with laces and embroideries, The prices are very modest, Dresses of white organdy in three new and distinctive styles, exquisitely elaborated, in sizes 14 to 18 years, Regularly $15.00, $17,50 and $19.00, Special, $14.90, $13.50 and $14,50, The advance styles of white and colored wash dresses for girls, in sizes 6 to 16 years, are also with us at prices mater» fally lower than those which must prevail later in the season, Fancy Woal Rrasses of Cheviot, in blue, brown or red, in tailored blouse or one-piece models, sizes 6 to 14 years, Regularly $5 to $7.50 At $3,95 lnand Winter Goats in an extensive variety of styles, materials and-colors, Size 6 to 12 years, Formerly $6.50, $7.50, $14:50 and $20,00 Special $3.50; $5.90, $8.90 and $12.75 1 t We li 0 lalla yaoi ale not bother itself about relieving the nightly congestion, The only additional room which 1s to be provided in the “temporary” structure fs not for ordinary bridge traffic, but) ised as such durin; for the Coney Island rush next summer, | That is raat Ene eeanue aprounteot The Best plan ls to make the bridge | masmuch longer, @0 that the people who use it] half the space W every day will have to walk further to| platforms 1s wasted, and three-fourths reaoh the trains, The Best plan i a Ink in the Brooklyn Rapid Tranalt soheme to extend the bridge, ultimately, somewhere up Centre street, so that the Broklyn Rapid Transit Company may acquire, gratuitously, valuable franchise rights in Now York County, which it ‘The seoret of the Best plan for a ‘temporary terminal” lies concealed in the arrangement of the platform, which a ‘the atructure for the Coney handled in Dew affords no ade- That the Best plan is a sham and is porary" acheme is re- esterday that there is gerne for @ permarrmnt ‘or no iy. The Come. ineer Lig seen Neduced, ey black Find an and’ forsnally: decided on’ by any officials have about a terminal, The only people who know what they It in not to be compared with the Calvin Tomkins, President of the Mu want are the Brooklyn Rapld Transit officials, and they are pressing the Best | plan, the “temporary” plan, will’ give them a storage yard for Coney Island summer trains without adding to the faclittles of the dally bridge trafic. ’ Only One Sane Plan. ‘There is only one sane plan for bridge relief which has been yet sug: gested, and that is the one proposed by Mr, Niels Poulson, It will solve the troubles in the present terminal. Tt will solve any edd ia yeh arise in a permanent terminal, the plan dave city author ee will have to , sooner or later, now is the yeps Hine to take It up and ut it Into effect. Pimhe Poulson plan centres around two {deas—an elevated terminal, whore all ‘ewitohing is done in front of the sta- tion, and u trolley terminal, where the cars are unloaded and loaded from @ lattorm on a level with the floor of car, In the present terminal part of the switching {8 done behind the side plat- forms ond ee {s done in front of the island plat nearest to Park Uhl Under the Poulson plan there will he five parallel elevated train platforms, and there will be four tracks between them, Rach track: will hold a six or seven car train, The actual situation in the present bridge station is as follows: The floor ip divided in half by switches, the end at Park Row being a terminal, usi such during fae OE eR es ing A Cea ae uch, Oe the rush hours, iMfculty comes In, is wasted. More than hich snould be used for of the time allowed the pasen | gi to leave and board the traina wasted. ls also Real Cause of Conditions. @ Intter Is the real cause of the fear- ful conditions during the rush hours where passengers have to scramble and fight ‘thelr way {nto trains in an un- reasonably short time, By nF, the tracks and = forma on the Poulson plan the platform space would be increased fourfold, and the time leaving and entering the cars would be inoreased from less than ee Bunute to pry, four et © present terminal there is one train that hee ‘been on storage for five ‘s, occupying the most needed space the borough of Manhattan. Between this train and the one dn daily use there {8 room for @ good-sised platform, and BROOKLYN RAPID. A FAILURE—CALV!IN TOMKINS, “The Brooklyn Rupld Transit Company haw tniled in every way im itn duty to the public. It in g system that han fatied entirely, Heeause It | hon TRANSIT IS companies of Manhattan!’ Statement made yesterday to the Rupfd Transit Commiseton , by ieipal Art Society, Se eae ermemeeemeniiahiansiasemmemnnmemsinenimiiinnatimminn deeteteeettere ieee PULSE: Isa ) has never n used except he ston ber : pt for the storage of old’ These two spaces, which hav wanted for 80 many yoars, contaln mere at the two platforms during the rush hours, much of the space In on the opposite side of tho Space just as large whic, rails, & square fest th Which are used This shows that the building js absolutely wasted, in aul aay ni po ie In actu and use for goes In tho In phat tlme it first has t platform for unloading, ‘then | All this has to be done in four minu: and, aa about two minutes are con- sumed in moving from one place another, it leaves but two minutes the train to stop at three platforms— making an average of forty seconds at each platform, which is entirely short a time for the passengers either leave or enter the trains, What Would Be Gained, Under the Poulson plan there will be four trains iB of Patenssre, As a train comes ullding ever; uch train can remain four minutes, and top at & OVE UD to Park row and stop again, then awitch back to another platform for loading, after which it proceeds to Brooklyn, LACOMBE NOT Congressional Commiltee De- cided There Was Nothing Be- fore It from the House Re- lating to Impeachment, (Special to The Pvening World.) WASHINGTON, Jan, %,—Judge 4B, Henry Lacombe was not given a hear Ing by the Committee on the Judiciary, although he was present and willing to answor the charges made against him by Watt and Dohan, the Philadel- phia attorneys, Chairman eJnkins, of the Committee, had told frends of Judge Lacombe that If he came over the committee would give him @n opportunity to answer tho charges, by hearing him tnformatly, After making this statement, Mr, Jenkins discussed the matter with other menbens of the committee, and found all were of the belef that Judge ‘Lanantioe Id not be . Tt was pointed out that there was the tes, to for too to BIVEN A HEARING - % before the committee trom the subject of the inypeach nbe, and tat no en without the ace returned to New Yonk He Geolined to mako ent, bat waa much disap. being given 4 hearing, er FORGER ASKS JUDGE TO SUSPEND HIS SENTENCE. Herman Nicholas Complains of Ine human ‘Trentment in Ray. mond Street Jali, Herman Nicholas, In pleading gullty to forging a check for §72 on the ‘Title Guarantee and Trust Company, before Judge Crane, in the County Court, In Brooklyn to-day, aeked that sentence be suspended on him because he had beon for three and a half weeks th Raymond Street Jal, which he sald was worse then three und a half years In Sing Sing. Nicholas was sent to Sing Bing for five years some time ago bi "Fades Cowing, in Manhattan, and Judge Crane was not disposed to bo lenient with him, “thers ts no heat in Raymond street Jall, the food is awful and a man le treated worse than a dog," said Nicho- las, ‘This time in jail taught me tt lesson I shall nover forget and it you will let mo off [ swear that I will 88) until It is time to leave again, which taki four trains in the building, but the! will be six or seven car trains inst .- of tour-car trains a8 on the present plan; consequently 50 per cent. more Dissengers can be accommodated. A train enters the building and moves in between two platforma, where it atons is four minutes, As it es but litue more than thirty seconds for one train to take the place of another, each train eqn remain something over three min- utes, and In that time Jt unloads on the one side and {8 loaded from the other side, There will always be three traina at rest In the ay ei so there will be lenty of time for the pas ‘8 to leave and eenter ‘the trains without eu ding ane Ry hting as at present, us the platform # be Increased fourfold the time. for boarding the cars can also be increased fourfold and the capacity can be in- creased 60 per cent, without running any, more trains per hour. No one dis- pulse ng fact, not even the Bridge De- partment, The Poulson plan can be put into op- oration within ten weeks without in- terfering with the present mode ot handling the traffic, The Poulson plan {s tha one which will have to be adopted in the perma- nent terminal. ‘The hearing of the Btate Board of Railrond Commissionens on the abuses of the B, T, will be held in ro No., 27 of the County Court-House {jn Brooklyn at 10.90 A. M. next Tuesday, What is fires, heb Gor Wt aaarace ot Se, room ip fe afor everybody and ‘eu personal B, R. T, Looking Ahead, Bee anh a Weds’ on' extoetoh ue ae All Counterfeits, Imitations and “Just-as-good” are but Experiments that "The J Gaccat ts Rapid Transit re ie ba, cold, Cull gan ie ata trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and uee the bridge next summer for uild | Children—Experience against 16-opnt traine to Coney Island, It does] f pormanen’, terminal on the taste. | Genuine Castoria always bears tho signature of The sweaters for men are white, Sizes 26 to 34, FOR FRIDAY AN A Clearance and furnishings have been imported Scotch Tweed or black or blue, Sizes 10 to Formerly $7.50 and $8.50. Boya's Norfolk and Double mixtures, Formerly $5 and $5.50, Bova’ Tourist Overcoats, 0 or brown plaids or mixture: Size 8 to 16 years, Formerly $6.50, Boys’ Russian Overcoats, gray mixtures or overplaid belt; military buttons and vel Pormerly $5.00, Bova’ Scarfs of silk in p Formerly 40c, Eton collar in sizes 4 to 7 Sizes 7 to 13 years, Formerly $1.45 and $1.75, models, Sizes 1244 to 14 Formerly $1.75. ASTORIA is'a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregorio, Drops and Soothing Byrups, It is Pleasant, It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotio substance, Its age is its guarantee, It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness, It cures Diarrhosa and Wind Colic, It relieves Teething Troubles, oures Constipation and Fistulency, It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep, The children’s Panacesa—The Mother's Friend, The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over since its infancy, Allow no one to deceive you in this, Sake & Company Broadway, 33d te sath Street, For Reiday and Saturday: A Clearance Sale of Sweaters FOR MEN AND BOYS Regularly $1.50, black, navy, maroon, red or gray plain weaves, and in fancy effects with striped collar, cuffs and skirt, in sizes 34 to 44, Those for the boys are in plain Suits, Coats, Furnishings for Boys At Extremely Reduced Prices. 2a rioor. At the end of the season, when the series of sizes and styles are mere shadows of what we would have them, our method of business conduct de- mands the immediate disposition of every garment concerned, To that end the following suits, coats Bovs’ Three Piece Vest Suite, but Fifty all told, of tures, plaids or stripes and of serge or cheviot, in fot or Tweed, in gray or brown plaids, stripes and Plain or bloomer trousers, Sizes 8 to 16, Boys’ Washable Blouses of madras or percale with Boye! White Shirte in dress and plaited bosom sind abo isi \ aii ab Castoria Fletcher, and has been made ander At 75¢. of wool or worsted, in D SATURDAY, Sale of extremely reduced, English Cheviot, in mixe 14 years, Special at $4.50 Breasted Suite, of Chev- Special at $3,95 f heavy Cheviot, in gray 8, in long belted models, Special at $3.95 | | of Frieze in Oxford or 8, long models with half Ivet collar, Sizes 3 to6, Special at $3,09 lain or fancy colors in four-in-hand, windsor, club and teck shapes. Special at 19¢ years, and of flannel in plain or fancy colors, with Byron collar or neckband, Special at 75¢ neckband, Special at 75¢ - hever commit a crime again,’ Judge Crane remanded the man un- t!] Monday to Investigate his case, Beginning next Monday morning and lasting through the entire week, our great semi-annual sale of CARPETS, RUGS and MATTINGS will hold forth with bigger bar- gains than ever, for regularly. . $18 Half-Length Plush Coats at $6.75. backs, Plush Coats at $9.75. These handsome silk this season's styles. They’ Wear, Sizes 32 ta 46 bust measure, Big Cut in Men’s. Shoes. $1.95 Instead of $3.00. ale Shoe Business, wouldn't be as were not always away:abova par, $300; all Meant Pn. j atent Colt Skin; sizes 6 to The Bi the values offer than‘in this assortment brin lot Box Calf, Vicl Kid and F, 11; all widths; your choice at. Ever box calf, vici kid, vel ), special for Saturday. . cal 160, SD. von 96 fOr ceeeeereeee smoked Th vane [Sliced Ameuor Bevt—Silo 22¢ 0 finbst on lo—Th earth and every bottle ‘and ret one You'ls garments © what follows: Women's taffeta silk petticoats, of excellent quality, made with pleating, finished In two- section flare ruffle, underlay of nearsilk; col- ors red, blue, green and brown changeable silk value $5.00, Excellent line of black taffeta silk petticoats, In a variety of latest Spring styles, IE sectional flounces and pleatings, trimme; with Special Sale of Sheet Music. any of the most popular hits of the day Music Store Saturday, at the 1 2 c remarkable price of, per Copy... ++ A splendid list here of m: to be offered at Bloombrgdales’ Vocal, lan, Suni unk bY by, Marie Cahill My Hindoo 3 lay Irwin, Blarney Sona, t ay i pale d Who Fi ‘Teaeing, do the Subway. Pin" beaming Avout’ You All the Time. to Baltimore. Book, Back to afer Aan Sune by Della ba Mail orders promptly tied. “Priamos, Two Remarkable Specials in Women’s Silk Plush Coats. These two items mean much in sharp economy to the woman who has waited until now to purchase a new coat, for the prices quoted at Bloomingdales’ are almost a q third of what the garments should sell Made In the popular collarless style, \ with double-breasted fronts and fitted They are beautifully . trimmed with Inlayings of cloth and silk braid. ings, and are lined throughout with best quality heavy satin, guaranteed for two Seasons’ wear, Sizes 32 to 46 bust measure, $27.50 3-4 Length Men's $2.50 Shoes—Ought to Be $3.50 to $5,00. pair strictly hand sewed, sizes 544 to 14, B to B widths, single or double If, patent coltskiny were Grocery Specials For a Picnic Hams — post Wines and itlet Reduced for Saturday Selling. The Bloomingdale petticoat department I\\ has picked two of its very best numbers #0\ and marked them down for a special run to-morrow, just to make’ more friends, ruche, cat-stitching or hem. SPECIAL. £ Ke » plush coats are made In the smartest and newest of | re in the modish collarless effects, with full sleeves, and are lined throughout with heavy black satin guaranteed for two seasons’ d Beoond Floor, Sth Gt. Bection, ‘ge as It is if joes no better fe show in this $1.95 ve a elddb breed aoe | 50 Saturday. Theaeae 4 cement, shoulders; to @ cls Liquors, ig Bi.00 Our 84 Sherry or r hal 1 recognize the goods lee as f cwuch higher degree. Read and blac! SPECIAL, .. $3.98 ruffle, finished with $4.98 eoond Floor, Ath St, Section. ‘Troubadour, Interm: Moonlight Serenade, My nN the North Waltzes, Popples 8 Rubles (ne Toreador Waltzes. Love's Desire Walt (now), Ww) Add 20, per copy for postage. ‘Third Floor, 9th St. Seotion, [esos © iv neme-Bloomingdale Brothers-a » Pathe da Ye lab ih eb da Franklin Simon & For saturday. na Final Clearing Sale Prior to Inventory. 4 85 Misses’ and Girls’ Winter Cl Heretofore $16.50 to $2450 Three-quarter length 15.00 Heretofore $27.50 to $39.75 FIFTH AVE., 37th and 38th & Fur Store‘offers the follo the present, when they'll be The Bloomi gains at a time Women’s Fur-Lined Coats, lene AG rench Cony, black broadcloth her va or tan Covert FE jerieveusy! 60 inches tong, of cloth, squirres fined ss essessss $5900 $28,00 fine Leipzig dyed Persian Lamb. 60 Inches long, of Black or Brown French Con 4 satin lined, wi The Bloomingdale Drug Wages Relentless War on High Swamp Root. $1.00 size, Saturday at Bloom- Dr. Snow’s Talcum Powder, violet or carl fi Dr. 's Pure Distilled Witch Hazel, %4-pt. bottle... Dr, Snow's Almond Meal.. , Snow's Hair Inxprover, Pont bate at at en 280 Globe Florida Water, 6 Mend botlescaseots sos seeseenssoneraees IBC Bazaar Bay Rum, %-pint flask 15¢ grain, bot 1 Dr. Snow’s Lithia Ta’ qrain, bottle of ebout fifty. ws Amber Pot Dr, Sno Selly, full 4-Ib, jar... Great Reductions in Flannel Waists and B At Bloomingdales’ it isn’t a case of \ “keeping up with the procession.” It's a matter of going ahead and keeping ahead all the time, ; These waists and blouses go to you ; exactly as they came to us—a triplet of big bargains, 39c,, were 59c. waists and blouses; waists plaited front and back; blouse with pocket on side; some with collar attached, others neck- band style; 4 to 12 years, 59c., 79c.,were$ 1.00. One lot of {iannel —Two lots of fine all-woot Were BOC.“ biouses, some with collar a others neckband style; these well made and are excellent years, A welcome piece of Bloomingdale news to men and women Wi ing gloves, It pays to buy these gloves even as a future in whether the geods are needed now or not, Fifty cents si dollar is quite an item, ‘There are several hundred dozens men's and women's unlined kid loves in the lot—gloves that never sold for less than $1.00, for to-morrow (Saturday), Speclal, .esvereseserseerersceenerer Main Floor, Doth #t “ty ——— Men’s 50c. Fleece Lined Underwear, 29c Me A Bargain is doubly a bargain when it comes just in the of time. 120 dozens men’s extra heavy Jaeger fleece-lined shirts and drawers, strictly first quality, all sizes, to-morrow. . y