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Father Knickerbocker Lost at Times Square As New Subway System Goes in Operation THE CITY'S NEW SUBWAY SYSTEM New York now has a double subway line traversing the city from north to West Side, or Broadway line, and the East Side, or Lexington Avenue line. They are shown in the above map, with the link between them, across Forty-second Street, forming the cross-bar of the Connection between the two lines will be made through the Forty-second Street shuttle. The broken white lines indicate the old subway lines. The solid white lines show the new lines, parts of which have been in operation for several weeks, but arc now joined with the old lines by the Forty-second Street shuttle to form a complete system. Only express stations are indicated on the map.

Thousands Unable to Solve Complexities Presented by the in 42nd Street, and as a Result Are Carried Far in Directions Opposite toThose They Wished to Go I Shonts Says Traffic Conges- tion in New York City Ten Years Hence Will Be Worse Than Now, Despite All the New Improve? ments and Facilities in Use from page 1 spired and fnmed in their efforts to make their directions heard above the din of the hosts of inquirers. Their ffforts were in large measure unavail? ing and hundreds merely roamed about the stavtion in search of some kind of a train. Many gave it up and returned to the they could find the way out. People who wanted to go to the up? per Eaat Sido and The Bronx could not be made to understand that they should take a shuttle train to the new Lexington Avenue station, and some of them found themselves at Brooklyn Bridge or southern points on the old subway before they discovered their mistake. The reverse situation ex? isted with marry who desired to go up? town on the West Side, but.

could not solve the riddle of the shuttle service at Times Square. Transit officials expect a good deal of confusion for a few days until passen? gers grasp the significance of the new routes and learn that a change from the upper East Side or the upper West Side line, to reach extreme points on either side of the city downtown, means a transfer at the Grand Central di? agonal stations and the use of the shut? tle service. The confusion may be more serious to-day and to-morrow when the rush hour crowds start for work, but Inter? borough officials said last night they expected to clear up the situation in a day a two when the through express service on both new lines will be in complete operation. Shonts? Gloomy Forecast While the scramble was going on at Times Square President Shonts of the Interborough. speaking at the Astor Hotel, predicted that transit conges? tion would he worse ten years hence than it is now, despite the completion of the new subways.

Although it was the biggest moment in the history of New York transportation, Mr. Shents said, the increase and concentration of population in the city during the next ten years would mean a return of con? ditions on the transit lines worse than they are now. "So the phenomenon of crowded cars," said Mr. Shonts, "is due to causes quite beyond the control of transit corporations. It is due to the growing concentration of people in great cities." The Interborough president also made a plea for increased fares on the transit lines.

He followed Oscar S. Straus, former chairman of the Public Service Commission, who said the ques- tion of six-cent fares was bound to come up for serious consideration soon, and that the city officials and members of the Public Service Commission should have the courage to errant the increase, provided the condition of the companies warranted it, even though it i were not a popular move politically. "The public official, be he President, Governor or Mayor," said Mr. Straus, "who has not the courage to act in an emergency in the face of political dis-1 approval is not fit to hold office." Hylan as Motorman Mayor Hylan, accompanied by other? city officials; the Public Service Com? missioners, Interborough officials, sub? way engineers and a large party of distinguished guests, made the first trip on the new lines which marked the opening of the section. The special train of ten cars left the diago? nal station at Grand Central at 8:45 p.

m. It ran down through the old subway, made the loop at the Battery and then passed up the new Seventh Avenue line to Forty-second Street. Headed by the subway band, the offi? cial party marched from there to the Astor Hotel. Mayor Hylan acted as motorman of the new train. Chairman Charles Bulk ley Hubbell of the Public Service Com? mission said afterward that if the Mayor managed and operated the vari? ous activities of the city government as weil as he operated the train there could be no complaint from the citi? zens.

Although the Mayor never was a motorman he at one time piloted a locomotive on the old B. K. T. elevated lines, and that experience may have helped him last night. Before starting train the Mayor pushed a signal button at the station which notified every other station on the new lines that the "11" section was in operation.

A flashlight was then taken of the Mayor standing at the signal board with President Shonts, Chairman Hubbell and Frank Hedley, manager of the Interborough. Chief Engineer Daniel L. Turner, of the Public Service Commission, and Chief Engineer George H. Pet-ram, of the Interborough, a few minutes before had walked down the track to the point of actual connection between the old and new lines and driven the last spike which linked them together. at Exercise? The official party the Astor Hotel at about 9:30, a little behind the time.

The speakers included hairman Hubbell, who presided; Mayor Hylan, Mr. Straus. Mr. Shonts, Alfred K. Marling, president of the Chamber hi Commerce; George Mc Aoeny, former president of the Board of Aldermen; William It.

Willcox, for mer ehairrnan of the Public Service ommission, and Adolph S. Ochs. paying a high tribute to the ork of Mr. Hedley for in making the new subway possible, Chairman Hubbell Mayor Hylan, who sat on platform beside President Shonts. that he bad never Btad the pleasure of enjoying a ride a subway and sitting be? ll'' Short? all in the imme gniftf, th? hands and the coring crowd at the Autor made him sink for a moment that he was bark the city campaign of last fall.

When he reached the platform, however, and Commissioners Kracke and Whit? ney there he realized that it wa? not trije, he AM to the great engineering fent which had been consummated by the opening of the new lines. He said that although he had opposed some things that had been done in connection with the con? struction of the new subways, he was glad to be the chief magistrate of the city at a time when one of the most important sections of the new transit lines was opened up. People Deserve New Service "I am sure the people of the eity will be glad to know to-morrow that the service on both the West Side and East Side subways has become a fact," said the Mayor. "I have opposed from time to time some of the things that have been done in connection with sub? way construction. I opposed the pres? ent dual subway contracts because I believed they would not be the best thing for the people of the city, but others in control thought differently, and they prevailed.

"I have sometimes thought that the transit corporations have been short? sighted. The people put their money in the construction of these subways, and they are entitled to the best pos? sible service. I am glad, however, to be the chief magistrate of the city at a time when this most important link in the new transit system is opened up." Commissioner Hubbell introduced former Chairman Straus as "the wiz? ard of conciliators." Mr. Straus said the did not stand for what some people might believe it to be-when the word was not spelled out but that it had been so called because it was opened in the administration of Mayor Hylan. The former chairman said there was a time when the Public Service Com? mission and the city administration did not get along very well, but he had had a 'talk with the Mayor, and the latter agreed with him that such a situation should not the trouble ended.

He said it was due in large measure to the change of front of the Mayor and the hearty cooperation of the city officials with the commission that the new lines were finished and opened at this time. Mr. Straus then took up the question of the 6-cent fare and discussed it wi'th all seriousness, as a probable war necessity. Prediction by Shonts President Shonts followed Mr. Straus.

Referring to transit conditions to be expected in 1928, the speaker said: "This day marks a most important chapter in the marvellous story of New York City's rapid transit. But, much as has been accomplished and stupendous as are the figures by which we attempt to tell the story of New York's trav? elling hosts, the end of our undertak? ing is not even in sight. "In ten years there is every reason to believe the city will have increased to a point which will make the traffic congestion of 1928 greater than that of 1918. History will repeat itself. Fol? lowing every increase of transit facil? ities in New York has come added pop? ulation and greater congestion.

Im? proved facilities are one of the causes of the city's added growth. If popu? lation stood still we could catch up to its demands. But it does not stand still." In regard to increased fares Mr "But the war has changed all these calculations. In place of earning the returns indicated large deficits have arisen and larger ones are in sight. How shall this situation be met? We contend that it is an emergency and should be treated as an emergency and not by a method which will leave a permanent effect upon business, upon consequent movement of population and upon property.

Two Methods Presented "These deficits can be met in only one of two by a higher fare, throwing the burden upon the people who actually get the benefit of the increased service, or by taxation, which will fall upon the already over? burdened real estate owners, which will result in increased rents, increased grocers' bills and increased cost ol living generally to all the people who work and spend their incomes in New York. Wherea3 if it is met by higher fares not only would it lall upoti those citizens of New York who re? ceive the benefit of the service, but also upon .300,000 daily visitors to the city, who pay 500,000 fares a day and who do not live in New York and do not help pay her taxes. "So while the proposition of in? creased fares in the city aroused op? position at first, I cannot help but be? lieve that serious 'hought will con? vince every unprejudiced student of the question it is better for the interests of the city that the situation which now confronts us, and which is of a very serious and i critical nature, should be met by in creased fares rather than by taxation How to Reach Your Destination on New Subway Lines The opening of the Lexington Ave nue subway last night having completed the transformation of New York's old I subway system, which was shaped like the crank of a Ford, into the new "II" system, the Public Service Commission has iHHued a pamphlet to instruct a i public accustomed to the crank to the intelligent une of the The two upright? of the are known as the Werft Side subway and the East Sida subway, while the crankshaft of the old subway from the Grand Central station to Times Kquare forms the crossbar of th? A (Shuttle acrvice operated the crossbar while through trains will run along the uprights of the The righthand upright or East Side is composed of the old subway from the Battery and Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, terminals to tho Grand Cen? tral station arid the Lexington Avenue extension to the northward. used at the junction ig not th? exfijrcB? tion, but a new one known as the Diag? onal Station, which is on a lower level. The old one will be used solely for the shuttle service to Times Square.

North of the new Grand Central sta? tion, the East Side subway turns into Lexington Avenue, continuing to and under the Harlem River into the Bronx, with express stations at Eighty-sixth Street and at 125th Street and local stations as follows: Fifty-first Street, Fifty-ninth Street, Sixty-eighth Street, Hunter College, Seventy-seventh Street, Ninety-sixth Street, 103d Street, 110th Street and 116th Street. Near 136th Street the line forks to form the Jerome Avenue branch and the Pelham Bay Park branch, but the point of transfer for trains on these two branches on the East Side, subway is at the 125th Street station, the equivalent in this respect of the situa? tion existing as to the Broadway and Lerfox Avenue branches at Ninety-sixth Street on the old subway. The West Farms trains in the East Side subway will continue up Jerome Avenue to 149th Street, where they are to be di? verted to the West Farms branch. Most of the West. Farms trains car? rying passengers for that branch and for the White Plains Road extension will use.

thi6 route; the rest will be operated over the West Side subway. The Pelham Bay Park branch is only partly finished, its completion having been delayed by governmental demands for labor and material. If you take a subway train on the Jerome Avenue branch (elevated rail? road trains also will be operated over this line above 162d Street) it will con? vey you down through the new Lexing? ton Avenue subway to Forty-second Street and thence direct, via the old subway, to the Battery or to Brooklyn. If you take a subway train on the West Farms branch (elevated trains are operated over a part of this line) designated for the East Side subway, it will leave this branch at Mott Ave ruie-149th Street and proceed south? bound as indicated in the preceding paragraph. For the present, the Pelham Bay Park branch will be operated only to and from the Third Avenue station.

Service on this branch will proceed through the. new Lexington Avenue subway and so on downtown via the old subway. The first station reached on the main line, after leaving Third Avenue station, is 125th Street, the point of change for Jerome Avenue and West Farms branches. If you wish to go from East Side sub? way to the Queensboro subway, trans? fer at Grand Central station to Queens? boro train on the lower level. If you take a train on the old sub? way in Brooklyn or at the Battery or other stations in Manhattan, it will convey you uptown through the old subway, south of Forty-second Street, then through the new Lexington Ave? nue subway, and, accordingly as the train is designated, to one of three branches in the Bronx- the Jerome Avenue branch, to the West Farms branch Side subway) and the Pelham Bay Park branch.

If you take a train designated for I the wrong branch, change cars at 125th Street. If you wish to go from East Side subway to the Queensboro subway, change at Grand Central Station to Queensboro train, lower level. If you wish to transfer to the Third Avenue elevated railroad, transfer from West Farms branch at 149th Street and Third Avenue. If you desire to reach a point on the West Side subway, transfer to shuttle at Grand Central Station, and re transfer, at Times Square southbound, for points on new Seventh Avenue sub? way and, northbound, for points on old subWay north of Forty-second Street. The left-hand upright of the "11" or West Side subway consists of the old Broadway and Lenox Avenue lines from Times Square northward and the new Seventh Avenue subway, which joins the old subway just north of a new Times Square express station, which replaces the old Times Square local station close by.

North of Times Square, the stations are the old ones to which the public has become accustomed. South from Times Square on the Seventh Avenue subway the first station reached is the Pennsylvania express station, between which and the Times Square station shuttle trains have been in operation for more than a year. Other express stations are at Fourteenth Street and at Chambers Street. Local West Side Stations The local stations are Twenty-eighth Street, Twenty-third Street, Eighteenth Street, Christopher Street-Sheridan Square, Houston Street, Canal Street, Franklin Street and Cortlandt Street, Rector Street and City Hall (going to the Battery) and Park Place, Fulton Street and Wall Street (on the Brook? lyn branch 1. If you take a train on the Broadway branch, West Side subway, it will con? vey you down through the old subway to Forty-second Street, 'hence direct down Seventh Avenue, Varick Street, West Broadway and Greenwich Street to the Battery or through the Park Place-William Street branch to Wall Street.

If you wish to go to Brooklyn or to any point on the old subway south of Forty-second Street, transfer from the West Side subway at Times Square to tl shuttle service across Forty-second Street and retransfer at Grand Central Station, southbound, to train desig properly for destination you wish to reach. If you wish to go from the West Side subway to the new Lexington Avenue subway, north of Forty-second Street, or to its Pelham Bay Park branch, transfer to the shuttle train at Times Square r.nd retrarnfer, north? bound, at Grand Central Station, to train properly designated for destina? tion you wish to reach. If you wish to go from West Side subway to the Queensboro subway, transfer to the shuttle train at Times Square, and retransfer at Grand Cen? tral Station to the Queensboro subway train on the lower level. West Farms Train About half the trains on the Lenox Avenue-West Farms branch will be routed through the West Side subway, similar to present operation. (From Mott Avenue or stations further east on this branch the most direct way to reach points on the new Lexington Avenue subway or on the old subway south of Forty-second or on the old subway in Brooklyn, is to an East Side subway train direct.) Such trains will bo switched from the West Farms branch at Mott Avenue and 14yth Street and proceed directly down? town through the East Side subway.

If you take a train on the Seventh Avenue subway with Brooklyn as your destination it will be necessary to go to Times Square, change to a shuttlo train and transfer again at the Grand Central Station to a southbound train properly designated for your destina? tion. For points in Manhattan south of the City Hall, east and west side subways offer practically the same fa? cilities. Going uptown, if you take a train on either the Park Place, William Street or Battery branches of the Sev? enth Avenue subway, on the main line of the Seventh Avenue subway or north of Times Square on the old subway, it will take you up the Broadway or West Farms branch, according to which train you take. From the West Farms branch access may be had as hereto? fore at Mott Avenue and 149th Street to trains on the Jerome Avenue branch of the East Side subway to trains of the Third Avenue elevated line at Third Avenue and 149th Street and to trains of the White Plains Road extension at 177th Street. All passengers who can avoid doinp; so are urged not to transfer from one upright of the to the other, but to utilize through train service to the ut? most in the interest, of efficient service.

Osborn Opens Office in Utica The Candidate's Resources and Women's Activity for Him Worrying Murphy William Church Osborn's candidacy in the Democratic primaries for the nomination for Governor no longer is regarded as a joke in Tammany Hall. Tammany men yesterday awoke to the fact that Mr. Osborn is going to spend money and time in his campaign up the state, where "Al" Smith, because of his being second to Murphy in the Hall leadership, is under suspicion. Mr. Osborn left town yesterday af? ternoon for Utica, where he will open a state headquarters to-day, with a staff of workers familiar with upstate conditions.

The Osborn lieutenants will pay particular attention to the woman vote. About four-fifths of the signers of the Osborn petitions are women. At his headquarters in the Hotel Manhattan yesterday it was said that Democratic women all over the state are showing unusual interest in the candidacy of Mr. Osborn. Whitman indorsed in Putnam and Richmond W.

W. Cocks, chairman of the Whit? man Campaign Committee, said yes? terday that the Putnam and Richmond County organizations have indorsed the Whitman state ticket. In Putnam County ex-Assemblyman John R. Yale has been indorsed for state committee man. The Women's Kings County Whit? man Committee is circularizing every enrolled Republican woman voter in Brooklyn.

Mr. William C. Beecher is chairman of the organization. The support of the Governor is urged for these reasons: He vetoed Elon R. Brown's labor bills.

He has improved to a marked de? gree the administration of the chari? table and penal institutions of the state. He has backed every measure that protects and dignifies womanhood; signed the widows' pension bill; in? dorsed woman suffrage; provided for rural nurses, and materially broadened the scope of the workmen's compensa? tion act. He is the only New York Governor who ever has thrown his strength and influence into the fight against the liquor traffic. Ho fought the return of the old, boss-controlled state convention. At the Lewis headquarters in the Murray Hill Hotel it was said yester? day that the Attorney General, who was hurt in an automobile accident while on his way to the Republican State Convention in Saratoga on July 17, would be in town to-day to confer with his lieutenants.

Mr. Lewis is on crutches, but, aside from soreness in his right side, is feeling well. There are two or three vacant places on the Lewis state ticket. Some of them will be filled. More Candidates Get Indorsement By Republicans Thomas Rock and Walter M.

Chandler Backed for Congress Seats i After a conference yesterday of Va nous Assembly District leaders inter ested it was announced at the head quarters of the Republican County Committee that the county organic tion had indorsed the candidacies 0f i the following: Thomas Rock, Congress District; Walter M. Congress, 19th District. There are so candidates for congressman in the new 21st District that it is a "free-for-all" race. John A. Bolles.

Max S. Grifenhagen, Martin C. Ansorge, Andrew B. Humphrey, Reverdy C. Ransom and Dr.

Hayes are all candidates. The two last named are negro Republicans. In the Congressional District, hopelessly Democratic, Sadie Karst has been in? dorsed by the Republicans. i For State Senator 12th District Michael R. Matteo; Uth, Bernard Downing, also nominated by Tammany; 16th, Joseph Pabian; 17th, Schuyler Meyer; 18th, Albert.

Ottinger; 19th William Duggnn. In the 20th torial District Harold C. Mitchell bemg backed by the McKee and Ward V. Tolbert by the supporters of H. Woodward.

John Goode indorsed by th? county organization for Municipal Court justice. For Assemblyman First District, i Miss Jennie Cohen; 6th, Solomon Oit man; 7th, Abraham Ellenbogen; Uth, William C. Amos; 12th, Oscar 1 Witte; 13th. Carroll Browster; 15th' Joseph Steinberg; Kith, Max 2(ith, Henry J. Cushen; 21st, Hyman Pouker; 23d, George.

N. Jesse. The Queens County Republican or ganization yesterday started circulat ing petitions for the following dates: Justice of the Supreme Court, Leander B. Faber, of Queens, and Nor man S. Dike, of Brooklyn; Charles Hantusch, of Ridgewood; County Clerk.

Mrs. David Rodger, of 1 Richmond Hill; Sheriff, Peter ('amp hell. Long Island City; State Senate, Edwin C. Morsch, 2d District, and David Oggins, 3d District: Assembly First District, Frank Vareck; 2d, Charles Kostor; 4th, Frank Hopkins; 5th, Joseph Case; 6th, Edward MeFnr lane. I rroiiis ano rnccs 11 iS Profits may be considered from 111 angles: 1 effect on prices; II II a return to investors.

11 Si When profits are small as com- El pared with sales, they have little effect on prices. II i I Swift Company's profits are If only a fraction of a cent per II ST mix. 5 il pound on all products sold, and if eliminated entirely would have 1 II practically no effect on prices. Swift Company paid 10 per cent dividends to over 20,000 stock- 1 holders out of its 1917 profits. It also I had to build extensions and im- provements out of profits; to finance SI ill large stocks of goods made necessary by unprecedented re- I II quirements of the United States and Allied Governments; and to I II provide protection against the day I II of declining markets.

1 iJI Is it fair to call this profiteering? Il Swift Company, U. S. A. I The New Religion on The Battlefront The democratizing influence of war is causing the churches to lose many of their old-time dogmas. Face to face with the hell of battle, the soldier evolves his own ideas about religion and hope of eternal life.

And these battle-born beliefs are deeply impressive, as the chaplains of every creed at the front are beginning to appreciate. The probable effect after the war of this religious revolution among millions of returning soldiers is the theme of a wonderfully interesting article by Will? iam T. Ellis, which you will not want to miss in the next Speak EARLY for Your Copy.