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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLR NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 16. 1908. FULL UTILITY OF THE WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE PROVIDES MANY SECTIONS WITH ADDED TRANSIT FACILITIES i FX the Inauguration of elevated New Subway Terminal Increases Bridge Capacity 100 per Cent train service over the Williamsburg Bridge to-day, another liuk is forged In the chain of aerial and underground transit arteries welding the Borough of Manhat reached from the residence sections of Brooklyn and Queens, through the Installation of the new service, without discomfort, in a minimum of time and for a live-cent fare, a factor which is more than offset by the lower cost of living here.

The influx of population which followed tlie opening of the Williamsburg Bridge, in its unfinished state, will be more than duplicated now that the bridge finally constitutes an adequate i'ld serviceable connection with Manhattan Borough. With the new in former days, no matter how large the demands upon the service may be. Capacity of 124,000 Passengers an Hour. The operation ot an elevated schedule providing a two-minute headway between eight-car trains is but the beginning of the plans for ths complete utilization of the Williamsburg Bridge to be achieved when the subway loop Is constructed. Then it will be possible to oporate trains upon a headway ot forty-five seconds, or eighty eight-car trains an hour.

This, together with a maximum operation of 800 surface cars an hour over the struc passengers for each line are not only separated, but so are those leaving and entering the cars. With practically an unlimited capacity in the Manhattan terminal it is believed that the trolley provisions upon the bridge will 1 3 ample to meet every requirement of traffic In the future The further fact that the Wiii-iamsburg Bridge has four surface car tracks instead of two, as upon the Brooklyn Bridge, permits of the operation of more than twice as many cars. No Limit to Future Utility of the Bridge. Upon the Williamsburg Bridge the strength of the structure makes it unnecessary to consider tho quesion of spacing the cars, although for convenience aud to prevent collision and other tan to Long Island und which la soon to achieve the supremacy in population of Brooklyn und Queens. The new tie, which serves to more completely unite the East Side of Manhattan with this borough, and, indeed, ture, means that a total of 124,000 peo pie an hour can cross the Williamsburg and Delaneey street will also constitute a conspicuous Improvement and will tend to lessen considerably the Sunday and holiday traffic ovor the Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island, as many Manhattanltes will find It more jonvenlent to visit the former resort after this service is Inaugurated.

The popularity of Canarsle is also expected to receive an impetus by the new order of things upon the Williamsburg Bridge. Splendid Arrangements for Surface Cars. The new terminal for surface cars under Delaneey street. Manhattan, is solely for the use of the Brooklyn lines, as the several lines of Manhattan trolleys which cross the bridge to the plaza in this borough leave the structure at the street level In Delaneey street and proceed to their destinations. By the use of this trolley terminal the capacity of the bridge has been increased to 800 cars an hour.

The Manhattan surface cars use the double tracks upon the north side of the bridge, and the Brooklyn cars and locals the tracks upon the south side. The arrangements for the cars in the trolley terminal include eight loops under the surface of Delaneey street. Entrance and exit from these loops are made from the street by means of separate stairways. Each entrance stairway has a sign bearing the name of the line of li Bridge, Allowing seventy-five people to a surface car, which number Is fre quently carried in the rush hour, and the one hundred and eighty feet under Delaneey street and continues three blocks In length, from the end of the bridge tructure. The entrances are extremely dignified, although ornato In design, and the different stairways are placed under a covered esplanade.

The terminal alone was constructed at a contract cost of $1.152, OOO.and more than an additional million has been expended in depressing boih the surface and elevated tracks, from the Manhattan anchorage or the bridge, and in other structural changes. Imposing Character of Delaneey Street Buildings. The terminal buildings lu Delaneey street enhance the character of this section of the Eait Side of Manhattan to a notable degree and greatly add the attractiveness ot the bridge entrance as well. The exterior of tho buildings through which the trolley loops are THE changes which go into effect on the Williamsburg Bridge today inorease the capacity of tho apan by several hundred per cent. The improvement is likely to prove almost, it not equally, as beneficial to the borough as the opening of the battery tunnel and the inauguration pf a through elevated service upon the Brooklyn Bridge.

To-day the Bridge department and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company inaugurate the operation of through trains to Delaneey street, Manhattan, including trains of the Broadway elevated and of the Canarsle line, while the Long Island Railroad has made an arrangement with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for the operation next spring of electric trains betweon the trolley capacity is 80,000 an hour. A ca pacity of 100 passengers a car may be given to the elevated, and upon a schedule of eighty eight-car trains an hour, vasion of population, sure to result, the expansion of business, the enhancement of property values and the creation of new and Important centers of population, together with the larger development of established ones, is assured, all making for the greater prosperity and more rapid progress of Brooklyn and Queens. Long Island, too, the effect will be signal and Impressive. By the extension of through elevated service from Delaneey street, Manhattan, to the Hockaways. increasing significance as a summer resort will fall 640 cars may cross the structure with an aggregate carrying capacity of 64,000, but with all Long Island, is one of a series of notable transit improvements accomplished within the present year and which shall serve to make 1008 long a memorable epoch in the history of the borough's development.

In fact, no twelvemonth In the past has witnessed such remarkable progress as has this year been made toward achieving the larger destiny of Brooklyn and Queens in the relation occupied by tliem to the Greate City as a whole. The opening of the subway, in Itself an event of the most far reaching beneficence nnd import, was followed by the radical Improvements instituted on the Brooklyn Bridge and by which it is planned eventually to operate ten-car trains which will still further increase the number of passengers which may be transported hourly. The opening of the new Manhattan ter minal gives an additional capacity upon BRIDGE CELEBRATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, cars to which It reaches in both English and Yiddish. Thus a passenger wishing to board a car of the Broadwrfy line enters Mie terminal at the stairway lead the carrying capacity of that span was largely increased and through elevated service between all parts of Brook lyn and Park Itow established. This was, in turn, succeeded by the ing to this line alone, and does not have to mingle with passengers wishing to board other lines.

Each of the loops is divided into two parts, at one of which the car discharges its passengers and at the other loads. The surface cars are not switched by hand as Is the system upon the Brooklyn Bridge, but electric switches and dispatchers' booths have been installed that Insure a large saving of time In this phase of the car's operation. On the Brooklyn Bridge the fact that passengers have been compelled to cross a number of loops before arriving at the one upon which their car eomes in has led to a great deal of inconvenience and delay. All this Is obviated In the new Williams Frederick Snare, President ot the Snare Trlcst Con tractors, Who Built the Station, accidents a distance of about 100 feet between cars probably will be maintained. Thus the problem of operation is quite burg Bridge terminal by the entire segregation of passengers.

It is almost impossible for any crush to arise at the surface car loops as the THE Vi JSi 3 WlLUAMSBURGH SAVINGS BANK. direct connection formed between the subway system of Manhattan and the Long Island Ibiilroad system by the extension of the subway to the Long Island Ballroaii depot at Flatbush avenue. Of equal significance with these portentous enhancements to our facilities of iuteiliorough transit is the operation to-day of elevated trains into the heart of Manhattan's East Side from many sections of both Brooklyn nnd Queens. Indeed, no event of greater import has occurred to influence the future progress and development of the (two boroughs which are thus united by still another transit tie to Manhattan, and the fulfillment of that broad purpose for which the Williamsburg Bridge was originally conceived has at last been made possible of realization. The utilization of the Williamsburg Bridge to anything approaching its logical capacity has, until now, been impracticable and to just the extent that the bridge has failed In the past to provide for the1 ever growing demand for additional transit facilities between the boroughs, by just so much has the growth of Brooklyn and Queens been retarded.

To-day a new era dawns. The way has been made easy for the migration of countless thousands from the congested tenement districts of Manhattan to the welcoming boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Additional facilities for direct and rapid inte.rbor-ougli communication have sup to the lutter, and a serious rival to Coney Island will here be found. Further than this, the connection which hus been established between the Long lslnud Uitilroad and the Brooklyn elevated system makes the possibilities of the new service, lu relation to Long Island, almost unlimited, and the Long Island Hailroad has what virtually plied and barriers to the making of amounts to a new terminal for its TBI system at Delaneey street. It.

is difficult to estimate where the benefits of this far-reaching improvement will be most largely felt. To all those sections iu immediate proximity to the Williamsburg Bridge, the Kastern District, Williamsburg and Greenpoint the stimulus will be pronounced. This Is equally true of upper Broadway and the sections of the borough reached by the Broadway elevated and Its tributary lines, Myrtle and Lexington avenues. Broadway will attain to larger importance as George C. Mjllekj both surface and elevated of 54.000 people an hour.

But the advantages do not end here. The improvement should result in lessening the pressure upon the Brooklyn Bridge. Many residents ot Brownsville and other sections of the borough reached by the Broadway elevated and the Canarsie branch, who do business on the East. Side, Manhattan, will now have the time between their homes and work as materially reduced as have the residents of other parts of the borough, by the running of through trains to the Park row terminal the Brooklyn Bridge. Then the operation of many additional lines of surface cars over the structure will make the Williamsburg Bridge the most convenient means of communication with Manhattan for many, and its use will be largely augmented by people who have not heretofore made a practice ot crossing the structure.

Additional Trolley Lines to Cross Structure. It Is known that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company contemplates the operation of the CroBstown line of cars over the structure, which will give to Green-point a continuous five cent fare to Delaneey street, Manhattan, In addition to the saving of time by eliminating the necessity of a change of cars. Cars ot the Marcy avenue line, it Is also understood, will cross the bridge, as well as other lines, as the advisability of Including them shall become apparent. Beside the Brooklyn cars and locals crossing the structure there are at this time four lines of the Metropolitan system in Manhattan which have their terminus at the Brooklyn end of the bridge, and from these transfer to any surface line in Manhattan may be effected. It is not Improbable, as a further outcome of the improvement, that the Metropolitan system may decide to add other cars to those which now have Brooklyn as their destination.

The operation of the Long Island train. between Rockaway a thoroughfare nnd the residence sec new, more conirortuule, healthful ami economical homes in this part of the Greater City by these thousands have been removed. Nor is this the sum total of the benefits conferred. For those who now have, or are in the future to make, their homes in those numerous sections which the new elevated facilities will serve, directly or indirectly, there is a distinct saving in the time consumed iu the daily journey from lesidence to place of business, with increased comfort and convenience as well. Beyond this, other sections of Brooklyn than those to which the new service actually extends will soon appreciate its advantages in the lessened stress placed upon the Brooklyn Bridge and upon those transit lines which tap Manhattan by other routes.

When the Williamsburg Bridge was first planned, one of the primary objects to be attained through its construction was a division of the traltic then made upon the Brooklyn Bridge. With no adequate arrangement to Accomplish this purpose the Williamsburg Bridge lias hiiherto failed to do its share toward solving the problem of interliorongli communication and toward relieving the congestion upon the Brooklyn Bridge and upon those lines of surface and elevated cars which cross it. Xow, however, all this is changed and to many the Williamsburg Bridge will be the most convenient artery for reaching Manhattan, contributing, tions of Bushwick and Rldgewood will become of greater desirability. By free transfer at Broadway and Myrtle avenue, a connection is formed with. the Myrtle avenue elevated and Its Metropolitan aveuue extenslou into that part of Ridgewood in Queens Borough.

Similarly at Broadway and Gates avenue, a transfer point is established with the Lexington avenue gained is architecturally handsome and harmonious, and at night the buildings are extensively illuminated. Electric lights are strung at frequent Intervals, and ornamental columns also contain electric globes of high power and brill-iaijcy. While not so elaborate, the esplanade over the entrance to the elevated platforms is equally impressive' in design, and the exterior of the terminal may he said, without hesitation, to form the handsomest subway entrance in Greater New York. The interior is equally pleasing to the eye, and has been made as convenient and practicable as the engineers of the Bridge Department could possibly make It. The subway is only seventeen fpet below the surface of Delaneey street, and this makes the trams and cars unusually easy of nccess.

In the interior of the terminal each of the trolley loops is given ample space, and the same is true of the elevated arrangements, where the great length of the three platforms is a practical assurance against any repetition of the Brooklyn Bridge crush of CORNER BROADWAY AND DRIGGS AVENUE, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York. Due Depositors 5 1,500,000 Surplus Par Value of Securities, $6,788,986 Interest July 1st, 1908, 4 Accounts can be opened by mail Send for Booklet containing Instructions elevated, leading to Cypress Hills, from which free transfer may again be made to surface lines for Jamaica, Delaneey street end of the Williamsburg Bridge and Rockaway Beach. The Fine Elevated Terminal. The provisions for the elevated trains In the new terminal are commodious and complete. That part of the terminal used for the elevated has a length of more than four hundred feet, allowing for trains of eight cars each.

The trains unload upon platforms on either side and load from one central platform. Entrance to the elevated Ib by stairways from the street and tickets are cold within the terminal, as In the stations upon the regular subway system. As a strictly terminal point the use ot this elevated station will be temporary. Upon the completion of the subway loop the trains will continue to and from the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges aud the present terminal will then become virtually a way station upon the inter-borough elevated system. The extension of the tracks to connect with the loop has been provided for and the physical connection will ultimately be made at the end of the present elevated platform in the terminal.

The first operation of trains is upon a two-minute headway, or thirty trains nn hour to the Delaneey street end of the bridge. These trains are of eight cars each. Unlike the surface cor arrangements, it lias been Impossible to provide switching facilities for the elevated that will enable le-er headway to be operated until tho trains continue through the loop. The terminal itself covers a width of Kiciiniond fllll. Woodhaven and other points in Queens Borough, as can indeed, lie done from the Myrtle avenue line.

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