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The Brooklyn Citizen from Brooklyn, New York • 4

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HIM, niiOOKLYN CITIZKX. SATCHIMY. MAY 1ML of Production Problems for Manufacturers The Solution fiAS-The Modern Fuel 1 Partial ti i thrm.Khl.v equipped 1 02 I Street, (ir.uul The use of gai-burnlng devices may be the on thinz needed to make a buslnea profitable, becauJt the expense ceases whenever the work stops. The Judgment of our staff of Industrial experts has been sustained by numerous successful results. It frequently happens that their broad experience enables them to make suggestions help ful to the manufacturer.

Our Demonstration Room, our Gas, the Ap lianccs and our Experts are all at your service any time you will honor us with a visit. Please remember the number 1024-8 Fulton street, near Grand avenue. A telephone call to Prospect 8096 ill bring a representative to see you at once. 4 11 I Nunumu, rcpresent-jlu. a manu-iacturin, are on display completely ct lip readx demonstration.

Valuable data a to efiicie.u opcratinK f5t, 'T Mvti.l '-rl- 1,1 and nil appliaiKO. mn he upon request. If xw not liaxe the appliance to meet vour rccpnre.ncnts. and made that will, we will it or lune one huilt to our if practicable. Btae 1 iisa -ji' -t fcvl rv-i as ufri-; 7a.

van. 1 '3-T 51t. 0 -V -4 JV.t i COMPANY BROOKLYN UNION GAS THE oil OF NEW SUBWAY S1M1 CEIEBMTES -1 1-1 if Manhattan without -i li. on Jtlsn 1. ran.li Parkway and West Broadway l'a'k the line divide, two tracks ex- lelldillR llowil to Ihe Battery 1111(1 a connection wllh Ihe existing subway, and iw.i trucks passinj! easi llmingli lark frr.ni One of ol iliL'i- ami In a smuio i.n.-.

i twn-tra- and r'M le kiiIw, i in; nt til Ihem for the leuiplale.l 1 1 1 1 1 1 When and ihe siil.wa Itrodklyn liri.l- seheine of operation n- Ihe dual sysle cree- lliese ehanires are made is eonnected with the ii will he pos-ilde for inaimiiriite I'oniploie Iihip This road will be a depressed railroad through Thirlj -eighth streei and an elevated railroad Ihrough New rwht a'-nue and the other streets. The hlrt-eighth street line will also be extended as an elevated railroad to Graveaend avenue and down (Jravesend avenue C.mev Island. Both of these lines will be three-track railroads. CONEY ISLAND CONNECTION Ml avemio Sin'-o that I nll'l avervio, (Villt'l I -1 1 I i ir Diuuei. Kf crtiitrnrtor Ims ii.l.linon lo ilui ureal henent.

"linn win l.o fully lealize.l until universally lie' Hual Svsloni will sivo In P.roi.klvn and what the never namely, real express ser-vi. the impollaut Irunk linos of ele vated railroads, for the Hual System plans provide for the addition of llur.l- purpn i mi (i'-ii- far ti v. niH' aiai anr ovr nni: the trains ini" Man- I.ridt-'e and ha. over 1. 1 the rhial hotvover.

li.l.'.l to Piii nly place nml Bookman street an.i men Ihroiili William street lo a conneclion iih tin- pr.ipi.eod tunnel fiMin I hl Slip. tu' Chirk street, Brooklvn. Tliis, Kiihnav will up Clark lit BUUUJUiv'. hp the asKTiiM.nc cf t.i nf ion Iho 1 operalion. mi hallaii over anolhor.

The Hroadi oonsiruelioii. in lino in lailroads. I' I'lathilsh iiveiiue. I his l- II I. i.

ti i ho Pulilii- Servin. 1'iiiiiiiion stelll I iraeks to lli. roars no th- 1 The consiruction work on these additions and extensions has been in progresa for some lime. Tlie connection between the Broinhvny ami Myrtle Avenue lines is almost completed, nnd the Lutheran Cemetery line in well nailer way. The contract' has been let for the Liberty Avenue extension of the City Line le-vnled slid llin roiiuisile hmsents are being obtained for tlie Avenue extension uf the Cypress Hills line.

Tj company luts piirfhnsed the steel for the additional Iriuks of tlie Fnltou Street elevated line, niirl will soon be ready to award I lie const ruction contract. With the work now under, way on reconstruction, thml-lraekinsr and extensions, the New York Munit'ipnl Railway Oorpora-lion has. nt the present time, about $4,000,0110 worth under contract. The City of New York is building tv new rapid transit elevuted railroads in Queens Borough, one running" from -tha Queensboro Bridge to Ditmara avenue, Astoria, and the other from the same point to Alhurtis avenue, Corona, which 1 I .1 U.1M subway, now under I he the miiin disiiibul- haltan for the Bmoklyn from a point near Trinity plnce. Church in pn pai il k' to h'lild I'arhnav ay.

press siTvl'-e. sireet nml lliroiish other slreets lo a ctioii with the exislins whi.h now leriniii.ites ill l'lalhiis-h and avenues. Hr.s.klyn. I mler I he dual system plans this subway will he us a fmir-trark line from the leriinnu nut Fhitbush avenue lo ihe ltaitorv hi sireet and Broailway in Hofure il nd thai ill.1 oxtoiiions in TOTAL COST CONSTRUCTION, $273,000,000 this voir it is r- I.ivonia line and I mi. lor ooiitra t.

upoemry to do tho work. 1 The tation on Irkjvn, im. wUl br at tho follow Un street. Park Inst tuto Park Frnnk.ui avon'i- '-nm-i. 1 tioa ETenue (esprosi.

On tlio avenui- extension as follows' Ruttor ttMmii. avobuo. Rookawav avenue. nr-et. "avenne.

Van Sirklen New lAilf avenue. VA.irnH iivecuo eiteiLsirin a- si root. Tillies S.iiai ilieme under Scvonili ave NnirralH lor eon- nue to il i ni streei. uuu ini. l-'ifi v-nini Ii to Fifth avenue, where the 'li Ini.bs ami one trui-k i-ontin tlirouuh lifn ninih street, and an oilier Th' minis-ion is now ndv.Ttjsl to bo l'l.

lor tl of M- ti.oi 1 "I "'o Ka-t- eovers n. 1'arkiiav p. I his s( tin nil Sivlietll streei. ooiu i.nc itl.ush ave- Ihi'liee over tile ueciisisir.i il.at pari I- in I lino will he tour-iracR follows: Pre.sidect street. Sterling Winthroo street.

Oliurch avcntio. l.f.rli Winthrop street. siil. way lor-nlld the heilin- i mo l.etweon Ilie i-llsiini: minus, at avenue. of the mini osi of ii i estimated that lie of Ihe now lines will take about and Ihe balance will he expended for Of the SL'Ti!" HI.

the ln-lerborough Itapid Transit Company and the New- York Municipal Hallway Corporation will expend about on the construction of additions and ex-tousions lo their privaldv nwned elevated lines. This lenvi.s al I to expended uiion the consiruction of ii ow nod lines. Of ihis total the contributions to be made by the two corn- Flntbih a venue. at St. Mark's 'toad.

NevrkiiK avenue. n-rtion 1-A yvlll later ne exit-imou iu Tlio eitv is alao building; an II n- ihe two-traek uith ta. 1 "Uiih avi-nuo tul.way extension of the Steinway Tunnel from Long Island City lo tlie wueensooro Krlilue l'lnza nnd junction wlth-th in I'tdion treoi. share in the benefit- of the I tin! ivsiem of rapid transit a. lii.n In ihe rations whieh led ap lo the AT 65TH STREET PROMIStU Al Sixty-fifth stret another connection will be made between the Fourth avenue subway and Coney Islnnd lye of the Ken Beach line.

Ills line will be a four-track depressed railroad reconstructed from the present Sea Beach line, operated by tli Brooklyn liapid Transit system. The construction of the Fourth avenue subway system is well advanced. 1 bat portion of the subway from the Man-liattan Bridge- to Forty-third street and Fourth avenue Is completed, with the exception of certain reconstruction at Thirty-eighth street to provide for the Conev Islnnd connection. Work on tlie extension from Forty-third etreet down Fourth avenue to Eighty-sixth street has been under way for more than a yeur nnd is about one-half done. Ihe New York Municipal Kaiiway Corporation has the contract for constructing the depressed railroad through, Thirty-eigh street and is making rapid progress with Ihe work.

The City of New York has let the contract for the elevated railroad down New Utrecht avenue to Ppt and McC'ord, who are already at work. The Ne-w York Municipal Railway Corporation, with the approval of the Commission, has awarded the contract for the reconstruction of the Sea Bench line to (ieorge W. McNulty, who Is a so rnak. Ing good progress all along the line. Ihe contract for the construction of tho? elevated railroad in Urnvesend avenue has not vet been awarded, for the reason that the route was not legalised until two weeks ago.

finiiH'S under Ihe i Mini nysieiu ini-nnnieU- by the Inter- ii nuthorities i nienl two lines just mentioned. The Steinway Tunnel runs from Lexington avenue and Foi'tv-seennd street. Manhattnn. under the East River to Jackson and an Ist avenues, I.ong Islnnd City. Thla part ot the tunnel is completed, with the tion of certain reconstruction work which i-;" tho eontniets tli an.

I the Puhlie Sorviee i nl.nllt S14.1HSI.ISSI oy iiic on m- n. nr. on fair treainii'nt i-n ilronil from Park place norm i-nu ninth hlieit. and a two-track line from that isuiii lo Qucensboro Bridge; il will also be a iwo-trnck line soul of Park plai-4- and will connect with the tunnel from Whitehall street, Manhattan. P.

Montngue Hlreet. Bnmk- This s'lhwav will be operated by the New York nni. ipnl Railway Corpora-lion bv trains Mom all parts of its system iii Brooklvn. including the new city elevaled railroads running from the Queensboro Bridge to Astoria and to Flushing, in Queen Borough. Construction work on the Broadway line is xvell advanced, the contract already let covering the entire route from Morris street and Tritiitv place on the south to Broadwnv an Twenty-sixth street on the north, the hai opened bids and is rea.lv to let the contract for tlie section from Twenty-aUth street to Thirty-eighth street.

The engineers are push Fasli'i-n Parkway nnd through Kasteru Pnrkwuv to Buffalo avenue with a three-truck elevated extension from Hut-fah, Mvi-nue lliroiish East Nincly-eighlli street mid Uvoniii iiveniie lo New Lots There will be a two-truck hriuicli miliway from Eastern linkway down Noslrand avenue In its junction with Flnthiish avenue. Trains over this extension will run into Manhattan and through the new Seventh avenue und I-exiin-'lon avenue siihwn.vN to anil into the Bronx and over he va -ous connections to be built that ho. ougli with the present system 1 us "111 give tlio people using tins line the opportunity, for a single fare, of riding from New Lots avenue. Brooklyn, to any point on the existing subway and the new- linos in Mauhiittan and the Bronx. It has bPfti nileiilated that by going from end to end of the Ineerliorough system in this wnv a passenger will be able to ride twenty-six miles for nickel.

ConHtftietion work on the Seventh avenue subway In Manhattan is well ail-vinic'eil Thfl line is under contract practically from the Battery to Times Square. On the Brooklyn side, the tnmnnsHinii has rec-entiv awarded the first ontract for the Kastern Parkwav extension. 1 his contract covers the section in latbusli avenue, between St. Mark's avenue and Prospect Park plaza, 'ibis section iu-chideM not only the four tracks for the Iiiterborough subway, but two additional tracks fna, the proposed connection be is now going on to nt it ror. ieuiporni.r EASTERN PARKWAY ROUTE DESIGNED TEN YEARS AGO The inception of the Eastern Parkway route dates dim to tli- of tl.e Boat 1 of Bapid Transit Railroad i.oniimi'.n.-rs.

which, following the op.t::ni: ot the hv-t giibwoy in laid it p.itej. for addi tional rapid transit line, in many pan- titlio routes then adapted was 12 known as the litstern I'ttr'swav route. This was n.loptcl by the Hap'id Transit 1. 1905. and npprovd the Hoard Estimate and una tli" Mayor in Julv of Uie yar (d properir owners w.

re and hied with tlio Kapid Trnnsii (mminon in Docomher. 11KK 'the rnuie a- tnu- laid out becnti it lvist-n. Parkway at P'jiiij coinei-leiit w-1, I i.d.-rli.l! avenue pn.di d. ai.d ra.l Farva pouts 1 ra I. in New York Municipal' Hailway Corpora-iion will leave about to be contributed by the City of this total it is estimated that to itTOKVUXKI will he expended in Brooklvn nml Queens.

In addition to this the llroadwav Subway and the Centre Street Hubway, Manlial-, ui. whi. will cost about .0,0,000, are to he operated entirely by the Brooklvn mainly for Brooklyn peo- r.i A I nmnnttt of mOliey. operation. The tunnel will extenaea on the west to a junction with the existing subway at Timea Hquare and, on the east, from its preaent terminua to a Junction with the new linei at the Queens end of the Queenshoro Bridge, aa abovj In when tlie oily was ronsnl.

rilii: (he building of the i-ealled tril.oi.),i-h siihwnv, the first proposal made by the Intorhorouk'h Hapid Transit Conipany to build extensions of the existing subway was disapprovtsl by ihe Puidie Sorviee Commission beeanne il did not provide adeqnalelv for the neids Urooklyn. Kubsofjuopt proposals from that lompany remedied the first omission anil embodied plans for a considerable extension of mentioned. Tlia Bteinway l'h. refore to he Invested by the of runirt (mnslt SVS- its conneetlons will ne opcravBu u.t-."" Iiiterborough Rapid Transit Company in connection with the eilstiua; aubway. Trains from it will operate over the extensions both to Astoria and Corona.

ing work on me plans ew lorK iii mi.n. o.l thev stioiilri ne reaoy to advertise hida Derore me nuuim A connection will also be made between the Second Avenu Klevated Railroad ia Mnnlinltan with the Queensboro Bridge. I souUiorly I' is over. Trams of the New xorit Railwav Corporation coming from the new Queens' line will enter thn nue, iiere two pn In addition to the above lines another Ihe vjbwav through liniokiyti termor? At a later date the Brooklyn Kapiil transit Comiiaiiv. whirh 'ontrolbil mosi ihe rapid transit lines in Brooklyn and Queens, submitted lo the coiuinissi.ui a proposition somewhat similar to thai of ihe Interborou4.il Company, to join wiih ihe eilr in cxpnndiiK.

its own system and op-ialing new- lines to he huilt with city nionov. "Out of these two proposals the pri.sent elaborate plan rapid transit extension known as the dual connection between ftiannattan nnn tne auction will he nrorided by lem. about 7.. per cent will ne e.xpe.meo lines be built for, the benefit ot Brooklvn and Queens, in thoe two bor-ouahs and in Manhattan. LINES IN' MANHATTAN PROGRESSING RAPIDLY In the husiness district of Manhattan, south of Fifty-ninth street.

One nw aiib- i i. i. two-, sre in tot broadwnv subway oy wny i p.ri.i,..- those from the ele Til if' r.rijhton a. .111. led P.idlor.l lime-: i -i 'inn.

a poini the linking up of the Brighton Beach line ol, Fourth avenue subway. Two a con no Itsi.r jm. llirou'i liven.o. inlo Pv valed railroads in Brooklyn by way of i tmm Whitehall street to so that the interuoroiiga mj trains from its elevated ivitem over that bridge nnd over the new Hnea to Atoria and Corona. Tending the tottrp etioa of the tunnel extensions, the existing line, when equipped, will he temrwrairiljr oper-ated, bv transfers to and from the existing subway nt Forty-second street, Man- tween the rolirill menne the Brighton Beach line of the New York tracks will be built from the Fourth I' I.

Montague nr4-ot. and alao by way of the Manhattan Bridge, from which a hvsicnl couiie. iion witB the. Bronflway 11 avenue subway near ruuon siren uuu Flnlhusli Avenue Extension and run 1 Municipal -Hallway xntp n.n.o.... work this section will begin May AS.

course of construction and fourth wfl i ar.l a I Pilkill hue oMeililed iio-iinl p. inbway wdl be I'ndor iie old system elevated trains from Hrooklvn and 0u carried their iii hut noi inio fanlialian: FOURTH AVENUE LINE ENDS through St. Felix street and latbuar, avenne to the Brighton Beach Railroad at Malhone-treet. streei. l- N' I i 1 tin 'n: .1 noi ei I.

Ka I he built to connect witn'tne vaj-ioun rapid transit lines in Bn-oklyn and. Queens ami give them a aystem of for their passengers. 1 1 is after eioSsinL' Ihe tri.l-'.'s 4iver All Ih. flnnve lint's riryi iiiit LINE FROM SIXTH AVENUE AT EIGHTY-SIXTH STREET tt, i tnillding for the use of the As indicAted obove. tb.

wo ew lines to Astoria ndv. Corona wt aUw be on i erated by the New ork Municipal Railway Corporation toy wltt i' Hirer the trains on Ihe iin- -mler V. i. I liml i-i-fl -t' V. lir.ifw.ii Beach line will be owned by the City of New York aud leased to the New xork Municipal Bailway Corporation for op New York Municipal Railway Cropora- TO EASTERN DISTRICT gtjll another subwayr operation by uiarcin and deposited 11 thousands of passensers.

who were Ion lo seek their lostinatinns in Manhattan idiher on foot nr by the payment of an exlr.i fare on 1 1 transportation lin'. 'Pie first eration. In aaailion to lliese cny-nwneu tion hat is known as the ourth avenue subway in Brooklyn. This is Jr 'J'h Centre sireet loop snbway ia the one alrea.lv huilt. This is a four-track underground railroad, running from the end of the Brooklyn Bridge -Centre er street aXtension.

and n. i leortia a venue I pi-io, ions Ii e. On 1'nad a iti miIIi iin. romnanv. unuer nw lsusi con the New York Mnnicipal Kaiiway corporation will he built, under Fourteenth street from Sixth to the East ri hot' from this situation came with the line running rrora me jiimmiuiu through Flalbush arenue extension, Fulton street, Ashland place and Fourth avenue to Sixty-firat street, and two ruction of the existing ibway tun ni Lie' 4 at ilh of i-j ourlinvi'sliTiy lhr4llh 1.4 Pm sli'i'i't and through Delancev street rtjemion to the Williamsburg Bridge, witn a iptr Canal sireet connecting with the Man nel under the East Hiver to its Brooklyn 'Ilea tent agreements, has the right to make certain additiona to aud extensions of its existing elevated linen.

Additional tracks will be proTlded on the Broadway, Myrtle arenue and Fnlton street elevated railroads, ao that a third track for express service will be available. A physical connection ia being built between xi.rtU iTtniu Una and tha Broad i crui inns II. I I Tl and Pa-'i I villi the Tlie instant success of thii tunnel and hattan Bridge. A ptjiioi ii between this subway and th i tract a on .1.. RmnLlvn Ttridue is being built and a l'4lUll' (in Rfrer.

This will be -part or tne so-called Eastern Diatrict line, which will run from Fourteenth treet, under the East River to Brooklyn and thence to the East New York district. The exact route of this tunnel and connectioni in Brooklvn hate not yet been decided. The above include all hatran to be built bf the New York u.iiw.. rmnrafion. Aside from the tremendous trahV it carried during the lirsl year of op-raiion proved the vai -i- thronoli sysiiun of from the heart of Hnoklv! lo the P.

li. nn i Uapi.i Tran-ii tracka from mere 10 in Elghty-aixth street. Tliis subway will imnect with Manhattan, both by the Manhattan Bridge and the new tonne) from Montagae street It will haj fouir tracka oTer the Manhattan Bridge, two of wbi-h will operate into tha Centre street loop aabwar and south through that atibwsy, and two tracka connecting throogb Caiial with tha Broadway I r.i.T -''l. Oil I. 1-4.

on Broadway r.ln mp-Ihe peopla Quee.na will have jrata er-vlce over thee new lines by tha and ita eonn.ctiona. by the 'Wtjf through the In all cases there, will be frta between all line- operated-by tbe-In- 0. rborugh Rsnld Tran.it Company at 1. rt.fiec"on jimUu- tranrfer. will be alven a intersectlona of the Unea In New York Municipal Corpo-rVtlon'a division, but the two divisions will be separata mni distinct eysteme tbevall b.

jao ana avstem to tbo other, Jkt eeverai PoTnts' h. line, of tera eoaie late Arm and at these points provUion will ba aiado for cna-v7nientMwa ya Wtwesa. a a a on ens soteia Bad aa addouuBf alt. aa osssfc two-track extension will be 'constructed from the present terminal in tl basement of the new Municipal Building, south through Nassau street to Broad connection with the nrorsTeed way Una at tbeir Intersection, and the Mvrtle avenue line is being extended aa I I Poi.1 i-ari of Manhattan. in cnnsi4ierini hi nut for the Dual System, the eon-ferci-s for Ihe city decided unni the of subway in Manhattan an eievaiea ruimsi v- minus at Wyckoff avenue to Isitberaa t'Mimwt The Fnltoa street elevated 4rvi" turr.in'ii tunnel under the East River from White-ball street, to Montague street.

Brooklyn. Two tracks in this are already in operation from them, Brooklyn will obtain additional facilities by the eompletion of the Seventh arenue atlbway la ManhatUa ui i. MnnnM and extensions la afreet. Brooklya. th Um or City Una.

ntendett from Ita present ferminns aar i 'oini'i ay appii i i kept alive 111. i-un 'he Transit serious anions Piirl.w.v roiiie. In di.al it was neoeii- mio liTy s4.n.e Ih4- i. Id ronton. ww puissuo 1 villi the Eat- mm woiiei m-.

-i lie. P.r.Hpklvii liapid Transit Mini-, fins milma. is be with the net- i.f ch.ruteil railroads nnl suhwar Foarthr-aeeOBa inowij win with'twa new elevated line, to Coney 7 ili. will ns from the Mnnicipal Building area ned by the elerated trains frnm the the boaaaar oeiw i Queen, ta Ufferta Bicbmood Sin The rvnreea Hilla elevatea line r.u in Itr.s.kUn and Qiieeas by tunnel, under Ihe Kitst" UiT and by tracss oxer the Brooklyn, to be perated by the Intea. hormif Rapid Traoait Compsay.

Thi subway will connect with the eia-tini noway at Time moare. and na aa a mk iimi Perenth a venae. Broadway ie. the llhsmsbura Bndce. will be extended troni its nreaent tero- I'erLwar hieli mtMll- Man list tan.

liltama tr ami Fourth avenne thnwgh Thirty-eighth street to New Ttre-ht svenat and dowa t'trwht avenue, Eighty-slxta street and tiUiiwsU a'aoua te Cuaay lalaad. Inns through Jamaica in um avenaa ta Ursod a'aaua, Jasxaioa, The New York Municipal Railway Cor- lino, whirh nper.Kea this anbway. is r.i.l 1'V t'1" Spt-ikt t'ninmiinn l.i tfil tUo rout1it -v trark tl Ii tb" arrnino and (oar trae luirfj Turn Cmimui Qitpnwlsitw hrilae. so that pent.l. mrt 4 Brwklya Qaa ail' Jouruej to aiiuuitt any puutt ut Um Imui- aevaata acaaa attaaainst, Variek una McoDstroctin tit Hhr lws Incka ia.

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