The Brooklyn Citizen from Brooklyn, New York • 7

I THE BROOKLYN CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1903, 71 F. H. COOPER'S PURCHASE. B. T.

SERVICE. STATE H. R. 13TH 23D REGIMENTS 11 "in feist: Costly Imprpvements Are Recommended Another Track on Fulton Street and Two Mpre on Broadway In Eastern District. power.

Total required to operate, heat and light all ear on surface and eleTSted line Muring the winter evening ruib hours la 39,221 electric horse power. Add to this ,2,100 electric horse power for outside lighting and line losses amounting to 18 per or 7,871 electric horse power; the total requirement is 49,192 electric horse power, or 5,122 electric horse power more than the available maximum. Out of this total of power 2,100 electric horse I maximum number operated at that period the so-called East Has Snfleleat Cara, bat Not Power. In general, it may be said thaf the company now owns a sufficient car equipment to enable it to handle practically all of its business, if it had the potter capacity to move these cars in dally service. 06 Jan.

1, 1903, the owned '203 closed, -or winter, cars in excess of. the power arc used for tho lighting of stations, streets add highway or for lighting purposes other tliun in cars, the total of these outside lights is 24,519 incandescent bulbs and 203 arc lights sufficient to illuminate a small city, and seeing that the company is really short of power and that this shortage is the great cause of the complaints regarding the service, it does seem tbnt the company should not be either requited permitted to light streets and public places. Shortage Grow Month hy Month, On Dec. 4, 1900, the company lost one of its power houses by fire, and while it had barely sufficient power prior thereto, it lias been ever since suffering front a shortage, uiul the need has grown greater month by month, in consequence of the normal of population and the proportionately larger demand for transportation service by the people. It does appear that on Dec.

5, 1900, the company began negotiating fur a new power plant, aud that under rontraets executed soon afterward with large manufacturers of engines and leetrie generators, a new equipment of nine units of a rated capacity of 4,000 horse power each, -oV- 36,000 horse 'pOwer in all, of whiih the first two units were to have been installed and completed try Aug. 18, 1902, The. failure to complete the installation, or even to iustill a single one of these" units of 4,000 horse power up to this time, is the provoking element underlying these numerous complaints against the company. This new plant is to he now as the Central Tower Station, and will have eight units of power; the ninth tnit is being placed in the. company's Eastern Power Station, -and this, with one other horso power unit in the new power station, aro promised for actual service not later than March 1 next.

This will, then, enable the company to operate, heat and light all cars now used during rush hours, and to keep a larger number of cars in service during the nonrush hours. The whole amount of this additional power will probably not be available before December next, hut the various units of power will be put into service successively as they are installed. It may be asked why the full maximum i wa reduced Ust ful, fl.om 400 men to 216 capacity of power producing machinery I ut in the repair ahopg for elevated not now employed all day. The answer la I MN tU(j engilieg( force was increased that no electrical power plan be 273 t0 370 men There waa, however, worked to its overload capacity for longer rcduotion de timp service during periods than about two hours without ini- ha of tUe year. xh com.

I vJ. record, show that Jan. 1, 1903, a. compared with Jan. 1, 1902, these reduc- and so disabling these units of power.

For the growing and it also owned on that date fifty-eight elevated cars more than thfi maximum operated. It is to he apprehended, however, that tho volume of business will continue to Increase and that still more cars will he needed a year hence. Approximate, ly one-half, or 49 per of the motor cars owned by the company and equipped for servire on the elevated roads aro not at present in nae, because of the lack of grower. For elevated service 260 seta of motor equipment have been ordered and tho company has the cars for these motors, so that the car equipment for these lines is ample for present needs. But there ia considerable public com-plaint in the spring and fall seasons con cerntng the premature putting on of surface cars that have been laid up from (he previous season.

Thus, in the fall, open cars are sometimes operated too late and closed cats put in service too early, to, the detriment of the health and com fort of the passengers. Thia la due to the insufficient motor equipment and the necessity of changing motors from tho open to the closed cars, and vice versa, in the spring months. The company requires, and should accordingly at once take steps to procure from time to time, additional motor equipments. The board has also given some attention to the matter of cleaning, deodorizing and veatilating the ears, and finding improvement necessary makes recommendations relating thereto. The stock of locomotive engines owned by the company for use on elevated lines is generally not in good condition.

They are sufficient la number for operations on these lines, and when the new motor-equipped coaches art in service these engines will all be discarded. The eleven car barns owned by the company have a capacity to give covered storage room for ail of the rolling ctock, and are equipped with the nei'essnry pits for inspection rand repair purposes. Each barn is equipped with a wrecking-car outfit, hut the board is of the opinion that valuable time can saved by the use of wrecking wagons, instead of cars. The shop force of men in the repair shops for surface cars and diminish the ordinary dangers of the street to pedestrians." Permanent Improvements Tkat Are Require. Tho hoard finds that, while the surface car accommodations have been reduced during the latter half of 1992, there has been an increase in the number of trains and car rim the- elevated lines, attributable to the installation of electric power and motor equipment for portion 'of this service.

But the number of trains operatisi ia still inadequate for the rush hour service. The congested condition of the elevated tracks on Adams street and the lack of third track and of terminal and switching accommodations for trains over Fulton street, aud at the Bridge Plaza, as well us the company's present limitations of electric motive power, combine to mnko any present increase of the elevated sen ice impossible. The board is of the opinion that additional switching and terminal'facilities can and should be acquired on the Fulton street side of the Bridge terminus, and that a third track should Iip laid on the 1 structure along Fulton street to the junction of Flathnsh avenue, nt which point also a rail connection should be made with the tracks of the Fifth Avenue Elevated line. This connection and the third truck -will enable the operation of trains from the South Brooklyn section, via Fulton street, to the Biidge. thus relieving the congestion on Adams street and making it practii aide to increase the number of through trains on all of the elevated lines to aud from the Bridge, as well as across the Bridge, when improvements at the Manhattan T.

terminal are made. The board also recommends that measures be tnken hy the company looking to the acquirement of the right or franchise to Isw one or posildy twa additional tracks on the elevated structure nn the Broadway line from East New York to the ferry; nso to the procurement of rights of way to and across the new Manhattan Bridge, now- nearing eonipetion. and that the work of putting in the four new landing loops at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge he carried on with dispnteK. "The hoard, therefore. reeommnds that the company enter into negotiations with the city and borough authorities to obtain the franchise and concessions necessary for the improvement above outlined, and the hoard invokes prompt and reasonable consideration by the municipal authorities of such applications hy the company for the public comfort and business needs.

A further phase of improvement, which ill enable the more rapid movement of an increased number of surface cars on the Brooklyn Bridge, may made hy the construction of a single-track elevated structure from the vicinity of Cdncord street on the westerly side of Washington street, bridging Sands stress at the entrance to the bridge roadway: also hy the laying of a track from the southerly roadway of the Bridge across the plaza, and through Liberty street to the junction of Fulton and Tillary streets, and there connecting with the present Fulton street tracks. This will relieve the movement at the two crossing at the entrance to and exit from the Bridge now greatly congested during nearly all hours of the day hy both car and vehicular traffic. It is believed that this improvement will add 25 per cent, to the facility of car movement. This improvement has already been proposed to the borongh authorities, and the board respectfully requests their prompt and favorable consideration of it. Blockade Canted by Undo Sam.

A daily blockade of cars on several lines frequently occurring many times a day, at the Inited States General Fost Office and Federal Courts on Washington street, is the cause of vexatious delays and much public complaint. These blockades frequently stall from five to twenty-five cars, nd are caused hy the unloading of coal, from carts, for use in the Federal Building. The Board is advised that this condition can be remedied, and with the view that improvement he made we respectfully request the Borough Preident to make representations to the Secretary of the Treasury Department of the Inited States. This hoard will be also address a letter to the Treasury Department asking that thecnues of snch obstruction to traffic be abated Among other subjects of improvement the Board calls the attention of the com pany to, and recommends that the incline tracks connecting the elevated tracks with the surface tracks at Thirty-sixth street on Fifth avenue, and at Sixty-fifth street on Third avenue he pushed to completion with all possible dispatch; that conductors on all cars he instructed to announce the names of each cross street Or station before reaching it, intelligently and intel ligibly, and that they give all ressonable attention and assistance when possible, or when requested so to do, to aged and in firm passengers and children alighting from or entering the ears. A- particular form of complaint i made relating to the neeessity for passepgers paying two fares for short distances of travel over two separate lines of cars in the Williamsburg district, where the Brooklyn (Tty and the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban lines connect, and where no transfers are given.

This matter Involves very complex legal questions, as does the whole subject of compulsory transfer, and the Board will give it attention at as early a day a is practicable. In the period since thia general inquiry wss undertaken, and pressing and complex and vast as is the whole subject of street transportation in tho Greater New York, and which baa occupied the entire time and attention of the Board and it expert for weeks past, and is not yet eonWnded, it has not been po sihle to deal with every separate subject The Board ha endeavored, however, to work ont results on the most urgent ques tions, and later on will take np the unfinished details. The inspector of the Board will from time to time examine into the measure taken hy the company to put into practical effect all of the direct recommendations herein made. is Buya-a Marble Quarry and Contradicts a Current Rumor. The story telegraphed from Tuckahoe to the effect that F.

H. Cooper, of the fdegel-Cooper Company, Newr York, had purchased a quarry in that town, and would supply the marble to be used in the construction of a new store on the old Mary site at Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue, not wholly correct. Mr. Cooper did buy a quarry in Tuckahoe, but not for building purposes. When seen in the executive offices of the Siegel-Cnoper Company, Mr.

Cooper said; ''There is absolutely no truth in Q10 report that 1 am going to supply the marble for the store that it is proposed to erei-t at Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue. It is true, however, that I did buy a quarry property at Tuc kahob. In this connection there is another report which I wish to make clear to the public. "Our attention has on many occasions been called to the fait that the general public has credited the 8iegol-('onper Company with having bought the little parcel of property at the comer of Thirty -fourth street and Broadway in a spirit of malice to prevent it from falling into the hands of one of our competitors, and we have been severely criticised in consequence. "The criticism is unjust, bci aue the Sicgel-Conpcr Company has never had any interest in the building referred to.

That building via purchased in the private interests of Mr. Henry Siegel, who ha not been eonneeted with the Sicgel-tooper Company for more than a year, having n-soiiated himseif with the business of the Sinipson-t'mw ford Company. At the time Mr. Siegel negotiated for the property at Thirty-fourth street he wanted it bought for our company, but serious objections were by myself and associates, as we would not be a party to such transaction, and it may he interesting to the general public to know (lint the ptmlinse of this property by Mr. Siegel was one of the reasons that led up to disagreements whieli culminated in Mr.

Siegel disposing of bis interests in our business, as we would nr't be a party to such a transaction." SIGNAL CORPS DRILL. Exhibition in Connection with the Review to General McLeer. The Second Signal Corps last night gave an exhibtion of signal woik in connection with a review to General McLeer which proved very interesting to a large audience of friend and members of other military organizations. There were not as many of these last present as there would dou'ute-s hare been had it not been for the review of the Thirteenth Regiment by General Barnes. The signal men's work was much appreciated.

The men made use of wands and flag and wig-wagged signal. and forth in a manner that wa mVstifyilig to the onlookers but perfectly intelligibly to themselres. Then theie was an exhibtion of tower-building and at stretching telephone and telegraph wire. Captain Charle B. Baldwin commanded during the review and the alignments and distances were alike well preserved.

men were armed with sabres. After the military work of the evening was over, a reception was tendered to General Me Leer and his staff and the floor was cleared for dancing. BETH EL TEMPLE BALL. Benefit for Chnrck Work Proves Very Successful. The members of the Beth El Temple lat night gave a ball for the benefit of the church which is situated at No.

110 Noble street, at Seiderkrunz Hall, Meserole street and Manhattan avenue. The attendance wns nmi'iiully large, over 6t persons being present. At It oclock Mr. and Mr. Morris Solo-roan led the march in which 150 couples pnrtii ipated.

The march was terminated in the dining room, where a supper was served. The officer, S. Heller, president S. Seligmann, Yioe-rresident; H. Abrahams.

secretary: and Mr. Sten. teasnrer, were delighted over the success of the ball, The pastor. Dr. Richert, was present for a short while and was given an enthusias tie reception.

The proceeds are intended meet the expense which will be incurred in carrying out the contemplated improve-mention the church. The sum realized wa very gratifying and in excess of that expected. The chairman of the ball rom mittee wa Max Seligman. whose assist ant included a large number of young men and women. AUSGLEICH NEARS CRISIS.

Dual Agreement Between Austria and Hungary Faces Defeat. VIENNA. Jan. 2S. The question of the adoption or rejection of the Ausgleieh, or dual agreement, between the countries of Austria and Hungary is reaebiug a crisis.

Premier ron Koerber. introduced the Aus-glcuh in the Roichsrath to-day with strong' speech ill its behalf. It is doubtful however, if the Roichsrath will accept as tho Czech Radicals declare they will obstruct if to the utmost. A dispatch from Budnpesth announces the introduction of the agreement in the ITuugarian House of Depnties also by Hungarian Premier von Szell. The Magyar Independence party, in most respects like the Czech Radicals In Austria, has announced its opposition, and the leader of the party, F.

Kossuth, ha given notice of an imcndment. demanding the separa tion of the two countries in the future. The Ausgleieh. expressed in a few words, 'embraces the the fiscal an commercial affairs of the two countries of the quota paid by them to the common expense of the Empire, and the privileges of the Austro-Hungarian Bank. BIG DEMOCRATS MEET.

Grover Cleveland, Kb hard Olney. II ill iam C. Whitney and Edward M. Shepard were a group of distinguish, Democrat who met yesterday at tHe Waldorf-Astoria It was the natural thing for people who know of the conference to say that theao men were talking politi, s. They denied that it was more than a s-nial visit, and the newspaper men who saw them afterward were unable- to get any political talk from any of them.

Mrl Olney and Mr. Shepard have both been mentioned as (xw-sible candidates for the Presidency in 1904. The former President wa asked if he thought Mr. Olney would lie a eandiilate for the nomination. "I hare not the gi't of prophecy." he replied.

"All 1 ean say i that 1 expressed toy confidence in him wh, 1 chose him to be Fecreuty of State." termini pf the lines; the deportment of conductors and other employees; the failure of conductors to announce the streets or stations; the refusal to issue transfer tickets at certain points (burned convenient; defective ventilation of the ears, and the general inconvenience and delays experienced by the people of the Twenty-sixth Ward, by reason of the operation of New Vork Loop. tions had been as follows: Motormen. from 1.720 to conductors, 1,757 to inspectors, 90 to 59; starters, 70 to 48; division superintendents, 8 to switchmen, 36 to 24. There was. hTtwevcr, an increase of 23 motormen, 14 conductors, 3 train dispatchers and 1 inspector In the elevated service, and a decrease of 6 car couplers, 8 gate and platform men, 12 station porters and 8 car cleaners.

'In 1895 the company carried 546 passengers by electric power slope, its total power capacity being 16,890 EH. T. In 1898, with no increase of power rapacity, the passengers carried were an increase of 394 per cent. In 1899 there were 173.823,286 passengers carried, an increase of 72.3 per cent, over 1895, and the company's power capacity was increased in that years, 1899, to a total of 32,922 E. H.

P. This was an increase of 95 per cent, in power rapacity, against an increase of 72.3 per cent, in ikssengem carried. But in 1900 there waa no addition made to power, though the passengers carried were 207,752,822, an increase of 10 per cent. By the burning of the Ridgewood power station, in December, 1900, the company's power capacity was reduced to 30.509 E. H.

but the company purchased, in 1901, from the Edison Company 4.250 E. H. r. making a total increase of 5.5 per cent, over the capacity in 1899. The passengers carried in 1901 aggregated an increase of 32.5 per cent over 1S99, and it Is from this period that the com.

panys inability to handle its traffic began to be manifest. 1902 there were passengers carried, an increase of 8.4 per cent, over 1901, without any ad ditinn whatever to the power capacity. In summing np it may he stated that the in ereaso in passengers carried from 1805 to Jan. 1, 1903, was 148.6 per the total increase of power capacity (inclusive of power purchased) was 105.73 per cent. Compsty Ordered to Better Service The board recommends and directs: 1.

That the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company proceed energetically to the earliest possible completion of the installation nud commencement of operation of each of the nine units of electrical power herein-before referred to as in progress; also that it continue in the meantime to purchase ail the available auxiliary power that it can procure, 2. That the company shall forthwith re-storceWfid resume the full service of surface cars on all lines, which 1h evidence takeu by the'hoard shows to hive been re dneed during the latter half of the year 1002: thdt 4lie number of ear so placed in operation shall he not less than the number operated, and that they shall each make no fewer trips, than is shown hy the schedules and passenger sheets of the first six months of the yesr 1902. This requirement recog nixes the fact that the output of power nxailnhie will not permit any important la crease in the number of ears moved. 3. That the company shall during all other than the rush hours of morning atid evening, whenever the temiernture of the open air is a low as 45 degrees Fahrenheit, cause heat to bo turned on in ail of its cars, and In rush hours as soon as the pew central power house of the company is completed, or before that lime from the output of the first two new units made ready for ocmi-c, if the jsvwer is not act-mill? needed for ear iiiotcironts.

Further, that the couipan? -hall atiaih to the rear outer wait of oaeh ear a standard ther rnicier, expod to the oi' air, tail that Rivalry Put Aside for Review and Prize Awards. PASS BEFORE GEN. BARNES Barnes and Taylor Trophies for Marksmanship Presented witk Ceremony. Thirteenth and Twenty-third regiments, last night, held a lore feast" which, whila not of exactly the same type aa the old-time Methodist was just as much an earnest of goodwill, To put it in a few words, the review of the Thirteenth General Barnes and his staff waa a nmplete success in every sense of the term and aroused more enthusiasm than as been in evidence in connection with any affair in local military circles for a ng time past. The building was crowded to the doors, there being present several hundred en-listed men of the Twenty-third Regiment and their friends, and for the time being all feelings of rivalry were relegated to the car.

The review itself aroused great enthusiasm, anjt every-movement-in the -drill was watched carefully, there being -frequeut applause from the onlookers. The resentation of the Barnes and Taylor tro phie for markniiniship Was made by Gen- -eral Barnes and the address of the Twen-y-third's was applauded again and again. Irior to the review there wa a concert by the enlisted hand undpr the direction of Bandmaster IV. S. Mygrant, which lasted for half an hour The numhers were all well rendered, the cornet sola work being attended to by the bandmaster personally.

Then call (was sounded and assembly followed, the men marching out on the floor and being formed by their first sergeants. Twelve eompaniei of thirty-two files were on the floor when adjutant's call was sounded as a signal for the battalion formations. Formation for review was in line of masse. The reviewing party was warmly' greeted as its members marched about the assembled regiment, and then followed the passage in review, the men of tho Tbit teenth preserving distances and alignment very well throughout, although, because of the number of files in each company. it wns necesary.

as 'is usual ia the Thirteenth Regiment on occasions of review, to march shoulder to shoulder, instead of at elbow distance. There were a few men out of step in the rear ranks of companies. During the regimental drill the movements were very closely observed by GenJ eral Barnea and" his officers. The regiment turned ont twelve companies of twenty-four file for the drill, aud executed all movements with precision. The men formed, under Colonel Austen's direction, in column of masses, in close column, in line of masses, column of battalions, deployed from column of masses on tha first companies of the three battalions marched in column of fours and in col-' umn of companies, executed fours -right nd left about and various other movements.

every detail being given the most careful attention. The artillery practice was as interesting a usual. Lieutenant Colonel D. Russell and Majors IV. A.

Turpin and C. O. Davis were in command of the bnttalious. It was at the time set for publishing the orders at evening parade that General Barnes presented the Barnes and Taylor trophies, the first ta Company and the second to Company G. The general deliv-i ered a brief address in which he congratulated the companies, vftich had demonstrated their abilities the line of marksmanship.

He said that it was an essential, and a decidedly important part of tha duties of the citizen soldier to learn how td shoot accurately. For this reason, he eon-tinupd. officers and enlisted men who had. in any way contributed toward (securing the two prize for their respective companies might well congratulate themselves. After the end of the eveuing parade, tho reviewing party and other visiting officers Were a reception iu tho officers mess hall upstairs, and the floor of the.

drill room was cleared for dancing. Among those present were mnuy officers representing various Brookly'n military organization. including General J. B. Frothing-ham, Major Frederick A.

B'ells, Captain Albert Wingate. Captain Louis Traeger, Captain Wyn-oop. Captain Harry Baldwin, General W. H. Eddy.

Captain Earnest A. Jannichey, Captain William Dor-, emu, and many others. General Barne, when asked tn express an opinion regarding the revieX. said that he was more than ptea-rd with the Thirteenth Regiments orW. Battalion Adjutant Arthur Fiersnn last night tendered his resignation to Colonel Austen, giving business" as hi reason for withdrawing from the regiment.

Lieutenant Tierson' decision in this matter will be sincerely regretted by his many friend as he has been connected with th Thirteenth for many years, and is a thoroughly competent staff officer. Tor time before Colonel Ansten wa last eommiwioned commanding officer of the regiment, and for some time thereafter, he a-ted as regimental adjutant, hut declined to take that position permanently because he did not feel that he could spdro the time which it required for a proper per-' formance of its duties. CADET BATTALION REVIEW. Captain Mav and Lieutenant Keteiam, of Company D. Forty-seventh Regiment, last sight inspected the work of the Cadet Battalion for the first time, and exprewd themslves as well pleased with the show, ing made by the men.

For tha first time the cadets had an organization of field music on the floor, the members having been drawn from field music organization Manhattan and Jamaica. The first part of the drill wa devoted to the manual by companies, under direw tioa of Cadet Captain Wenk and Hildebrand. Then the battalion kas formed an- turned over to Cadet Major Taylor. 8rog more attention was devoted to the menus! and the balance of the time was deroti-1 to mantling. Tho cadet captain Inlet, preted the command cnrrertlv throughout, Lieutenant Ketchim.

kfter the drill over, hid a talk with tb adr and mad a Bum-r sf vj tions, Faster Service Required and More Cars on. Surface Lines Question of Transfers Is Postponed. The State Board of Railroad Commissioners has practically sustained all of the charges made against the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company in tho hearings at tho Borough Hall during the first part of Jan-ary. The findings of tho commission, minute and voluminous, have Just been prepared. The railroad company Is directed to do many things to improve its service, which is declared inadequate to handle the traffic of Brooklyn at thia time.

Improremeuta that will coat much money, auch as the construction of a. third track on Fulton street, from the Bridge to Klatbush avenue, and ji connection with the Fifth nvemie line, two more tracks on Broadway in the Eastern District, and the laying of surface lines at the Bridge terminal, are among the recommendations. The one complaint which the commis-i sioners have not considered in their report is the question of transfers. They declare that there are so many legal questions concerned that they must have more time before a definite conclusion can be reached. The findings in full as follows: Many Complaints Made to Board.

The complatnts made to this hoard by the Manufacturers Association and various other ciYle bodies and individual of tho borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, against the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company; embrace a ion series of separate grievances relating to the character and Inefficiency, as well as insufficiency, of the transportation service rendered by the respondent company; but the principal causes of complaint are those which touch the questions of the overcrowding of the cars, their slow movement and the insufficient heutiug and lighting of the cars. In a general way. these complaints affect alike the elevated and the surface railroads operated by the company. Public hearings were had on Dec. 29, 1902, and on Jan.

6 and 7.. 1003, in the horough of Brooklyn, at which the chief coin; plainant waa represented by Hon. A. H. Dailey, as counsel, and the respondent company by Hon.

William F. Sheehan, Hon. Charles A. Collin and Mr. James L.

Wells. A large number of witnesses wns examined and in addition the board acquired much evidence of a statistical and technical character through its own experts and from the companys books and records. These facts last referred to involved an examination into the condition and methods of operation, the equipment of the various railroads operated hy the company, the character and capacity of the power plants by the company and the various possible methods of enlarging and improving its trackage facilities and increasing its capacity so as to enable it to successfully handle its traffic. It is not necessary, and it would involve a tedious amount of detail, to- set forth here this mass of the board will, therefore, confine Itself to the primary facts and conditions developed. It is known, though not generally realised.

that the company is operating about 41564 miles of main surface track and 74 miles of elevated track, embraced in an intricate system and affording means of urban transportation to about 1.600,000 people living in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Qneens. The company oporaten 48 lines of surface cars and two systems of elevated railroad. The greater number of the surface car lines and both of the elevated systems Converge at the Brooklyn Bridge or connect with lluea which reach it, and no lesa than seventeen lines of surface care run acrosa the Bridge, into and out of the borough of Manhattan, Both of the elevated systems run their trains into and out of Manhattan, via tho Bridge, during certuin hours of the day. Comparison of Service witk 1901. The company operated in this vast and complex system during the fall of 1902 and bad available on Jan.

1, 1903, for winter service, i. closed cars 522 elevated cars, with seating, capacity for 20, 100 persona, and 1.282 surface cars with capacity to scat 37.040 passengers. Of the surface car. 768 were equipped with double trucks and 314 with single trucks of the elevated car equipment. 123 were motor ears and 397 were coaches.

Com pared with the service In 1901, the wiuter schedule for 1902 shows that there were only 24 fewer surface cars operated in tho morning rush hours (7 to 9 o'clock) 21 feper cam in non-rush hours t9 a. m. to 5 p. and an increase of 2 cars in the ercninc rush hours (5 to I p. The number of cars called foniy the schedule has not, however, been at all times lu operation.

Thp average reduction in tho number of tripa was 0.8 per but the average seating capacity was in creased 4 per cent, by the use of larger new cars. In 1901 tho companys ears in service were alresdy overloaded: but as will be seen by the above percentages the rstio of overloading was slightly Increased la 1902. The chief ground of complaint regard ing the companys service springs from the Insufficiently of its electric power capacity. The company has not sufficient electric power to operate, heat and light all of its cars in service during the rash hnurj. The service in the non-rush hours, during the last six months of 1902, was materially reduced and it slmuld be at once for.

while the power rapaeit will not permit any Increase of service, it is possible (including enrrent purchased from the Brooklyn Edison Company) to permit this service to he resumed. The total power generating rapacity of the company from its own plant la rated a approximately 30.0tH) electric horae power, This is worked up during the rush hours to an overload, or maximum, or 37,300 electric horse power. Thia same plant supplies a storage battery capacity (during non rush hours! of 1.470 electric horse pnwr "nd the Edison Com; any furnishes ops) electric horse poser during rn boms only; the total arailnhlc front all th'i 4470 t)i 1 MISS JESSIE. MORGAN A victim of' St. Vitus dance is a pitiful object.

St. Vitus dance is to the I body what insanity is to I the mind. The muscles twitch and jerk, they are beyond control, speech is I difficult often impossible. Often the patient cannot) walk or teed himself. Dr.

Greenesl Nervura blood and nerve remedy will surely cure this dread disease where all other remedies fail. Mr. B. F. Morgan, IS Webster Are.

Bsrrti VL, isyn Mr OsufMer. Jessie kid St Vitas tn Scotland when she wss seven yers old Then I went to Kicbmond. ird she hid it nin four times In one yesr. Between eicb time we hid sevsril doctors ind they etopped it for 1 short tin, hoi it list the doctor ordered me to tike her out of w-hool. fed 1 print teirher for half of each day.

bat she tot so bid tbit she lot her (fat and roald not spifc nor walk Her teacher recommended Dr. (ireene's Herron Mood and nerve remedy, end bet ore she had taken one-half a botUe she was sbt to he up. and coaid see and speak as well as ever. She took six bottle and she has never had a symptom of St. Vitas dance since, and that Is six raifu How, I dont ear about betas mad public, but in this fins I think It is duty to let the public know of the food of Dr.

Greenes et-vura blood and nerve remedy. Cures Children's Diseases. the company shall instruct its conductors, whenever such thermometers Khali indicate 45 decrees Fahrenheit, to call in the first inspector, who shall be under general in struetions to turn on the heat in cvcty car in every such case. 4. That the 271 coaches in the elevated service which are now lighted by oil lumps and operated by steam locomotive shall he lighted with electricity by installing incandescent lamps, with temporary wiring and contact shoes, to take current from the third rail.

As soon as the electric power capacity is sufficiently increased this lighting apparatus shall be made permanent. It is further recommended and directed that the practice of changing the oil lamps in cars and the carrjing of oil lamps need for the tail lights through cars, while the cars are occupied by passengers, be discontinued forthwith. Mast Improve East New York Loop. '5. That the operation of the so-called loop on the elevated lines at East New York be improved forthwith in the following particulars: la) By providing sepa rate passagew ays for the incoming and outgoing passengers as they pass through the station door; till by providing an addi-tional agent for the delivery of transfer ticket to passengers; (e) by requiring that all so-onlled 'run off' trains, marked mid destined for the only shall, whenever consistent with safe operation, enter the loop stntion to discharge their passengers, instead of discharging them at the Fulton street 'island' platform, and requiring them to Use the bridge across the tracks to reach the station; (d that the Manhatting crossing platform be ib closed aud covered; that the be covered and inclosed: that the ou-ide platform of the 'loop' station he inlo-ed with windowed woodwork, leaving entrance ways to car platforms; that a covered passageway be built from the surfaco station at the 'loop' to the sidewalk on Fulton street, and that the passageway connecting the Manhattan crossing and Manhattan junction stations with the 'loop' stntion platform, he covered.

And the board further directs that as soon as the third nnit of power now being installed shall he ready for service its output of current shall be list'd for the oiierntion of through elevated trains over the Cypress Hills line and to Jamaica hy way of the incline structure already completed and ready for such operation, 6. That ail cars in use shall be thoroughly swept and dusted, dirty spots sponged off and windows cleaned, once in tyenty-four horns, and that they shall bo flushed inside and outside at least once in each week. 7. That tho company, take prompt measures for the earliest practicable installation of a iliiplUate system of power transmission lines, and that, for increased safety, these 'duplicate lines be laid on routes separated from the present system. 8.

Tho board makes an especial appeal and recommendation to the Mayor and Common Council of New York and to the President of the Borough of Brooklyn that suitable ordinances or amendments to existing be adopted a soon as is practicable, providing for the proper regiiTntiod of vehicular traffic in the streets. It is matter of public knowledge, apart from the proofs in possession of this board, thst the existing ordinances are in sufficient; that they are ignored, if not defied, by drivers of independent vehicle, and that the police have become lax in enforcing the ordinances and in making arrests for violation, because of tho general unwillingness of magistrates to in diet any penalty beyond a reprimand. In many instances the police officer and the railroad company's insifctoni have been themselves reprimanded for taking a refractory driver to court. is the deliberate opinion of this board that until there i one systematic regulation of street traffic no scheme of surface ear tqieration that call be devised for the congested thoroughfare in New York city will he efficient or meet tilth reasonable and proper demands and needs of the of the people. And Is the opinion of the board, also, that a proper system of regulation will not nnlv aid street rsilnav operation, but that, when properly nndei stood and put into effect, it will stem facilitate the uiovmi.nt of the mb pendent vchkle the lack of foresight relating to requirement, this absolute necessity, for added electrical power the company is een surable.

When its Ridgewood power house wus destroyed the company had barely enough power to operate its system, for it Nassau Electric Railroad Company lines, which were already deficient in power, and the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company wns at once called on to make up that Lack of Power on All Lines. Later on the company acquired control of the elevated railways, then operated hy Bteam, and soon afterward began the work (for a long time experimental), of equipping them for electrical operation. This change in mode of power operation has been applied to a considerable portion of the elevated serviee with prnctically no addition to the general power capacity, and the result has been an inefficient service on both surface and elevated lines. In the meantime certain improvements have beea contemplated and pro now practically decided upon at the bridge, which, when completed, will increase the company's traffic by allowing the operation of 23 per cent, more cars. Making allowance for this requirement and for the full electrical opera, tion of the elevated system, the company will require not less than 82.300 electrical horse power.

But when ail the units in the new central power station and the single nnit now being added in the Kent avenue power station am installed and in operation, the combine rated capacity will be hut 62,020 electric horse power. Adding to this 25 per cent, for overload the output available for rush hour serviee will, be 78.275 tlectrlo horse power, allowing a nominal deficiency of 4,225 electric horse power. Tho con-tractors for this new electrical equipment, however, guarantee an overload capacity of 50 per cent, for a period of two hours, and it will carry momentarily an overload of 100 per cent, without injurious heating. These computations are all based on tho requirements for tho maximum daily num hers of cars operated in 1902; 1,079 surface cars and 96 motors cars and coaches on the L. The contemplated Increase of 2.1 per cent, in the number of cars operated will not fully seat and accommodate the number of passengers now actually carried, The installation of the new power equipment ill have occupied shout three year in time.

The company's hooks show that in the three years, from Dee. 31, 1899. the in cease in total passenger, carried was 2S.5 per cent. It is fair to assume that the increase in the next three years will be fully as large. In the face of the I resent situation end of this more than probable Increase of traffic, the company should at an early day enter into contracts for the extension of its power system In ail amount that will rnnhle it to meet all traffic rrquirementa of the years 1906-07.

The plant now under construction was to have been delivered rapidly hy units in three mouths intervals, under the term of the ion tracts, hut the delays caused by strikes in the factories where tho engines were building, and the eoai strike, prevent1 cd the work from being finished. The total delay will he not less than sixteen months. While this iaik of power has been the controlling factor, affecting, as It docs, passenger accommodation, car movement heating and lighting, there have been other causes for piiidie complaint arising out of the lunnaseinent of (lie company, and whiih have conti ihnted lo rite geneial di satisfaction. Among these are the turn mg of ta.s from points sh-nt Of the COMING EVENTS. John Kolle.

proprietor of respect Hall. Prospect avenue near Fifth, will entertain bis friend at a grand opening reception and ball, Saturday evening, Feb. 21. Congressman Robert Baker will deliver the principal address at a meeting ami dinner of the New York Credit Men' Association. to be held this evening at the Drug Cluh.

No, 100 William street, corner John. Manhattan. The other speakers will Charles F. Clark, president of tha ltradstreet Company, and Francis B. Thur-ber.

The new eoun.il Royal Arcanum, will bold a meeting Friday evening at the Ilau-eovk Room. No. Bedford avenue, corner Fulton street, An entertainment bit professional talent will be Throe prizes are being offered for the oieniHer who pi op, sc the largest number of appii- 'i'll if Mice.