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THE BROOKLYN" DAILY EAGLE. IS'EW YOTTTC. SATURDAY, MAT Ifri. 9 1 New Transit Lines Insure Rapid Development of the Entire Borough B.R.T.INMANHATHN WHAT DUAL SYSTEM PROGRESS ON LOCAL SUBWAY AND WORK LINE EEC-UN TODAY TAPS BIG SECTION Colonel Williams Longs for Sight Of Dirt Flying on New Subway Lines MEANS TO BROOKLYN. A BROOKLYN TRIUMPH HHtbush, Canarsla, New Lots; and Eastern Parkway Dis- tricts Will Benefit.

Home Boroujh Ceta targa Share of Benefits Urrrfer Dual System, XrlT 100,000,00 wtTl rTent fn new imlmuTt ind VKteil tinea In tit In liorvuh. 1 I tmrk miles off new llnefl Yril! In of which track nilra are already under coutrao tlon. 8.1 02 men ve now em pi a red contraction work throaghoat the borouKb, and many morn loon will be. Rapid transit fnclli1ea will be trebled when the entire ay litem tn In oTterntlon, which It la expected will be. in 1917.

ROUTE WAS ADOPTED IN 1905. XTy uMbM of nil tt bit '7 and rmr ilnnril for nakln urn im mrtnnllr a ndnr canmrortlan, Thla Main rkat moa ar aw tu work on IB rrtlon. ef ataa arvarat ltnpa, tha tntal rout of which la a.dao.l.T. tv af thr rtnra are brtna; "IK city, aa foUawsi The ITtwIh hwbu Raflwar Its ntrn-alan tlie Kw I twrht wnu the- Thlrt-plBhtli Rra rut, mad. ana aeetlan.

uf tbn lnHiunU pirawn Udk Tha ton ltiuia bi-Ui- Br tha H. T. an aa fnUomat Tha la Bench. Una. the fcnthenui Cam ota axtenaton of tho Myrti vnna rho Bnnowaa-Jtfik tta arm eeiuiaatlun and tha Lthorty avenoo rxti-nnton of tha rmltnn.

atraot "fc." BROADWAY LIRE BEING BUILT- to Boutes That Tap Heart of MeTrtrpoll Parkway Tubs and Branches All Ba Under Contract by End of Tear. ton. Olstrtet Add to Imparfemca of Transit Systenv It would have been a rash prediction. 1 several years ago to asstrt that thn day would come when the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company would operator 1 subway trains underneath Mhnhattnn, and would divide with the then more powerful Manltattan trac-- PUBUC UTILITY PROSPERITY Increase of Values Significant, says H. McCannelL tlon aystum the rights of transit xten rt slon throughout tho Creator City That I 1 1 wf unii? EDWARD M.

DA55ETT i such on eventuality is to come to pass is tint nnother instajice of the growtnif. 'Importance of Brooklyn and lta die: tinctlvely local llnanciiil and corporata- jf interests. Besides the llroadwry aub i way, the Centre street loop tf 2 Through the bit? subway celebratlou today, great Interest has been aroused throughout Brooklyn in the exact character and history of the Flatbush nve-IM subway, the breaking of ground far "which is the main feature of the events of the afternoon. This line Is unique among the sub-vmys of the city for tn the same tunnel accomniodatfons are to be provided for two distinct subway lines, operated bytEffexent companies, and having' different stations. The lines In question are the four-track Eastern Parkway route of the Interborough Company amd the two-track connection between Fwurth avenue subway and the Brighton.

Beach line of the B. E. T. This double line through Flatbush avenue Is thas of six tracks and said to be about the most difficult piece of subway construction work in the whole city. Th Eastern Parkway Thua fa an extension of the existing' subway from its present tenninos.

at FlatbUEh and Atlantic avenue, out Flatbwsh. avenue to Eastern Parkway, tfcroirjh Eastern Farirway Buffalo avenne, and thenco During the past year tlio gross earnings of ESfl representative gas nml electric lighting companies Increased, net, fl.fiS per cant. During the first quarter of 1014 eight public utility -T ret now Partially lit operation, 19 to oi operated entirely by thn Brooklyn 1 .1., llm.ilrtin, affecting 130,800,008 capitalization, i Unioklyn'a share In the benefits-at tha while twelve companies Increased duid system of rapid transit will ao- tnair rate or nisnursemeuLs on oapinu- coninKiy ooiTespond tu its lmportanoe lza-Uon of $80,373,000. Ill tlio past year the amount paid In stuuk a uoniumi. dends by publlo titility corporations i The Broadway subway, now underr.

excecsled conatruntiim, will bo the main distrib- These figures ahould prove ex-1 ut.im: linu In Mniilmttaii for thn wvru T- tremely signlilcant and generally In- Brooklyn railroad. This subway will bo teresting In view of tile growth of onerutod by the Now ork Alimietpai I Hallway Corporation, tho operating I I WHAT MEW TRANSIT MEANS DEVELOPING BROOKLYN. sUJjuu. Brooklyn proper and particularly so when considering tho expansion of transportation ami terminal, facilities In this borough. No le.SB on authority than tlio president of the National City Bank status that over $400,000,000 a year oan prolltably bo used In the development of tha whole broad fluid of tho eleo-trical Industry In thn United States during the next five years.

As the population of any community Increases, to that extent la required additional service from gas, i company for the Brooklyn Itapid Transit Company, by trains from all parts of tho Jl. IL 'J'. system hi Hrooklyn, Including thn iiew city elevated rail-mads running from thn Quaensburo Bridge to Astoria and to Flushing in Qiiomisbnmiigli. Construction work on the Broadway linn Is well advanced, tho cuntiiictH already let covering tho entire mutn. Trains nf tho New York Municipal Rnllwny Corporation, coining from thn new QueoiiH lines, will enter the Hitiadwuy subway by way of tho mieensboro Bridge those from tho elevated railroads In Brooklyn, by way hi thjiasr3i Es Ninety-eighth street and Uvcnia avenue to New Lots avenue, wtHi a branch from Basrtem Parkway 4wa Kbstrand avenne to the tnterscc- tloa of STtbcjh avenne.

It will bo op- erated by tho Interboxoosti Rapid' fenvcs Oonsffauny as a part the en- laxsod subway sostem leased to that i compsDy voider da Dual System con-j tracts, IK tins main it will be a four-track BilAr and into-it will ran tiro two exist-' tns tracks naamJaif tSnoasfi the Bat- 5 tiny tame! to'tbo- present terminus and also the two tracks which will connect' the new Seventh avenue subway in MfiTthnlJin wlUi Cm Brooklyn system! by da proposed tunnel under ths East i Htmer tram OH Slip, Manhattan, to dark street, Brooklyn. The completion of this UmneA, therefore, will give the Xnterboroagh Company a four-track connectlmwlUvBrooklyn. The new work! electric and transportation uompanles. Again does this apply to Brooklyn with pertinent effect. It.

V. McCONNKBL Ot H. F. MeConnell Co. MARGINAL ROAD A NECESSITY What will be the effect of the new rapid transit In Brooklyn? (1) It will bring all of Brooklyn Into the 6-eent zone In relation to all of Manhattan south -of Central Pai-k.

CO It will abolish extreme, congestion for many years. It will set all of tha bridges to work. It will bring Borough Hall Pars ten minutes nearer to every part of Brooklyn and Times Square llf pon minutes nearer. P) The bridges will cease to be stub-end terminate and through trains will be operated. (fl) The free development of Greater New York as a round city will for the first time take place.

This will mean an equalizing of land values and better opportunities for working people to live In Biin-ny homes. of the now tunnel from Whitehall street and also by way o( the Mimlmttnu Bridge, from which a physical conneo- tlon with tho Mmadway subway will bo i built through Canal street. Still another subway for operation by 1 the New York jMuulc'ipl liailway Cor- poratlon will lie built, under Four- 's leenth street from Hlxth avenue the Fast Hirer. This will be a of tho so-called Eastern District line, which will run from Fourteenth street under tho Fast ltlver. to Hrooklyn, and thence to tho Fast New York district.

NEARLY $29,000,000 The speedy construction of tho marginal rallrond system is tho paramount necessity Just now In Brooklyn. Manufactories are the greatest of all Brooklyn's assets In tho matter of wealth-production and labor-employing factors. They are developing Brooklyn from tho bottom up, paying the heaviest taxes and attracting here skilled artisans and runtpoyeva by the thousands. through Clark street. These contracts, which It Is estimated will total nearly $15,000,000, should be awarded within a few weeks, and It Is believed that actual work will be started sometime In August.

Plans for other sections of the Flatbush avenue subway are expected to be ready to advertise for bidding very shortly, while the contract for the third-tracking of the Fulton street "IV, between Fast New York and Nostrand avenue will be let by the B. R- T. very work, fixing up of stations, laying of tracks and Installation of electrical equipment, so that the ultimate figures will be considerably higher: Public Service Commission Work. woe. Uons.

Cowt. at work. Fourth a Fourth av exten- s.sst.4aeo isn Nw TJtrnht av Is 1 89 Thlrty-eljOitb. at out- 1 too (estimated) Flatbush S.r.i,(,l8.a, start toaay IS BEING EXPENDED ON BETTER TRANSIT win.axtend these four tracks from the present termtans of the subway under natbush avenna and Eastern Parkway a far as Buffalo avenue, where the underground construction ends. The ex The srreatest handicap the manu Tho exact route of tills tunnel and its connections In Brooklyn has not yet been decided.

Hrooklyn will also obtain additional facilities by the completion ot the Hnventh avenue subway In Manhattan, and Its connections nnd extensions In Hrooklyn. This subway will lie operated by the Interliormigh Hapld Transit Company. It will connect with tho proposed tunnel from Old Slip, Man- factories of Brooklyn labor under to soon now. mm POWER DEVELOPMENT tension through East Ninety-eighth Continued From Pag-e 1, street and Livonia avenue will be a day Is that If the double handling of freight This represents a loss of hundreds of thousands annually. But for tho lack of freight facilities.

Some skeptical readers may think that the $100,000,000 estimate of the total work to be done In Brooklyn 1s pretty high. But, remember that ground are In the employ of the various companies which have the contracts for three-track elevated railroad. The branch from Eastern Parkway through I H. the city work, while the remainder are doing the work which the B. K.

T. now L. Bennett Points Out Significance of Hydraulic Manufacturing. BROOKLYN TRANSIT CAPACITY WILL BE TREBLED BY 1917 iLNostrand avenue will ba a two-track subway. For the greater part of the distance fin Flatbush avenno the structure to be built an this route will consist of six tracks.

The two extra, tratika will be far the use of toe Jvow York Municipal Eallway Corporation (B. K. lor the connection between the Fourth avenue subway and- the existing Brighton Beach Railroad. This connection will leave the Fourth avenue subway In Pulton street and run through that street, Ashland piaee, at. Felix street and Flatbush swenuo to HaTVne str(et where conneetion will be ma with tito Brighton Beach tracks.

The Eastern Park Tray HUbway is known oiliclally oa ltouto No. 1, and the first construction contract to be let Is that for Section Ko. which cavers that portion of the route in Flatbush avenue between t. liark's avenue and Prospect Park Plaza. It la this section on which work begins today.

The Public bervlco Commission "A nation's civilization is measured by tho height of Its smokestacks," said Thomas A. Edison, a few years ago. Already the progress of electrical science suggests that in many sections of tho country, at least, we are near-ing a time when tlio towering smokestack will be a relic, not a sign, of Industrial achievement. This is because wherever possible the power of falling water is replacing steam in generating electric current. In soiiiu (sections of the country great ISi Ttai IMO Complftea except for tha Installation ef equipment.

New York Municipal RulTwar Corporation II. II, T. Work. Sea Bench 1 6IK Lulhemn Cemetery extension of Myr- tif av a a Broadwny-Myrtle av 1 S3 Liberty av Blon Fulton Bt li 1 TH7.W1.00 TotalB a 62 The B. T.

has also let Its contract for the steel for the third tracking of a portion of the Fulton street at $466,800, which brings the grand total of Its contracts so far le. up to $3,547,912.90. In the cose of the Thirty-eighth street cut, the work Is being done by a contractor under the direction of the B. It but the contract was awarded the railroad company by the Public Service Commission, and thus properly comes under the head of city work. No definite figure as to the money involved is jet obtainable as It la being done at coBt.

The figure used In the table is the estimate made In the McAneny report two years ago. Men at cork. Pnhlir Rervlre roin'a VnrU. 11 Itrnoklyn Klipld Truimlt' WrL. B.OKl.m.Ill) 83S IN 1917.

PRE.S&NT E.Q.UIRME.NT wr.ter power sites are not within prac-! tical transmission distance of indus-i trial centers, but wherever they are hat tan, to Clark street, Hrooklyn. This subway will continue up Clark street, and through other streets to a conneo- 3 tlon with thn existing subway, termin- atlng at Flatbush and At hurtle ave- 3 nues. 1'nder the Dual Svsieni plans, this subway will be extetuled us a four- 3 truck line from the present terminus out Flatbush avenue to I'ark- and through Faslerti Parkway to 1 water power is fast becoming an dusLrial necessity, and single plants opened bids for the construction of this section on Mnrch 27, when the io.v hiijc rcaciieu an area of over KiO.OOO 000,000 are to be spent throughout the Greater City. Here are the estimates made in the so-called McAneny report of the transit committee of the Board of Estimate about two years ago for the Brooklyn lines yet to be started. No more accurate figures are obtainable, os the estimates of the engineers of the Public Service Commission are not given out for publication.

B. R. T. Mim to Be Coiialrnetrd by fit. aravencna nvnue eWvutwl 'J9'v'JJ FJiHtern Dietrtet nutiway ml tunni.1..

tiuiUigiio etn-ot tunm-l S.De.iiO HI. Kvllx Btre't ejnnactlon b.tpn situare miles. P.oiiiuily, the cost of Brooklyn would have no equal center In the 1 'tilted Stales. Steamship and freight terminal facilities are here second to none, but the lack of a bolt railroad line by which the now segregated waterfront manufacturing plants might be linked and by means of spur connections obviate the expensive und time-consuming trucking transshipping and unloading ts an Immeasurable drawback. The question of the early realization of the marginal railro.id project to my mind transcends In Importance for tho moment even file need further subway facilities.

operating dro-elcctric plants is but from to I'i'J per cent, of the exnon.se of gruierating current by steam. 1L is e-itiniated there are now capable of development in tho water sites with a capacity of about Hmfalo avenue. Ail elevated extension will run from ll.ii'lalo a-iiue to New l.nta lienue. There will be a branch subway from ItasHTti Parkway down Nostrand avenue to Its junction with Iiii.mIi aieliun. liorsepowor.

'J'iiis, however, bidder was the OranTnrd Company of Brooklyn at Of the seventeen other compnnies bidding, tho nearest competitors of the Cronford Company v.cre tho I.ilri.helJ Construction Company, the Jinson H.aii!?nr Company and Oscar ljaniels! Company. Chi Mnrrh 31 the contract was awarded to tho Cranford Comimny i at the figure named above. Sinr.o that time the has prepared and submlned his bond to the Commission and begun the assembling of the plant necessary to do the work. The stations on tho Eastern Parkway line will be at tho following points: I Bergen street, Prospr rt Plaza, Institute Park. Franklin avenue.

Ex-1 i i I i Fourth avenue Buiway ana iiieni Blr et and llie Vlatbuab auua m- gfohck a 1 1 4, Frederick C. Noble, Division Engineer, P. S. C. has under way as lis stiare under the way Total SUBWAY DIGGERS AT THEIR WORK.

II. It. T. I.tnea to Ba nonstrncled by the Company. is witnout allowance lor storage.

1'os-I sihilities for increasing the output of water power by development of storage facilities are enormous, although dilll-I r.mt to estimate with any degree of accural New York, with Its share of the eon. at from Niagara, has 3H per cent, of tho commercial power ile-j veloped under construction. One of our greatest students of econ. onilcs recently expressed the opinion i'that as development and population ThlM-trnrklnll Pulion Binsrt. Ilroail.

way anil upper Jiynie uvcnuo voted line aii jriiiyn im iu ssn.Dis.tiaa.UI t.Wt Just what Is tho significance of this moss of figures you ask? They mean that nearly one-third of the close to SlDO.ntm.ano worth of transit work to be done in Brooklyn, is actually well under way. And very quickly there will bo material additions to tho list of lines under construction. Bids Opened Yesterday for Two New East River Tunnels. Only yesterday bids were opened for the two East Btver tunnels the B. It.

Ts Montague street tube, and the In-terborough's tunnel that comes out UrtKhton iteorh connection aaamone tnet to l-uiiern J-nraway Adiiltlonal iracka, Urlshton Heaeh lin dual contracts. List of Transit Lines Under Contract in Brooklyn. Just to sum the situation up In tabloid form, here is the list of lines which are now under contract In Brooklyn, with the cost of construction of each and tho number of men at work on tnern. It should be borne In mind that these figures of cost do not Include the finishing 1,7,000 M9.000 1,000,000 Jamaica extanBlon or cypreaa niiia elevated have followed the railroads, they will hereafter bo guided larguly by electric transmission lines. Total mmmtllllgllmil0lltm IntrrnorooaTh ompunya i.inrw.

H. L. EN NET, Of William P. Uonbrtght ii.m.mrter of Flathum avenua una t7.rai.2ti anJ Eatem l'arloay aubway. riark N.iwtuind avenue ainw.

extanalon of l.dtt.oo l.lv.itiia avenue Kaniern I'ark STEAM SHOVEL IN FOURTH AVENUE SUBWAI, NEAR FIFTIETH STREET. lnterli.iri.uah inl 11 o'lty eonntruetlen) Total II H. T. coiiatrui Hon) 3 This sum "milled to the work now under way, gives St i-i a total of $MI. 440, 120.

15 to be spent for new lines lu Hrooklyn. But this figure falls way short of being the grand total. The H. H. T.

Is to spend over for a new terminal and confections at Coney Island nml for addl-floital tracks nnd connections at Fast New Voik. -This expense would make the total close to which does not Include tho cost of station details, tracks, equipment, new cars and the like, which will run well Into the millions, ninirn for which no estimate Is ob- ti' 1 'JJ A- press; ISostrand avonue, Kingston avenue, Utica avenue, Kxpress; on the I.ivonla avenue extension us follows: Butter avenue, Saratoga avenue, Kock-away avenue, Junius street, Pennsylvania avenue, A'an Sickluo avenue, Kevr Ixrts avenue: on tho Nostrand exteneion as follows-: President street. Sterling street, AVinthrop street, Church avenue, Beverley road, New-klrk avenue, Flatbush ji venue. The inception of the Kastern Parkway route dats back to the days of the Board of Bapld Transit llrond Commissioners, which adopted tho route for this line en 1, It was approved by tho Board of Estimate and the Mayor In July of tho same year. Consents of properly owners were obtained and filed with the Rapid Transit Commission in December.

YJW. When the Public Service Commission look up tho powers and dunes of the Board of llapld Transit Railroad Commissioners on July 1, It suecee led by repeated applications to (he courts, la keeping Hllve the consents obtained by the Rapid Transit Commission for various routes, among them the Frist -rn Parkway route. In arranging the Dual Kystem it was necessary to modify some of "the old mutes. This course was pursued with the Fastorn Parkway route, which was modified cs now laid out. In laying out the Nrntrnnl avr-nun spur, th Commission pi: nnrd It to run outb as far as Kmmons avenue, Coney Island, hut for the purposes of the lu-rJ Bystem it was to use this route only as far as tho Interaction of Nostmnd and FhMliu.h avenues.

Before tho end nf this yenr It Is expected that the whopi route, Iniiudlnif the exter.son" In l.lvonla avenuo an I Koetrr.r.d unuue, will bo under contract. The Commission Is now advertising for bids to I opeii' fo- the constn.itioti of fiction No. of th'-Kasteru parkway route. This section covers that part of the route in Flatbush avenue, between the existing subway terminus, at Atlantic avenue, and the beginning of I No. 1-A, at Ht.

Mark's rn well qs the two. trade connect' wi.it fee pnurth ave-nue subway In street. liar .11.. tliiiti l. reiu HOOll J-i IHlimoie.

11 t'i. that the monev to bo spent In Brooklyn will be nearer $100,000,000 than To get a trite idea of the cost nf the (fst 1. 1 Hi-i-exX. VVr.aiK.5' i and lew water I If walk l'lwrn CONEY ISLAND BOARD WALK I for ie pur- dual svstem enterprise, the pruo or tho maintenance of a great proportion of the stuff of the Public Service Commission should bo Included, for th work of Its engineering department In particular deals almost solely with this work. K.vcn after the phins for the various lines tire entirely completed and the contracts swarded, the work of construction by the various contracting firms Is closely supervised by the Commission.

To every simile section an engineer of the CommiHslon Is assigned tn see thai the work is properly done. In will WILL COST $4,000,000. -r be toatel lollv I Tlio re.ili..iti.,a this u.livalk t'lllll- I en- A two-nilln boardwalk, which Is to ninko of the West Fad of Coney Island a second Atlantic City, pn i will not oalv me 1 1 1. an. 1 i tt hn Visit the 1 il iM.

'I to 1 Pie 11. 1 ie 10 t. ie ari-r to It l.tlt Cat hotels III el Hue the land i.f v. 1 mineral cnatire 01 in. 111 nroim Ivn Is r.ngineer rrviri (,.

nf t1B prtct, tin Nolile, Wtio ItiflKe ins ni ho noiir live. 5 Ik. All 1 1 'i the lw.ilii a'l the 1 1. em of the Hrookljn oillee or the Commission it ti I'latl ush avenue. v.

.11 -li iH-ivalk. 'l i proe ,1 I has been Ind-it I'V 1: 1 1 epl lit. 1 1 tl'il civic HI The Will be till feet ld ext a i -v v-v jc 1 vast Brooklyn development 111. Improvement plan llkelv of re.illratlon in tho near future. It Is eHlImufed that tho entire cost nf the boardwalk project will approximate close to Ot thl amount will be utilized In the purchase of noees-sary land, If It Is llnally decided to con.

struct the boardwalk wrer the beach, pi.llllieil, ti'l ir. 13 (iiitri to the inhailaii llemdi In BROOKLYN there ar more people than in the combined Strict of Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico and North Dakota, la BROOKLYN re 145,222 enoni employed in factories. Il.wes property. The walk will give lei-t-rvono hu vppoi'tuulty to enjoy teaches..