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Segond Section ftf BMlM Bxtffo Second Section BROOKLYN, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 191G spade to the committee. Mr. E. D. TUBE TRAINS RED TAPE HOLDS PLAZA STATION SILVER SPADE BREAKS GROUND FOR E.

D. TUBE FIVE CENT FARE I TUBE FEATURE Transfer System Will Favor Patrons of New Line. Break Ground With Spade of Silver The ground has boen broken with a shining silver spade in tho sinewy hands of Borough President Pounds. John H. Brouwer, President of the Grand Street Board of Trade, and a Jeweler, made the spade.

Ha engraved on It: "Used by Borough President Lewis H. Pounds to break ground for the Fourteenth Street-Eastern District Subway, and presented to Ernest Gilmore Gardner, Chairman of the Eastern District Subway Colebration Committee, April 8, Celebration Arranged by This Committee Eastern Brooklyn Celebrates Beginning of Great Transit Improvement. CIVIC BODIES JOIN IN IMMENSE PARADE BIG DISTANCE FOR NICKEL Wide Transit Area Covered by Proposed Arrangements. 1 1 Ail extensive schema of transfer privileges will have been worked out by the Public Service Commission ajiclj the Brooklyn Rapid Transit by the time the new Fourteenth street-Eastern District route will have been com-, pleted, making It possible for Eastern District residents to travel almost any Officials and Leading Civic Workers Make Congratulatory Addresses. where In the greater city for a jlngii five-cent fare.

Transfer privileges will be provided between the new subway and th Broadway subway In Manhattan at Broadway and Fourteenth street, while the new Lexington avenue line now fers. At the Ridgewood station, where the route- crosses Myrtle a special station will be built providing for easy transfer frpm one lino to an other, and at Manhattan junction, the same provisions will bo made in regard to tne ulton street ana Broadway lines. Eventually, when the Crosstown subway plans achieve materialization, that route will be included in tbe general scheme of transfers. The new subway will feed the Liberty avenue line, the Jamaica line and the Canarsio line, while in the rush hours it will afford a quick route to Manhattan for those who do not go downtown. The same is true of the Fulton street lino.

These two lines will not be altogether deprived of passengers, for It is calculated that the division of downtown passengers, and those for points further uptown Manhattan will equalize traffic on all the lines. The residents of Buehwiclc, WILL RUN IN 1918 Contractors to Cut Official Time On Work. SOME PARTS READY SOON P. S. Commission Pusbing Plans to Completion.

Tho Public Service Commission Was informed unofficially to-day by representatives of Booth and Flinn. who i hold tho contract for tho first section of tho Eastern District subway that the Job will be completed within two years. As tho contract time is twenty-seven months, the promiso was received with deep mt-isfaction, for while it does not blad the company, it indicates that the big Job will go through on the double quick all the way. Within thirty days after the spade of earth is turned, the work will be in full swing with every ounce of machinery and power of the big corporation behind It. Tho taxpayers are spending $0,639,023.50 on the under river section alone.

In anticipation of this, the Commission announced that the contracts for Section 1 and 2 covering the route from Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street, Manhattan, under street to the river, will be ready for advertisement within the next month. The plans and specifications will jo to the printers to be lithographed next week, and a week or ten days later, the final drafts of tho contracts will bo ready for approval. The land contracts will all be completed before the under river section of the subway, so that in the summer of 1918, the Eastern District subway will be not merely finished but in actual operation, according to tho official estimates of the Commission and company's engineers. Tho Fourteenth Street-Eastern road begins in Fourteenth street, Manhat tan, at Sixth avenue. It will be a two- track line, and will run underground under Fourteenth street to the East River, under the East River to North Seventh street, Brooklyn, under North Seventh street to Metropolitan avenue, under Metropolitan avenue to Bushwick avenue and under Bushwick avenue to Johnson avenue.

Here tha underground part terminates and tin road continues as an elevated rail road over Johnson avenue to the right of way of the Evergreen branch of the Long Island Railroad just south of Wyckoff avenue, and thence over that right of way to a Junction with the Broadway elevated railroad in Eat New York. The whole road will cost between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000, and is to be built and owned by the city uut leased to the New York Municipal Raiiway Corporation for operation for forty-nine "years. Plans for sections Nos. 4 and covering the underground work on tho wrooKlyn side, are also about com plctcd and ready for lithographing. ino commissions engineers and counsel are now working upon the oralis or tne contracts.

It is expected that these plans and contracts will also be finished in time to allow advertising for bids within a month or six weeKs. Plans for tho elevated portion of tne roaa are under way but not very far advanced. However, as the ele vated railroad can be constructed in much less time than the subway portion, they will be ready, it is expected ample time to permit the comple tion oi me eievated part at approximately the same time as the subway. The legalization of this part of the route nas not yet been perfected, but commissioners appointed by tho court have taken evidence and filed a renort which, if approved by tho court, will legalize the route in lieu of the con sents of property owners. The line will provide much needed transportation faculties for the Bush wick and East New York sections of Brooklyn, and will undoubtedly relieve the crowded conditions prevailing on the Broadway elevated line.

REMSENBURG. Mrs. Cecil Mollneaux, of Brooklyn, is spending the woek at the Ruland cottage here. A social affair here was a party given last Saturday evening by Mr. and Mrs.

Gilbert R. Tuthlll. Miss Mary McCarthy was In Manhattan one day last week. Mr. and Mrs.

W. C. Rogers havo been enjoying a visit from their son, Frank C. Rogers, and wife, of Allston, Mass. Mr.

and Mrs. Rogers stopped on their way to Miami, where Mr. Rogers has a lucrative position on the new estate of John A. Beering, the manufacturer. Mr.

Rogers is a contractor of prominence. Charles L. Terry was In Southampton last week. EASTERN DISTRICT Official Tangle Delays Great Transit Improvement TIE-UP LASTS TWO YEARS B. Public Service Board and Bridge Dept.

Involved. Whilo the R. the Public Service Commission and the Bridge Department wrangle over Just who is to pay for the new $125,000 station to be erected upon the WUllamsburgh Bridge Plaza, which will provide suitable facilities for those using th Broadway elevated line, Wllliamsburgh is still waiting for a decision. The Marcy avenue station, while extending nearly to Havemeyer street, has only one entrance, making it -necessary for passengers changing from the elevated to the surface cars on the plaza, or vice versa, to walk, a full block on Broadway. Two years ago the B.

R. T. saw the need for a station on tho plaza proper, and drew up plans calling for a station platform 200 feet long, with entrance structures on each end, to occupy the connecting link, between Broadway and the bridge. As the station would by this arrangement be on the city's property, disputes have arisen, first as to the payment, and then as to a rental demanded by Bridge Commis sioner J. F.

H. Kracke. The matter has been hanging fire for two years Tho plan was Informally submitted to A. S. Brown, chief engineer of the Bridge Department, and to Alfred Craven, chief engineer of the Public Service Commission, on June 10, 1914.

In the fall of 1914 the matter was formally brought to the attention of both departments. According to Colonel Williams, of tho B. R. tho objection of the Public Service Commission to the construction of the station is lack of funds. He says regarding tho matter: There seems to be no criticism what ever regarding tho desirability of a station at this point.

The necessity and desirability of It are very appar ent. I understand the objection of the Public Service Commission to constructing it is on account of lack of money, the station being on city property, and the railroad at this point being part of the city railroad, the city, under our contract with it, must do the construction at its own expense. Our railroad mortgage does not allow tho usa of the proceeds of bonds for construction work on city lines except in specific cases. The city might have asked us to bear this expense as part of our contribution to tha cost of city lines, and we would have been quite willing to do so, but they have asked us instead to devote our contribution to other purposes, and that contribution has now becomo so nearly exhausted as to leave no money for this additional purpose." This statement seems to put the matter of construction and payment up to the city. At a meeting of the Public Service Commission held on February 17, the dispute was referred to Commissioner Hodge for Investigation, and nothing has been heard from the Commission since that time.

Since the area to be occupied by the contemplated station Is on the plaza. It Is under the supervision of the Bridge Department. Here the matter of rentals has been the subject of disagreement. B. R.

T. officials have In this Instance, as In others, nccused the Bridge Commissioner of a desire to enrich his department at the expense of the city proper. Under the company's contract with the city, tho city Is a joint beneficiary in receipts. Tho transit officials point to the contract claiming that part of every cent paid directly to the Bridge Department will come out of the treasury of the city, and that income to the city from the rail ways will be delayed by the payment of rental to the Bridge Department. The two hundred foot platform of tho now station will accommodate all three tracks of the elevated and will extend across the plaza from Have meyer to Roebling street.

At each end thero will bo entrance structures about twenty-five feet square, to be built of concrete and steel. The east end, on Broadway, will contain a SUBWAY FACTS Ridgewood, East New York, WopoV haven, Richmond Hill and other sec tions touched by the Myrtle avenue elevated or Its feeders, will be able to take advantage of the subway at the transfer point with a savins of five cents. Here again. Myrtle avenue trains will be relieved of a part of their burden, making it possible to offer better accommodations for tha-v many local passengers who board trains between Broadway and Pir't row, and between the Myrtle avenue station and Delancey street on Broad way. These passengers now have great difficulty In even boarding the overcrowded trains.

Thn Rrnjidwntf tMr1 With fluttering flags and banners from the steeples and housetops the Eastern District Is Jubilant to-day over the first step in the work which is to revolutionize and modernize Eastern District transit. At o'clock to-day, whistles over the entire section from WUllamsburgh to Greenpoint shriek out the glad message that the president of this great borough, with the glint of sunlight on a silver spade, is turning the first bit of earth to mark qOil ANDREW to: BAIRD." the commencement of work on the Fourteenth. -street-Eastern District route of the new subway system Church bells add their deep tones. Downtown Brooklynttes are informed Of the momentous event by the tolling of the big bell in the Borough Hall tower, ringing for fifteenmlnutes. The nrst spaaeiui or earui was Doing turned! In two years from to-day tho last laborer will have laid down his ehovel, after steam shovels, dredges and cranes, agencies and forces more powerful than he, will have taken mil lions of shovelfuls of that same earth out of miles of excavation.

Then thero will be another celebration. The Parade. Early this morning a squad of "Fetherson's Own" marched over the parade route from Metropolitan ave rue to North Seventh street. They were the forerunners of the parade, and their duty was to make the line of march as nearly like a Spotless Town poster as possible. Hoses were attached to hydrants, streets were flushed, and afterwards given a thor- ough scrubbing.

The stage is now preparod. Later, Capt. Shaw with the reserves from the Bedford avenue station formed along the line 'of march, and drafts from other stations assembled as an escort. At 2:30 in the afternoon, the units of the parade assembled at Metropolitan and Bushwick avenues, all was ready. Grand Marshal Ernest Gilmore Gardner gave the sig nal, and with St.

Cecilia's Loughlin Battalion leading, five hundred strong, 1 Brouwer spoke of the many years of struggle which had been passed through by the Eastern District Sub way League, told of how Its commit tee had been driven from pillar to post In their conferences with the authorities laughed at, ridiculod, deprecated. He spoke of how finally they were able to celebrate their sue cess at this hour and under such auspicious circumstances. Then, CHARLES TELLER. glancing at the inscription on the spade, Mr. Brouwer read, "Used by Borough President Lewis H.

Pounds to break ground for the Fourteenth Street-Eastern District and presented to Ernest Gilmore Gardner, Chairman of the Eastern District Subway Celebration Committee, April 8, 1916." The words had been inscribed by Mr. Brouwer's own hand, below this Is inscribed a lasting toa3t to the men who for six long years fought for tho realization of their transit plans for the section. It reads: "Tho Subway Veterans, whose persistency and logic won the Subway for the Eastern District" Following this tribute aro the names of tho veterans: Ernest Gilmore Gardner, George W. Schaedle, John Mac-Crate, George A. McAneny, Eugene E.

Ruoff, Charles Mueller, Francis F. Williams, David Martin, James E. Finnegan, Paul A. Ajas, Monslgnor Edward J. McGolrlck.

Rev. William G. Ivie, Owen J. Murphy, Bernard A. Ruoff, William C.

Schmidt; Daniel Quigley, Jesse D. Moore, Henry Werner, J. S. Remsen, John H. Bro'uwor, John J.

McManus, Thomas P. Peters, Paul Brouwer, Theodore P. Fritz, JOHN H. BROL'WKB. Philip Bender, Hon.

James R. Howe, Hermann Naeher, Ferdinand Platner, Daniel Canby, John Gallagher, William E. Douglas, John Hylan, Jared J. Chambers, Frank Cornelius M. Sheehan and Thomas Kelly.

When he had finished reading those names, Mr. Brouwer handed the spade to Mr. Gardner, who, with the Borough President and the remaining guests descended to the ground. Mr. Gardner then handed tho spado to Borough Presidont Pounds, who smiled as he took it.

As soon as the spado touched the earth, a mighty cheer wont up from the crowd; whistles blew, bells tolled and flags waved. The assembled spectatbrs went wild with excitement as the Balute gun began to fire Its salvo of twenty-ono guns. A shot was fired every four minutes. Mr. Founds passed the spade back to Mr.

Gardner, who in turn removed a. shovelful of earth. The spado then went the rounds of the guests. Mr. Pounds spoko with great praise for the persistency of tho Eastern District.

Col. Andrew D. Balrd, President of the WUllamsburgh Savings Bank, and a member of the Finance Committee of the colebration, spoke with praise and laudation of results obtained by the Celebration Committee, and made a strong appeal for the Cross-town subway. Ho reviewed the long struggle for the tube, and told of how the principal agitators had for six long years burrowed and rooted and dug for tho subway with persistency and perspiration. He complimented Ernest Gilmore Gardner, President of the Eastern District Subway Leaguo, and Chairman of the Celebration Committee, upon his long and faithful service in the cause of subways for the Eastern District.

Then Col. Balrd launched Into his appeal for reciprocity. "This link that you are opening to-day is but an insignificant part of tho magnificent scheme of transportation planned out for Greater New York," he said. "The plan for the Eastern District trans portation scheme calls for a cross- town subway, which is to extend from the Queensboro Bridge Into the heart of Brooklyn, where it will meet the Fulton street subway. This route la only a plan as yot It is on the tentative map, and must be kept alive by agitation.

The people of Wllliamsburgh, and the people of Greenpoint have Joined in willingly to help you, who are situated halfway between us, to make this celebration possible to-day, and they have worked as one of you for the Fourteenth Street-Eastern District route. You have placed them on your committees, -and I sea them here In 1916." mezzanine station suspended under the elovated structure, with platform above. The station at the west end. on the plaza, will be a concrete structure i resting on tho ground, with stairway I leading to tho track above. Facilities for Interchange from one track to another will be provided.

Tho west station is so designed that It will serve as a subway entrance for the cross-town subway when that is completed, and details call for enlargement if that Is necessary. The station platform will be pitched at a slight angle, owing to tho approach to the bridge. The improvement Is not expected to change materially the aspect of the bridgo plaza, nor will It servo as an Incumbrance, the only lot space being occupied by the west station. Special Hospital for Subway. Emergency Ward for "Sand Hogs" to Be a Feature of Tube Construction.

One of the features of the beginning of construction on the East River tube will be the erection -of an emergency hospital near the waterfront at North Seventh street, In charge of a competent surgeon who Is an expert In the treatment of evils resulting from too long a shift under compressed air. At the hospital workers may obtain free of charge all such supplies needed for Injuries or illnesses developed while at work, and men Injured seriously while at work will be cared for there until they can be removed to the WUllams burgh or Eastern District institutions. In case of accidents, it is probable that those Institutions will not be called upon at all for ambulance service, since the emergency hospital will be more specially fitted and prepared for the specific cases which It will handle. The emergency hospital will not by any means be an incomplete or tarn porary-appearlng affair. The con tractors say that It will contain com modious rooms, with ventilation, heat ing appartus and telephone service.

A special lock consisting of two com partments will be part of the equip mont, where men can be subjected to the regular pressure- if attacked by the caisson disease. Every care Is being taken for tho employee's welfare, and provision is being made whereby an employee in capacitated for work will be placed under observation and treatment until a regular physician may safely handle his case. The work under high air pressure in tho tunnelling operations leads to a variety of afflictions If the men are not careful and in good physl cal condition, making it necessary to take extraordinary precautions. Tho men who work in the tubes must undergo a special physical examination before qualifying for the positions. If an employee is absent from work for more than ten days, not necessarily be cause of sickness, he must be re-ex amined before being allowed to resume work.

The air locks in the tunnels will be connected by direct telephone to the offices of the company's engineer and to the hospital. Street Conditions CalPs for Improvement Residents about the Greenpoint Hospital aro still up in arms concern ing the condition of Conselyea street. Skillman avenue and the Maspeth avenue extension, all of which streets lead to the hospital. Only recently the hospital authorities wrote a letter to the Department of Charities asking that body to call the matter to the attention of the Board of Aldermen The muddy and unpaved condition of the streets Interferes seriously with ambulance service from tho hospital, and results In the tracking of dirt Into the wards by visitors and others who have occasion to use tho streets. The streets were cut through to the hospital several years ago, and were never further Improved.

Not using the trolley line on Jackson avenue must wade through mud and slush to get there. The unpaved parts of these streets now serve as storage places for tin cans, rubbish and old wagons, through which passing vehicles must thread their way. Beyond Jackson avenue, Maspeth avenue, which runs past tho Greenpoint Hospital, is a fairly navigable thoroughfare, but it comes to a dead stop when it reaches the 'creek. Some years ago a bridge extended across the creek into Queens at this point, but stnpe the fire that destroyed it, no new one has been substituted. Preliminary surveys havo been made, and the- Thirteenth Assembly District Taxpayers have ob tained the- consent of the War Depart ment tor tno construction of a new bridge.

'Agitation and petitions for warded to the Public Servico Commis sion have resulted In no positive action thus far. It was pointed out recently by the association that tho bridge is an absolute necessity. In case of a serious conflagration, it would permit of the passing of fire apparatus and ambulances Into Queens or from Queens into Brooklyn, which is now not possible, escept by an indirect route. This is the committee that arranged the big celebration: General Committee Chairman, Ernest GUinoie Gurdnor; George W. Schaedlo, Treasurer; Mortimer J.

Wohl, Secretary. Committee on Finance Col. Andrew D. Balrd, Charles Froeb, W. S.

Irish, Frank F. Shulz, Morris Salzman, Jere E. Brown, Paul Zonner, Daniel J. Qulgley, George W. Sohaedle, E.

A. Walker, Horace Havemeyer, Thomas V. Pattersen, Eugene E. Ruoff, Jared Chambers, John H. Brouwer, Frank F.

Shulz, Philip Bender, Andrew D. Balrd, Joseph J. Holwell, Bernard A. Ruoff, Theodore P. Fritz, thanlel H.

Levi, Wllllafn Stanley Miller, John T. Gallagher, Edward R. Domschke. Committee on Celebration Frank F. Shulz, Chairman; the.

Hon, George Freifeld, Samuel Elsen, Charles W. Morton, Frank F. Williams, Thomas F. Kelley, Theodore Fritz, William Stanley Miller, D. Moore, Dr.

Herman S. Shevlln, Joseph Swan, the Rev. I. Y. Ivie, Herbert C.

Wortman, Fred Keiser, Philip Bender, David Martin, A. H. Walkely, Peter Kramer. Committee on Publicity Eugene E. Ruoff and John N.

Harman. Committee on Ticket Sales Henry O. Havemeyer, W. I. Lincoln Adams, William' E.

Douglass, Morgan J. Donnelly, James Sherlock Davis, Edward Fries, Matthew T. Meagher, William Hamilton, Robert J. Brown, John Bossert, Alexander Bassett, Herman Kramer. Committee on Dinner Arrangements Daniel J.

Qulgloy, Chairman; Monslgnor Edward J. McGoIrlck. Paul A. Ajas, Jared Chambers, George W. Kenyon, Joseph Bill, John T.

Gallagher, 'Charles Mueller, Theodore Chapman, James E. Flnegan, John F. Overend, Bernard A. Ruoff, Sylvan Levy, Charles F. Tuttle, Dr.

John J. Young, Nathaniel H. Levi, John H. Brouwer, Welding Ring, Dr. James Slavln, Joseph J.

Holwell, John Macerate. day. Gunner Dun lives out on Long Island and made the trip Into town especially to perform his duty for the Eastern District. At North Seventh street and Metropolitan avenue the procession filed to the right. Every man in the parade carried an American flag.

From above the cavalcade appeared to be a surging sea of red, white and blue rolling towards the scene of tme celebration. At North Seventh street and Bedford avenue, many of tho guests of honor were already seated in the stand. A cheer went up as the parade swung Into sight. Buildings in tho vicinity were crowded with spectators, flags waved and honors tooted. The speakers invited were: the Rev.

William O. Ivie, rector of Grace Epis copal Church on Conselyea street; An- DANIEL 8. Ql'IOLtCT, Chairman Subway Celebration Banquet Committee drew D. Balrd, president of the WUllamsburgh Savings Bank; Col. Timothy D.

Williams, president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit; George W. FUnn, of tho Booth FJinn Construction Company, which has the contract for the new subways iPublic Service Commissioner Travis H. Whitney, Public Service Com missioner Charles S. Hervey, Borough President Douglass Mathewson of the Bronx, former Aldermanlo President George McAneny, Borough President Lewis H. Pounds, John MacCrato, of the Greenpoint Citizens and Taxpayers' Association; County Judge John F.

Hylan, Jared J. Chambers, president of the Allied Boards of Trade; Bernard A. Ruoff, president of the Allied Civio Associations of the Eastern District and Ridgewood; Samuel Eichen, of the E. D. Improvemen Association; Cornelius Sheohani of the Twonty-elghth Ward Board of Trade, and Controller Prendergast.

At the grandstand the Rov. Will iam G. Ivie, of Grace Episcopal Church on Conselyea street Invoked a blessing. John H. Brouwer made the formal presentation of the silver i A In full dress uniform, with fifes and bugles the parade filed down Metropolitan avenue towards North Seventh street.

Following, the bat talion came the Celebration Commit tee, the chairman bearing on his shoul der the silver spade to be used in the tracking has somewhat relieved the sufferings of the local passengers, but crowding Is still noticeable, and will become more so as the section grows. The new route will also relieve the Williamsburgh Bridge of a great percentage of its traffic, and Dermit of further diversion of traffic from the Brooklyn to the Wllliamsburgh Bridgo. Surface traffic, which now carries the entire population of tho district sur rounding the line of Metropolitan ave. nue, and is subject to the hindrance of congestion and weather, will nlso be relieved, making the streets safer for pedestrians, and providing a greater factor of safety fpr tho lines them- selves. A fact to be borne in mind is thnt between Broadway and Newtown Creek, a stretch of about four miles, there Is not a single rapid transit line other than surface.

One must go across the creek before one strikes the Queens Borough subway. The Four teenth Street-Eastern District route bisects this distance, leaving (till stretches of two miles each between rapid transit lines. Contractor to Care for Trees. Arborage Clause Interesting Feature of Subway Construction Agreement. An interesting clause in the con tract between the contractor on the one sldo of the city and the railroad company on the other is the one etlp-ulatlng that all trees, shrubs, plants and grass plots destroyed or removed during the work of construction of the Fourteenth street-Eastern Dis trict route must be replaced after the work is done.

When possible, trees and shrubs must be protected from but for every tree destroyed, the con tractor is compelled to set out another of the same kind as the tree removed or injured. This1 new tree is stipulated to measure not less than three and one half inches in diameter two foet above the ground, and must be placed where the Park Commissioner shall designate. The contract reads 'that the plant- Ings must be made under the super- Islon of the Park Commissioner. Where Parks are torn up, the con- tractor will -have to furnish practical ly a new section of grass, shrubs. trees and walks.

The provision is especially signifi cant in view of the fact -that the Eastern District is at present carry ing on a tree-planting campaign in which the Boy Scouts are making house canvass. Churches, banks and manufactories have also lent their support to the movement for more trees in the Eastern District. SPEONK. Mr. and Mrs.

George W. Tuttle were visitors In New York last week. Miss Bessie Edwards has returned from an extended stay in Kiverhead. Mr. and Mrs.

Irving Henderson en tertained the latter's sister, Mrs. van Nostrand and daughter, of BlchmoM Hill, over Sunday. 1 round breaking. Beside htm marched John H. Brouwer, president of the Grand Street Board of Trade, who presented and engraved the silver Im The shovel was no scarfpln either, but a real up-to-regulation size spade.

Following the committee In line were representatives of the various ciVlo organizations of the Eastern District, Including the Grand Street Board of Trade, the Eastern District Board of Trade, the Ridgewood Board of Trade, Nineteenth Ward Improvement Asso ciation, Grand Street Improvement As soclation, the Hanover, Entre Nous, Seneca and Congress Clubs, the Will iamsburgh and Greenpoint Board of Trade, the Greenpoint Commerce Club, Broadway Merchants Club, the Allied Boards of Trades of, Ridgewood, the Eastern District Subway League, the Greenpoint Subway League, the Allied Clvlo Association of Ridgewood and the Eastern District and all of the political, church and school organizations of the section. Scattered at tervals were Kuck's Band of twenty-five pieces, the Cadet Band of the First Baptist Christ Church Fife and Drum Corps and St. Nicholas' It. C. Band.

In the centre of the procession marched the salute gun escort of the William Battery, pulling their cannon, with Chief Gunner William R. Dun beside It. Gunner Dun has' held his post for thirty years, and was the proudest man In WUllamsburgh to- The big Eastern District Subway will cost $17,000,000. It will be a part of the Dual System, constructed jointly by the city and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. Starting at Fourteenth Street and Sixth Avenue, in Manhattan, it will run under Fourteenth Street to the East River, under the East River to North Seventh street, under North Seventh street to Metropolitan avenue, under Metropolitan avenue to Bushwick avenue, under Bushwick avenue to Johnson avenues all in tubes; over Johnson avenue to the Evergreen Branch of the Long Island Railroad south of Wyckoff avenue, over the railroad right of way to a junction with the Broadway elevated railroad in East New York all on an elevated structure.

The tube stations will be: Manhattan Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street, Union Square, Third avenue and Fourteenth street, First avenue- and Fourteenth street. Brooklyn Bedford avenue, and North Seventh street, Lorimer street and Metropolitan avenue, Humboldt street and Graham avenue, Grand street and Bushwick avenue. The elevated railroad stations will be at Morgan avenue, Flushing avenue, De Kalb avenue, Ridgewood, Halsey street, Central avenue, Broadway. It will be a two-track tube. Train operation is promised by November, 1918.

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