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MYALL EAGER FOR CROSSTOWN TUBE START SUBWAY WORK BEGINNING MEANS BEYN PROGRESS New System to Be Most Important to the Whole Borough. TO BE COMPLETED IN TWO AND HALF Asks Eastern District to Haye Just a Little Corona will also be operated by the New York Municipal Railway Corporation in connection with the Broadway in Manhattan. Thus the people of Queens will have train service over these new lines by the subway trams of the New Yoik Municipal Railway Corporation through the Broadway subway and its connections, bv the elevated trains of the Intel borough Rap Transit Company over the Second avenue elevated ioadvand its connections and by the subway trams the existing subway thiough the Stemway tunnel connection In all cases there will be free trans-feis between all the lines operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company at all intersections; and similar transfers will be given at all intersections of the lines in the New York Municipal Railway Corporations division, but the two divisions will be separate and distinct systems, and there will be no free transfers from one system to the other. At several points, however, the lines of each system come into dose contact, and at these points provision will be made for convenient passageways between stations. BROOKLYN REAPS BENEFIT OF WORK OF MANY YEARS FUNDS ARE LOW NOW, SAYS THE CHAIRMAN Other Ones Will Then Be Ready to Be Connected Up With It.

(Continued from Pm L) I know that the Brooklyn Times has been carrying on the campaign for this improvement and I am with it, heart and soul, but we cant accomplish the impossible. Give us a little more time So said Edward McCall, chairman of the Public Service Commission, when asked this afternoon for a plain statement regarding the outlook for the construction of the crosstown subway. Chairman McCall said that if the property owners and rent payers of the Eastern District would take the trouble to study the financial situation of the city government to-day they would not censure the authorities for not putting through the rout at once. But why not lay out the line? the chairman was asked. The Board of Estimate controls the financial phase of it, but it cant act until the route is laid out by you and your associates.

I understand that, was the reply, but I understand further that the funds are not available for construction and I dont intend to try to fool the Eastern District people by having a line drawn on an official map, unless the map line can be made a transit line without any delay. I dont want to make an appearance of shifting responsibility from my shoulders to the shoulders of other people. I know that George Mc-Aneny, president of the Board of Aldermen, and Controller Prender-gast, and President Pounds, are all for this improvement Ive gone over it time and again with them. But because money is scarce we know that the work cannot be done immediately and we dont want to start anything that we cant put through without delay. It wouldnt be honest to the people and it wouldnt be honest to the Board of Estimate.

John Harman, the Brooklyn Tunes editor, and I have looked into every phase of this together. Representing the Brooklyn people through a great newspaper, I know that yon all want something started now, but my own judgment is that we should wait till we can see our way clear. If the Board of Estimate were opposed to this subway as a subway it would be different. If the money were there and they wanted to use it for some other route, Id run the Crosstown line through like an express train and put it right np to them, But that is not the case. They are with us.

They want the road built and it will be built, just as soon as we can. get the money together." When asked if he thought the money would be available this year. Chairman McCall said that ha did not want to discuss that phase of it yet. The Commission and the Board Estimate are studying the financial aspect of the matter and a statement will be made within a few weeks, he said. The Chairman made it plain that ha does not agree with the plan of the Board of Estimate to abandon Green-point avenue as a terminus for th Eastern district tunnel and restore the original terminus at North Seventh street, but he did not deny that this change would be made ova his protest.

FLATBUSH AVENUE AND FULTON STREET. Board of Estimate, He Says, Is for the Big Im-provement. i The people of Brooklyn must be a bit patient with us in this crosstown subway Every man on this board is eager to get the work started, but the money ia not to be had yet. The stations on the Flatbush avenue and Eastern Parkway line, with the express stops in capital letters follow: ATLANTIC AVENUE, Bergen street, Seventh avenue, Prospect Park Plaza, Institute Park, FRANKLiN AVENUE, Nostrand avenue, Kingston avenue and UTICA AVENUE. On the Nostrand avenue spar, the Statons will be at: President street, Sterling street, Winthrop street, Church kvenue, Beverly roaa, Newkirk avenue and Flatbush avenue.

On the Livonia avenue extension the stops will be at: Sutter avenue, Saratoga avenue, Rockaway avenue, Junius street, Pennsylvania avenue. Van Sicklen avenue and New Lots avenue. The subway will carry six tracks to the Park place at a point near Plaza etreet and the avenne, where it will divide, four tracks curving east under the plaza and continuing so through the Parkway to Buttaio avenue. The Nostrand and Livonia avenue line will carry two track each. The other two track will go on under Flatbush avenue to meet the Brighton Beach Division at Its Prospect Park station.

A conservative official estimate is that 20,000,000 fares will bs collected at Brooklyn Times Plaza, and Chief Engineer Bennet of the Committee on City Plan has said that a bridge will have to be erected across Flatbush avenue from the Long Island Railroad depot in order to prevent the blocking of surface car operation by pedestrians As to running time, the B. R. T. promises to make Coney Island in 80 minutes from Broadway and Forty-second street in express trains. to Westchester County, will be in op-eration, too, and the river tunnels in the Eastern District, and downtown will nearing completion.

The contract on which work is to be started to-day covers a stretch of Flatbush avenue, from the plaza down to St. Marks avenue. Just a ten-minute walk in pleasant weather, but Father Knickerbocker ia putting into the pocket of the Cranford Company to run a real railroad under and the corporation calculates that every man in the ditch from the phlef-engineer to the lowest laborer will have to hustle every minute if a -oflt ia to be 1 Both the B. R. T.

and th Interborough Companie are Interested in this sectiqn, which makes it doubly important in the general transit scheme. Six tracks will be laid in the tube, two of them to carry the Brighton Beach elevated line down to the Manhattan Bridge, and the Fourth avenue route, and the other four to extend the present Interborough -system out to the Parkwey. Later work will be started on the Parkway proper, the four Interborough tracks are to be continued through that broad highway tb Buf-1 falo avenue, the route will be con-' tinued In the form of three-track elevated road through East Ninety-eighth street and Livonia avenue, to New Lots road. At NoBtrand avenue, the subway will turn and, remaining underground, go along that avenue to Flatbush avsnue, from which point further extension ja now in the planning process. Other Contracts Coming.

Within four weeks, the Public Service Commission will make another move to advance the operation of the local subway system. This will come with the award of the contract Th city ia building two new rapid trntt elevated railroads in Queens Borough, one running from the Queensboro Bridge to Ditmars ave-tue, Astoria, and the other from the fame point to Alburtis avenue, Co rona, which wilt later be extended to Main etreet, Flushing. The city is also building an' extension of the Steinway tunnel from Long Island Citv to the Queensboro Bridge plaza, ana a junction with the two lines just msntioned. The Steinway tunnel runs from Lexington avenue and Forty-second street, Manhattan, Under the East River to Jackson and Van Alst avenues, Long Island City. Thia part of the tunnel is completed, 'with the exception of certain reconstruction' work which is now going on to fit it for temporary operation.

The tunnel will be extended on the west to a function with the existing subway at Timea Square, and on the east from Its present terminus to a junction with the new lines at the Queen end of the Queensboro Bridge, as above mentioned. The Stemway tunnel and ita connections will be Derated by the Interboro Rapid i Transit Company, in connection with! the existing subway. Trains from it will operate over the extensions both to Astoria and Corona. A connection will alto be made between the Second avenue elevated railroad in Manhattan with the vQueensboro Bridge, eo that the Interborough may operate trains from its slevated system over thet bridge and over the new lines to Astoria and Corona. Pending the completion of the tunnel ex-(tenslons, the existing line, when quipped, will bs temporarily operated, by transfers to and from the existing Subway at Forty-second street, Manhattan.

Th two new lines to Astoria and Hall neighborhood. The Commission also opened bldg yesterday for the Montague street tunnel which is to carry the Brighton Beach and Fourth avenue trains from DeKalb avenue and Fulton street under the river to Whitehall street and along Broadway to the Queens bridge and across that to Astoria and Flushing. The tunnel boring will begin within sixty days. Th Bridges and Tunnels. Bids for the building of the Canal street connection between the Manhattan Bridge and the Broadway line have been received and the contract awarded.

A start will made in a few days on construction. This short stretch of subway will carry the B. R. T. trains from the Fourth avenue route and the Brighton Beach division into the Broadway line in Manhattan from the bridge.

Thus the big tube under Manhattans nutin street will be entered at two points by Brooklyn passengers, first at Whitehall street through the Montague street tunnel and again at Canal street by way of the bridge. In the same wav the Interborough system will be tapped twice at Bowling Green by the existing B. R. T. subway ana again at William etreet, where the Clerk street tunnel will join it.

Meanwhile Bridge Commissioner Kracke is driving the contractors on the Brooklyn Bridge at record-breaking speed to get that big span into shape. to receive the trains of the centre street loop. The link between the loop and the Manhattan Bridge is already completed, and the Fourth avenue subway will be hooked up with the Manhattan Bridge this fall, about the time that the South Brooklyn sub. way is equipped fof trains. Under the dual contracts each route will be placed in operation as soon as it is completed.

Thus the loop is already running and toward the end of the year, the Fourth avenue line will also. So much for a general survey of the situation which is centered in the ceremonies at the Park Plaza to-day. Chief Engineers of the Commission and the Board of Estimate concede that Brooklyn is the crux of the whole dual proposition, for the most difficult and dangerous jobs are in An illustration is afforded in the contract begun to-day, where six tracks must be laid without disturbing present traffic on the surface. Another may be appreciated by a study of th situation at the Manhattan Bridge approach, where the Fifth avenue elevated line crosses over the Fulton street elevated line, and under the latter lies the congestion of surface tracks, while below the surface the' present Interborough subway cuts and beneath all the Flatbush avenue section to be started next month will lie. The river tunnel in the Eastern District has worried the engineers gray already, and the downtown tubes are almost as difficult, while the Canal street connection for the B.

R. T. lines is through ground so swampy that the work will have to be done with caissons, compressed air and all the othe; equipment required for tunnelling a river, for that section of Flatbush avenue, adjacent to the one which is the scene of celebration to-day. The new contract will cover the work from Flatbush and St. Markjn avenues to Ashland place, where connection with the Fourth avenue route will be made.

Under this contract, the Interborough tracks, which terminate now at Brooklyn Times Plaza, will bs carried out under Flatbush avenue to join those to be laid as part of th work begun to-day. Th B. R. T. tracks of the Brighton Division will be brought down from St, Mark'e avenue, under the Interborough tube, between Fifth and Atlantic avenues, under the Long Island Depot, under Hanson place, and beneath St.

Felix street, alongside the Academy of Music to hook up with the Fourth avenue route at Ashland place and continue across the Manhattan Bridge bv way of the sections already completed. Fourteen montha ago, the dual subway contracts were signed. To-day. almost half the system is In course of construction, representing an m-J vestment of $125,000,000 of the 000,000 which the engineers estimate th entire work will cost. Yesterday the Public Sendee Commission opened bids for the drilling of the tunnel under the river between Old Slip and Clark street.

This big bora has a direct bearing on the job started this afternoon, for the submarine line will bring the great Seventh avenue route from Broadway and Forty-second street, Man-hattan, where It joins the Interborough system, to Brooklyn, where it will connect again in the Borough Tt snort Arms and butintw botiNi KdTirtlii In th Ttma A oarefu! pniMl of their adTert'iemeatt vlU pro both Interesting nod proataM.