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m. I YouV ou 22,733. CALIFORNIA KILLS SCHOOL MEASURE LAST OFFENDING BILL DEFEATED. 'Preffidcnt Congratulates Governor Little Danger of Further Agitation. VVesM'ngton, Feb.

10. ihe following disj patches we-e given out at the White House to-nigtit without comment: The President, Washington. ScHooi segregation bill killed in the Asaembly to-day by vote of 41 tc 36. J. N.

GILLETT. Sacramento, Cal, Feb. 10. Governor J. N.

Gillett, Sacramento. Cal. Accept my heartiest congratulations. All good Americans appreciate what you have done. Pray extend my congratulations to all who have aided you.

I feel that the way in which California has done what was right for the nation makes it more than ever obligatory on the nation in every way to safeguard the interests of California. All that I personally can do toward this whether in public or in private shall most certainly be done. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The White House, Washington, Feb. 10.

The President. Washington. Assembly just reconsidered and refused passage tc Japanese school bill. My congratulations. P.

A. STANTON. Sacramento. Cal, Feb. 10.

Hon. P. A. Stanton, Sacramento, Cal. Accept my heartiest thanks and congratulations for the great service you have rendered.

On behalf of the people of the United States I thank the people of California and their representatives in the Legislature. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The Whrte House, Washington. Feb. 10.

Sacramento. CaL. Feb. 10. Yielding to the pressure brought to bear by President Roosevelt and Governor J.

X. GUlett, the California Assembly reversed its previous position to-day by reconsidering the former vote on the bill providing for the segregation of Japanese students the public schools, and finally rejecting the measure by a vote of 41 to 36. An effort by the supporters of the bill to reconsider It further was lost by a vote of SS to 38. and the Assembly ie now free of any Japanese measure objected to by the national administration. The fight for the suppression of the bill -was won only after many hours of heated debate on the floor.

TV 1 struggle started at 10:30 o'clock In the morning on the presentation of a resolution by Assemblyman J. P. Transue. of Los Acgeles, affirming the right of the state to govern its schools, but 1 the Japanese segregation measure because of the President's objection to it, and lasted until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when Grove L. Johnson's motion to reconsider his defeated school segregation bill further was defeated.

The school bill is still to be considered In the Senate, having been presented there by Senator A. Caminetti, but there. Is littlo chance that the measure will be approved when brought up. GOVERNOR GILLETT SATISFIED. "I am highly pleased with the action of the Assembly to-day." said Governor Gillett.

"The Bast has been deeply concerned in the measures pending here, and I feared that If the anti: Japanese legislation were pressed at this time it have a disastrous effect." The anti-Japanese forces in the Assembly were lead to-day by Grove L. Johnson, author of the school segregation hill, on which the fight hinged, and Louis H. Julillard. Democratic floor "leader, while the opposition was directed by Transae and Richard Melrose- Transue's resolution opened the debate, and the, fight was really made on this measure, the reconsideration motion not being put until there had been a long argument. Mr.

Johnson repeated his defiance of the and called upon the Assembly to "stand by guns." He was answered by Transue and Melrose, every phase of the question being re- viewed. Transue suddenly withdrew his resolution and the fight centred on the reconsideration motion presented by Walter Leeds, of Los Angeles. This was finally forced to a vote, and was carried. 43 to 34. The rollcaU on the bill Itself immediately followed, and it was rejected by a vote of 41 to 30.

Johnson was at once on his feet with a motion to reconsider. This motion was put to a vote, and resulted 38 to 33, and the bill was dead. CENSUS OF THE JAPANESE. Governor Gillett said to-night that the next to be taken up by the Assembly would be the proposed appropriation of $10,000 for the compiling of a census of Japanese in California He said that if from the data so gathered it were found necessary. Congress would be urged to enact an Asiatic exclusion measure.

"Under the agreement between Japan and our eaid Governor Gillett, "the former li pledged to restrict immigration as much as possible. If Japan had grounds for abrogating this arrangement, and decided, In view of the acts upon the part of the California Legislature, to remove these restrictions on the emigration of her people, all our ports would be to the latter. If, then, we went before Congress and asked the East for support for a Asiatic exclusion law, the latter might the adverse argument that we had the well in hand at one time through negotiations, and lost our advantage by the of our Legislature against the wishes of the Resident and the Secretary of State." Transue resolution, after calling attention the attitude of the President and the and defending the right of the state to control its schools, pointing out that the same facilities and opportunities were afforded to children of all races, ended: v. "And finally, while we recognize that bill No. 14 Is drawn and could be passed toe Legislature of this state in full conform: with the powers reserved to the state and vouchsafed to it by the federal government, we unwilling to do aught which may disturb relations existing between this government a friendly power, and for this reason alone recommend that this bill be reconsidered ana withdrawn." la the Senate this morning a long resolution by Marc Anthony, of San Francisco.

Indorsing United States Senator George C. Perkins's Continued on iw'ond pace. -ORIDA OR CAROLINA RESORTS Gf2t i Alr 1J Shortest, quickest route. Ing. NEW- YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1909.

PAGES. CROSS SECTION SHOWING PRESENT AND PROPOSED T'NDERfJROUND TRANSIT FACILITIES AT THE GRAND CENTRAL STATION. THE PRESENT SUBWAY T9 ABOVE THE PROJECTED EXTENSION OF THE HUDSON AND MANHATTAN TTNNEL, AXD THE BELMONT TUNNEL IS SHOWN STILL FURTHER BELOW THE SURFACE. ROB TICKET AGENT. It Takes Three Big Men to Hold Up a Woman in Brooklyn.

Three burly Italians, with drawn revolvers, held up Miss Grace West, the ticket agent at the 20th street station of the Fifth avenue elevated line In Brooklyn, late last night, and. after the telephone wires, escaped. The reserves of the Fifth avenue police station and detectives from Headquarters scoured the South Brooklyn district all night, but could get no trace of the highwaymen. The three men rushed upon Miss West about 10:30 o'clock, and, while one of them pointed a revolver at her. the others broke into the.

booth and took all of the company's money, amounting to about $50. from the cash drawer and a small safe, which was open. The ticket agent remained cool, although the three men thrust the muzzles of their weapons close to her face and threatened to return and kill her If she made a sound or attempted to interfere with their escape. After they left her Miss West ran to a drug store on the corner near the station and telephoned to the police. She gave an extensive description of the men, and arrests are expected to-day.

a NEW VACCINE FOUND. Anti-Pneumonia, Blood Poisoning and Typhoid Serum, Discovered. Telegraph to Tribune. Boston. Feb.

10. A vaccine which will successfully battle with the germs of pneumonia, blood poisoning and typhoid fever has been developed at the laboratory of Tufts Medical School. After two years of work and experimentation along the lines of the discovery of Sir A. E. Wright, of London, Dr.

Timothy Leary, head pathologist at Tufts, announced to-night that an antitoxin for these, three diseases had been perfected, and that the laboratory Is now prepared to supply physicians with the serum. In addition, while Dr. Leary will not discuss at length the "work at the laboratory, It is known that he is now working for an antitoxin for tuberculosis. That this antitoxin far along in the experimental stage is admitted, but Dr. Leary says that it may be years before it will be perfected.

The Tufts pathologists worked into practical use the theories advanced by Sir A. E. Wright, that dead germs automatically create an antitoxin In the blood for all living germs of the, same kind. In other words, dead germs in the blood form a poison that If. fatal to all living germs of the same kind with which it comes in contact.

Following out this theory, the Tufts pathologists have proved that it Is possible to inject into the blood dead germs, and that after the inoculation they will form this antitoxin, fatal to all living germs of the same kind. Working on this, it was only a question of isolating the particular germs, and they by experimentation settled the proper method inoculation, the quantity to be administered and the method of treatment. In pneumonia, blood poisoning and typhoid fever this was learned by "several hundred experiments, running over two years," Dr. Leary said to-day. WRECK ON MAINE COAST.

Crew of New York Schooner Believed to Have Escaped. Rockland. Feb. While attempting, apparently, to run up Penobscot Bay to seek shelter to-day, the three-masted schooner Georgia, of New York, Captain Smith, misstayed and ran her forefoot on the bleak headland of Monroe Island, off Owl's Head, during a heavy snowstorm. Although the captain and crew have been unable to communicate with the mainland and are marooned on the island by heavy seas, it is believed that all made their escape from the schooner by climbing from the end of the Jibroom through the wart which beats on the rocky coast.

i A fishing schooner sent to the assistance of the wrecked vessel was unable to get close to the island. The masts of the stranded schooner have gone overboard and the vessel is fast going to pieces. A fire seen on the island near some deserted huts is believed to have been set by the captain and crew of the Georgia as a beacon. The Georgia is owned by the Coastwise Transportation Company, of New York, and was bound from Portland, to St. John, N.

TEARS DOWN. HOUSE TO SAVE TREE. Mrs. Russell Sage Had Alternative in Sag Harbor Improvement. In to one larije shade Mrs.

Russell Sage Is sacrificing a fine house in Sag Harbor. Long Island. Mrs. Sage recently purchased the old Seaman property and announced that she would clear the place and build a public library upon the site in honor of her grandparents. Colonel and Mrs.

John Jermain When the time came to move the house a few days ago it was discovered that it could not pass between two of the handsome shade trees by the roadside. Mrs. Sage was lnforraed that one tree would have to be sacrificed. down the house." said Mrs. Sage, "and move it in pieces." The work of demolition began at jr.ee.

TO MAKE KNOX ELIGIBLE INTRODUCES BILL REDUCING SALARY. Senate Leaders Believe This Will Overcome Constitutional Objection to His Appointment. Tribune Washington, Feb. 10- excitement caused by the discovery that Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, would not be eligible under the Constitution to a place in Mr. Tiffs Cabinet led to number of conferences among the Senate leaders to-day, followed by the introduction of a bill by Senator Hale which repeals so much of the legislative, executive and Judicial bill of two years ago as Increased the salary of the Secretary of State from $8,000 to $12,000 a year.

in the judgment of leading Senators, including: Messrs. Hale and Rayner, one of the ablest lawyers of the Democratic side, will remove obstacle in the way of Mr. Knox's appointment as Secretary of State. It is probable that the bill will be passed by the Senate, and that the conferrees on the legislative appropriation bill, which is still in conference, will insert the terms of. Hale- bill In the treasure before reporting it to their reepective houses.

There is no opposition to the measure in either chamber, and there is no reason to believe that I any objection will be raised to this course. 1 As soon as he saw the announcement in the morning: papers, Senator Hale went to the home of Senator Knox. and the two were in conference for some time. They then came to the Senate and held a conference with a number of other leaders, the outcome of which was the introduction of the Hale bill. As scon as Senatops were satisfied that a way had found to overcome the obstacle, they pave way to at almost irresistible desire to chaff the Senator from Pennsylvania, and he was butt, of many facetious remarks about his standing: as a great constitutional lawyer, his valuable experience as Attorney General, the great legal ability of the and the good fortune of the country In having at its head two such able students of constitutional law.

Ho took It all in good part, and even promised to play the host at a dinner to some of his col leagues who chaffed him most severely. QUESTION OF SALARY. There 's still some Question as to how much the discovery of the constitutional provision will cost the future Secretary of State. Some of those who construe the Constitution liberally maintain that the salary of the Secretary of State can be again raised as soon as Mr. Knox has taken the oath of office, arguing that the Constitution merely forbids the appointment, whereas if he were appointed first and his salary raited afterward, they suggest, there would be no violation of the constitutional provision.

The better opinion, however, is that the salary of the Secretary of State cannot be increased until the expiration of the term of office as Senator for which he was elected. That would mean, of course, that Mr. Knox would forfeit the increase of salary for two years, and that the loss to him would be $8,000. A somewhat anomalous result of the adoptic of the Hale bill was pointed out to-day In connection with the place of Undr-r Secretary if State, which has been created at the Mr. Kr.ox, and carries a salary of $10.000.

as Mr. Knox will be compelled to accept a salary $8,000 a year, his first subordinate will draw $2,000 more than his chief. This, however, is not likely to trouble Mr. Knox. There are a few members of each house wfce maintain that even the repeal of the law increasing the salary of the Secretary of State will not make Mr.

Knox eligible, but as their contention rests on the fact that the Constitution does not specifically refer to a case where the salary has been increased and afterward Oecreased, It seems Improbable that the numUr will grow, even if they continue to arthero to their present view. MR. RUSSELL THINKS COURSE LEGAL. Assistant Attorney Genera! Russell, to whom the question was referred informally for an opinion, holds that if Congress reduces the silary to what It was before Mr. Knox entered the Senate "the case falls outside the purpose of the law and Is not within the law." Senator said to-day that there was.

no thought on the part of Senators of increasing the compensation of the Secretary of State after March 4, 1911. when Mr. Knox's term in the Senate would have expired had he served until its close. He said was the purpose of Mr. Knox to serve throughout the four ye.irs of the Taft administration at a salary of $8,100 a year.

HAROLD VANDERBiLT LOSES LICENSE. Boston, Feb. The State Highway CommlsMon to-day decided to suspend the chauffeur's license of Harold Vanderbilt. of New York, a Harvard student. On February 4 Mr.

Vanderbilt was "n-vtcted in the Boston Municipal Court of recklessness in operating an automobile. DEWEY'S OLD MADEIRA OR SHERRY, Shfrry before dinner. Madeira after. Dewey Sens 138 Fulton St, New 1 one. -AdvU TOMBS ESCAPE FAfLS JOSEPH A.

SHAY, LAWYER, HELD IN $5,000 BAIL. Investigator Employed by Him, and Trco Prison Keepers Also Arreste Jerome Stopped Plot. On information furnished by Harry Remington Mercer, a prisoner charged with grand larceny, whom he is accused of trying to help to escape from the Tombs yesterday. Joseph A. Shay, a lawyer, at No.

309 Broadway, was arrested last night and held In $5,000 ball, after District Attorney Jerome had watched the preliminaries of the intended jail delivery almost to the point of accomplishment. Walter F. Peck, alias Williamson, who is said to be employed as an Investigator by Shay, was held in the same bail, being charged, as was Shay, with aiding and abetting a prisoner to escape, which is a felony under Section 87 of the Penal Code. Patrick Howard, of No. 350 West 52d street, and John F.

Malloy, of No. 251 First avenue, keepers in the Tombs, were also arrested for violating prison rules. They were each held in bail. About 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon District Attorney Jerome and three detectives attached his Beery. Fitzsimmons and Into Part I of the Court of Gen- eral Sessions, where Judge Malone was charging a jury, through the prison pen connected with the curt, down a flight of stairs and over the Bridge of Sighs Into the.

Tombs prison. The first act of the District Attorney was to instruct Warden Flynn not to allow any one to enter leave the prison under any circumstances. Then he and the detectives went up to the fifth tier of the prison, to the empty cell of Harry Mercer, who. with his brother Theodore, Is under indictment on the charge of grand larceny. The two Mercers were recently brought back from San Francisco, where they had been arrested at the request of the New York police, charged with the larceny of $4,000 secured by fraud from the Metropolitan Street Railway Company.

FOUND AUTOMOBILE OUTSIDE. Mr. Jerome then made a heeling for the counsel room in the prison. There, as he expected, he found Mercer sitting calmly In a chair, wrapped In a fur overcoat and wearing glasses and an automobile cap. It is charged that Peck took the overcoat there and left it for Mercer.

Taking Harry Mercer and placing him in the custody of Detective Fltzsimmons, Mr. Jerome i had him conveyed to his own office and kept I there under guard. At the same time the other detectives went to an automobile that was i i standing at Worth and Lafayette streets and took the chauffeur to the District Attorney's office. The detectives with Mr. Jerome searched Mer- cer's cell and found there his hat and coat.

All the plans for disguise hail been carried out i seemingly as arranged, without the least inter- ference from any of the prison keepers. An investigation was begun by District At- torney Jerome and Assistant District Attorneys Smyth and Kresel In Mr. Jerome's office, i Shortly afterward Mr. Shay was called to the office. Warden Flynn of the Tombs also was closeted with the District Attorney.

John F. associated in the Halns case with Shay, was also at the office. The investigation continued until 9 o'clock, when Magistrate O'Connor, who had gone to the District Attorney's office on other business, was pressed Into service, and a magistrate's court was convened in the private office of Mr. Jerome. The two Tombs keepers, who were charged with "wilful neglect of duty in violation of Sec- tion 17 of the Penal Code" in not compelling Peck to register his name when he went to visit Mercer yesterday, were brought in, and Warden I Flynn appeared as complainant against them.

The prison register was put In evidence, and they were held for examination to-day. Bail was furnished. SHAY ARRAIGNED. Shay was then arraigned charged with violat- ing Section 87 of the Penal Code, which reads: person who with intent to effect or facilitate the escape of a prisoner, whether the escape is effected or attempted or not. enters a prison, or conveys to a prisoner any information, or sends into a prison any disguise, instrument, weapon or other thing, is guilty of a felony, if the prisoner is held upon a charge, arrest, commltment or conviction for a felony.

Mr. Jerome stated that he had affidavits con- necting Shay with an attempt to get Harry Mercer out of the Tombs, and produced the affidavit made by Harry Mercer. peck had been arrested in the Tombs by Detec- tive Lieutenant McConvilie when he went to see Mercer and gave him $SO. it is said, with which to pay his expenses. Peck had been subjected to rigid questioning, but had stoutly maintained that he had been acting in Mercer's Continued on socoad PLANS ARMY OF EMPIRE.

Britain Negotiating ivith Provinces for Welding of Forces. London, Feb. 10. Speaking at a military dinner in London to-night on of the territorial army in the various problems of defence against possible invasion, the Right Hon. R.

B. Haldane. Secretary of State for 'War. announced that the government was negotiating with its dominions over the with a view to the creation of an army of empire, and not of Great Britain merely. Secretary Haldane referred also with satisfaction to the fact that, as the outcome of the recent agitation, three thousand recruits had joined the, territorial army and one hundred applications had been received for commissions.

HEAT OF 6JOO DEGREES. New Torch Makes Possible Welding of Aluminum. Cleveland, Feb. A torch operated by oxygen and acetylene, radiating a heat of 6,300 degrees, said to be the most terrific known to science, fes been invented here. By means of this torch it is possible, it is declared, to weld aluminum, heretofore regarded as an impossibility.

The torch makes a flame that will cut through two Inches of solid steel In less than a minute and pierce a twelve-men piece of the hardest steel in less than ten minutes. It would take a saw almost twenty hours to do the work. NOT TO URGE INCOME TAX. President Believes It Will Come Up at Extra Session of Congress. Washington.

Feb. 1O. President Roosevelt, it was said to-day, has no intention of sending to Congress a message recommending an Income tax. He has. however, been consulted by Representative Stevens, of Minnesota, who is preparing a bill the subject.

The President's views as to such a tax have been repeatedly set forth in speeches and messages, but he believes that the question will have to be thrashed out in the extra session of Congress, which will deal not only with revision of the tariff but with the problem of sufficient revenues to run the government in the next fiscal year. MUST RIDE IN MISSOURI Governor I ladle Issues Orders After Washington Manner. By THeitraph to The 1 Jefferson City, Feb. Military order iNo 1. issued by Governor Hadley to-day.

In I which he prescribed that members of hie staff must undergo the Roosevelt endurance test for army officers, has created consternation in the I ranks of the officers who were exalted to the rank of colonel shortly after Governor Hadley's Inauguration. The Governor's staff is made up largely Of newspaper men and politicians. Twenty miles horseback a day for three I days is the decree of the Governor, who says he i wishes to guard against the humiliation of ing any of his colonels fall from their mounts I during the Inaugural ceremonies at Washlng' ton on March 4. SPAIN EXPECTED ATTACK. Fearing S.

AmobH of Coast and Revolution, Surrendered Cuba. Madrid. Feb. 1O. Through, the publication of certain cablegrams exchanged between the Spanish government at Madrid and General Blanco at Havana relative to the surrender of Cuba to the United States in it is now learned that fear of an American attack upon the coast Spain and a subsequent revolution in this country was the official reason for Premier Sagasta's decision to make paam with the United States.

Moreover, this decision was reached before the negotiations for the surrender of Santiago were over. The correspondence between Blanco and Sagasta has been made public at the instance uf Blanco as a defence against the charge of cowardice made against the Spanish army in ii Catalonlan Deputy. A dispatch received by the Spanish government on July 9, from c.eneral Blanco insisted that the army, although crippled by the loss of Cervera's fleet, was ready and anxious to continue the war. liut both the Minister of War and Premier Sagasta replied, on July 12. that as the Americans were masters Of the sea and were preparing to attack the Balearic Islands and the Spanish coast, which would be certain to produce an uprising in the Interior, peace was imperative.

General Blanco, protesting to the last, finalsagreed to obey orders and surrender. HAAN'S RESTAURANT, PARK ROW B'LDG. Perfection in cuisine, precision in service. Music. Advt.

PRICE THREE CENTS. BY HUDSON TUNXEL TO GRAND CENTRAL FRANCHISE ASKED FOR ADOO EXTENSION. Through Route Possible, icith nay Tube, from Long Island to Nezc Jersey. The Hudson Manhattan Railroad Company, which operates the McAdoo tubes under North River, applied yesterday to the Public Service Commission for a franchise to extend it 3 tunnel system from the present terminal, at Sixth avenue and street, to the Grand; Central Station, to connect with the Steinway. or' Belmont.

tunnel under the East River and with, the present subway. The proposed route is under Sixth avenue tar a point near 4iHh street, thence curving eastwardly under Bryant Park to 42d street. Just west of Fifth avenue, and continuing east under the present subway to a terminal just west of Lexington avenue. President W. G.

McAdoo. who made the application, would not say that his company was negotiating for the purchase of the Steinway tunnel, but it is understood that the company has in mind a thorough subway route from Island to New Jersey. The proposed new Mc- Adoo tube would reach the. Grand Central Station at a slightly lower grade than that of Steinway tunnel, but the two tubes could be connected easily. According to President McAdoo the cost of thaextension would be about 55.000,000, and he believes that if the Public Service Commission and the Board of Estimate and Apportionment grant the desired franchise the extension can be comi pleted and in operation within a year and a half from the time the work is begun.

IMPORTANT TRANSIT LINK. Mr. McAdoo. in making public his i new plan, points out what a tremendously imj portant link in the development of the I system of underground transit the proposed extension would be. He outlines its uses and pos- sible connections in a statement, as follows: The proposed extension of the tunnel system from the present terminus at 33d street and Broadway "to the Grand Central Station wh suggested to us last spring by representatives of the City Club, who.

for a long time, have been studying the general transit problem on Manhattan Island. We were much impressed with It at the time, but have not been prepared until now definitely to adopt the suggestion. The proposed extension will continue under Sixth avenue northwardly to a point near street, where it will turn eastwardly under Bryant Park, getting into 42d street west Fifth avenue, and continuing underneath present subway to the Grand Central The line will be so constructed as not to disturb the surface of Bryant Park, or any part of. the surface of 42d street, and there will be no interference with the present subway, either as to its structural or operating features. The Hudson tunnel station connecting with the Grand Central Station will he so arranged that passengers can be transferred quickly and comfortably from the tunnel trains both to suburban train level and to the through tram level of the new Grand Central Station.

By walking up one flight from the Hudson tunnel trains passengers can reach the platform of the Belmont tunnel under the East River. The Hudson tunnel station will be so construtted that connection may be made between it and the Lexington avenue subway when built. This extension will prove of inestimable benefit to the travelling public, as it will give quick: and unbroken of transportation between the principal railroad terminals in New York City and New Jersey. The traveller from New- England, or from points on the lines of the New- York Central; who wishes to reach the Lackawanna. Erie or Pennsylvania railroad stations in jersey City has only to get aboard a train and be landed in either of those stations quickly ana without change of cars, and vice versa.

This extension will also prove a great convenience to those people who have to go between the Grand Central Station and points In and along the Sixth avenue shopping district, as it will be a quick and direct connection between those points. It will also have value as a connection between new Pennsylvania Railroad station and the Grand Central Station, and will be of great benefit as well to the hotel and theatrical district situated in and around Times Square. It an interesting fact that the geological formation under 42d street and at the Grand; Central Station is such as to permit of the construction of the Hudson tunnel station without disturbing the street surface or Interfering with, the operation of the subway, or with the con- struction of the Grand Central improvements. EXPLAINS TERMINAL ABANDONMENT. The original plans for the present McAdoo.

tunnels included a terminal site at 33d street and Sixth avenue, where a monster terminal building was to be erected. The land for the terminal had been acquired, but the waa suddenly given up without any plausible explanation for its abandonment. The proposal to extend the system and make the Grand Central Station its Manhattan terminal why the terminal at 33d street and Sixth avenue was abandoned. In its application to the Public Service Com- mission the company sets forth the various dates on which the company was organized and! obtained its present rights, outlines the of the tunnels and subways now in operation op under construction and Indicates the new desired, together with Its possible connections. The application states that the extension will consist of a double track railroad, in tunnels, with stations at such intermediate points as may be determined by the commission, and with a terminal station under 42d street, between Vanderbilt and Lexington avenues." A blueprint map of the proposed extension accompanied the application, which was made under Section 32 of the rapid transit act.

Inspection of this blueprint showed that such Is possible, the plan does not propose at present an actual physical connection between, the new McAdoo tunnel and the Beiraont or Steinway tunnel in 42d street. At Park avenue, the western terminus of the new McAdoo tunnel, there will be. if the present application is approved, three levels of tunnels. At the highest level is the present subway, some eight or ten feet below it is the terminus of tha Steinway tunnel, and at the third and lowest level would be the terminus of the new McAdoo tunnel, the top approximately ten feet below the bottom of the Steinway tunnel, or approximately twenty feet from station platform to station platform. Stairways are shewn as connecting the three tunnel levels.

PLACES FOR STATIONS. The blueprint shows that the Hudson hattan Railroad Company has marked no station between the one at 33d street and Sixthavenue and the proposed terminus at 42d street and Lexington avenue. Bryant Park and 40th. street would not be a good site for an Intermediate station, because there the curve in the proposed route begins, and the experience of tha commission with the stations on curves in tha present subway has led the members, with the adoption of a formal rule, to be unalterably against the construction of such stations in future. An additional station might be placed; it was pointed out, in 42d street, west of Fifth.