Deseret Evening News | 1908-01-09 | Page 1 | New Tunnel Ample for Early Morning Rush

NEW TUNNEL AMPLE FOR EARLY MORNING RUSH New Xo York Jan 9 Service In file now tunnel by which subway lIuba trains were run to Brooklyn for the tho time was to carry the early carly morning rush ot passengers from Brooklyn to the offices und and stores in Manhattan Throughout the ruMi hours eight car trans were v ro run at al Intervals of ot about aboul three minutes Not n a passenger was compelled to stand In any an of the rush hour trains and ond generally g the two or three rear IU cars were welo practically empty Most of ut the Ihl Brooklyn passengers left tho trains nt at the downtown stations in Manhattan lifter after a IL short and fast tast trip Whether the diversion of traffic by b this now line any considerable lessening of ot the morning crush on Brooklyn bridge o Is doubtful The usual delays In teaching reaching the 1111 city by 1 that method wore experienced 1 by h this morning Ono One reason for absence of ot a IL crowd clod from 1011 tho tunnel service Is tho fact that the subway trains run only u short distance Into the heart hearL of ot Brooklyn and that thal there Is no trans transfer fer er arrangement between RubIl an Brooklyn and elevator lines by h which the tho passengers from resi relli residential districts In the borough cuch I tho center ot and Manhattan