changes are made.

If the order meets with the approval of the Commission, it is enacted and a date fixed when it shall take effect.

Fifth. Notice of this action is then served upon the company, which must reply whether it will accept the order or apply for a rehearing. If a rehearing is requested, and granted by the Commission (during the past six months it has never been refused), the same procedure as above outlined is followed.

In many instances where a specific complaint is made and where it seems desirable to have a definite reply from the corporation complained against, before any action is taken by the Commission, the first step named above is preceded by the adoption of a complaint order by the Commission which embodies the complaint, orders it transmitted to the company concerned and directs that within ten days thereafter the complaint shall be satisfied or a reply made to the Commission. When this reply is received it is referred to one Commissioner, who examines it and recommends whether an order for a hearing shall be issued or the complaint dismissed. Of course, if the company satisfies the complaint, notice is served upon the complainant and the case closed.

Such has been the course pursued in all of the cases relating to improvements in service, equipment, roadway, stations, etc. The orders issued are printed in full in an appendix to this report: Only the substance of the matter considered and of the order issued is given below. During the six months just closed the Commission issued 186 orders. Of these, 84 were complaint orders of the nature described in the preceding paragraph; 46 were orders for hearings; 42 were final orders; and 14 were general orders calling for information. At the end of the year there were 15 cases pending in which final orders had not yet been reported for adoption.

A.

MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX

LINES.

SUBWAY AND ELEVATED

The crowded and uncomfortable conditions upon these lines during the rush hours was one of the first matters considered by the Commission. The usual hearings (see Orders Nos. 13 and

14) were ordered to determine the necessity of requiring a 20 per cent. increase in the service for a period of one hour and a half both before and after the operation of the prevailing fullest schedule in each and every day except Sundays and holidays and other increases on Sundays and holidays, and also upon the question whether it would be just and reasonable to require the company to run between the hours of 6:00 a. m. and 10:00 p. m. daily, a number of through trains to and from West Farms over the Second and Third avenue elevated roads, so that one-half of the trains between One Hundred and Forty-ninth street and West Farms should be subway trains, one-fourth Third avenue elevated trains, and one-fourth Second avenue elevated trains, running alternately.

The order (No. 33) as issued called for the following service except on Saturday afternoon, Sundays and holidays:

Subway Express.

(1) South bound, at Grand Central Station, from 7:00 to 7:30 a. m., by an increase of 16 cars, rendered by 2 trains from West Farms, upon said line.

(2) South bound, at Grand Central Station, from 8:30 to 9:00 a. m., by an increase of 8 cars, rendered by 1 train from West Farms, upon said line.

(3) North bound, at Fourteenth street station, from 5:00 to 5:30 p. m., by an increase of 8 cars, rendered by 1 train to West Farms, upon said line.

(4) North bound, at Fourteenth street station, from 6:30 to 6:45 p. m., by an increase of 8 cars, rendered by 1 train to West Farms, upon said line.

Second Avenue Elevated.

(1) North bound, at Forty-second street station, from 6:10 to 6:50 a. m., by an increase of 16 cars.

(2) South bound, at Thirty-fourth street station, from 6:15 to 7 a. m., by an increase of 21 cars, rendered by 3 trains of 7 cars each, from One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street to South ferry. (3) South bound, at Thirty-fourth street station, from 7 to

8:30 a. m., by an increase of 21 cars, rendered by 3 trains of 7 cars each, from One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street to South ferry.

(4) North bound, at Forty-second street station, from 5 to 6:30 p. m., by an increase of 21 cars, rendered by 3 trains of 7 cars each from South ferry to One Hundred and Twenty-ninth

street.

(5) North bound, at Forty-second street station, from 6:30 to 7 p. m., by an increase of 14 cars, rendered by 2 trains of 7 cars each, from South ferry to One Hundred and Twenty-ninth

street.

(6) North bound, at Forty-second street station, from 7:15 to 8:09 p. m., by an increase of 20 cars.

(7) North bound, at Forty-second street station, from 8:31 to 9:08 p. m., by an increase of 10 cars.

Third Avenue Elevated.

(1) South bound, at Thirty-fourth street station, from 6 to 6:30 a. m., by an increase of 7 cars, rendered by 1 train of 7 cars, from One Hundred and Seventy-ninth street or Bronx park.

(2) South bound, at Thirty-fourth street station, from 6:30 to 7 a. m., by 14 cars, rendered by 2 trains of 7 cars each, from One Hundred and Seventy-ninth street or Bronx park to City Hall.

(3) South bound, at Thirty-fourth street station, from 7 to 8 a. m., by an increase of 28 cars, rendered by 4 trains of 7 cars cach, from One Hundred and Seventy-ninth street or Bronx park to City Hall.

(4) South bound, at Thirty-fourth street station, from 8:30 to 9 a. m., by an increase of 28 cars, rendered by 4 trains of 7 cars each, from One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street to City Hall.

(5) North bound, at Forty-second street station, from 5 to 6 p. m., by an increase of 42 cars, rendered by 6 trains of 7 cars each, from City Hall to One Hundred and Seventy-ninth street.

(6) North bound, at Forty-second street station, from 6:30 to 7 p. m., by an increase of 7 cars, rendered by 1 train of 7 cars, from City Hall to Bronx park.

(7) North bound, at Forty-second street station, from 7 to 7:45 p. m., by an increase of 14 cars, rendered by 2 trains of 7 cars each, from City Hall to Bronx park or One Hundred and Seventy-ninth street.

(8) North bound, at Forty-second street station, from 9:11 to 9:36 p. m., by an increase of 10 cars.

Sixth Avenue Elevated.

(1) South bound, at Fiftieth street station, from 7:30 to 9 a. m., by an increase of 28 cars, to the trains from Harlem. (2) North bound, at Fiftieth street station, from 5 to 6:30 p. m., by an increase of 33 cars, to the Harlem trains.

Ninth Avenue Elevated.

At Thirty-fourth street station, north bound, from 5 to 6 p. m., by an increase of 18 cars, rendered by 3 trains of 6 cars each, from Rector street to One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street.

Frequent conferences between the officials of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and of the Commission followed the issuance of this order. Inspections were made by employees of the Commission, and opportunities for improving the service pointed out informally to the company. Much benefit resulted, but as the service was still inadequate, another order (No. 111) was prepared which called for:

Subway Express Service.

(1) South bound, at Grand Central Station, from 7 to 11 a. m., by an increase of 80 cars, or by an increase from 816 to 896 cars. (2) South bound, at Grand Central Station, from 1 to 2:30 p. m., by an increase of 30 cars, or by an increase from 180 to 210 cars.

(3) North bound, at Fourteenth street station, from 2:30 to 8:30 p. m., by an increase of 166 cars, or by an increase from 1,010 to 1,176 cars.

Subway Local Service.

(1) South bound, at Grand Central Station, from 7:30 to 9:30 a. m., by an increase of 20 cars, or by an increase from 280 to 300 cars.

(2) North bound, at Times Square station, from 5 to 7 p. m., by an increase of 5 cars, or by an increase from 295 to 300 cars.

(3) North bound, at Times Square station, from 11 to 11:30 p. m., by an increase of 15 cars, or by an increase from 345 to 360 cars.

At the hearing it was stated by the counsel for the company that the service on this road would be supplemented to include all the increase suggested, and that as a matter of fact, such increased service would be in operation as soon as the Brooklyn extension, via Battery Park to City Hall, Brooklyn, was in operation.

Other orders (Nos. 135, 145, 150 and 151) for hearings against the Interborough Rapid Transit Company have also been issued to consider the following increases:

Ninth Avenue Elevated.

"(1) South bound, at Thirty-fourth street station, between 6:30 and 9:00 a. m., daily except on Sundays and holidays, by an increase of 58 cars - from 222 cars to 280 cars.

"(2) North bound, at Thirty-fourth street station, 4:30 to 7:00 p. m., daily except on Sundays, by an increase of 62 cars from 252 cars to 314 cars."

Third Avenue Elevated.

"(1) South bound, at Thirty-fourth street station, from 6:30 to 9:30 a. m., daily except Sundays, by an increase of 91 carsfrom 875 cars to 966 cars.

"(2) North bound, at Forty-second street station, from 4:30 to 7:30 p. m. by an increase of 139 cars

to 938 cars."

Sixth Avenue Elevated.

from 799 cars

"(1) South bound, at Fiftieth street station, between 7:30 and 9:00 a. m., by an increase of 84 cars from 278 cars to 362 cars. "(2) North bound, at the Fiftieth street station, between 4:30 and 7:00 p. m., by an increase of 77 cars - from 519 to 596

cars."