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for the present detour to the west side. This is called the 

 Broadway-Lexington Avenue route, because it starts in lower 

 Broadway, but swings over to Lexington Avenue, which it 

 follows to the Harlem River, under which it crosses in tubes. 

 At East 138th Street and Park Avenue, the subway will divide 

 into two branches of three tracks each: the Jerome Avenue 

 branch, and the Southern Boulevard branch. 



The first named remains underground to River Avenue and 

 East 157th Street, where it emerges from the ground and 

 becomes elevated above Jerome Avenue, which it follows to 

 Woodlawn, a distance of 6.1 miles. 



The other route will turn east under 138th Street as far as 

 the Southern Boulevard, which it will follow underground as 

 far as Hunt's Point, where it will swing under Whitlock Avenue 

 which it will follow to a point south of Westchester Avenue. 

 Here it emerges from the ground and becomes elevated over 

 Westchester Avenue, which it will follow to Pelham Bay Park, 

 a distance of 7.2 miles. 



Work was begun upon the different sections of the road in 

 Manhattan in November, 191 1, and the first work was started 

 in The Bronx with appropriate ceremonies at Mott Avenue, 

 just north of 138th Street on the morning of December 4, 191 1 . 

 It is expected that the road will be running at the expiration 

 of two years from the beginning of work. Another extension 

 of the rapid- transit system will be started probably within a 

 few months, when the Interborough agrees upon terms with 

 the city for an extension from its present terminus at West 

 Farms by way of White Plains Avenue to, or near, the city 

 line. 



In 1898, Mr. W. C. Gotshall, an electrical engineer, con- 

 ceived the idea of an electric railway to run to Port Chester. 

 It was organized under the laws of the State on April 5, 1901, 



