The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-09-23
The Elevated Railway
New York.
From the New York Herald, Sept. 8.

From the New York Herald, Sept. s.
The first section of the elevated rail |
way, on Greenwich street, between the |
Battery and Cortlandt street, is now COM
pleted and in running order. BY invita-
ton, the members Of the press witnessed |
the operation thereof, yesterday afternoon
and gave the road thorough inspection |
The plan ofthe elevated railway has been |
explained in these columns at length but !
since then great many improvements |
have been made in the track, the machin-
cry and the propelling power The com
pany having control of the road have had
great obstacles to contend with. Suits at !
law innumerable had to be defended, and IN
some cases bitterly contested, until finally !
the courts decided in favor of the com
pany. Furthermore, the iron for the road
was not furnished by the founders as fast
as wanted, hence the work Jagged. Re
Gently, however, the decisions of the
courts In favor of the company, and vast
improvements in the machinery, gave an
impetus to the construction, and there is
every prospect that the road will be open
for traffic about the first of next Novem-
ber s-1 .to~S1 49, '~',-~1 .'t4 .JcE
u1St SCCGlUh 10 NY a SLdGlOudTY
engine located in the cellar on the south
east side of Greenwich and Cortlandt
streets, which propels an endless steel
rope, supported on trucks of four wheels
alsoSrunning inside ofrails tan intervalofI
$50 feet The frame of the trucks form
a triangleon the top, the cone of which
is called 'tLorn !" this catches a clip at
tached to a lever, worked from the plat
form of the eear, (which, when lifted al
flows the truck and rope to pass by and
the carTemains stationary In order to
start the car again., turn of the lever-is-
necessary, when the truck catches the lip
land the carriage is in motion. The car
Itself is ingen1ously constructed lis about
thirty feet in length, and fitted up plain
and neat. 1t will accommodate forty
passengers. 1t runs on eight wheels,
three feet in diameter, made of wood
! Steel fanges, one and three quarters of an
i inch wide, hold the wheels on the track.
] On either side of the car are iron bars,
4 ten inches wide, running the full length
i of the car, within about two inches Of the
track, on which heavy elliptic springs
support the body Of the carriage Should
Eby some extraordinary accident, the
d wheels of the car leave the track, the
bars on each side would prevent the
same from being percipitated to the
ground. Between these bars underneath
? the floor of the car are arranged six clip
tic springs of two feet span, moving on
wheels, which break the schock Of the
truck carrying the rope when the car. is
started. While underway there is scarce
ly any vibration felt. The track lis APP
parently very solid and the motion Of
/ the car very easy. 5a tas
q The speed is regulated by the brakes
and the noise the car makes by running is
scarcely perceptible Horses view the
moving. mass overhead with Indifference,
and people underneath the track scarcely
/ look tlp5 hfOI ElSAL ~ niah SIS
4 The time made between tile Battery and
4 Cortlandt street, over half mile, was one
minute and quarter. The company in
tends to put on cars enough to aceommo-
date all The traffic 3 and, in order to give
working people every. show possible, {ney
will run cars for their exclusive benefit
morning and evening at about half fare.