The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-11-08

Capacity OF arcade over ernnel 100, 600 900
The arcade being OF moderate depth and located
for convenient delivery, can be made available for
transportation thus insuring denvcry OF goods
without the tedious process OF trucFln, which has
proved an Item greatly ausmeatng the cost oil COM
merciaI transit besides c5,enlng IIs rapidity and
convenience. The sustaining power Oh the upper
roadway is computed at 1a2 tons per lineal loot,
which is considerably more than tnaG Insisted upon
for safe railroad bridges Buildings erected during
the pasG twenty years on Broadway are deep enough
Of foundation 10 require No Snoring Mp, with an eX
cavaton Of seventeen Feet thou "a oneteath posi-
bly, the fraction OF Old structures remaining, would
need 10 be shored up aud underpluned, which Is
easily done without Injury, ana In fact, with
real advantage to sondity of structure.
conception than that OF the Arcade Halfway
was never evoked Tor tho accommodation of popular
circulation Ia great cly and the ydiue oil - that
whenever applied or IL universally applied, IL builds
a city Two s5ores hlgn thus douDIing the surface
for commercial transit and popular travel. Further.
more, II Is as applicable 20 horse rarols az faIl
roads upon wbion steam ~ used; aad tao oay may
be pre.uctcd % not very distant shoud tho pro-
eeted arcade DC built wnen surface tracks for city
travel VIII have disappeared altogether and the
under surface principe VIA nave be3h applied 10
tue creation of au avenue for uors3 cars, wnea, In
fact, New ork VIII have become Ia all it3 leading
tuor0nx hfares a Two story cay
Compare the coming double Broadway, upon The
arcade pr,ncple with Broadway AS 80 would DC, su0
jected 10 the open GUS OF sac CuaAel. "A etling
engineer thus outlines tue iatter:-
A New York tunnel road commencing q, Bowling Green
has hrs. station Fuon Tlis Il just mile
lhe open commences a. Futon street. ANA onsssth OF
mile Cxtcads blocks ~ Murray steel IL tno open cut
Is N do on the west SIDE broadway takes IN tie Aslor
4 % sa e ' ase, hs aa SS as s G
the Post oAce and the Cly Han PARK 70 Murray sTcet
must take the blocks again 100 its open wnic
ground, Fourth street. thence 10 Eighth street, op
cur thence to NinetoenG srss tannsl taenee @ @ea
side, Madison iuare the east, fo s thence
open cut thence 70 Fsotn street. unne; thence to f.
ayil street open eu thence iaaae. to Ffainb street,
That portion OF hs blocks ronang sroadwayl taken for
FOR al other purposes The required
TO be y feel vida and ly eet high nud soJ feet long
little value.
There IL no necessity for cumulative reasoning in
tho question between the arcade aud tuuh ideas.
Tae whoe matter Is summed III the act tnat the or-
mer is adequate, convenient ysiaaoe and thor
oughlg practicable per e; wtila the latter Is only
relatively valuable In the absence OF the former.
which IL destned to find very extensive appllca-
ton hereafter In the provision Ior the concentrated
circulation Of cities; nothihg - halarued IN She
waY OF aagQciy when IL is preticted that ten years
from THIS date surface railroads WIN be remembered
I'm this city as thing OF the past, Sixth avenue ana
other avenues and cross tn0roughare5 having been
made two-story streets tBe lower story devoted 10
transit and heavy r9ic, the upper TO carriage way
~ IL demonstrably true that the Arcade Rail
way iullls one or the conditions OF the proDleD-
transit 80 the Harlem river ST fifteen minutes NJ n
cost OF i've centsand u remains 70 see wGctner II
can fuln the other condition.. The rapilily Is
demonstrated; now as to the question OF tarin Tue
intended larn incident 10 the project IL ten cents Tor
way passengers ana fifteen cents of through passage.
Elghtoen miles OF road VIII cost s3o,oo0oO0. Al The
tarltr proposed ia receipts wa BEL
40 100000 tnrougn passengers so 600 900
l20,O000oD way passengers l2OJJ, 900
Estimated freight carriage. U090, 900
Total annual receipts. 52i 900 900
Estimated expenses Of operating, repairs,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1000 900
Net ...t........ .szZo1u01i
This would be unjust TO the public anI one OF the
most colossal monopotes every piacet In the hands
OF corporation, and cannot Or could NOT Nc tolcr.