New-York tribune., 1872-10-18
GENERAL LOCAL NEWS.
TO HARLEM IN TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES

| TO HARLEM IN TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES.
THE STEAM CITY RAILwAY-woRK TO BIZ Be
GUN AT OSCE-DIPFCULTIEs TO BE OVER
COME.
Proposals are now making for the building
OF the Rapid Transit Railway, and contracts will be
awarded TO successful bidders in about ten days. when
work will be begun Immediately and simultaneously
along different parts OF the route The lower depot,
which will be situated at the north end Of tho new Post
0ce I'm the City Hall Park win bo erected lengthwise
with Beekman-st. extended and have its west end In
broadway. The building will be built Of iron and glass;
and have four each corner, which viii act as
veutilators and afford light to the landing below the
street. and be surmounted in the center with large
DOME which will afford light to the depot proper En-
frances TO the building will the sides midway In
the depot and passages will lead into q circular room.
at the and west sides Of which hckerOoms VIII Do
placed. Around the western tcketrOom Will De Two
passages stairs leading TO the platform below whence
cars will start the Harlem River Passengers leaving
the trains will ascend stairs which lead to the eastern
side Of the depot make their exit from the building
into Broadway.
The track will be laid 10 feet below the grade OF city
Hall Park and the top of the tunnel will be about Tour
feet below the street This will DO maintained until the
road untes with the Fourhsye. sunkeh track at Fifty
seyenthst where It will be II feet below the level OF
the street. and thence TO the Harlem River 1t will follow
the course Of tho proposed sunken track through un-
nes and over bridges Hnt 10 reaches its upper terminus
at Onehundred and thirty ysecOndst where depot sim
liar in construction TO the in the City Hall Park, viii
be erected The track will be laid along the line OF Cen
tre and Reade ss whence II will biseot the intermediate
blocks 20 Chathamsquare Some or the property Whon
will be taken vicinity of the Five Points Is leased
ground OF belongs 20 estates, while some Is
held in such manner TO make 1t doubtful whether
clear titles be gwen In suoh cases appralse
will have be made and Commissioners Will shorty de-
ermino the valuations 80 as TO prevent any %
TO the rapid completion Of the work The track VIII
then bo laid along the line Of tho Bowery 70 the vicinity
OF the Cooper Institute. In doing this the nrst great u
| Guilty will be encountered. Surveys have demon
strated tho necessity OF removing the sewers along
the entire length Of the BoweTy, and placing them
in other parts OF the street, while in some places ey
will have 10 he conducted through other streets IN
order TO afford the descent proper 70 carry on te P
and obtain depth sufficient TO drain tue track frODl
the BOwery Grandst the sewer VIII nave 10 De con
ducted through Grand 10 Hester along Hester 10 Cenre
st. and thence along the latter street un IL Is nni6u
with large at Canalst The track WIZ 9lveIGe
Cooper Institute and VIII run along tne lo VI nn
ave TO Thirty ysecond-st, and under the preeht tuS
TO FOrty-secOnd, where the sewerage dllnculsies wiz
again be- encountered Is will be necessary 10 remove
the Laid az present Ia fOuTutaEe' "
sxthst, and in the vicinity OF Forty sne
will have 20 be carried easterly towards ihId-aIe ~
several other places the present course OF the
have 10 be changed and throughout the ehte ID ID
the road the gaspipes and waterpipes-both sna auu
main-wi have TO be relaId III different places rom
those they occupy at present As ~ nas Dou NV the
stood that the great Object 10 DO ga%ieu am tors ~ oP
Rapt Transit Road is quick passage 10 the Towns VI
Westchester County which lie Whh ~ eS n o @ of r5e
it has seemed insufficient for the deoIed "dn'I h ~
peope TO have terminus OF the ROAD az Ihe IIIc
IN.
schedule for trains passing on the Harlem anu
River Railroads. that people residing Ia NesIcnese
Putnam or the River Counties might, upon arriving a
The Harlem River step at into trains IA waiting 10
conduct them their destination. Ihls pan mst @ltn
considerable opposition from those persons VINO 90 Ds
ness In the city 1--we out OF town, on the SrOuhd ta
considerable time would be lost IN changing cars anI
tbat facilities for through passage should Do aHOrueu
Mr. Vanderbilt has therefore determined W nave SOME
of the cars attached each train leaving the Cty hd
which will pass the towns and villages along the hhe
OF the Harlem Road ,,., A.. -,
The Department Jf Parks has also considered the ad
visibility OF continuing FOurthaye through MOrrlsaha
fremont, and FOrdham To 1Onkers. According 10 an
act of the Legislature the Commissioners ia connection
with the Supervisors those towns have Ihe cOntrOl
Iayng out all public roads The proposed continuation
of FOnrthave spoken OF with reference 10 conducting
tbe rapid transit road, and uniting more closely the
lower part the city with the border countess me
stations Rapid Transit Road az present ald out
viii be north OF FOrtysecondst, at Forty-nnth Elshty
sixth Ninetyeighth Oue-hundredand tenth, One-hund-
redand fteentn One ehundrcdand -twentyftn ana the
uDper terminus at One-hundr0d and thirty sec0nd-Sts
Tue running time from the City Hall TO the Harlem
River will minutes AS the estimates have not yet
been determined impossible to tell accurately
the cost OF the work, but it Is estimated that to complete
the road the City Hall Park TO ITS point OF Junction
with the sunken track FiltysiXthst will cost about
s. 100000 Tne work viii be completed in less than two