The New York herald., 1875-07-13
THROUGH 70 VES7CHESTER.
Push on the Rail and Give
Us Rapid Transit.
THE COTDSNION TO NEET FOR WORK TO-DAY.
Inventors Growing About the Iron Interest
in the Commission.

Day by day the interest in the question or raDd
transit between the upper end OF the recently an
nexed district ana the Battery becomes more ana
more intense in the financial centres OF the city,
among the real estate spectators and real estate
owners In associations of property owners. 70
street railroad companies and to the Thousands
who comprise what John Bright was once berated
or calling the ''resdiumn-that Is, the laborlng
classes Our people have been so long
THIFLED WITH By MEiI3ERS OF THE LEGISLATURE,
who have been charged with being in the interest
Of the slow-moving horse car companies, that few
entertained any hope that we were to have rapid
transit in this decade. But the passage OF the
bill providing for q commission TO act upon the
subject and the selection by the Mayor or ]. L.
Mott, the iron dealer Of Beekman ana Gin streets;
Mr.. o. Fl. Delamater, Of the Delamater Iron
Works; Mr.. Charles J.Canda, OF No. 214 Broadway;
Mr.. Louis b. Brown, real estate DEALER corner Of
Broadway and Pine street, and Mr.. Jesse selig-
man, the banker, seem TO give many encourage
ment and lead them to hops that after all the
tFi1tng OF the past five years. out OF the act good
may come. The announcement was made in the
papers that the Commissioners would take pos
session Of the rooms assigned 10 them on the
northeast corner OF the third moor OF the new
Court house yesterday, and that, in the mean
time,
PERSONS HAVING MCDELS AND fLANo
TO submit for their consideration could leave them
at the Mayors ofice with Colonel Harrison. But
ms Colonel Harrison, private secretary OF the
Mayer, and the temporary representative OF the
Commissioners has been absent from the city
since FRIDAY, many inventors were disappointed
when they called at the Mayors oface. Several
who had plans and models TO submit were found
by HERALD reporter at the door Of the rooms
that were beng cleaned out for the use OF the
Commission seeking some one to wnom they could
connde their "braln work J" but there was no.
body other than the Court House cleaners to re-
eeive them, and mono to direct them VINO to ap-
apply to during the absence Of the temporary
secretary. Some left and sought the
PRIVATE OFFICES OF THE COMMISSIONERS,
while others rallied against the Commission and
declared tnat nothing would come out OF 1t. One
inventor met the HERALD reporter in front OF the
door to be used as the of1ce OF the Commission,
and broke out with the remark
THIS IS NICE CONDITION OF THINGS.
They ask inventors to come here, and we find
nothing but room sweepers 70 receive US. have
plan to submit, but no one Is here to take 1t or
examine the model. don't believe II VIII amount
TO a pinch OF snuff. Perhaps he did not mean his
pan) fear there is job in thus bill to get to
exhibit our models and taen adopt some scheme
that VIII cut US all out The Commission should
have oeen authorized 10 pay bonus fr the plan
bNab Is duOpleu, as WIS pTONLuSu lOr Dy Ia on
bill of 1871, which made steam on the canals
grand success"
Another man VINO claimed to be there TO SUBJ
nit plans declared that ne believed the bill after
all was carefully engineered In the interests Of
the iron men OF the city. 'Why," said he, ''tbree
iron. rney are Measrs. Mott. Canda aud Della
mater. IL looks to me as II Wlckham ana Cover
nor Tllden are playing INTO the hands OF the iron
men. the tanners say There Is nothing Ike
leather, and the iron 70 IN VIII swear
THERE Is NOTHING LIKE HgON'
frOr fV nltn n ckakA
and one capitalist, what chance Will any inventor
have whose plan proposes that the road snail be
chiefly constructed OF stone work and Wood2 Had
Mayor WIckham desired to remove all cause OF
complaint he should have selected as commis-
sioners practical en8ineers-men Of probty and
Another man, WHO claimed that he was an in-
ventor and had sent bts models 60 the Mayors
Office seemed TO think that the polite private
secretary OF the Mayor should never nave been
CHOSEN as secretary Of the Commission. SAID he
addressing the second speakerl =
"You are about right. /, too, am ready 80
present plans and models, but d-n IBe II
think. TINS thing is going to be run on the
the Commission from the iron Interests. Do
you not know that some schemes are to be
the materials 10 be used are iron ana steel
And then Wickham selects mis- OWE private and
confidential secretary as secretary oil Lae C0mmis
sion; or at least the Commission do 1t III Iecog-
ritIen Of the compliment paid tnem by Mr.. Wick
ham. Colonel Harrison Is q gentleman always
polite always approachaDle. 1 Knew hlm When
was IN the Confederate service, ana was merely
Young bJflIlnA. hCKo We wall ana KICK LDc
DUST off our shoes, as Sc. Paul ala when the Jews
would not permit hlm 60 ''dead headn upon
them tths fellow here laughed sardonicaiyl;
''and there Is no one to see u9-none to say, Co
away, Pm busy.' rYe been down stairs in the
Mayors office, 10 see william H.; but my friend
Newman is absent aud the policemen WON'T
such was the drift OF the comments made yes
terday about ths door leading TO the rooms OF the
committee. 1t sho US that there Is mucn feeling
on sne part OF persons VINO propose 10 submit
plans or WHO have already done so. This IS much
10 "a rem The 0Nntlomen aelAcfad a n Ipf
Commission are certainly business men, WHO
stand ngh IN the community, and, although in
terested IN iron, there Is no reason to believe
that they have been selected with q view Of CIV
ing iron precedence over stone and bnck or other
material which the engineering sKlll OF the city
NAV approve.
The reporter yesterday called upon Mr.. ]. L.
Mott, one OF the Commission, and found him en-
gagged IN an earnest interview with two RAPID
transit gentlemen, who had spread cut before
MIN maps ana diagrams OF their proposed solu-
tiun OF the question. After waiting half an hour,
the reporter got the attention OF Mr. Mott
and explained to HIM She object Of his
she Commission earnestly desire all parti
who nave plans or suggestions to make
90 appear before them to-day (Tuesday) at noon,
at their Office IN the New UourS House, and suo-
nit them for their consideration. Said ne, I'VE
have called uIon all parties Interested in the
various schemes 10 send their
MODELS AND PLANS TO THE MAYORS OFFICE,
ana we Will be happy to give them patient bear
ing. We snail receive sucn plans as are presented
by the various gentlemen interested. Several per-
sons nave called here aud submitted plans, but
at the rooms Of the Commission, as IL would be
waste OF time for me TO neglect my business or
for my associates to do 40, when we will have to
90 over them again In our sessions. These gentle
men VINO have just left have plans TO submit, ana,
as tney are nay personal friends have conferred
with them; but as l am only one OF hve selected
for the work referred them TO the full Commits
slon.u
"Your Commission said the reporter els
largely composed OF gentlemen familiar with iron
Rrchltecturef
Mr.. Mott replied that Mr.. Delamater and he were
the only members now connected with the IRON
interest, although Mr.. Canda mad been associated
with lt. He said that they would have 10 be gov
erned IN their selection OF a plan entirely by the
opinion OF engineers Gentlemen WHO nave plans
~ oner call upon me and tell me that their schemes
cannot be objected TO- and the next one Who comes
In offers serious engineering objections. 1 had In
my pocket to-day one plan that the inventor
claimed was perfect; yet, when showed IL 10
these gentlemen who nave another pian and VINO
have just left me, they pointed out three oDjec-
lions. Some OF the plans offered have great merit,
In my opinion, while others are riJiculOus."
"Do you propose to sit oaty ~ asked the re-