New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-07
yHE COMMISSIONERS DECISION.

FINAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. I'd THE RE-
rORr-rHE PRINCIPAL RoUTr SWAT REMAINS
FOR THE COMMISSIONERS TO DO.
The Commissioners met at ] p. IN. to receive and
revise the report which had been prepared by their
Secretary. Verbal amendments and considerable
additions wero made to il by the Commissioners,
who remained in secret session for several
hours Representatives of the Gilbert
and Greenwich st. roads were IN con-
sultation with them large part OF the time
and frequent messages Were received rom the
Board of Aldermen, " no had greatly prolonged ther
session in order to receive the report Finally about
G d. No. the document Was brought to the Board
of Aldermen accompanied by preliminary mes
sage of transmitta from Mayor Wickham. The report
was read and an excited debate upon its adoption,
which lasted until $3.50 p. m, at once began.
numb of routes instead of single one were recon-
mended by the report. The two principal routes
coincide closely with those of the Gilbert ana
Grecnwieh-st. roads. The chief routes are as
follows:
l. Beginning ut the Battery and running throh-h
Whitehall, Beaver, and Pearl-sts. and New Bowery
to Chatham-souare; thence through the Bowery and
IhirI-ave to the Harlem River at One Hundred and
Tweuty-ninth-st., with branches through Burling-
slip across South-st. to Fulton Ferry, to Thirty
fourth-st. Ferry, and to the Grand Central Depot.
2. From Chatham square, through Division and
AIen-sts, to First-ave., to Twenty-thlr!-st., to
Secondave to the Harlem River.
3. Up Diyislon-st from Cbatham-square. to
Chrystie-st: thence TO Second-aye. and Harlem
River.
4. A loop beginning at Chatlam-square and run
! ming through Chatham-st to Iryon-row, around the
Stats Zeitung Building and through Centre, Park,
and MOtt-sts. and private property to the Bowery
Ia Sixil md
through Amity-st., South Fifrhave West Broad
way, Murray, and Church-sts., and private prop
erty to the Battery.
c. From the Harlem River through Eighth-ave.,
Nnety-se,ond-st and Ninth-ave. to the present ter
minus Of the Greenwich-st. road, and following the
line of that road to the Battery.
7. From Harlem Bridge along the Harlem River 10
Kingsbridge.
Some of the routes chosen merely alternatives.
For instance, the Commissioners say that they do
noU expect that roads will be built on both
Third and Second ayes, but. desiring to leave
some liberty of choice in this respect they resolved
to recommend both routes. The is true of Sixth
and Nntl-ayes. The report states that the Gilbert
Company and tho New-YOrk Elevated or Green
wich Street Railroad, have united their in
terests and resolved to combine their resources
wherever their routes coincide. The considfra-
ton Of the routes of these roads has occupied the
attention of the Commissioners almost exclusively,
and they express entire satisfaction with the imam
cial guarantees and good faith of the two Companies.
The plan Of construction remains yet to be chosen.
large number Of inventors, having heard that tho
Commissioners were ready to consider plans OF
structures hcckod into the corridors OF tho
new COURTHOUSE where the Commissioners tat
Yesterday but turned away disappointed when they
found that the rone still the only subject under
consideration. Messrs. Newton and Shrevc, the
consulting engineers of the Board lave been busiiy
engaged for several weeks in reviewing the plans and
models which have been sent III, and as this labor
has gone on simultaneously with tue consultation
of the Commissioners in regard to the route,
much less tine will be required To choose
the plan of construction tLan would
otherwise have been necessary. Only few
ont of the 200 plans which have been submitted.
the Commissioners say, are regarded by them -
feasible The Commissioners are obliged 10 look not
only to the excellence of the plan bat 70 the proba-
billy that capital will be forthcoming to carry il
out. Thirty days remain ia whck the choice Of
structure will have to BE- made, but the Commission
ers say thai NOW the routes OF their hands, they
feel relic, I'd OF the chief burden that rested upon
them.