The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-07

purposes, and connected with the piers by two
Q substantial IRON structure, fifty feet wide and
TWENTY-FIVE feet hign on which Law iour tracks
stopping only at great points or say once In three
niles the other TWO to be used BY trains stopping
FOswtl-Witn this water line arrangement, ac-
c0mmodaton for cross town travel Is required.
the time Will come when one million OF people viii
Island. opposite this city, all more or less con-
nected with the business OF the metropolis. There
Will be ferries to the termini OF each OF the wide
streets; they will become great thoroughfares.
Crosstown travel Will be as important north
propose to take from all the wide strects-Four-
teenth, Twenty-tnird, FOrty-sec0n0. Nlty-sixtn,
centre waIs, ana over 1t erect an iron structure,
ornamental and strong, to carry TWO tracks, which
tracks are to correspond IN height with the water
line railways and connect with them by curves at
the functions.
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS PROPOSED.
In time, greedy man Will, ike Oliver Twist,
be asking for ''more"-the intellectual people OF
bost9n. on their way to the sunny South, viii wish
to De carried through without leaving their seats
and their studies, and without communicating
their boots with the mud or New YORK. would
Whole train at the Forty second street depot TO
the tracks OF the crosstown and water line rail-
sSoud be Devoted TO railway ane o.ns Useful par
p0ses-at the Battery the train to be lowered on
an elevator Isost II sDnl to below the oed OF the
North River into New Jersey. and then wnisked
Of DOCKS and warehouses l would propose
TO lay under the pavement OF the wide
streets iorty-nch iron pipe, to be nlled
with compressed air OF 100 pounds per square
inch, this pressure to be obtained and man.
tanned by three steam engines. OF 600 horse power
each, all In handsome architectural buildings-one
placed on the Battery, ono Jour miles up the East
River aud enc four miles up tine North River-all
to be connected with the fOrty-nch pipe, the
power stored up IN this pipe to be rented out and
used Tor loading and unloading ships and driving
all kinds OF machinery IN the buildings along the
river fronts. Hundreds OF one and two horse
powers could be rented Tor much less than
men can produce such small powers by
erecting and running small steam engines
Of their own. 1t will rid the water
men and the space occupied by boilers and COAL
air pipes can be continued into the heart or the
city, and the compressed air used by the theatres,
churcnes and hotels TO cool them during the hot
weather OF summer; II not Tor this purpose, 1t
be used Tor mechanical purposes In thousand
ways all over the city. Every rch man can have
an elevator In his house, as every man now mas
gas and CrotOn water. The projects nave men.
TONED Tor railways, piers, warehouses, engines.
air power, &C., &C., are costly things, ana look
like ''castles IN the air. but they are valuable,
and will not add up IN cost as much as that spe-
ci0us piece Of jewelry, 1.-THE ring" cost. during the
time when Tweed was "kinR," ana every man
quietly submitted to has property being mortgaged
TO the city. without recompense to one-twellth OF
Its value. w. w. EVANS.