The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-09-08
RAPID TRANSIT.
The City Delighted with the Prospect
of Its COnSummatiOn.
INTERVIEWS WITH CAPITALISTS.
Now for the Plan and Then for the Build
ing Of the Roads.


avenue, South Fifth avenue West Broadway and
Church street, and the confirmation by the Board Of
Aldermen of these routes caused
WIDESPREAD REJOICING
in the city yesterday. 1t not until they had read
tho able report OF the Commissioners and carefully
scrutinizcd the admirable map of the HERALD that
the public discovered the magnitude OF the Commits
sioners' sixty days labor. The map gave the entire
route at glance and enabled all of ordinary intel
ligencc to comprehend instantly what Alderman
shandlcy and the Board of Aldermen Monday even
ing failed TO discover careful readings of the re-
port The general verdict of the masses was that
this is
THE BEST SIXTY DAYS LABOR PERFORMED
in the interests of property and the travel
ling public generally at will reflect" said an enhu-
sast rapid transit, Blasting honor alike upon the
Mayor the Commissioners and those members of the
Board of Aldermen who promptly voted for the
confirmation of the routes. Messrs Seligman, Mott
Brown, Canda and Delamcter have shown
that they cannot be cajolcd or bullicd into
favorng of the horse car companies
Why, am informed that when Harry Hart and Phillips
of the Third Avenue Railroad their argument be-
fore the Commission and found that they could not by
arguments induce them leave the Third avenue un
touched they rcsortod to threats and one of them
losing his temper, declared, Gentlemen, our company
have 900 900, and will spend every of it to
defeat you! That was no idle threat The HERALD
edtorially this morning foreshadows just what these
GENTLEMEN FROM CHATHAM STREET
will resort to. They will by intimidation persuasion
and possibly by potent influences that you can
guess, do all in their power to induce the property
owners along the Third avenue to refuse their consent
to its use"
Another gentleman remarked that the time would
come when the members of the Board of Aldermen
hO iran tbair
Said he 'Thc people have been educated point that
they the absolute necessity for quick transit and
they will not look with favor upon any politician who
! strives to defeat it,
''The route is not exactly such as I would like to
see,n said another ''but
WHEN WE CONSIDER BARRIERS
that the Legislature has thrown the way of the work
am satisfied that the Commission have exec eded the
| expectations of the masscs.''
81 heartily approve all they have done " said another
'except the of Fifteen cents is too much for
fare from the Battery to Harlem. Rapid transit will
pay at eight for this distance but the rates will
perhaps regulate themselves The cheaper the fare tho
moro will patronizc routes of this character and there
will be such competition between the steam and
face roads that way passengers WILL doubt be carried
for five cents the entire distance"
The above are some of the comments made upon the
work of the Commission. They show that the public
are disposed to support the Commission There
few who not directly interested in the Third
who did not rejoice that it had been selected part of
the route The impression is abroad that the
naming of the Second by the Commits
sion was merely to guard against the danger
! of the Third line being defeated that
the Commission will give that avenue the precedence
in the construction of the road and thus add the
cepts of the operating company very largely 1t is
estimated that line the Third will pay the
company operating 1t fully three per cent more than
will the Second avenue route.
soREHEADs
The only persons found who disposed to criticize
the report with any degree of severity are the inventors
who have filed plans and have watched and waited for
their adoption Many of these gentemen's plans are
very mcrtorious and possess features that commend
themselves at once to practical engineers and although
as was indicated in the HERALD of last Friday, the Gil
bert and Greenwich street companies have conioined
their interests there is no to suppose that the
plans of these companies will be selected for
/ general use in the city. The Greenwich street
pany in the face of great obstacles have the adm
ration of the people by taking the lead in practical
demonstration of the advantages of rapid transit vet
there is not general confidence felt their structure.
People not satisfied with n single column road and
they demand something better There features of
the Gilbert pan also that are not such commend
themselves TO public confidence and the great difficulty
is that it is entirely too expensive 1t is therefore very
probable that the Commissioners WILL with the aid of
Messrs Newton and Shreve their engineers adopt the
best features Of all the plans suggested and compel
their adoption by any company they may authorize
der the power delegated to them inventors who to-day
be Respondent thirty days hence may discover that
the Commission has adopted points of their plans
part of the future rapid transit roads.
HERALD
Owing to the laeness of the hour on Monday when
the report of the Commission reached the press there
time to describe fully the relations existing
tween the various routes indicated the map pub
lished in the HERALD of yesterday. The public should
bear in mind that the route generally conforms to the
charters of the Gilbert Elevated Railroad Company
and the Greenwich or New York Elevated Railway
Company. These known "chartcrcd routes, y
that having been located before the passage of the
constitutional amendments, require confirmation
by the property owners along the route Let tho
reader turn to the HERALD man of Yesterday and trace
the lines Of the there indicated The chartered
line the Gilbert road is rs follows
Commencing the south shore of Harlem River, at
| alans 10 Efphfh
avenue thence along Eighth avenue to 10th street;
thence along 10th street to Ninth avenue; thence
along Ninth to Ftythird street, thence along
Fifty third Sixth avenue; thence along Sixth
avenue to Amity street; thence along Amy street to
South Fifth avenue; thence along South Fifth avenue
to Canal street, thence crossing Canal street into West
Broadway; thence along West Broadway to Chambers
street, thence across Chambers street into College
place; thence along College place to Murray street;
thence along Murray street to Church street. thence along
Church street to New Church street, thence along New
Church street to and across Morris street; thence
through private property to Bowling Green thence
around Bowling Green into Beaver street; thence along
Beaver Pearl street; thence along Pearl
and New Bowery Division street; thence along Dvi-
sion street to Allen street, thence along Allen street
and First avenue to street; thence along
Twcnty-third street Second avenue; thence along
Second avenue to Harlem River; thence along River
street to Eighth avenue Also connecting line through
and along Chambers street from West Broadway
Chatham street; thence through Chatham street to Di-
vision street
The chartered line of the Greenwich road is from tho
Battery, up Greenwich street to Ninth avenue, along
Ninth 10th street. thence through l1Oth
street 10 Elghh avenue ana up Elghh avenue 10 Har-
lem River, Under the agreement between these two
chartered companies they will build that portion tho
road Ninth from Fifty third street up the
western terminus together, well that portion from
the corner of Wall and Pearl through Pearl and New
Bowery to Chatham square. The other routes marked
the map what to be known ~ commission.
crs' routcs aud the consent of the property
the confirmation Of the Supreme Court is
sary before they be used for rapid transit purposes
COMMISSION
now is TO select first the plan OF construction within
thirty days from yesterday This will be easy job,
considering the many excellent plans before them
within the time, under section OF the act, they
must Tx and determine the time OF construction OF the
whole portions OF such road well as the rates OF
fare the capital stock of the company or companies the
number OF shares which shall be divided ana the
percentage be paid in cash subscribing for stock
All this is To be done within thirty days. Within 10
DAYS of their organization as a board. sixty days
from Yesterday they shall open books of subscription
Ton public notice. at banking onice IN TINS county