The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-18
RAPID TRANSIT.

WHAT Is DOING TOWARD THE EXTENSIONS ON
THIRD AND NINTH AvENUEs-HoPEs FOR
RESIDENTS OF HARLEM AND WASHINGTON
HEIGHTS.
Inquiries were made yesterday at the Presidents
Office of she New York Elevated Railway concerning
the immediate prospects for early completion OF
Its extensions. The following facts were given:-Tne
road now has cars running on doub track from
Whitehall street to Sixtieth street. From sixtieth
street Eghtyhrst street the entire is under
contract 10 be finished at the earliest possible date,
and the foundations are nearly all put in and
ready for the pillars TO be 'se within ten iteen
days. The Edegmors Irvn Company, OF Wilmington,
Dell have the tor this section OF the road,
and according TO the the road to DO I'm
ishsd by the LIST Of September but there delay
IN putting in the foundations by other contractors
they could not take The measurements for tho iron.
consequently the iron company Is not TO blame for
the delay All the stations and stair castings have
been contracted for, and although the managers re-
iusc to tx any positive date Tor the compie
ton they expect to have cars running up
Ninth avenue the west side OF Central
Park to Eignty-Arlt street by the 18th OF October
The New York Elevated and the Metropolitan roads
building this extension along Ninth avenue. II
may be remembered that the Board Of Commission
Il Rapid Transit located joint route for these
TWO roads. through this avenue. beyond Finy-thrd
street 10 ll0h street, allowing the Metropolitan to
cross over Sixth avenue on Fiity-third
street and interssct the Greenwich street line.
The Metropolitan Company are now pushing
this short conn sction, ana the work Will BIO
done at early day. According to an arrange
ment made between the two companies the eastern
Ninth avenue between Fifty third street and
Sixty first street, belongs to the Meropontah ne but
BY another agreement both tracks 70 be used by
both companies. From Sixty-1rst street north, 10
Eighty first street. the road being built by and
Is the JOINT property OF both.
TAx EAsr SIDE ROAD
On the Third line tho track Is completed to
Sixty Attn street, aud the stations are beng built
rapidly as possible From sixty Nth street 10
EightYnrst street, on Third pvepuc, the oundat ions
down and ready for the iron pillars and
framework which are being manufactured at
From Eightynrs to Tooth street the foundations are
rapidly going down and the iron work is being manu-
The construction Of the framework above Sixty-ith
street will begin next week. The foundations on the
also being put In The iron work viii be made
as soon as they are flushed. All the various ncom-
sides under contract to be 1nshed at carly date
The company refuses 10 name any time when cars
will DO running from Whitehall street 10 the Grand
Central Depot III Forty second street, though August
was men lioned unoLicniiy.
''some little ,hins may nappen-somethng that We
least expect-to delay US for a month. We only
promise to have the road open 10 the Forty-sscond
street depot as soon MS II eau BIO DONE" said the
Official
One thousand at work tho different
divisions OF the road and nothing is spared to push
the enterprise. The road 10 Harlem cannot be
finished before the middle OF The WINTER though tho
track expected 10 be LAID to the Harlem River by
the lsl OF Novsmb Dor. Contracts are about 70 DO
blast the rocks OF the two blocks bounded
by Thud and Fourth avenues, between NIncty-cIgnth
and Ninety-ninth streets, where extensive machine
and repair shops arc to be erected
NEW CARS AND LOCOMOTIVES
An inclined plane ID being built on Ninth avenue,
tracks, over which the 10 be transferred
from the HUDSON River Railway. Eighty new cars OF
shops OF Gilbert, Bush & Co., in Troy, ana twenty
more 10 come from tho Wason Manufacturing
az n.y ass
DO OF the ordinary fiat bottom STYLE with Steel tired
wheels and commodous interiors Some OF them
will DO furnished with perforated seats and the out
side woodwork VIII DO painted deep wiae color
ornamented with gold. Forty locomotives are
comng-twenty from tho Baldwin Locomotive
Works, in Philadelphia, and twenty from tho Rhode
| Island shops Ia Providence.
rHE LINZ PORT wAsBNGroS.
Inquiry was made about the projected road, beyond
Eighty frat street, on the west side, to Fort ash
long co uisrsnoe was held on Tuesday with dciega.
ton Of property owners IN that section. and com
the estimates and report i'm mediatsy The chief OBJ
stacle to be encountered IL the deep depression
TAO wssa S s rsaa ans ss
built villain year: and think" added the speaker
In regard 10 the noise that might be made by the
the Harlem llne the Official said that the sub
j,e. was rsc'vng their special attention and expert
menus were koiuR iOrWuIu, ana ne uau no oouos ina
most OF the present dVturbances by car wheels would
| be entirely prevented.
| .xrKRrxESrs on THE MKrnopoL!rAN
visit made to the officers OF the metropolitan
Railway Ia Church street u what result:
oil muiing the sounds, which Mr. Edison 10 TO analy
! and the gineers q suppress. The superintend
sand that various appliances wero bong tried but h,
would not DO ready TO report Tor several days He hat
nothing 70 say about the matter until he knew
himself Sheets OF iet we're fastened underneath
the floors deaden rcverDcrations 0
sound that arose from the vibrating RODS below
Strips OF brown felt laid the sriDgors
others were placed under the rails to destroy IN,
''clrcu;" OF sound between tho tho ireste
Rubber blocks under the rails were suggested, ant
Tho official admitted That thus far they mad iounC
best results from using non conducting substances
beneath tn rails and ho expressed confidence tn Il
the experts Of the company would be able to remedy
tho annoyance 10 \ few days