The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-05-01
RAPID TR iNsIr INDEED.
Seventeen Minute. From Trintty Church TO
Finy.eiahth Street.

Tho first train was run over the entire
length of the Gilbert Elevated Railroad yestcr-
day. Four coaches were linked behind locomo-
tive No. /. and over 200 passengers were In the
cars ut o'clock ut the inclined plane behind
Trinity Church. Tho train passed the Murray
street curves without Stacking. and rounding
into College place and pushing into Wost
Broadway began to take rapid gnit Tho car
horses danced. Some wheeled round and be-
came cntanged in the traces. Others snapped
n chain hitchine them TO the horse car. DIR.
Gilbert stood in the centre OF n group OF the di-
rcctors explaining why the train made such
ronring |; was due. he said. TO the newncss OF
the wheels andtrack. The rails in time will set
tie down moro firmly on the slcepcrs. and tho
whoos will work more freely In their bearings
Tho motion 1T the highest spccd. which WIS
not lees than twenty mics an hour. did not
rock the ours IN iota. Through II gauntlet
Of handkerchicfs and cheers. the train ran up
South Fifth avenue TO Amity street through
which the trnck curves into Sixth avenue. The
engine bv slowing up too much. stopped Mt tho
entrance 10 the avenue. To get moro Roadway
it backed for half block and wont ntthe curve
again. selling into the avenue successfully.
Ivory window was nlled with faces. Men
! stared and women smiled up from below. The
station platforms ut Ninth strcctund fourteenth
strcct were blnck with men and boys. who
shouted and waved their handkerchiefs.
At Fory-ninth street there was n runaway.
Two horses hi'ched to an leo wagon. were quiz
city feeding with bits out OF their mouths and
their heads up To- their ears in grain bags. The
driver snt ON tho scat. and when the horses
started TO run up sixth avenue he mado ono
wild clutch AT tho rcins, realize that the horses
| had no bits in their mouths. and turning. tried
! 10 Chamber into the leo compartment In the rear.
through hole in the partition hardly large
| enough for his body. The horses. however.
| turned up Forty-niuth street and in doing 80
tho nigh horse fell fiat. That stopped the other
| unimn.
| Fity-cighh street was reached in seventeen
| minutes including the stop nj Amity street. On
| the return trip national nngs large and small.
! were waved tho largest OF them being shaken
with will 10y the Roy. Highland Garnet. who
| stood in his open window in Amity
street and held u banner. that reached
down to the first story. In the long up
| gradc from Canal street To Chambers street
| tho engine lnhored, and finally stopped nj
! Duane street. DR.. Gilbert said that II happened
| because the eteHm had given out. Had the loco
motive been stopping nj stations II would have
| accumulated sum 'ient steam TO 90 through
Alter the locomotive had stood for five minutes
| to gather steam. the trip was successfully com.
| pictrd. There WIS no accident The return
| trip was made In thirty-one minutes.
Tn" time ~ be- ma1r for through trains &c
| Firy-ninth street is twelve minutes, and FOL
| WAY trHins. TWENTY-FIVE minutes. The road is e
be opened for the public on the 10Th inst.