, 1880-06-06
BORING UNDER BROADWAY.

esAsN &A VAN LAAFIers HaCkEu by
French Capitalists. Promising to Be-
GIN Work Speedily - The Route
Mapped Ont.
Nttu Fork Su4
On Thursday, In the Registers Office, was fled
the mapof the proposed Broadway UNDERGROUND
Railroad, with the certificate Of majority ot
the Directors Of the Company Incorporated on
that day. Robert Scwen appears as President OF
the Company, Mr. James F. Ruggles as Secr.-
tary, and tho following gentlemen are named as
majority Of the Directors: Mcssrs. Douglas
Campbell, De Witt c. Brown, Henry Sheldon,
James F. Pierce, Q. Vandenburgh, and WalterJ J
Morris.
Col Origen Vandenburgh claims to have origi-
mated the idea Of an underground railway be-
tween the upper and lower parts Of the city
some fifteen years ago, and the present Company
holds the franchise Of the Company then orxnn-
lied, The requirement OF the French capital-
lists. whom Col. Vaudcnburgh has interested in
the project, having been complied with by tho
procurement OF Hi authoritative legislative AZ
nrmauon OF the unimpatred rights OF tho Com
pany transferred by purchase to Col. Vapdop-
hurgh, he says they will take all the bonds Of
tho new Company about to be formed which
mny he assigned them to the full extent of $l0,-
UU0UN, II desired, upon terms which are deemed
ndvantaKcous to TIE Company. The main sub
commence the construction Of Immediately up
on organization ia to run:
commencing nc 1g. At tue South Ferry extending
on the castcrly line Of Broadway; thence east-
erly, passing tn front and in rear OF the old City
Hall to Centre street; under and across Centre
street to City-Hnll place; through Clty-Hull
pluce to Pearl street, across Pearl street, north
street, at point between Baya1d and
Park streets; thence northerly, under Mulberry
street to Bleeckcr street, and continuing north
crly to md under Lafayette plncc to Astor place;
QQr[OQrlT ana 01StcrlY Under ASt0r nanE4.
Eighth street. and across the southeast corner
of the block between Eighth and Ninth streets,
Fourth avenue; northery under Fourth avenue
and Fourteenth street and Fourth avenue to aud
under Union Square; uortherly under Union
Square to Seventeenth street and Broadway,
and under tho latter to near and northerly Of
Nineteenth street; thence northerly, bearing
easterly In & straight line to and under and
across Twenty-third street, to and through Mad
ison Square, and continuing northerly, under,
on, over, and upon Madison avenue to and
along the Harlem River BY that latter, diver
genco III specification lover and upon Madison
avenue etc, 1t will be understood that it Is
contemplated that above Ninety ninth street the
1oad shal bo no longer subterranean, but IN
tfnucd along tho Harlem River.
In connection with this main line are to be two
branehes: G One r. Of these, commenGing @ under
street and continuing northerly under Broadway
to Twenty-third street and Fifth avenue, will
extend thence he under Broadway to II The Grand
PurE snf1 thancn hv a nnrtharIv and yraatar1v
inc,i.,tnr tina - = nSn;nt ot oho,f ms unndrod
md 1h;st;ntb street. IN tha North Rfvar The
o1ha1. hrnnch line viii r1,n frorn the main f;ne at
10 CtrrsHsi1 part d;rectlv m nroadwaV r.
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jjne A1~N ~ 49, 20 '14 'oN1. >-'~ N">AA
Waller l. Morrts, a civil en1,neer who IA Mt
+ho hnnd ~ tha 11,echanicot nsrt ~ tha 1r1,rlr
saii, vesterdaE: q ali mr. nIans are made. ro
are ready r. cornmence work at ,1rce and az.
pcct to do so In TOW days, Just as soon as tho
Governor hns signed he bll which has been
nnssed to satisfE foreign canftalists az ia the
the TytreIaI, Parh and vorl- hnfh waFs fnr tta
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asphalt, lined viii hydraulic cement, and
nreatcst |ifomcters. In some instances thew viii