New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-13
HEATING THE BRIDGE CARS.
THREE PLANS UNDER CONSIDERATION.

TRAVEL on THE BRIDGE-A NEW LOCOMOTIVE 0H
DERED-TIIE ELEVATED STATION IN cHATHAM-SI.
The November meeting of the Bridge trustees was
held Yesterday twelve of the twenty trustees pGlIg
nresent The secretary report showed ,tceiPts
df S15 236 1877 SO and expenditures OF 1io,loi,-
2oS 90 A contract for fitting up the warehouse IN
block under the New York approach Was lijuo iOl
80 600 contract for an additional sWltching 10
Tomotiye to cost 81 100, made by President Kings
lev was approved by the trustees lTeasuTep VI W
tie reported reSsts rom and pTcm car passengers
S33 IA. making total of $11OS7l for the twen-
fy-four weeks since the bridge was opened nc 20
t9l number of foot passengers up TO November o
was q 0G1 700 and of car passengers 662,2SO;
Superintendent Martin reported that the work on
the warehouse and the car storehouse was going on
satisfactorily. The total number OF passengers
crossing the Bridge up to yesterday 1913, l4O
Three methods for heating the cars had Dcen sug-
gested-One by pipes under the car seats lled WIN
a chemical compound which crystalllZed at a low
femperature and gave out heat costing $40 car;
another by pipes under the seats filled with hot salt
water, costing $40 car; and thrd Dy st ooI
under the ears, heating water which automatically
circulated, costing 500 car. MI: maIth
said that he had fitted M cal, with each
mcthOd,and experiments would De mace so3 l
matter of heating the cars referred TO the pres
dent with power. Mr.. Martin further stated that
in one hour yesterday morning loo passengers
had been taken in the cars from the Brooklyn sta-
tom At tGis rate. 81, 500 could be carried in tho
eighteen hours of the day during when the cars
run or 70, 600 from both ends OF the Bfidge. iney
could be carried at a cost OF one-halt cent each II
that many passengers could be secured; at present
the cost was little over 2 cents ~.
Mr.. Kingsley presented a proposition by the Ma
tional Cable Railway Company to operate the ral1
way over the Bridge and carry passengers at 8
cents each paving the trustees cent for each one
The communication was laid upon the table with
out debate. .,
trustees Kingsley and Stranahan recently con on
fcrred with David Dudley Field, the counsel for the
Manhattan Railway Company, with a view 70 effect
an amicable arrangement in regard to the Chatham
Street station. Mr. Stranahan refused to say yes
teriay whether OF not q compromise was
suggested by which the Bridge tracks would
be extended upon the posts and platform
of the station and that Il new station for the elG-
waited road be built further up Chatham-st. lie
said. however that his ideas were to make the
Fridge of the greatest to the greatest number
and 10 hasten rapid transit The switching facili7
ties needed upon the Bridge at the newborn END
could only be secured by extending the railroad
across Chatham-st. and Centre-st., and the CITY
Hall Park. No. .
Propcrtv-owners near the Bridge entrance assert
that the suits of the trustees against the railway
conpany are not pressed in order that an under
standing may be effected by which the elevated
station will extend up Chathan-st., from the line
of the Bridge and the Old station will be made
double it's present size for the uses of the Bridge
ears and the trains will start from opposite sides
of The same platform, that passengers need not
descend to the street.