The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10

RAPID TRANSIT IN NEW yOnk.
The Broadway Underground Railroad
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prevail.
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Rapid transit in New York still
clamors for solution. The elevate road.
with all its aodging of equitable taxa.
ton, is an untold blessing to tho city
10 great n convenience to travel. and 40
striking benefit TO property, that lit;-
cation against 1t has ceasaa Amos. al
together. But it il insufficient quite
insufficient. For five hours OF every
day it goes crowded, and does not begin
to Accommodate thosa wishing to ride
And these are the very hours that
measure the need. "A tha strength Of
chain is only the strength of its weak
est link, so The requirements Of up-ana-
down travel Ill New York is measured
by the thousands that stand Oh plat.
forms between and ], unable To get
on the trains. Moreover, these roads
are running to their full capacity. They
can run no more than four cars to tina
train, and the trains can 20 no nearer
together. What next? More elevated
roads are Objected to. because taov are
really ~ esosore, are soaoahat dan.
gerous, and use u, valuable ground
that is needed for the wa.on.war.
The next candidate tor pubic AZ.
prevail is the Broadway Underground
Railroad company. This has charter
to construct tunnel road of two tracks
from the Battery to the Harlem river,
forking ut Madison square aud passing
northwari via Madison avenue al
Broadway. 1t has given bond TO tAa
city 10 finish this II al as far ~ Centg.l
park by January |, 1887. and the money
is promised TO complete the big job by
that tima. But the company is going
before the Legislature this winter TO ask
for m extension of its powers tho
right. namely, to lay four tracks instead
of two, the midl lie pair IN he for express
trains, going NJ the rate of forty mtlrs
an hour, including stoppages. In order
10 10 this the whole Of Broadway must
hc dag ont twenty feet deep and arcaded
the whole width between the buildings
the upper roadway. at the present level,
b ing devoted to its present nses. The
company claims that IL can daily carry
quarter 81 a million passengers, or as
many as all the public vehicles put 10.
gether now carry, aud this is probable
enough.
The chief objection hitherto made to
this plan is that it would injure build
ings ON Broadway, that the Jar might
shake them down. nj. G. Smith. the
president. ex-Seerctary Window,
Jerome EMssler, Of Ohio. and William
J. McAlpinc. and the Baron Blanc, civil
engineers, have been to London this
summer, examining tho underground
road there in its hearing on this diisi.
Guilty. The road passes under NIL sorts
Of great buildings, including hotels,
churches, and \ large hospital. goes
under thc1 great thirty-siN-ton mona
ment Of George ~, within six inches
Of the masonary, under hundreds OF
tottering old walls: and yet Mr.. Meal.
pine tells me that 1t has never cracked
u bit OF masonry. or hal cent If dam
age to pay, and that the trains OF road
under Broadway will cause less vibra'
ton to the buildings than is now made
BY passing omnibus. The reports 81
the engineers vii! he laid before tn,
legislature. with maps illustrating an
substantiatiag them.