Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-31
RAILWAY UNDER BROADWAY
A FOur-Track Road Planned, to be Run
by Electricity.
Fron "a Neso York "a, "a. 81.

From tho Neso York Sun, Dec. %.
The articles of incorporation of the New
York District railway were filed yester-
day morning in the Office Of the Secretary
Of State at Albany. The company pro
poses TO build fOur-track underground
railway from the Battery up Broadway to
Fifty-elghth street and Eighth avenue,
and up that avenue to the Harlem river.
A branch road will start at Madison
square and run up Madison avenue to the
Harlem. The following gentlemen are
among the incorpOrators and directors of
the company: Charles Spear, Vice PresI-
dent of the National Shoe and Leather
Bank; j. Coleman Drayton. J. Ogden
Hoffman, Adolf Ladenberg, of Laden berg,
Thalman & Co.; David Patton, Col. Locke
W. Winchester, and George b. Post, the
architect.
To-day articles of incorporation of the
Fourteenth and Twenty-Uhird Street Dis
trict Railway Company will be filed in
Albany. Among the directors are Calvin
Goddard, MarVelle Cooper. George r. Sew
ard, and William J. Campbell. This COM
pany is to be a branch OF the New York
company, and will operate crOss-town
roads at Fourteenth and Twenty-third
streets IN connection with the New York
company.
The system by which the new compa.
MES propose 20 operate their roads is
known as the Hazard system. Il is the
patented invention of Mr.. Rowland Il.
Hazard, and has been recommended by
NJ. de MOntgolfier, the French engineer,
and adopted by the Paris municipality
Mr.. Hazard was seen last evening at the
Office Of the New York District Railway
Company al tf6Broadway.
The great dffiicuity, said Mr.. Hazard,
with the schemes hitherto proposed for
railway beneath Broadway has been the
necessity OF seeking legislation t0give the
right TO take the vaults under the street
we have adapted our plans to meet the
requirements OF the present Law. The
essential features of 0lfr plan are:A Eirst
a unit foundation OF concrete. two feet
thick, carrying the entire structure, and
| carrying the external vault walls at the
curb line as well. Second, the minimum
of excavation and the. maximum OF ca
pacity. The e2savaflOn will DE on the
average Onl1 19l -6 FEET deep, and we shall
have room fdt f4ir tracks, standard ouge,
and two side ttlhnels. in Which all cleo
| trio wires. all wafer and gas pipes and all
sewers Will be PLACED. A'fhese side tunnels
will be accessible from the vaults, and
when our road Is once completed there
will be no necessity OF breaking up the
street again. On the concrete foundation
will be placed granite blocks 10 carry the
vault walls and the pillars to support the
street rOadbed above. The pillars will be
Of angle iron, four feet apart, and Instead
OF brick walls 10 divide the tracks one
| from another, which the narrOwness Of
the excavation will not permit, we shall
use 'ferilaX,' an invention Of my own.
"FerliAx is "A wire netting, interviewer
in which is fax, tar, asphalt, or asbestos.
! The whole is covered with linseed oil, and
/ chemically treated so that il becomes wa
terproof, strong as steel, and less liable to
I fracture. 1t IS also n0n-resonant. The
cars will be on steel frames, covered with
| ferfaX. They will have no windows, the
I only glass in them being the globes OF the
electric lamps. A continuous detecting
rail will run along on either side Of each
/ tunnel. 80 that If car IL derailed IL can
not be overturned. The trains will be pro-
PEELED by electricity.
We have experimental. and are salts
| fed that we have complete m astery OF the
subject drumming trains. by electricity,
and can produce q thoroughly perfect sys-
TEN Of electric propulsion capable OF car
rying trains or seven heavy cars forty
miles an hour. We propose 10 run
through trains on the two inner tracks In
the morning and evening hours, and way
trains on the outer tracks. Our capital is
fixed at $4,000, 600 q mile, and negotiations
are complete FOR placing our stock In Eu-
rope In case we cannot place u here"
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