New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-16
AGAINST THE ARCADE RAILWAY.
ARGUMENTS BEFORE THE BOARD OF ESTIMATE

FRIENDS or THE SCHEME TO BE HEARD
The Board of Estimate met in the Mayors once
Yesterday the Controller being absent, ana u.s.
tened to arguments of property owners III Broad
way against the proposed Arcade road: Inc
nrorerty owners want tie Board to send re-
against the sehee %t Ao n
of the bill. which he characterized as highway
robbery and the scheme of lobbyists. lie said
among other things:
pdwav ia the most valuable street in this country
ANU its rents yearly to millions of dollars
tue thoroughfare and the most used OF an IN
distributing water for and the obnoxious
flows the refuse OF the lower part of our city.
Any Interference which will stop this traffic OF impede
would be serious calamity TO enr people apart from
the Injury it woulo to bnshess and property The
Arcade bll proposes 10 hand over this street. all s
business iroil. property, water pipes gas pipes ard
sewerage system. 10 the absolute control OF corpora
t,on without capt. al responsibility or any KIND, con-
trcitod by persons unnamed and nnKnOwn wtnout any
control OF The public an %on. pahp pro
~ on the The provisions that pretend 10 protect
The rblic are usory aud ovasvc 1t authorizes an In
va,on Of Broadway before any captal shall DO paid IN
snd the franch ses 10 he morgagei In advance OF any
liens or CLAMPS for damages winch my De recovered
az n.t it, Any judgment against 1t must be valueiess
c. =. Detmold said that lie had lived forty five
years on Broad way and bad get to hear OF man
who lived or Owaed property on That street VINO
favored The road lie called especial attention 10
the great sewer which crosses Broadway at Canal
St.. carving the sewage OF the East SIDE down 70
the North River. The proposed underground ROAD
Would be twenty feet below the Underwater OF me
North River and must either 80 over or under
this sewer. ,.,,, o..
AIpon p Man read the veto of the bill by Cover
nor Cleveland and sad that the sam reasons urged
eoainst the b at that time existed now.
Orlando b. Potter said that the road could not
cross Canal-st. without going above the sewer
and making an ODen cut winch wOuid
Gisfirnre aud Iniure the street incidentally. The
tunnel would be below the water ilne at Cdnal-st,
Eiphtb-st and Union Square. All the buildings,
sand Mr. Potter between Eighth-st. and Union
SQUARE were cit her built upon pies driven III the
mnd or upon solid rock. This mud which was
fa1homless was only ten feet and In some places
e,oht feet below the surface. tunnel dug through
This kind of earth would take 800, 100000 instead
of sos 900 900. the alleged capital ofthe road Mr.
Potter said that the proposed forty-four feet width
of ne road VITA the snatt OF SIX feet WIDE Tor
the escape of smoke and steam, would resu III
driving the immense business OF broadway mao
side streets and ruin the busiest thoroughiare In
the world. II, a., III ~
before Governor Cleveland he had called the lat
fers attention to the fact that all the steam boilers
nse0 by the great stores Oh Broadway, which are
located under the sidewalks, would have TO be
placed within the buildings This won d result III
increa ed rates of insurance which alone would De
al immense INJURY: 49,, A. t:.
b. Gambler and others spoke, and the hearing
was adjourned TIL tomorrow at O'CLOCK, when the
Advocates of the scheme. who teIegfaphed request
from Albany to be hear0, Will have chance TO
sneak in favor of the measure.