New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-06
A YEAR OF SUBWAY WORK.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF ECO.
TRICAL CONTROL.
MANY NILES OF CONDUIT LAID AND HUSpR.no'
VI MILES or WIRE BURIgD-sTREETs IN
WHICH THE Work HAS BEEN DONE
PRINcIPLts ON WHICH THE

WHICH THE Work HAS BEEN DONE
PRINcIPL,s on WHICH THE
BOARD HAS ACTED.
The first annual report OF the Board of Electrical
Control which has been prepared by Conn. 'ssIoncs
Gibbens will be approved by the Board at ita
executive MT citing in the Mayors .ice to-day un,'
less something 0ncxpectst Lnrpens a,d - ~
sent to Governor I'LL and the Legislature this
evening" II Is the intention of the Commissioners
.r Mt least ~ majority Of them, not to furnish
copies Of the document to the press until tomorrow
but copy was obtained by The TRIBUNE yes
terday and the substance Of 1t Is presented here.
with.
As is generally known the present Board Of
Electrical Control succeeded the Board Of Electri-
cal Subway {. mmissohers by the Subway Act Of
the last legislature, and the report opens with
r.. lew Of the work accomplished under the old
organization. This work included the laying Of
two miles of conduit in Sixthave. capable Of con-
tanning $500 miles Of wire, demonstration Of
the fact that the problem of burying the wires
was mechanical rather than electrical and that
proper plan for the construction OF conduits IN
this city must necessarily be determined in each
particular locality and for each particular service.
THE PRESENT SITUATION Os ArFA RS.
Then after referring TO the appeal made to tho
Legislature last winter for an Interpretation OF
the acts constituting the old boari, the present
situation under the act Of 1887 is summed up AZ
follows:
tho Mayor OF the city, ofoi0 Is constituted, with full
authority all the electrical conductors In tho city
changing tho present overhead stems to Under rOund
systems by the providing OF subwayssutabIc for occu-
pancy by the companies doing bUsness at present. win
overhead conductors. A construction c0mpsny this
Consolidated Telegraph and II ctr al subway Con.
by the Commission, and to permit the use fthem by
electrical companies upon fair and impartial terms.
tho streets, the local authorities represented by tho
Commissioner of Public Works have full control Its
Invested by It In carrying the directions of tho
Commssion,the excess going to the city and to all
It's books and accounts tho local authorities represent
ed by the Controller, have
provision Of law makes 1t incumbent upon tho
ninety days Of notice after sufciemt construciion
Of subways has been made ready in any local
wires in aud In the IF the 50 mo-
tilted not removing their poles and wires from tho
1t provided that the local authorities shall hero ron
remove them This state Of affairs would seem to 10
upon the BE ard.
RESULTS OF THE COMMISSIONS WORK.
The Board organized on July and since then
1t has pushed the work cncrgctically with the
following results:
The length Of trench excavatcd for the lawns
Of subways since July. 1887, Is one HUNDRED and
elg eighty thousand nine hundred and eighteen
Tho total construction Of single duct for telert.ns
and telegraph service is 903 30 feet, to which muse
90 adod 1850 feet for Distributing service and con-
Estimating ghty wires per single duct the total
4oI feet, or about 1900 mlo" Of wire -
The total construction Of single duct conduit for
capacity Of this conduit may he estimated sufficient
for 2 200 feet Of wire, or nearly 500 miles.
dnt for tncandescent lighting Is le6,745 containing
gran and telephone couthretors have been laid arc
% s.,nsvs from Ninth to IT. Broaaway fro.
third to Fortieh..t: broadway from Pesrsr. NORTH e
FsTh
cInrc.t to College place chSrcS. n, EschaSss psss
S ,S ECsse %e. & rOsa.ay And s""
Fifhavs Grrenest from ring 70 Hon.ton.. cortl udt
ca way to- ss,sars TSrv.econs. so@ N Broad".;
TO n 1s mo % to Brad
Gth.st. from Van ierbilt place to sixth.svs WI"
ghins and power ccsdus.rs have hssn laid are the
fsllowing:
Broadway from Fourteenth to Fortynfth...; Min.
% rsn ssass rs% s's to so.s%.T
sxthave TO Broa l~ay: Twentvsirth.st from Sixth
1ay from s.aa1r 1S 70 Foa
seconds. from sixthave. Broadway; sIxhave. froa
The streets ami avenues which the conductors Of
tue Edison Illuminating Company have been laid for IN
candescsn' lighting are as follows:
Eghteenthst. from Broadway IN sixthavs. Nusteeah-
s sy from S sv e fs S% s1s
ave-; Twent' hirdst from Fourth siIt1avei Tweav.
from Filth - sx.have: Twe.y. .svsnth.t: 70
T. @ t st. sp% sn 'g sIsss;
,S% e E
8. from Fh.avs to Brssdway; Tnrv; v;foarth.st from
Tnr to s,i.hs8s % '''I thirty u ssSsSss
to sstave Thirty ninis, fro% fnavs =. Brosssa s1
i S% II Pn ave to Forty
sixth to Toir,yeighth ST. Foarthave from Thirty sixthS
COMPANIES ORDERED To REMOVE POLES.
On all the and avenues tho companies WHOSE
wires have been provided for have been directed to
rcmOve their poles and wires from the surface within
ninety days, and at he expiration Of that time In
case hey arc removed, II becomes possible and
proper for the local authorities to remove them forth
The capacity of conduit provided in tho City Of
NewYork during the existence Of the Board Of Elec-
there in city in the world, far the nformar
ton Of the Board extends; and noiw outstanding the
great difficulties which surrounded this whole sub
ject in this city, which has greater mileage Of wro
than any other, and where the circumstances of un-
the conversion of the present overhead to an unsr
ground system Is fact about to be accomplished, 70
S'tt the western Sn ree h
500 miles OF wire underground between Exchange
place and tho Brooklyn Bridge.
The MetropOa an Telephone and Telegraph Company
has 500 miles of wire In the sixthave conduit
besides hundreds Of miles moro IN other parts Of tho
city, and the Edison Illuminating Company, whose
conductors laid in the trench d the time OF con
struction, mas, has already oeen sa'd more than
100 miles of conductors underground.
Tho Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany the western Union Telegraph Company The
Brush Electric Light Company, and others, arc pre-.
pairing to enter tho at many points, and should
the efforts OF tho Board DO seconded by energetic scton
on tho part of the local authorities when the ninety
days Of notice has expired. many OF the streets muse
necessarily be freed from tho dangerous and unsightv
pole systems.
POLES AND WIRES TAKEN DOWN.
The actual number Of poles and wires removed from
tho surface Of the streets as result OF tho WORK %
the Board. Is as follows:
n, s.st aide Of Thir Lave, bstween Forsy-six and
w 0ns hundred tenth sts All pow
On s.s' .S ss,s,ss sias q 7S pos
On Fss; ;nnnss 10 pe,sa
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