New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-16
4 GREAT Rapid TRANSIT SCHEME
Mr. PLArrs ELECTION REMrSIsCENoEs.

CHINESE REGARD FOR GENERAL GRANT political
PROPHECIES
FROM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT rHK rnrHusEl
ALBANY. Jan. 49," w lid II happen. General" said
q friend to General Hustled few days ago. that Com
modore Vanderbilt buiit that rapid transit road
from the City HALL IN New-York to tbs Grand Central
Depot for which no procured . charteri"
Never heard about that repieI tho General with
an ar OF astonshmsn. Well the fact Is that tho Tel
lows who got tue oaarter deman led cool million OF
Vanderbilt for It, and he told them that he would see
them Hades first Vanderbilt regarded the hui ding
OF such rapid transit roai as risky from financial
point Of view. He doAibe II 1t woud be paying In
1t before the period OF the elevated roads
and therefore he red out when he asked to put
up a million He would have paid 100000 for the
charter; not anything more"
Is the charter alive ."
Some say 1t Is AMI some say 1t IL not; hink tn
lawyers disagree about it But this do know. namely
that Mr. Depew and other men connected with the Sew-
YORK Central thinking Of building rapid transit
road from the Grand Central Depot to the Battery.
There Is ledge OF rock running from the Battery to
Communipaw through which there will eventually be
put a railroad tunnel Then the great railways coming
through New Jersey to the Hudson River could run
trains through the tunnel and the rapid transit road into
the Grand Central Depot"
VIII not the tunnel in progress from the New
Jersey shore to NewYork be sufficient for tho rail-
waysf"
That tunnel never will be completed. They are run
ming 1t through bottomless pit OF mud and they will
have to abandon 1t That at least is the opinion OF
sng neers."
Is there not some though Of bridging the Hudson
between ao5oken and NewYorki"
There IL, AMI hear that two bills will be introduced
In the Legislature permit OF the construction OF two
bridges across the Hudson River at NexYork one from
Hoboken an the other from Fort Washington. I. Is
suspected that the Pennsylvania Railway Is behnt one
OF these projects and that Erie railway behind the
other"
What do you think would be the best rapid transit
structnrei"
The system Of part underground and part open work
-snch exists from Forty-secon list northw ird on
wuch Is uset BY the tracks OF the Central
the Harlem and the New and Nor-haven- You
might call 1t the sunsen track system There Ia not
enough tunnel t. serious discomfort and then
comes open space where there is lisht and air. I
have been the underground railways Of London
They abominable. hope we shall never have any
thing like them In this country. But by the sunken
tracK system trains could run rapidly and yet the
passengers the rapid transit would be comfort
able"
Alfred @. Chaplin. now Mayor Of Brooklyn, while here
few days ago closing up his AFFAIRS State Controller
said regarding tue rapid transit problem In New YORK;
The problem is financial one. nor engineering one
The ell sneers do almost anything nowadays But
the difficulty Is 10 the money. That is not saying
that money is scarce In New-YorK On the contrary.
there great abundance OF Il. money that is seeking
Investment low of interest buf capitalists
wary about investing their money In anything which Is
subject to the interference OF the state city on als
which procured from legislative bodies II is
the OF anything procure from the state either from
a LegislatIre or : Common Council. which has made
rapid transit roals enormously expensive. Ii the
actual OF the rapid transit roais-tha Is OF the
roadbed right Of way rails. cars eto-had only To Dc
considered. capitalists woull swiftly step In and
supply Nev-York with rapid transit But there is an
factor be considered the action OF o1cials
OF State or the city, AMI that makes capitalists
the stock OF their rOalsin order that they nay
some profit left to themselves when at asr the
roads get under operation"
E1-United States Senator Thomas c. Patt, who
here for several days last week attending witness
In the suit brought against him by Att ornev General
O'Brien desrnIne his legal tito 60 the oftce OF
Quarantine COMMISSIONER listened in the courtroom to
testimony with amused interest In regard 10 us
voting In Owego. MY lawyers" be sai TO y friend,
advised vote last in oseso saying that
It might prejudice this Jury against me- But as had
Owego for election day resolved TO be
again. II did vote. Going upon che cars
from New York TO Owego telegrapned ahead to the
Republican leaders roga County that would ike to
meet them at the Abwagl House Owego When
reached Owego they were all there Boys. said the
Democrats succeeded In killing vote tails year
Now propose them smart FOR It. want you 70
hustle as you never hustled before zet out the
Republican vote In ths coanty' WE'LL thew did hustle
That evident from election figures We RepuDu-
have had such majority IN Iiogs county In
great many years The Democrats haG Thought tuey
Eat carry Iny, Dut candidate Tor Assembly,
man. instance. / ad ], LAG maisrity
Election ngnt Governor Hill and Thomas o. fldtt,
we're OF ciIef tagonists IN tue pohticai
confess that mai just ended, on tile cars lhe Gov
ernor had Jun el tue train al tnlra .nl vas
travelling 10 Albany, while Mr.. Plat oOs the same
tram At Owego for New York. took seat in Tao
drawing room car" said Mr.. Plat, whirled ABOUT my
u get view out Of the opposite Wlhuo"-ahu
there sat the Governor"
Journeying on toward Albany the Governor met
friend. " How do think the state nas gone COY
crnor !" SAID he. Well from my alvlces al tlnlrA,
sau the Governor, should TANK II had sono hopuoh
can" The Governor was mistaken 10 tue e1testo
1900 but IL Is not easy matter 10 determine
a goue which over million paliols are
Ii Hung Chang the Chinese statesman mad great
admiration for General Grant Wherever We went IN
CLina,' said Colonel L. ID. Grant speaking recently
abou: General Grants visit to that empire. we were
grra, Kindness owing TO orders gFeu W
Ii Hung Chtug one amusing feature OF our Visit was
wherever III Hung Cnang could bring II ABOUT uo
had his portrait taken with that or my iather iokn
figures the picture on ons OCCASION e sdI
You and l. General GRAFT, are tle L~O greatest zen
erals OF the age. Ii Hung Chang nis WI laat M
regard for my father not temporary QUO ie4'p
the representative or China In NeSf YORK 0y nls oruecs
places handsome foverb upon my tdtGcrs toino III
kiverslae Park"