Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-15
A CHEAT SCHEME

\ For Rapid Transit in New York-A Railroad From Park Place to Tar rYtoWn-On Masonry Five Stories | K4Igh-Bus1ness Blocks Beneath the
 Raile-A Cost of $9O,OOO,OOO.
 The Peoples Rapid Transit company is the
 name of company that proposes to revolu- l tionizs the railroad business in New York city. The plans of the company are in the
 hands of Mayor Grant and it is proposed to | push matters as fast as possible. Comfort for the public and money for the promoters | of the enterprise are what the company is ! after. The scheme is the product of MT. D. ! O. Linsley, well known civil and railroad | engineer.
 The company was organized under the general railroad act of 1850. Its certificate of incorporation was filed on September Il ! of last year, and 8 week later maps of loca- and Westchester. The company proposes to build railroad between Park Place and Tarrytown. Between Tarrytown and the Harlem river the road is to be double tracked. Between the Harlem and Park place are to be four tracks, built upon what is known as Lineley's visduct plan. The viaduct road is to be constructed upon a system of masonry arches, crossing streets at such an elevation as to avoid all interference with their public use. The intention of the company is to construct the road at an average height in the city of five stories. The height will, of course, be determined by the lay of the land. The right of way is to be purchased. When the reader glances over the proposed route an idea of the cost of the right of way will be obtained. From Park Place the road will run between Broadway and Church street to Canal street. Crossing Canal it will run between Mercer and Greene streets, and then curve to the westward in order not to vyi1l rnp between Fifth and Sixth avenues as far as Twenty-eiQhth street. There it will curve westward again, and at Thirty-fourth street run between Seventh and Eighth avenues. It will preserve straight course until Fifty fourth street is reached. There it will take another westerly slant, and at Seventy-ffth street take 8 course between Tenth avenue and the Boulevard and preserve it as far as One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street. From Washington Heights the road will be built on high ground until compelled to turn to the east in order to secure an advan- tageous opportunity to cross Spuyten Duyvil creek. From Spuyten Duyvil to Tarrytown the road will be built on the surface.
 The estimated cost of the road and its equipment, including the real estate which 1t intends to buy for right of way and improve, is $90, GOO, GOO, made up in great part thus: Park Place, $41 ,576, ,O00; cost of viaduct structure between the same points, $20, ,O00,- 900; construction and equipment, SIS 400, 900. In the balance is the estimated cost of loop running around the battery from Park Place and returning from the East river front estimates were made by Professor W. P. Trowbridge of Columbia col lege, and Walter &hanley of Montreal, an en- gineer of considerable prominence. The company proposes to build freproof struc- lures along it's entire line under the viaduct after the fashion of the stores under the East river bridge. These structures will be rented for business purposes or for dwellings, &C., cording to locality.
 There will be no curves exceeding four de- grees and no grade more than forty five feet to the mile. The length of the road is thirty miles. The structure will be substantial and @ high rate of speed can be maintained. The income from the rental of the buildings in the space beneath the tracks would be 30 large that fares could be very low. The promoters of the scheme are confident of success.
 The necessary amount of stock has been subscribed and the first blow will be struck when ample provision has been made for all the capital required.
 If the road is built passengers can be car ried from 166th street to Park Place in if teen minutes. Owing to the solidity of the structure trains can be handled as if they were on the surface, and a higher rate of
 
 rapid tranAit road suggested. People will not be compelled to climb stairs to reach trains, for every station will be furnished with ele- vators.
 It is expected that the time between Tar rytown and the lower part of the city will not exceed forty minutes for express trains, and local trains will run at a rate of speed equal to that of the local trains on the Hud- son River railroad.
 "The idea of construction may be descrlb- ed as a two-story viaduot, the first fiat having a with of fifty feet, with an elevation of about sixty feet above street level. The second story with the same axis or center line as the one on which it rests, would be twenty two feet wide on top, seventy-hvs feet above the street. The lower viaduct will have a track on each side or edge, the upper one two tracks side by side.
 '.These structures are to be mainly of brick arches, both in longitudinal and cross sections the lower one being, as 1t were, complete in itself before the second tier of arches forming the second story is raised on it. This system applies to all the work through the blocks. The streets will be spanned by steel bridges of the most modern and most approved designs.
 s'It is contemplated to have some thirty one stations between SpuyteH Duyvil Creek and the Battery, an average of about one station to each half mile of distance"
 The present capital of the company Is $500, ,000, and its president is D. 0. Linsley, a civil engineer, No. 150 Broadway. Direc- tors in the company are l.. l.. Chittenden, James NJ. Townsend, G. L. Morse, N. .. Miller, John H. Rice and 0. v. Siddell. If the company gets it's road under way there will probably be changes in it's directory.
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