The evening world., 1890-07-25
The Work to Be DOno Before Horse.
Cars Are Abandoned.
It Will Cost the Third Avenue
Line S2,OOO,O 900.
Details of the Plans for the New
System on broadway.

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The Third Avenue Surface Railroad
Company prom SEES to give its patrons "a
continuous ride the entire length of Man
haitian Island in cable cars on and after
Jan. /. 1891, and now that the officials of
the Broadway Road have completed a
contract with John u. Crimmins for lay
ing payements preparatory to the intro
duction of the cable system on its line, it
can he accepted ms n fact that surfG q car
travel is going to be Of II vastly improved
nature before long.
An ElESGNG WORLD reporter saw Presi-
dent Thompson, of the broadway line,
yesterday afternoon.
Yes, it's n fact that we have on.
tracted with Mr.. Crimlnins for the laying
of the pavement. " he said. and ! pre-
sumo he will start operations III n week or
so. really couldn't tell you just when
the new road will be completed. You See
we haven't gone into details as yet.
There are to be new cars, for we will
have IN entire new lot of rolling stock,
and as yet we haven't placed the contract
for building these new cars. However,
it won't take a very long time once u car
building company gets started to build a
big lot of cars.
No, | couldn't tell you how quickly
we cun make the run from the Battery TO
Central Park under the new cable sys-
TEN. Certainly it will be some minutes
ahead OF the horse system. But we
haven't really figured that question out
with any degree of detiniteness as yet.
The cost? Well, That Is something we
are particularly interested III ourselves,
and 1t is rather too early to offer the pub
lie any figures now. 1t will cost enough.
you may be very sure"
lie ~laughingly added hat very little of
the details of the new road was known by
any of the officials, owing to the met that
the scheme was of such recent birth.
Contractor John ID, Crimmins said he
had the contracts to build both the pave
ments to be constructed by the city and
by the cable road people.
All the preliminaries to the cOnstruc-
ton have been fixed, " he said, "and the
permits are issued by the municipal
authorities and by the State Railroad
Commission. The plant Of the central
power house of the new system will be in
the present Office and stable building of
the company, between Fiftieth and Fifty
first streets, on Sixth and Seventh
avenues.
~, sides there will ! be three power
stations along the route, but ut lust what
points has not yet been decided. The
syndicate leasing the line-tlle EIkins-
Widener Syndicate has had ample expe-
rience with cable systems in Chicago,
Baltimore, Pittsburg and Philadelphia.
The New York system will be con-
structed on plans similar TO the system
utilized in Baltimore, which is of the
latest construction aud embodies all the
best methods known. The only real
difference i'll the different systems. by the
way, lies in the manufacture of the grip
itself.
The Gable Company is required by the
city to build the pavement between the
car tracks and also for two feet outside of
the tracks on either side. The city will
build the rest of the pavement.
1T is my intention to carry along the
work of building both cable system and
pavement together to save time and lessen
the annoyance to the public
Altogether there will be about one
hundred and sixty thousand yards of new |
surface pavement laid, of which the Cable |
Company is to build 100, 200 yards.
This pavement will be of granite laid
on an exceptionally strong foundation of
concrete, with tar and gravel joints.
Selected stone will be used exclu-
sively and the work will be of the most
thorough character.
+" OF course i'll carrying out this new
enterprise merchants doing business on
Broadway will be seriously disturbed at
brief intervals. Still, | nave ARRANGED IN
proceed with the work with the least
possible inconvenience TO any one and
only trust the public will not become too
impatient.
" find that work of this kind can be
advanced nos materially by the use of
machinery, and Sc | wish TO warn the
people that l shall use engines on the
streets to hurry things along.
The displacement of ground for the
system will necessitale an excaya-
tlOn of fifteen feet on an average. Ii is
impossible to estimate with any accuracy
the changes in the location of water
mans. gas mains, subways and the pneu-
matte tubes of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company.
The tifteen-foot excavations will COM
pei the lowering at each street crossing of
every main used for those purposes.
AT all events, this will furnish abundant
opportunity to all companies using these
to make thorough repairs. SO once
the pavement Is hnlshed 1t will not be
to disturb il for many years.
The companies having these mains
have already been notified by Commits
sloner of Public Works GllTOy that the
cable construction is to be proceeded
with, and he has requested them to make
tue necessary preparations.
There viii be four starting points in
the work Of construction at Bowling
Green, working northward at Canal
street, working southwark, and at Thirty
second street, working north and south
look for a good deal of obstruction
to travel Just south of Thirty second
street. The greater part of the work in
the noTtherly end of Broadway will lie in
rock,
" Ny pavement contract with the city
only as fur as Thirty-secund
street, but the cable company will build
the pavement between their tracks and
two feet on the outside as far as Fifty
street.
" In the construction Of tins work il is
expected that three entire blocks will be
absolutely shut oil from traffic except the
cars at one time.
The present surface cars will be kept
moving undo their usual headWay and
efforts will be made to interfere with
them as little as possible.
II am satisfied the Broadway cable
road viii be the best in existence. Ii will
be built with rare c~areiulness and at a
very great expense.
The officials OF the Third Avenue line
they will nave everything IN run
ming order ON their new system BY JAM,
1891, when there Will be u cable line eight