New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-20
\ VAST RAPID-TRANSIT PLAN.
ABLE FINANCIERS ADVOCATE 1T. TOO.
UNDER THE CITY STREETS AND UNDER THE
RIVERS IN TWO TRACK TUNNELs-FREIGHr
AS WELL As PASSENGER TRAFFIC
CONTEMPT

'Hc solution OF the rapld-trdrSit probem, lhc o'0
offered by the Metropolitan Underground Railway
Company, which was incorporated at Albany yes
'erday, is probably the boldest and most COM
prchensivc. So vast indeed it is that were
there not behind it a company composed of some
OF the strongest capitalists and most sagacous
| business men in the country. one might he dis
posed TO doubt the seriousness of its projectors.
Briefly stated, the project in its entirety is that
OF an underground railroad system involving the
construction Of doublc-tmcl tunnel under the
East River, from Battery Park to At
| lanic-ave., Brooklyn: similar tunnel
! under the North River from the Battery
| 10 jersey City; another, of the same size
from the Battery, under Broadway, to Union
square. At this point it will branch TO the left
! and To the right. The left branch will 90 on
under Broadway TO and under the Boulevard to
one-hundred-and-f ffty-ffth-st. The right, or
east branch, will take northeast course to the
line of Third-ave. at Eightccnth-st.. and thence
north under Thrd-avp. to Harlem Bridge. At
the bridge its course will bc changed toward the
northwest, the tunnel keeping in g oSe proximity
70 the Harlem River until II reaches the line of
! One hundrcd-and-ffiy-fft thus forming with
the left branch n complete circuit.
The Boulevard line will be extended through the
Annexed District north from Onc-hundrcd-and-
Hiiyilth-St. 10 knesbridgc, thence around Jerome
! l1rk and down Thrd-aYe. to the Harlem bridge
! again.
Two other downtown branches make up the
fifth section of the vast work The first of these
( consists of loop extending from the terminal
station. at Whtchall-st.. under Front and Water
SIS to the line of Essex, continuing north under
/ that thoroughfarc and Avcnuc-A 70 1cnth-st
/ thence Northwest TO a connection with the Third
] nv limo iirI Tho branch
| will extend under Wcsi-st. from Whit'hall-st to
J TWcifih-st and thence north under Tcnth-avc. to
/ q Junction with the Broadway line at Seventy
scronds'
To carry out ihi, great project n company has
hccn formed including Austin Corhin. the leading
/ spirit of the undertaking, Nicc-Prc,Icnt Morton,
! vi ,tary Tracy. General john Newton. II. ..
/ W )ur. cN-Nnyor Hewitt. cN-Prcsdcnt Norton
Of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
pauy President Frederick p. Olcott. of the Cen
/ tral Trust Company: President W. B. Dlckcrman,
Of the Stock Exchange; John Sloane, President
| Charles : Smith. of the Chamber Of Commerce; :;
| General Samuel Thomas. Calvin ;. Brcc, chair
man Of the Democratic National Committee; +. f.
Knowlion. Of vi liam Krowlton a sons: General
Horace X Porter, W. t. Kcndcll, &. T. Hunting
ton. President T.. f. Wilslow. Of the Lake Point,
81 Louis and san Funclsco Railroad Company +;
j. Edward Simmons. President ID. {. Corbn, of the
S,o,,,,,. aud Nor,tor, P,ilro,J Comn,ny. Albert
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man Ilatt; tredcrlrN brown, OF II. l.
Horton ~ 60. Timothy l.. Woodruff, Edward Lau
tcrbach. President orr. Of the Produce Exchange
ma, ii,..,r. ara, uc..rs Austin Corbi, Tracy.
V,,..n uro,,,u dickinson SIoaro Knowlton
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man and Iautcrbach.
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incornor;ttlou and 9, ponrd ont Iy Mr. Corbin
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tween N-v-i York and brooklyn. bat if II, general
plan i, approvcd boy the Rapid- Transit Commission,
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StcIuWdy:
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william o..nv,v .-r chairman AID t,. Hoard of Rand
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Gentlemen. ! hand yog herewith uani hlct with
nap which h,i h,.n pslar,d h.for. the aIpontmon:
of YOUR commissions H. wa, rr,ro.d q, construct the
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