The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-01
ALI THE ENGINEERS RESIGN
Work Stopped on ,ho THIRD Avenue Cable
Road.

A. H. Lighthall, chief engineer Of the Third
Avenue Railroad Company. followed by all his
assistants left the office at Third avenue
and Sixty 18th street last evening. Mr. Light
hall resigned on Monday. but the resignation
did not take effect until yesterday. This ac-
ton on the part OF the engineers means fur
Their delay in the construction OF the Third ave-
nue. cable road. The company confidently ex-
pected to have tho road running In six months.
but this now seems impossible. as all the en-
ployees at work on its construction were paid
last night and laid Off until further notice
Mr.. Lighthalls assistants were his son
Harry, his father. W. X. Lighthall: r. p.
Towassek. d. c. Hawoy. Francis J. Boas. W.
w. Kendall, James Craig. and j. Is. Havlland.
The copies of their designations. which MIR.
Lighthall showed last night, all told OF alleged
bad treatme emit at tho hands Of the officials OF
the company. There has been trouble before
between Mr.. LiGhthall and the railroad people,
and once before he threatened to resign.
When the work OF building the cable road
was begun eighteen months ago the contractor
was Philadelphia man, who was subsequently
obliged to abandon the job. and Thomas +
Crimmins finished 1t practically on his own
terms. The work remaining to be done 1! at
the two power houses at Bayard street and at
s5st o o a aes tSe ssbss
the % dssos d. %Th ld ss
1Ss Sse A IT, sHa have
san snSsy hn w alv rdns S
Third avenue surface gar With his wife when
s sss on fhsy took G seas beside r
enss the s ana q sSs rosd Mr. tHs
c OF chiet Engineer Liehthali that the Young
man and his wife LETT the ear, When Chief
ins a " and was told Of the, attack that had
been made upon him. the Chief went at once
At one time it looked as i the three men would
come to blows, butfriends interfered and this
Treasurer Beaver accused Mr.. Lighthall OF
giving vacations with pay to some =, Of his en-
torted Tp as
q his faithful fss Of ns duties
THAT is no reason. The employees in your
department are the gply ones who get vaca-
Ysh IS rns MY has had
t snIsrg ~ Esie!0n and has always drawn his
well. YOU are too e1trayagant any way
in Kob tRs9 ~
! said the road was surrounded by a pack OF
highway robbers. and that he was one Of
' imm ediately after this incident Mr.. Light.
| hall went to his office and wrote out his resig.
| nation. which he sent to President Albert j.
| Elias Mr.. LiGhthalPs staff followed his ex'
| ample.
| nation was matter OF regret to him. for. attei
| spending three years getting such a big piece
| OF work In shape no should like to have stayed
p ne opH is" he said. that they do not know
nything about the work that had to be
! IL is costing them too much or that the work
ried i out according to the orlalnsl plans ant
the cost OF all the work. excert the laying o.
| the subway. was known beforehand. That
| cost no one could estimate. for there were nc
| maps which would show us what pipes
| and other distractions -, We shoulc
meet in the streets. We knew O.
these only when thy wero uncovered
| in the ditch. This extra work could not bt
| contracted for except as Mr.. Crimmins ha:
| DONE by charging what it costs him and per
centage Of profit. The work from Sixth stree
! to the Post Office has cost three or four timei
| as much per mile as anywhere above that
| Now every piece OF ironwork is on tho ground
| and there Is nothing to do but see that 1t !:
put tog ether. and the engines are oil built ant
| ready to set up
"The plans Of the road are my property. anc
| have taken them away, but the company hai
tracings OF them all in their office; l shal
| bring a suit for damages against those wht
accused me Of being highway robber"