The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-12-11


The expenditures for the year amount
ed to sl,655,90s.23. leaving a balance on
hand Dec. | of s373,5i3.33.
Regarding the Liberty street extension
and the plaza Improvement, the report
says that all the property needed with.
three exceptions has been paid for.
A contract has been entered into for
the paving of the plaza with granite
ocks. and the work Is now being
prosecuted.
The total amount received from rentals
amounted TO sl09.2 iO05.of which S9l, AS So
was received from real estate and s17.-
1ai.li from telegraph and telephone
wires.
The police force. comprising the cap
tain, two sergeants and ninety-four pa
trOlmen. made 295 arrests.
There were tity-two runaways of ve-
hlcles on the bridge roadways,. wtnety-
seven causing slight damage. five were
serious and twenty caused no damage.
ON the bridge one hundred and FIVE
persons were accidentally injured by
falling on the stars and from other
causes; fiftynine persons were taken i'll.
and there were two sudden deaths; two
persons jumped from 1t. and six lost
children were found and restored to their
homes; three vessels Were deprived OF
their topmasts while passing under the
Bridge.
room on the Brooklyn platform occurred
on the morning of Jan. 2, almost COM
petely destroying the building. The
cause of fire was supposed to be spon-
The travel on the Bridge Railway
continued to increase until in August
last, when for the first time during its
operation the travel began to decrease
and has continued to do SO up to the
present time. but at diminishing ratio.
The number of passengers carried In
half of yer cent. greater than the
number carried two years before. in
October. 1891.
From the opening, Of the railway to
sixty-seven days, 2Oi,s75,2s6 passengers
We're carried, During any month, the
greatest number transported was 4,O33,-
go, in October. 1892. which included the
week from the Sth TO, the 18th of the
Columbian festival: The next greatest
rent official year, an average of lai,OS0
per day. In one day of twenty-four
hours, the maximum number carried was
umbian t.-,tival; the next greatest NUM-
Der was 49,, ,Oj. ON Jan. II, and the mini
mum number during the current official
year was i5,2So, on Aug. 20.
trains have been run with great regu-
larity and few interruptions. The total
time los, by delays. from all causes, was
Is ii seconds per day of twenty-four
hours, or of one minute for l54,66S pas
sengsrs carried OF the total time lost
due TO failure of or a defect in some
of the several parts of the cable hauiing
machinery: the remaining 6. per cent.
being due to accidents common in ordi-
nary railroad transportation.
During the period covered by this re-
port, from grip failures altogether there
were but seven delays, aSgregating one
hour and nine minutes, OF the tota! thir-
ty-seven delays from all causes whatever
during the 1900 hours the cable was in
active operation.
For switching at the stations the trains
hauled by cable. and for hauling the
trains over the entire railway generally
for the four hours each day. from ! to
a. NJ, and at other occasional times
when from any. cause the cable is
until recently there were six, all of one
type, each upon two pairs of driving
wheels. and weighing when loaded
twenty-five tons.
To provide for greater facilities. for
hauling the trains, a locomotive of an
entirely different design was recently pro-
cured. with the view, il its, operation
was found satisfactory. to adopt 1t as
used, it has four driving and four truck
wheels, one pair of the latter being
pivoted to and placed at each end of the
.ocomotive frame. It's weight whca
loaded Is thirty-four and one-half tons.
4 test, preliminary to putting It In regu-
| lar service, was made showing that on
dry rails and under favorable conditions
It's hauling CAPACITY Is more than one
half greater than that of the locomotives
previously in the service here.
All matters connected with the two new
stations have been referred 70 the Termi-
nal Committee. The work of construct.
ing the new staten In Brooklyn had
been commenced. and at the request OF
many citizens work had been SUSPENDED
pending further inquiry In the matter.
Certain changes have been made in
the adopted plans Of the New York sta
ton, which will reduce the cost and ren-
Il lar