New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-02
THE Rapid TRANSIT PLANS.
MP. PARSONS AGAIN TEsTIFlEs BEFORE
THE INQUIRY COMMISSION.

THE INQUIRY tOMMlSSlO-H.
Tho snccial Rapid Transit Inquiry Commission
Yesterday continued its session at NO 80 froau-
ya,. chief Engineer Parsons was again on the
49,, I'D vas crosse xamincd by George Zabris-
,,o counsel for some Of the protesting property
owners.
There was a provision. Mr.. Parsons said. In the
,1ans whereby the Commission reserved the right
TO excavatc into certain cross Streets SO as 10
ho,o large chamber leading to the galleries.
Below Park Place. Mr. Parsons said that the walls
Of the galleries would be OF composite character
.rd as thin as they could practically be made. In
-enlv to q question from Mr.. Zabrskie. the witness
said that the cost Of tearing down and removing
the walls Of the street vaults would be from u 10
"a cubic yard. according TO the charcter OF their
composition
The question OF local stations and length OF plat
farms was then gone into. MIR. Parsons said That
a platform 10 feet long would accommodate -FOUR
cars The platforms could be EXTENDED 10 greater
length il It was found necessary.
Mr. Shepard the counsel for the Rapid Transit
Board interrupted TIE cross-examinaton OF Mr..
parsons at this point to call Frank S. Cannon 10
the witness char Mr.. Cannon testified that he
vac general Superintendent OF the New-iork d.
vision OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Cues
TONED as TO the number OF passengers carried day
nv the Staten Island Rapid Transit road. he said
that the daily was 5000 persons lie then
cava his views upon the running OF trains upon
tho proposed underBlOull III tHio N'tS'
would move trains" he said. at short intervals.
and | would want the bcst-knOwn equipment l
uould want the automatic electric box signal sys-
TEN and the automatic quick-actng air brake.
would transport 1900 persons. seated. one way
ovorv hour The number OF passengers carried
could be increased % per cent by some standing up.
The speed between Park Place and Fourteenth-st
would necessarily be SOW. ! would expect 10 run
local trains a timetable schedule OF WE'VE we've
miles an hour The speed would be sixteen miles
A. hour between stations. The speed or express
trains would be thirty miles an hour, reaching
ihirty-six miles between stations. ,
on the basis OF 1900 persons carried over the
route I'm an hour and allowing for the dui hours ne
(Mr Cannon thought that the daily transportation
~ passengers would be about four hundred thousand
carried both ways. The witness sad that with me
road no trouble would arise over the ascending ana
descending grades defined In Mr. Parsons pans.
He said that the speed OF thlrty-n miles per
hour by express trains could De ihaihtalheu ny
a Track having asSe"u'iS e'""'S VI
Wr Cannon said that he would run local trains
on seyenty-seconds Roadway. and express trains on
Two minutes Roadway. He considered IL 70 De me
-. "a HE plan TO carry the four tracks 10 the
,crmina. and not have only two tracks peio" '"c
EEaward ! Farrell a contractor. was then ex-
arn,ned He said he had been connected with the
nnstrIction OF the Baltimore tunnel He adoe1
nat i was drift tunnel. while the one propose
tnr New-York is what he termed "A cut ana cover
,unnel He declared that the last tunhei was tne
IN difcu,t of construction During the cohstruc-
r az nc Baltimore tunnel. according 10 the wiz
ro.s street traffic was maintained as well as the
oneratIon of streetcars ,, .x ..o.. oxaro
Nr Parsons then recalled anu ~;
tn AZ length in regard TO some details OF MS
plans . dto,rned until Tomorrow morn
ing at II o'clock.