New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-23
THE RAPID TRANSIT PLAN.
MR. sTE1NwAY GIVES FURTHER DETAILS
OF THE ELM-sT PROJECT.
HE ADVOCATES FASTENING THE WORK BY PUT
TING SECTION GANGS ALL ALoN'


THE ROUTE.
The Rapid Transit Commission oia "o' -
Yesterday because Of the absence Oh Nv" W.
Commissioners from town. 1t was s'a.eo .
b. Parsons the chief engineer OF the oo"'."'. 800
would have the details of the new Eim-s'. rou.'
all ready to submit to the Board al i.s "en. .',on
ing William Steinway SAID Oh 'ho !, a.
When Mr. Parsons's report Is maoe' ~ -, n
now practically completed. every uc'aA wv
cipher Of the cost and construction wiz o'
bodied i'm it, The express stations OF 'he ''o
,,, h -, Duare Chambers and Centre SITS; at
Union Square at Twenty third-st at Forty-secoh"
st. under the Grand Central Station AT io's "e'
SQUARE AT Fifty-ninth to SiNtieth ST. ana 'i'n a.
mile intervals along the Boulevard 10 ssp''"e
on the West Side. and at like Intervals VII Wy
Park.ave eastern line above Forty-second>s'' 10
the Harlem River. Downtown the way rains
will stop at the Tombs, at Grand-s''' a' ''o'''''
ST. and at Eighth-st. 49,.
Under the Elm-st. improvements '""' So
will be eighty feet wide to Great 'ones-'' -,
which point the new Lafayette Place as eA'cn'"
south will begin. the width up i'aia!e,'e ~"
and Fourth-avc 10 Fourteenth-st. being lp lee''
From Fourteenth to Forty-second St the wid'h ~
g., foe, From the Grand Central Station under
which the underground station VIII centre up
Park-sye TO the Harlem River, for ths eastern
branch. the width of the avenue ~ ioJ ieet i"o
width of Forty-second-st is le feet, ana broaow"!
from Forty-second-st, TO ftfty-hinth-s - Ioo eo'
wide Inc Boulevard to the city hints IL i"' '0''
wide it's entire length.
AN Important feature Of tho undere 'ound sys-
lem az panncd will be that the station platforms
will be three feet aboys the bottom or inc tuhHei'
and as the depth of tn. tunnel VIII DO ohiy cow"
feet, except at Murray iiill where II VIII DO io"'
teen feet the descent at tho most VIII 10 o.iy
equal to the height OF an ordinary rcoH' inc S'1''-
WAYS consisting OF eleven st~pn. the roaa runs
no IA
scent TO and ascent from tho stations VIII DO
much easier than those TO and from the elevator
platforr OF the Manhattan Railway WIN Pe'-
feet vcntilaiion--a result easily accomplished w
present engineering skill-by complete hshtihs ny
electricity and with the absence OF steam ioco'
motive power. the underground roaa' as 'd'u '""
ought prove all that is sought
ION the section plan of doing the work there VIII
be no trouble whatever IN building the main ana
western lines witGin year from the beginning
vf the work In conjunction Win Inc EIil-sl. iAi'
provement next spring. II is only matter OF OK
cavatlng. lining and covering SO many sections AZ
once AS the trench will be almost wholly In TO- H.
linin, ony viii be needed for the SIDES. steer
beams ana archcd viii support the pave
nent While the eXcaVaths ana hhlr6 a'c pe'i r
Tho sITong inier"sI in the Eim-st. route mani
tested by propcrty owners ana cltlLen3 schei a.y
since the exclusive announcement mace IN ne ne
construction OF tae road ana the Elm-st: improve
Inent simultaneously next spring continued u-
abated Yesterday Property-owners ana tenants
in Forty -second-st., Long Acre Square ana UP INC
boulevard Wed with those In Elm-st IN earnestly
con. iderng the situation A well-known merchant
I'm Forty-s-cond-st between FUtn-aVe. ana DIodu-
way. said. This u.s. indeed, good news IL means
mat BroJkyni,,s can step right into Forty second
ST. and do their trading. 10 Delmoncos or
Shcrry's at Orty -fourth-st and Flttn-aVe, or 10
one OF our splendid hotels in this distrlct lot
dinner and then TO the theatre In the evening ~
means that the movement for improving property
already seen N the ne.ghborhood OF fNth-aVe
and Forty-setond-st. Is to be Tremendously a-S.i-
tLird-s, what Twenty-third-st: Is now TO Four,
teenth-st Il vii, make Long Acre square one os
the great hotel, theatre and amusement centres u
Charles l. Wett,rbee OF the New Manhattan
Hotel AT Forty-second-st. and Madison-ave;. saId
~ the plans announced by Mr. Steinway IN me
Tribune ar carried out. II means trene no0us
boom in the erection OF fine stores ana ONE. o G
ngs in Forty second between the Graz en-.
trail station and Broadway. II VIII bring brooklyn
people over here in great numbers. 1877, ..
Oscar Hammersten. who owns tne Dioch IIoue
on which stands olympia. In broadway between
Fortv-foirth ard Forty-ffth SITS, said: surveyors
for the Rapid Transit Commission nave pern a.
worls surveying the ground for a big undergrounn
station in the SQUARE directly In front or OyHpat
Trey said the station would be built there. W.T. ~
entrances from all directions. The construc.lom ot
~ road as stated by Mr.. Steirwav means tnas
naonia from All along the New-York central ana
,ho Ncw-York and Putnam railroads can come
d,raciiv easily and quickly down TO Long Acre
Sruarc and thence 70 TO hotels or tnea,res i ana
othcr amusement places In the immediate neign-
Iorhood II means n big future for Long Mere
Souare and that the lines 81 travel 10 ana iroih
prro"ll,r viii undergo n sweeping change.