New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-22
TO HEAR SUGGESTIONS.
RAPID TRANSIT BOARD TO HAVE
MEETING THIS AFTERNOON.
PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THE ROAD IN
DER BROADWAY TO THE BATTERY
LIKELY TO COME UP.


ternoon at No $50 Broadway, to take up any
loose ends there may be in connection with the
letting of the contract to John B. Mcdonald
and also to listen TO suggestions which any one
may have to make concerning practical plans
for rapid transit. Arthur c. Hume. who repre-
sents the Terminal Railroad and Tunnel Com
pany may be heard concerning that company's
contemplated tunnel from City Hall, Brooklyn
under the East River. under City Hall Park,
Manhattan and under the North River to Jer-
sey City The proposed extension of the Man
haitian tunnel under Broadway to the Battery.
and thence under the harbor to South Brooklyn
and Staten Island will probably come up in
some shape Another subject likely to occupy
the attention of the Board to-day is the method
of appointing sub-engineers who under the di-
rection of Chief Engineer Parsons, will inspect
the work it proceeds, to see that all the pro-
visions of the contract are lived up to. Mr.
Parsons has given notice that he desires only
Civil Service men for these places. and the ap-
plicants are already numerous.
THE EARLY PART OF THIS WEEK.
John B. Mcdonald, the contractor. did not
spend much of yesterday at his home in the
Dakota apartment house. He left word that ne
had nothing to say for publication beyond the
fact that he FELT confident his bonds would be
ready in the early part of this week. The presl-
dent Of the American Surety Company, which
Mr. Mcdonald has chosen as one of his guaran-
tors told a Tribune reporter that the prepare
ton of such a bond as that for $o,OOO,OOO, whlch
Mr. Mcdonald will give for construction, and the
additional one for 81, 000,000 for maintenance
was not to be finished in half-hour. One rea-
son for this he added, is that under Section NO.
"a, Chapter No. 800, of the Laws OF lo9Z' no
guaranty company in the State can guarantee
any one person for a sum exceeding 10 per cent
v-ffh ont
rites for all in excess of that amount Ac-
cording to the same authority. the combined
amount which the three surety companies
chosen by Mr. McDonald-the Platt company
the Freedman company AMI the American-can
guarantee for any one person under TINS Ia"
does not much exceed 81 100000 and therefore
MI Mcdonald must furnish securities for the
ether $5000000 These may consist OF real
estate. stocks, bonds. or the personal bonds Of
his wealthy friends Of other guaranty COM
panies Mr.. Mcdonald has such an excellent
reputation among surety companies, says Presl-
dent Lyman of the American. that there Is no
doubt of his being able to find the necessary
security.
Bv the terms of the contract all the material
excavated from the tunnel is the property OF the
contractor, and he expects to sell it to some ad-
vantage for filing in purposes. Cyrus Clark, OF
the West End Association. wants the city TO
buy lot of it. He is quoted as saying:
The city could use all that is dug in the upper Upper
Last year the city acquired the waterfront from
seventy-second-st to Nnety-sxt5h-st by right Oh
above that The plan is to make the present PARK a
front and at the same time extending 1t to a
length of three miles II would oe snop 6 Ia 40
not how the contractors could make any any more
terial there where it would be a public benefit
~r-,,r,,, ,,x-D1rcc IT'D A1N-c WIFI. STOP
SO confident seem the people that real rapid
transit is in sight, after years of hope deferred
that inquiries are daily made as to where the sta
tons are to be. The stations where express trains
will stop are at the PostofHce, in Broadway. at
the Bridge terminus, at Fourteenth-st. Fourth
ave., at Forty second-st. Vanderbilt ave), at
Seventy second-st. (Bouevard) and at Ninety
sixth-st. (Boulevard). Local trains will stop at
all express stations. of course but the stations
for local trains only will be follows:
At Worth. Canal, Spring and Blocker sts..
Astor Place Eighteenth, Twenty-third, Twenty
eighth, Thirty-third, .Forty-second, and Broad
way Fiftieth. Fifty-nlnth,s Sixty-sixth, Seven
ty-ninth, Eighty-sixth, Ninety-first and One
hundred-and- fourth SITS. Here the road
branches, and only locals run to the termini.
The stations on the east branch will be at One
hundred-and-tenth. hundred and sixteenth,
e-hundred-and- twenty fifth, One-hundred- and
thirty-ffth and One-hundred -and-forty-frst SITS,
Mott-ave., Melrose-ave, Jackson-ave., Prospect
ave, Southern Boulevard, Jennings Place, One
hundred and seventy seventh-st and Bronx Park.
On the western branch the stations will be at
TENTH hundred and-siX-
teenth, Manhattan-st.. northumberland thirty
seventh, e-hundred-and-forty-h One-hun-
dred -and-ffty-SeV One-hundred- sixty
ninth hundred and ighty-irst. Inwood-st.,
Two hundred -and-fifteenth-st., Harlem Ship Ca
nal and Bailey-ave.
The entrances to the stairways by which &C
cess to the underground stations will be had will
stand on the sidewalks, much as the stairways
to the elevated tracks stand but will not,
of course obstruct the light so much. Tribune
reporter was told at the office of Chief Engineer
Parsons on Saturday that if any property own
ers wished to have these stairways descend
through their buildings valuable news stand
concessions might be obtained for the privilege.
TO MARK THE BEGINNING.
Alderman Hart Is not willing that the turning
Of the first shovelful of earth for this great
undertaking should be done without some at
tendant ceremony. He has therefore an
! nounced his intention of offering the following
resolution tomorrow:
Whereas, The city of New-York has entered into
contract for the construction the rapid transit
whemingiy demanded at the polls; and
whereas, Ground is soon to be broken for the
! realization of the hope of the people for trans
! portation to Harlem in fifteen minutes: and
Whereas. Public sentiment and civic pride seem
to demand official recognition of the opening OF an
enterprise which will be of first Importance in the
Resolved That a COMMITTEES of five be appointed
by this body, to act in cooperation with similar
! committee to be appointed by the Municipal Coun-
Gil and confer with the Mayor and the Rapid Tran
sit Commission, with the object of arranging APP
! propriate official ceremonies to mark the begin
| ming of the rapid transit work.
ORATORS LITERARY CLUB DINNER.