The sun., 1902-01-14
NY, CENTRAL HAS A REMEDY
ANNOUNCEMENT PROMISED AS
TO ENDING TUNNEL ILLS.
Meantime = Mob Of Inventors Desccnds
on the Road TO Get That sS00.OOO
Want Money before showing Plans
Aldermen to Go After the Railroad.

improvements can be made in the running
of trains through the Park avenue tunnel
40 as 10 minimize the danger Of collision.
Since the disaster Of Wednesday last Mr..
Newman, Chief Engineer Wilgus and other
officers OF the road have been comforting
with electricians. but the railroad people
have said hitherto that they were at thoir
Wits end for something to take the place
OF the present system. Even II they had
some plan for substituting electricity as
the motive power In the tunnel they said
II would take at least q year and half or
two years to install It. What they wanted
was an improvement that could be made
at onco.
Although they viii not tell what has beon
done TO this end. II 10 believed that tho
Centra's officers have found what they want
and will be ready in few days to lot the
public know about II.
It may be . plan for the better lighting
OF the tunnel. It IL known that some time
ago the Eds on company communicated
to the railroad that they have a patent
ahade which can be put over arc lights
and while not destroying their usefulness
as illuminators will save engineers from
the glare they complained Of previously.
whcn Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew oon-
hrmed on Saturday the report that the
New York Central had q standilg oner
OF $500 900 for any invention which would
provide II with a reasonable plan for the
substitution OF elect licity for steam In the
Park avenue tunnel, he was making an
amount of trouble for the officers OF the
railroad that he didn't suspect. Tbs pub
200 inventors TO the Grand Central Station
Yesterday They were all armed with
their plans, and were prepared to take
the hall million away With them and leave
the plans behind. They swarlned by the
dozen into President Newman's ofIloe, and
the attendants there had 70 send down
into the waiting room for help TO keep
order outside Of Mr.. Newman's office.
Such a mob Of inventors was never seen
there before. There were long-haired
men and boys, masculine-lookng women
and a number OF apparently sane persons.
but all were inventors and not one but was
perfectly confident that the solution OF
the New York Centrars tunnel troubles
was In the plans he carried under his arm.
Mr.. Newman tried to palm them on on
time before any Of them would leave the
first floor for the fifth. each seeming afraid
that IL he went away some OF the others
would get ahead OF him. They we're in
duced finally TO 60 in . body to MIR; Wilgis's 3
office, and that officer, sitter vainly trying
TO get them TO submit their plans In writing,
put all his assistants at work looking over
what they had 70 Offer.
IL was a most astonishing lot Of ideas
that the young engineers were confronted
with. but the chief difficulty was that each
inventor seemed TO think that he had but
70 hand over his plans. take check for
500 600 and 60 away. They were disap-
pDinted over the refusal OF the road To
even make a eli ght advance on the prize.
even when they were willing 10 leave their
hahinH M
youth with a restless eye declined TO show
his plans unless n commission was ap-
pointed 10 look them over while he held tn o
tjO0 900, he 90 return the money II the COM
mission said dat bis plans were no good.
nut TO keep IL II they were acceptable.
This vas the only ground on which he
would show his plans He was invited 20
AXE the elevator 70 the street and went
away declaring that the road would always
regret lie shabby treatment of him.
OW ~ all the plans submitted there
vrsn't one that showed any exterior
slgu 0i being the thing wanted. About
lHli ~ them were devices 90 remove smoke
and steam from the tunnel Hs fast as ths
80 ginrs gave b on 20 that signals thould
not ie ol.scured. and the inventions 90 cred
weie principally 81 b, rlow pipe and sue.
ton pump oidsT There WeT0 a few signal
syriema ana D few alleged improvements
on tie tfoil"y and third rail- systems, hut
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