The Detroit times., 1909-03-18
s8O,OO0,00O FOR
SUBWAY MOVING
PLATFORMS
CAPITALISTS READY TO BUILD
AND EQUIP TUNNELS IF PUBLIC
SERVICE BOARD AGREES TO
THEIR PLAN.


million dollars Will be available II the
public service combustion accept tho
plans OF the continuous Transit Securi-
ties company for the construction or
eight subways and their equipment
with moving platforms or continuous
trains. The engineers OF the commits
sion have begun their investigation
and will be ready 10 report In about
two weeks TO the board. which VIII
determine whether one or all or any
OF the routes shall he undertaken.
The project, which Lemuel Ely
Quigg, as "accelerator," was ordered
To kill by the Metropolitan Securities
company in 1906, Is backed by h. +.
Ripley. president or the Atchison. To-
peka a. Santa Fe railroad: Moses Tay-
lor Pine, Stuyvesant FISH Stephen ).
Palmer. president OF the New Jersey
Zinc company; August Heckscher.
president OF the Commonwealth Real
Estate company; Albert X. Gallatin,
of Schmitt & Gallatin; John +.
O'Rourke. president Of the O'Rourke
Engineering Construction company;
Cornelius Vanderbilt and Max f..
ments In the new method OF transpor-
tation.
Practically Adopted Once.
The old rapid transit board prac'
tically adopted the plan, but through
some influence, which never has been
disclosed, the Endorsement was with
drawn. and on May is. 1905. the plan
was rejected. Up &c that time about
$4,000 had been expended In the prep
aration OF drawings. The total expen-
diture for that purpose to date Is ap-
proximately $4,000. What attitude the
marlborough or McAdoo interests
may take when the report the-eIi=
glneers comes up for action is prob
lematical. but the projectors believe
there will be no opposition because the
proposed subways will be feeders for
the existing system.
Route No. | is planned TO extend
from Battery Place. under Broad AMI
Nassau-sts.. " Park Row, thence under
Center-st. to Delaney. and across the
Williamsburg bridge.
Route No. is to start near DeS.
brosses-st. and North river. run thence
under Canalst and over the Manhat'
tan bridge to a terminal at the Brook
lyn bridge plaza, where route No. .
begins and continues over the old
bridge. under City Hall park To War
ren-st., thence To Vesey, and under
that thoroughfore TO Washington mar
ket
Route No 4, TO be the first con-
structed II the plans are approved, is
TO run diagonally from Union square
ia st h.ax
Route No. s. the original route
planned Ave years ago. which Quigg
knocked out. EXTENDS from Ninth 10
Seventh.aves under Thirty-fourth-st
Route No. 6 Is designed TO connect
the east and west sides under Four
teenth-st., from Ninthave to Avenue
A.
Route No. Z Is To pass under
Twenty-third-st. from Eleventh-ave. TO
Avenue A.
Route No. s is &c extend under
Fifty-ninth.st.. from Nnth-ave. across
the Blackwell's Island bridge, 10 Jack
son-ave.
Experts at Work.
Two expert engineers from the pub
lie service commission spent part OF
today in going over the plans with
Max +. Schmidt at his office, No. 40
Broadway They will report TO Henry
b. Seaman. the chief engineer, who in
turn will go over the scheme and re,
port To the commission.
Bion j. Arnold. the consulting cleo.
trical expert OF the board. Endorsed
the moving platform plan In a report
made last May.
Moving platforms for the convey
ance OF passengers were suggested &C
years ago, but never reached prac-
tical demonstration until 1898. when
the practicablity was shown at the
worlds fair In Chicago. In 1896 they
were installed at the Berlin expos-
ton, and again at the Paris exposition
OF 1900, where 100000 passengers
were carried. The name gave rise To
popular misconception. and there
was general belief that the plan
contemplated a moving sidewalk on
the open street, because the demon
stration was above the ground surface
The actual moving platforms now
under consideration must occupy
subway, the construction of which
would be about the same as the pres
ent subways, but the cost OF opera
ton, as proved In Berlin. Paris and
Chicago, Is one-eighth OF the cost OF
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