Year: 1875

THE COMMISSION DISCUSSING TEE CORNELL,


GREENWICH STREET AND GILBERT PLANS


THE SELECTION OF RoUrE--ATrAcK UPON


THE COMMISSIONERS.


lengthy session OF The Rapid Transit Commissioners
was held at their in the Court House yester
day ON tho Sth OF September the sixty days within
which It is understood they required to select a
route will have expired. Il therefore behooTes the
Commission to look sharp and perform this
sary duty before the expiration OF the allotted time
Thirty days additional allowed for the selection OF
plan Some seventy Eve plans before the Com
MISSION the principal designs being those heretofore
illustrated in the HERALh


Yesterday Mr. G. l. Haussknecht OF Brooklyn, sent
in full explanation OF the plan recently submitted by
him. This is an inclined rail rapid transit road His
proposition 10 erect wrought iron tube pillars twentya


five feet apart fitted taperngly into blocks four
feet by three placed horizontally upon the pavement
and spiked the ground the hollow bottom part the
blocks TO be filed with cement and sand, mixed
with water forming artificial stone sitting closely upon
the pavement, making abutment for a rail line
These pillars 10 be twelve twenty high,
according to the grade OF the street. iron head
piece is fitted into each upper end OF pillar tube col
umn, 80 formed as 10 rigdly uphold the spliccs ofa
wooden road bed twelve inches deep and three inches
wide To tho upper sides iron clamps botod partially
camping and holding iron tubes which arc about
half let into, and resting lying upon the road bed
forming improved rails which can bo turned when
worn tube pipe girder truss is propped under the
wooden road bed fitted into the headpiece and secured
by nuts at each end Mr.. Haussknecht calculates his
incline at twenty feet per mile capable of attaining
speed OF twenty miles per hour the cars running down
by their weight and momentum. station is pro-
vlded at about every quarter ot mile, according
TO gradcs-irst TO discharge passengers second, to
raise a platform rail truck by power, an in
cline to its proper height, and to meet next section;
third TO receive passengers running down the next
incline and so on TO the termination of the road These
are the principal points OF the plan. The gentleman
further says, In his letter to the Commission, that
fare Of SIX cents per passenger would pay reasonable
dividend under favorable circumstances proving it to
I've a safe and profitable investment Of capital The
is estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000 per mile


The Commissioners yesterday in session from
twelve until nearly five O'Clock in the afternoon. or
course the meeting entirely secret, usual and
REPRESENTATIVES of the press had to depend almost en-
tiroly upon information given them by the Clerk,
Mr. Morton This gentleman stated that all this time
yesterday was taken up in hearing arguments from
Of tho Rumble plan and the Greenwich street and Gil
bert elevated railways. Mr.. Cornell was accompanied
by his engineer Mr.. Sinners. The latter gentleman
stated to representative that, having seen the
statements the HERALD to the Third avenue route
being tho most popular win tne commission ne @ nad
to offer proposition in the way OF modification
Of their plan conform to that line. He, therefore,
in mmucs hearing, offered 10 strike of at Astor
place into Third avenue, and use Third avenue as the
line for a connection with Harlem Bridge, instead OF
the Lexington avenue route. Mr. Cornell also con
scnted to certain notifications Of his route below the
CITY Hall with a view of harmonizing the Commission


The above IS understood 10 have been the principal
business transacted yesterday by the Commission.
Would il be much satisfactory TO the public If
all the proceedings were held with open doors? 1t is
probable that will be selected during the present
week


A communication has been transmitted to the Board
OF Aldermen from Mr. Isaac A. Conkn, of No so
Greenwich street, making serious accusations against
the Commissioners In this paper he states that some
of them are interested in various rapid transit railroad
schemes while others friends and members of the
Tweed Ring