. The street railway review . FIG. 9. When the sun shone on the wires the expansion caused them tosag considerably, but as the afternoon grew cooler, the wires wouldcontract until the two lines came into contact, or so near it thatthey touched when swayed by the wind. The wire C was dropped. FIG. 10. lower down and there was no more trouble. This short circuitwas difficult to detect, from the fad that there was very lilllc Imrn-ing owing to the perfect contact. The New Kast Side Subway in New York. The cotnniiltee on plans of the New York Rapid Transit Com-mission recently submitted a report t
. The street railway review . FIG. 9. When the sun shone on the wires the expansion caused them tosag considerably, but as the afternoon grew cooler, the wires wouldcontract until the two lines came into contact, or so near it thatthey touched when swayed by the wind. The wire C was dropped. FIG. 10. lower down and there was no more trouble. This short circuitwas difficult to detect, from the fad that there was very lilllc Imrn-ing owing to the perfect contact. The New Kast Side Subway in New York. The cotnniiltee on plans of the New York Rapid Transit Com-mission recently submitted a report to the commission recommend-ing in detail the route of the new East Side subway. The routerecommended is from the present subway station at 149th St. andThird Ave., down Lexington Ave. and Irving Place to 15th St.,thence west to Union Square, and down Broadway, circling throughChambers St. to William St., and swinging westerly across BroadSt. and Battery Park to Greenwich St., and then uptown by wayof West Broadway and Washington Square, to Greenwich Ave., toSeventh Ave., to 34th St., thence down 34th St., connecting withthe proposed East Side line at Lexington Ave., meeting the presentsubway again. In addition to this route the committee recommends: A shortline to connect the Lexingt
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