. The Street railway journal . ralleling the SecondAvenue elevated structure and extending from sub-station , at the corner of Allen Street and Division Street, on thelower East Side of Manhattan Island, to sub-station No. 8, ati6ist Street and Third Avenue, in the Borough of the feature is the crossing of the Harlem River, where thecables are carried in a specially prepared channel on the bottomthe routes followed is given in Fig. i. The main line is nearly9 miles long, and consists of from eight to forty-eight this main line radiate six branches of various lengths,exte
. The Street railway journal . ralleling the SecondAvenue elevated structure and extending from sub-station , at the corner of Allen Street and Division Street, on thelower East Side of Manhattan Island, to sub-station No. 8, ati6ist Street and Third Avenue, in the Borough of the feature is the crossing of the Harlem River, where thecables are carried in a specially prepared channel on the bottomthe routes followed is given in Fig. i. The main line is nearly9 miles long, and consists of from eight to forty-eight this main line radiate six branches of various lengths,extending to the main power house and to the sub-stations,three of these branches reaching entirely across town and con-necting with the Sixth Avenue and Ninth Avenue elevatedlines in sub-stations Nos. 2, 3 and 4, which are located respec-tively on Spring Street, near West Broadway, Fifty-ThirdStreet between Eighth Avenue and Ninth Avenue, and at iioth Slonii Sa^li N,. Rnil Station i PlilUbim 4h= North _J! Bonn Station I PliilCorm. FIG. PASSENGER PLATFORM AT UOTH STREET STATION back heretofore has been lack of proper transportation facilities. George H. Pegram, chief engineer of the Manhattan system,had supervision of this work, and the details of the buildingswere worked out in his office. F. G. Cudworth, assistantengineer,has had charge of the construction work of all thesub-stations. ♦ ELEVATED LINES FOR ST. LOUIS Two proposed elevated railway bills which have been intro-duced in the City Council of St. Louis are being urged by theirpromoters and interested business men. One company, knownas the St. Louis Elevated Railway Company, makes no allusionto remuneration for the city, while the other, controlled by Houseman, offers $50,000 cash for the privilege and 5 percent of its annual profits after fifty years from the time thefranchise is granted. The St. Louis Elevated Railway Com-pany is composed of Jordan W. Lambert, Emmet M. Fry, Al-bert B. Lambert, Marion L
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