. Scientific American Volume 84 Number 05 (February 1901) . held that this plan in-volves a radical departure from the plan and purposesof the subway as originally designed. It is pointedout that the route for the subway selected by the Leg-islature was well adapted to a service of street cars running singlyor in pairs, butthat it was notso well adaptedfor a train ser-vice, for whicha route withfewer curvesand less severegrades wouldhave been bet-ter. It is de-clared that theoriginal char-ter of the Boston ElevatedRailway Corn-pan y, whichformed part ofthe same leg-islative actwhich author-ize
. Scientific American Volume 84 Number 05 (February 1901) . held that this plan in-volves a radical departure from the plan and purposesof the subway as originally designed. It is pointedout that the route for the subway selected by the Leg-islature was well adapted to a service of street cars running singlyor in pairs, butthat it was notso well adaptedfor a train ser-vice, for whicha route withfewer curvesand less severegrades wouldhave been bet-ter. It is de-clared that theoriginal char-ter of the Boston ElevatedRailway Corn-pan y, whichformed part ofthe same leg-islative actwhich author-ized the c o n-struction of thesubway, didnot contem-plate the run-ning of thecars of thecompanythrough the subway. The subway, It is claimed, wasconstructed to meet the requirements of surface linesonly. As is well known, a large expenditure was in-curred at the Pleasant Street terminal to admit thetraffic of two tracks on Tremont Street, south of Pleas-ant Street, and of the two tracks on Shawmut Avenueto be consolidated on two tracks within the subway 69. RELAYING PIPES ON SURFACE STREET OVER THE ELEVATED. without grade crossings. This expensive construction,it appears, has now been rendered useless by the alter-ations required to meet the Elevated Railways plans. The work of making these changes has involved thetaking out of the former incline which rose to the sur-face at Pleasant Street, the removal of two tracks, andthe extension of the subway to a distance of about 40feet under Pleasant Street, to avoid a grade work has involved an expenditure by the city ofabout $300,000. The Elevated Railways route traverses WashingtonStreet north from Dudley Street to Castle, turningwest on Castle to Emerald Street, whence it describesa curve as it crosses the Boston and Providence andBoston and Albany Railroads. The tracks are support-
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