Identifier: sciencerecordcom1874beac (find matches)
Title: The Science record; a compendium of scientific progress and discovery
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Beach, Alfred Ely, 1826-1896
Subjects: Technology Industrial arts
Publisher: New York, Munn
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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tion,will be of permanent value as an investment, and that ifthe suggested guarantee were given, the city would neverbe subjected to loss or called upon for money. The ca-pacity, patronage, and resources of the road would bemore than sufficient to meet the interest and principal ofits bonds. But for the sudden and overwhelming finan-cial revolution of the past year, the company would havehad several thousand men employed at various points uponits line, and the winter of 1873-74 would have seen themain portion of the first section under full headway. AtForty-second street, the Broadway Underground Railwaywill connect with the Harlem, Hudson River and New-Ha-ven Railways, and by pushing forward the constructionof this first section, the citizens of New-York may soonhave a complete line for rapid-transit cars from the CityHall to Harlem and Westchester ; and the success of thisline will unquestionably lead to the construction of newlines as fast as thev mav be needed. 344 SCIENCE RECORD.
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MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING. 345 THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE HARLEM RAIL-WAY, NEW-YORK. For many years, the New-York and Harlem Railway-trains have entered the city on tracks laid for the mostpart on the surface of Fourth avenue. The steady in-crease of population and the augmentation of trains uponthese tracks made it necessary either that the railwayshould be removed from the avenue, or some means de-vised for the protection of the lives of citizens. Besidesthe Harlem trains, the passenger-trains of the New-YorkCentral and the New-York and New-Haven railways usethis route, and there is a constant procession of locomo-tives in both directions, rendering the crossing of thetracks at all times dangerous. The Legislature appointeda board of engineers, consisting of Allan Campbell, AlfredW. Craven, the chief engineer of the Department of Pub-He Works, and the engineer of the Harlem road, who werecharged with the preparation of suitable plans, and the ex-ecution of the same, at the joint expe

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