The evening world. Newspaper, October 27, 1904, Page 19

; AY) ENING, OCTOB OCTOBER 27, 1904. j eer _......., SUbway Embodies All ™®. Fewer i Parsons the Up-to-Date Ideas for ae ay a. ean Man Who Handling of Passengers. Planned the e , . Sreat Subway. FATE man who planned way A FOR THE EVENING WORLD SUBWAY SOUVENIR, By WILLIAM BARCLAY PARSONS, lay. whose HE completion of New York subwa f New York Hee ole so @ ineer. “Precautions Taken to Guard uted t 1 t *. the main consideration in the operation the caution signals and over the first droger signal ubwa r way is the safety of the passengers. he could not get past the se 1 danger signal, for way witho 1 an electr atic block and in- the automatic stop, gside the rail, would ; whice of ; ayatom ls was established, catch a trigger o fr truck, slap off the and road men pronounce It the most complete ever Power and slap on kes befor e knew k perplex b t praratue wa © larg. enythir t. The aticomatic st has be ‘ the fF " stem at 0: ne tested " rt and us never failed rk has ed to} Sttipped of all techniealition it may be sald that ' Work after it was prop a. sim: 110 hae apent scoreas¥ieas Ut r em should become paralyzed — In add to these pre a safe At sleepless nights ta ton’, mp. for any train in the subway ‘“evice prot the pi the mou in following «noth approach closer to the train man should bebe est ee tle cab, As soon as and sustained physical in- et Every train stopping ino his band } jury in the depths of the pr the rear by two danger he ls signif » in tunnel, His name will al ways be associated with ass g he rset: eeterinnine rain following fal the signals set ‘ mwrannnbnnasnbih ‘ sare prone ¢ to tea ° ~~ No matter Mf the motor enginee iid run past acks, in dange the platform « SUBWAY TUNNEL. ahs ae Ra of ° ae ru ud Ua uu WU UuuUUUU | TY MO AANA <A } J LI = i ai cy | 4 \ ' ' \ \ 1/0 MILES \ \ ( <n (84) ULWLUL Nes n PMT le yarda of rock excavated tor the sudway, tess utes apart and local (rains three minutes apa ced sr | ym 4 and jan ts dug out of Now York every year for cellars the rush hours there is a device making {t imposstble for a motor & foundations tn building operations. There will be twenty-eight stations open at the engineer to take his n past a danger signal je number of employees at present Is 2,00, the beginning. This ie operated by a clutch aide 6 Bee the street railway men of the country. The electric plant alone cost $1,800,000, the biggest —{fack. which engages a ne iy the road partially in operation the number of in che world. of the first car, sets the alr brakes and shuts off ngers it can handle in a day is estimated at p lependens tor engineer @ When the east side branch 1s conepleted 160,000 ia te mation on gape ate of conerete, from 29 to Power is generated in entral powe ane can be handled. he | long, ans eet wide . " Fifty-eight and Fifty h re and Eleve Es cite Fads Beute, mmarated bid peebindg, Ube ¢ lighting system in the stations and #ubway | Sees ee ueenaty : independent of the perating current, which can be Roress and local trains can handle 79.8 people eae th » abelian: T rating from One Hundred an4 Porty-ftth street “ed In case 08 aociden pow City Hall. The third rail is protected by a wooden shied Whe a eight and a half inches wide, so that passengers . m arry 200,000,000 2 Year. in case of accident, and employees at all times, may ig " Jone contractor estimates that when the road is fully Move about on the tracks in perfect safety twenty . ts { Heated it Can carry 900,000,000 passengers a year Through a system of waterproofing the tunnel has The roudbed ox s with any in the United ¢ are #0 curs in the subway, many of steel. been rendered absolutely dry. ft Is lined, top, side# States. It is rock ballusted, the tes a STREET STATION — JOWNTOWN SIOE Molo By pacu Bae wy tional cara have beeh ordered ahd will be detiy- and bottom, Wkh Waterproof PPR iald in hot daphait pine and the ratis weigh 10 pounds to th 2 as rapidly aS ponalble, and every foot of it ix drained. There is a complete Are-alar 1 ne thé presen’ Ser “Pains Will Pun four min- The signa! system is the moat perfect pe intro- system installed in the Subway from end to erd.