Show BENEATH BUSY STREETS orb ab birds practical electrical under ground conduit railway in ID to is now in operation in now new york fork city connected tollee great ynid of the coM company paDy the public can now travel tra vel from abe battery to treet street with WiLb one transfer from the cable car to the olec rio ear car at went treet street the underground electric stem employed differs radic radically killy from all other of electric underground Gon daig railways both lu in the construe men of the conduit itself and the method of taking the current from 91 tle a conductors forthe for abe motors moton it nas been operated ope raged more or lose lets experimentally far the left mouth month sad and its if has baa tb pro legions oi 0 she electricians electrician and engineers engi neen who effected the fir 01 this system upon the lines of akie city is the be r t cult of fe the etro metropolitan traction company to give novi new york a satisfactory atle factory electrical alem system ylem ol oi vires which would not to kubiet ot that obet peculiar popular nn hi b bae acted to debar Is I 1 frond from at tits treller consideration of et abe quest lob to it the wlee soleo ilon tion of a conduit ayea and aad by tow GeD giral electric company anti ano chii 1 ionic leu of road on oa lenox ate afe As the bent of to abe in formulating the me project tho the trac proceeded upon abe bluet 40 lines and t fidoe be consequences of failure to me min of damage which would from rom any ny stoppage Pave to lo the efter service efT lr the plan coif can aoi based feed abe of the ila alae jis IS 1 a cable romu in ia broor that Bj hOtti wet electric myslem prove prot un su uj the electrical portion could coula be 10 BAJ B out sad and tos emblem cable and pul lol joyo of gg the cable system I 1 b tri boet ausent laio into the conduit without low less of time and nd t comparatively small mail ex the lenox avenue line to ie a double k rasa lug at the oar car house bogue at treet and ru a ning dl bouab mou to to iida treet into which it turns turna slid and an aa far boes woes as manhat aa ym avenue it turns here and jrade 80 far auth mouth as a treet street afook which it in ia carried to the ju oagot of that street and columbus Colum bue av venue quac the dla die riot which thin line hoc cju wul serve la Is at present somewhat mpa M my etlea settled et led but the facilities oi 01 it will afford will proba to result to the rapid oi 0 a now re iside oe section for now new york era oo on both sides of tue the harlem abe powers power house in ia located on treet street a few yards went of lenot avenue steam in ia supplied auppl led from two babcock A wilcox water tube boilers to the eross erom compound power allies collim machines ti each of the is coupled a general Fue detrio Je trio etric KW kaw K W dynamo 0 01 anual rd construction but wound for we volts alt a instead of volts tolli as ai is ie the practice in railway work thle placed between the be high and low pressure sides fidei of the en anglas glas Kenera tort abo rub rob to 0 o fe 06 and tt thedice ici a to a heway tuda t to sidewalk on OB 1464 street extending a as tar far as aa avenues bows wows they are ar lato the five loob iron pipe parallel with the conduit for the jp the line will be operated welly from the power house hoire but bui feed wires wire will probably be placed place J iu the ibe pipes pipe and will be joined to the conductor at the necessary neo emary points and ana the ties iloe will then be divided up lato into sections ec the construction of the underground contact system is simplicity itself the plough suspended from the car truck track pheb through the slot lot la in the she center of the track and aad presses sigala agalias at the he flat surta ose of two wo iron conductor ruu run ning the entire length of the ha conduit these conductors conductor are placed each abreo inches on aab esch side ida away troop too be center of the alot to avoid arvold flata of any drip which would otherwise reach toem teem and are of tabs ohan boj poj jaaj icon four hoopes deep and th thirty tty fed to hi g they are mp enal from the cailing of he be covault b by 1 means of issula alaton tore devised deviled for thu spid atal purpose ae and are am at a depth ul 01 loche below the conduit slot lot haab conductor to la to I 1 requite require rp toa at the iha ends eada tore era only the a site are ocafon in this tap sad hand hotea are re alamo at ab 0 o and repair are thus tend rendered bred dasy ay A of thill ok oil RUBe naton ir to for in a I 1 of about ablis hundred yards yard of of ible afta on 1161 h eado j between imme eu agona and jjoe seventh avenue isi ai at tha me mau helep lute adof I 1 n us incited from too calling of tao con can ON the conductors condu etora are mip ported y a it piliar pillar provided with an iron cap furnished with brackets brao kete to which are bolted and ana in ia secured by means mean of a bond of flat dat copper strips riveted to the webs webb the tha soapstone blocks block are met ek to in iron bame ba erected to la the olva every twelfth manhole Is consented conse eted with the power house by telephone quick break electric switches are located at intervals interval to in theme men mentoles holes to la order that any section ealion of the link linb may oe no cut cutout mt to in case cae of trouble at the track switches wi each conductor to 16 provided with a flaring nose tu tr facil itale the entrance of the be plough into the ibe conductors conductor the man buies in which the insulators are placed are constructed of brick with walls walla them thai ret reft on concrete the floor floon are re laid with oil ix inches of concrete alip provi provided aed with dralova for carrying oft water with this age ve no trouble from water in IB the a 0 on dult duit atil it Is believed be experienced the conduit was wae built alone alon the he grade of the street but with sufficient pitch to go permit any water flowing into toa to find its if way into the man oleo holee located every thirty feet and from thence into the the current does not nob return by leanse 0 I 1 the ratio ralla as an is usually the 1 ease with the over overhead bead trolley this la is a feature and advantage of the mi new oysten each conductor forms forma one ade side of the working circuit the current to fed loto into the positive conductor and retorts over the ae other or bexis tive conductor the current merely I 1 floes on one joe ide of the Il lough ileta ii jt abe m tore tor and after ita duty returns toyom y abd tbd octar sk M to ft tir the opposite or conduct ori abe plough or at teaseling content arrangement ran gement to te also alo essentially novel DOT it eose lefe of fowe piece of iron one on nob each side bide of at this the plough on spring pring leavea which emuse them to prom pro outwardly egal not the two con COD duo tore the plough to suspended from a longitudinal bar bolted to crow cross boom beam set et upon the rock and Is constructed of two breef aberts of teel steel laid each one upon a plate of fibre fabre the two sheets beef of abris fibre are re then bon brought together enclosing trip strip copper oon ducton connected at the top to the be motor cables cable and at the bottom riveted to two other pieces of beet stool teeT bee These run ron oneace on each side ide of the plough and serve as an supports up for or the hinges which carry we the sliding coneset pieces A bary shoot beet of fibre fabre continues downward sad aad serves erv to separate ep arate than the contact conte ett tue asis aee the dafa ard aid general electric machines maehl controlled by KI tion and the earn eara which ate an used ad on the line resemble rea emble ahme used on an this Bee adway cable lioe line they are am lighted by lamps lamp arranged arrao ged in groups of thre wb tole till steib goeme bear to offer or ow h beet yet for go a oily city kte without in any popular odium from aba who Is ia call balled we he valley tirol lej 19 la if free to th OW je aares of odber mu method attempted elsewhere instead of a plough fitted with wheel or off over wr baroo to in we a 0 0 and o autt v at may ay of at tie the other su nu a ad sate to creage 4 workable oon a 81 klipple or of la adopted ado plea abia now is i cheap and nd eay to kno tall van ean bo to B repair at agall cost sad and oan can be inspected without difficulty the introduction of taia etem in now new york where the crying need tor for rapid tras grassit sit is almost equated equaled by the determination not to admit he ovis over head brad trolly la is only a tart start its ito saus factory operation safety and economy conomy when compared with cable or horae boxes traction will probably result in its ito general adoption upon the surface roads roada sad and another tep stop toward real rapid city transit will be made |