| Show I 1 goow the east river STANDARD special F service NEW YORK jan 15 the east river railway company was incorporated yesterday at albany with a working wor capital of for the purpose of providing rapid transit between brooklyn and new york major henning ia is the inventor of 0 the innovation in transportation methods method that lie the company proposes to introduce and lie is to be president of the concern the major proposes to employ gravitation instead of steam power under his plans t the be east river will be tunneled at a depth ran ranging 9 from fifty to two hundred I 1 feet 0 t below ite its bed the tunnel to ru run n from the foot of broad way in WI williamsburg burg to street in this c city start rt lug log at either end the tun tunnel 27 e wi will 11 fall apparently at the rate of twenty five feet in every eiery until a short level stretch in the middle is reached the trains of cars will be started simultaneously from the brooklyn and ard new york ends and it is expected that the tile cars going do down n the incline will ill gather sufficient impetus to carry them across the level IBI CI space and almost af to the top of the incline on the tile other side As the rara cars gradually lose their momentum a cable will grip them simultaneously and carry them to the station at the top the entire rolling stock of the company is to consist of only two trains rf cf cars and it is claimed that they will run ran at intervals of one minute |
