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The New York Times · January 5, 1870
Further Action of Mayor Hall
A motion has been made in the Legislature for the repeal
of the bill authorizing the Beach Pneumatic Transit Company to run an
underground tube from the corner of Warren-street and Broadway,
beneath Broadway, to within 200 feet of Cedar-street. The bill
granting the Company the privilege of prosecuting their work was, it
appears, in the form of an amendment to an old bill, and it was thus
got through the Legislature without attracting special attention.
Yesterday Mayor Hall had a conference with the Deputy
Corporation Counsel in regard to the rights of the City in this
matter. The Mayor has some doubts as to whether the Legislature can
give a company the right to excavate beneath a street, and thus, in
some measure, to place both public and private property in
danger. Mr. O'Gorman, the Corporation Counsel, was unable, through
sickness, to attend the conference. Should he be of the opinion that
the rights of the City Government are being infringed the matter will
at once be brought before the Courts.
Something has been said in regard to the caving in of the
surface of the east side of Broadway above the Pneumatic tube. There
is certainly a flattening of the surface of the Broadway pavement,
near Warren-street, but whether this is due to the underground
excavations or to the imperfect manner which the pavement was laid is
questionable. The Company declare that, as yet, the excavation has
barely reached Broadway, and that consequently the caving in of the
street is all nonsense.
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