Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company

Directors

August Belmont	Walter Luttgen	Morton F. Plant
E. P. Bryan	John B. McDonald	William A. Read
Andrew Freedman	Walter G. Oakman	Cornelius Vanderbilt
James Jourdan	John Pierce	George W. Young
Gardiner M. Lane

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Executive Committee

August Belmont	James Jourdan	William. A. Read
Andrew Freedman	Walter G. Oakman	Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Officers

August Belmont, President	Walter G. Oakman, Vice-President
John B. McDonald, Contractor	John F. Buck, Treasurer
H. M. Fisher, Secretary	E.F. Gaynor, Auditor
S.L.F. Deyo, Chief Engineer	George W. Wickersham, General Counsel
Alfred A. Gardner, Attorney

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Engineering Staff
S.L.F. Deyo, Chief Engineer
H.T. Douglas, Principal Assistant Engineer

• A. Edward Olmsted, Division Engineer, Manhattan-Bronx Lines.
• Henry B. Reed, Division Engineer, Brooklyn Extension.
• Theodore Paschke, Resident Engineer, First Division, City Hall to 33d Street, also Brooklyn Extension, City Hall to Bowling Green; and Robert S. Fowler, Assistant.
• Ernest C. Moore, Resident Engineer, Second Division, 33d Street to 104th Street; and Stanley Raymond, Assistant.
• William C. Merryman, Resident Engineer, Third Division, Underground Work, 104th Street to Fort George West Side and Westchester Avenue East Side; and William B. Leonard, W. A. Morton, and William F. Morris, Jr., Assistants.
• Allan A. Robbins and Justin Burns, Resident Engineers, Fourth Division, Viaducts ; and George I. Oakley, Assistant.
• Frank D. Leffingwell, Resident Engineer, East River Tunnel Division, Brooklyn Extension; and C. D. Drew, Assistant.
• Percy Litchfield, Resident Engineer, Fifth Division, Brooklyn Extension, Borough Hall to Prospect Park and Edward R. Fichner, Assistant.
• M. C. Hamilton, Engineer, Maintenance of Way; and Robert E. Brandeis, Assistant.
• D. L. Turner, Assistant Engineer in charge of Stations.
• A. Samuel Berquist, Assistant Engineer in charge of Steel Erection.
• William J. Boucher, Assistant Engineer in charge of Draughting Rooms.

The New York Subway: Its Construction and Equipment (1904) Introduction Chapter 1, The Route of the Road Chapter 2, Types and Methods of Construction Chapter 3, Power House Building Chapter 4, Power Plant from Coal Pile to Shafts of Engines and Turbines Chapter 5, System of Electrical Supply Chapter 6, Electrical Equipment of Cars Chapter 7, Lighting System for Passenger Stations and Tunnel Chapter 8, Rolling Stock, Cars, Trucks, Etc. Chapter 9, Signal System Chapter 10, Subway Drainage Chapter 11, Repair and Inspection Shed Chapter 12, Subcontractors Appendix 1, Interborough Rapid Transit Company Appendix 2, Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company

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