The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway (57 page)
Authors: Doug Most
Harmon, Nellie
Harrison, Benjamin
Hart, Thomas N.
Harvard Law School
Haymarket Square railroad station (Boston)
Hearst, William Randolph
Hedley, Frank
Hennessey, Michael E.
Hewitt, Abram
death of
enmity with W. Whitney
marries
mayor of New York City
and Parsons
and subway financing
transit plans
Hill, David B.
Hoffman, John
Hoffman, J. W., and Co.
Holbrook, Cabot & Rollins
holding companies
homelessness
Hoosac Tunnel, Massachusetts
horse-drawn streetcars
in Boston
in New York City
problems with
range of
horseless carriage
horses
health and welfare of
nuisance of
as power source
Hosmer, Thomas B.
Hotel Pelham (Boston)
Houston Street, West Street & Pavonia Ferry Railroad Company
Howe, Elias
Howe, Leonard
Howes, Osborne, Jr.
human remains, encountered on subway digs
hurricane Sandy
Hyde, Henry D.
immigrants
Incas
Inman, John
Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT)
charter of, how obtained
International Electrical Exhibition (Philadelphia, 1885)
Intramural Railway (Chicago World’s Fair)
inventions, 19th-century
Irish
in Boston
in New York
Italians, in Boston
Jackson, William
Jackson, Willis G.
Jack the Ripper
Jacques, Washington L.
Jane, Fred T.
janitors in subways
Jencks, Francis M.
Jersey City, N.J.
Jerusalem
Jews, in New York
Johnson, Edward Hibbard
Jones, George
Jones, J. Edwin
Jones and Meehan
Jordan, Eben D.
Jordan Marsh and Company
Keatinge, Mary
Keats, John
Keefe, David
Kemble, William
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
Kerley, Charles Gilmore
kinetoscopes
Klein, Paul
Knight, Walter
Koplan, Wolf
Ladies Mile (New York City)
Lansing, Isaac J.
Lent, Smith
lighting in subways.
See also
electric lighting
Lincoln, Abraham
Little, Samuel
Liverpool
loading and unloading of subway passengers
Lodge, Henry Cabot
loitering, signs prohibiting
London, post office
London subway (the Underground)
disadvantages of
electrification of
as model
opening ceremonies
size of system
smoke-filled
successful operation of
tunneling of
ventilation of
world’s first subway
London transit system
1825 transportation
electrification of
ridership
traffic congestion
tunnels
See also
London subway
Long, Francis
Longstreet, Daniel
Los Angeles, Subway to the Sea
Low, Seth
Lowell family
Lower East Side, New York City
Lozier, John
Lynch, Father Thomas
Lynn & Boston Railroad
Macy’s, W. H., department store
Maine,
U.S.S.
Malone, R. A.
Manhattan, geology of
Manhattan Elevated Railway Company
manure
maps of subway routes used in construction
Marshall, Walter Gore
Massachusetts
politics
railroads of
Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners
Matthews, Nathan, Jr.
“father of the subway” (Boston)
Maverick Bank
McBean, Duncan
McCabe brothers
McCarthy, Jeremiah J.
McCarthy Bros. and Co.
McClellan, George B.
McCue, John
McDonald, John Bart
death of
at opening of New York subway
wins New York bid
work on subway construction
McKim, Mead and White
McKinley, William C.
McMullen, Charles
McNamee, John
Mechanics’ Magazine
Meehan, Edward
Meehan, Michael
opposes Boston subway
wins Boston contract
work on subway construction
Meehan, Patrick
Meehan, Robert Emmet
“Meehanville”
Meigs, Joseph V.
Meisinger, John
Merchant’s Anti-Subway League (Boston)
Merrill, Moody
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Metropolitan Railroad (Boston)
Metropolitan Railway (London)
Metropolitan Steamship Company (Boston)
Metropolitan Street Railway Company (New York)
bankrupt
Metropolitan Traction Company (New York)
Miami, Florida
Micher, John
milk, drinking of, by infants
miners in subway construction
mines, ventilation of
monorail, proposed for Boston
Monte Salviano, near Rome, Italy
Montgomery, Alabama
Moore, Annie
Moore, Ira
Morgan, J. Pierpont
Morison, Samuel Eliot
Morrison, George L.
Morse, Samuel F. B.
motorman, first subway
multiple-unit control
Munn, Orson Desaix
Murray, William
Murray Hill, New York
Murray Hill Hotel
National Cordage Company
National Power Traction Laboratory (China)
Nawn, H. P.
New Orleans
New York (state), rivalry with Massachusetts
New York Cable Railway Company
New York City
1825 population
1860s population
1880s population
1890s population
1900s population
absorbs Brooklyn
building boom in
congestion and garbage in
cultural boom in
dirty politics in
gay nineties
ground and bedrock of
millionaires in
office buildings in
real estate developers
reform under Hewitt
sex business in (1880s)
temperament of New Yorkers
New York City Hall, Rotunda of
New York City transit system
1825 traffic
1830s and 1840s traffic
1850s traffic
bids to build and run a subway, failure to obtain (1892)
cable system for
consolidation of, by W. Whitney and partners
electrification of
elevated lines
Hewitt’s modernization plan (1888)
horsecar lines
planning of
privately built and operated, as policy
publicly built and leased to highest bidder, as policy
rapid transit system begun
rationalization of routes
subway plans
subway vs. elevated lines debate
See also
New York subway
New York District Railway
New York Gas and Electric Light
New York harbor
New York & Harlem Railroad Company
The New York Herald
New York Loan and Improvement Company
New York Public Library
New York subway
accidents during construction
charter to operate
consideration of
construction workers
contractors’ bids (1897)
contractors’ bids (1900)
deaths during construction
depth of, average
depth of, maximum
groundbreaking ceremonies
opened to the public
opening celebrations
operation of, bid on
questions asked and answered in newspapers
ridership
shut because of hurricane Sandy in 2012
Steinway and Parsons plan (1896)
tour of
tunneling of
walls and roofs
The New York Sun
New York Supreme Court
The New York Times
New York Transit Commission (Steinway commission)
The New York Tribune
nineteenth century, an age of innovation
Ninth Avenue elevated (New York City)
O’Brien, Hugh
O’Brien, James
O’Donnell, Edward
O’Keefe, Michael
Olmsted, Frederick Law
omnibuses
decline of
Onderdonk, Andrew
O’Reilly, F. C., and Company
O’Rourke, Matthew
Orr, Alexander E.
O’Shaughnessy, Pat
Otis, Elisha Graves
Page, William Hussey
Pain Fireworks Company
panics
of 1873
of 1893
Paris, 1825 transportation
Paris subway
construction
Park Street Church
Parsons, Harry de Berkeley
Parsons, William Barclay
Parsons, William Barclay, Jr.
drafts new plan for subway (1896)
engineering job in China
engineering successes in later life
hired by New York
mentioned
at opening of New York subway
plan for double-deck tunnels
recommends subway for New York
signing of bid for subway construction
surveying Manhattan
tours foreign subway systems
as transit commission engineer
work on subway construction
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Parsons brothers partnership
patents
Payne, Flora (Mrs. William Whitney)
Payne, Oliver Hazard
Payne family
Peabody, Francis, Jr.
Pearson, Frederick Stark
hired by New York
Peckham, Wheeler H.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
phonographs
pianos
Pierce, Franklin
Pilkington, James
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
pneumatic postal tube
pneumatic railway tube
first, under Broadway
test rides for public
Poe, Edgar Allan
Pomeroy, Henry A. G.
Porter, Rufus
postal services, pneumatic mail transport in
Post Road, New York
Potter, Asa
Powers, Michael
power sources for transportation.
See
cables; electric power; fans; horses; steam power
Pratt, Walter
Prince, Frederick
Providence, Rhode Island
Public Garden, Boston
Pulitzer, Joseph
quadricycle
Quincy, Josiah
railroads, long-distance
19th century growth of
railroads, urban
halted by the blizzard of 1888
rails, for vehicles
Rainsford, W. S.
Rammell, T. W.
Randolph, Edith S.
Rapid Transit Act of 1891 (New York)
Rapid Transit Act of 1894 (New York)
Rapid Transit Commission (Massachusetts)
Rapid Transit Commission (New York)
Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company (New York)
real estate developers
Boston
New York City
The Real Estate Record
Reed, Anna DeWitt
Reed, James
Regan, Thomas J.
Republican Party
restaurants in New York
Rice, George
Richards, Calvin
Richmond, Virginia, transit system
Richmond Union Passenger Railway
Ridley, E., and Sons
Robertson, Roderick
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Rochegrosse, Georges Antoine, painting by
Rockland Bank
Rodder, Bernard
Roman engineering
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roots, P. H. & F. M., Company
Roxbury Crossing line, incident at
Roy, Thomas
Russell, Henry
Russell, William
Ryan, Thomas (Boston engineer)
Ryan, Thomas Fortune (New York capitalist)
safety, feeling of
Safety Association of Steam Engineers
Saint Louis, Missouri
Saint-Quentin Canal, France
Salter, Robert M.
sandhogs
Sandy (hurricane)
San Francisco, California
Sargent, John Singer
Scheutte, William
Schuylkill and Susquehanna Canal, Pennsylvania
Scientific American
Scientific American Patent Agency
Seaman, Dr. Louis Livingston
Second Avenue elevated (New York City)
Second Avenue subway (New York City)
sewer lines
sewing machine
Shaler, Ira
called the “Hoodoo Contractor”
death of
Sharp, Jacob
Shepard, Anson
Shepard, Edward M.
Shipley, F. B.
shipwrecks
Siemens, Werner
Sixth Avenue elevated (New York City)
Smith, Alfred E.
Smith, Melville C.
Sociable
(carriage)
Society of Arts (Boston)
Sousa, John Philip
South Ferry Railroad Company
souvenirs
Spanish-American War
speed of subways
Spencer, Aaron W.
sports in New York
Sprague, Frances P. (née Lowell)
Sprague, Frank
in Boston
death of
and electric motor development
and electric transit
job with Edison
marriage
resigns Edison position
Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Company
Springfield, Massachusetts
Spuyten Duyvil, New York
stairways into subways
Stanton, Edwin M.
Start, W. A.
stations, subway
Statue of Liberty
steam power
overground, urban
as power source
problem with
in underground railways
Stearns, Fred
steel used in subway construction
Steinway, William
Steinway (Steinweg) family
Steinway & Sons
Stone, John
Stone, Mary
streetcars.
See
horse-drawn streetcars
Street Railway Journal