January 6, 1904. Commissioners New York State Reservation, Niagara Falls, N. Y: Gentlemen-I beg to submit herewith an estimate of cost of installing the necessary electrical apparatus and appliances for operating your Inclined Railway by electric power. If you decide to so operate your Inclined Railway the conduit which has been installed through the Park will be available for this purpose as well as for electric lighting as covered by previous estimate. I have no means of telling exactly the amount of power required to operate your Inclined Railway, but from verbal statement made to me by Mr. Bond I assume that 50 H. P., will be ample, and my estimate is based upon this capacity. 2200-volt cable through Park additional to that re quired for lighting. $1,000 00 2-25-K. W. transformers, primary 2200 volts, secondary 440 volts, one for each phase, $250 each...... Additional conduit required from Shelter Building to Inclined Railway Head House... 500 00 200 00 440-volt cable from Shelter Building to Inclined Railway Head House .... 300 00 50 H. P. 2-phase, 440-volt induction motor... 1,200 00 APPENDIX Proceedings of the Meeting Held by the City of New York in Honor of the Memory of the Late Hon. Andrew Haswell Green on Wednesday, December 30, 1903, Including the Memorial Address by the Rev. Henry Mitchell MacCracken, D. D., LL.D., Chancellor of New York University. |