Hon. MELVILLE C. SMITH,
President of the Broadway Underground Railway.
Sir:
The annexed report is a statement of my recent examination of the London Underground Railways, and a comparison between them and the projected Arcade Railway of New York.
There are also appended diagrams and sketches of those works, and many maps, profiles, sections, working drawings, together with printed reports and statistics, including many you procured while on your tour of inspection with Directors Hon. William Windom and Jerome Fassler, of the Underground Railways and Structures in the cities of London and Paris.
I have also to acknowledge the valuable information obtained and work accomplished by Engineer Frederick N. Blanc, whom you left in London, in the employ of your Company.
These papers, &c, submitted, with others which I am to receive from Europe, will be of great value when the construction of the New York Arcade Railway is commenced.
I have also in preparation a report and discussion of the application of several kinds of motive power to the Railway, which will be hereafter submitted to you.
Respectfully,
New York, January, 1884.
