The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment
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neighboring town, and he started accordingly; but he went a very little
way, and then returning, hid himself in his wife's chamber. She being
quite satisfied that he was really gone away, invited her gallant to
pass the evening with her, and began to spend it with him in
unrestrained freedom. Presently, by chance, she detected the presence of
her husband, and her manner instantly changed.
'Life of my soul! what ails you?' said her lover; 'you are quite dull
to-night.'
'I am dull,' she replied, 'because the lord of my life is gone. Without
my husband the town is a wilderness. Who knows what may befall him, and
whether he will have a nice supper?'
'Trouble thyself no more about the quarrelsome dullard,' said her
gallant.
'Dullard, quotha!' exclaimed the wife. 'What matter what he is, since he
is my all? Knowest thou not--
'Of the wife the lord is jewel, though no gems upon her beam;
Lacking him, she lacks adornment, howsoe'er her jewels gleam?'
Thou, and the like of thee, may serve a whim, as we chew a betel-leaf
and trifle with a flower; but my husband is my master, and can do with
me as he will. My life is wrapped up in him--and when he dies, alas! I
TABLE OF CONTENTS Page No. INTRODUCTION, 13 CHAPTER I. THE ROUTE OF THE ROAD--PASSENGER STATIONS AND TRACKS, 23 CHAPTER II. TYPES AND METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION, 37 CHAPTER III. POWER HOUSE BUILDING, 67 CHAPTER IV. POWER PLANT FROM COAL PILE TO SHAFTS OF ENGINES AND TURBINES, 77 CHAPTER V. SYSTEM OF ELECTRICAL SUPPLY, 91 CHAPTER VI. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT OF CARS, 117