Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 27, 1902, Page 29

Work on the Great New York Subway ” - VIEW LOOKING NORTH AT UNION SQUARE. EXCAVATION UNDER ELEVATED KOAD AT SINTY-FIFTH AND BROADWAY Copyright, 1502, by Herbert Wallace All this is to the end that the New Yorker avenue of travel, und millions of passengers subway may best be seen, provided one 15 switchyard for train i this was tun MAGINE a tunnel six feet high and and the \er'HIK..\ll"IHNvI‘ may be whisked will be carried over it every year fortunate enough to secure [H'l'lll\»‘.\lull‘ to neled out under Park Row three feet wide from New York from one extremity of Manhattan island t0 Serange Metropolitan Sights, explore the cuts and headings. At City Only a short distance up from the loop 5 X the other in a hurry. a Hall square, the lower terminus, fully fwo- is the main station That is to say, the to Chicago and you have some : . Those who wish to see strange sights In 000 0f the work has been done. One sec- main station will be located here, close by ! conception of the cubical con- At the present time millions of feet of (he metropolis can find more variety in a e 1 is already covered over the New York end of the Brooklyn bridge tents of the New York subway lumber are being used to maintain undis- (pip along the line of the subway in its 100 05 VH0 FORD. TR SITENGE. AR SEW, DLt th ik ote BE |\h-- Tt nisoes of \“””‘ A station is a local train station rock, that for a considerable disiance a this timber had been used in building homes jccustomed themselves to the upheaval of only. Originally a great loop was planned years, but, owing to the continual crowds street car service had to be maintained un- for the army of 10,000 workmen employed streets, the jacked-up street car lines, the pare which \\].erML «‘u.l. { I'll;" l:' the in lh‘l‘ nelghborhood, it has scemed best impaired above the digging toilers and that there would have been sufficient for a two- gwinging cranes and the cable ways on o 5 . water mains, gas pi s¢ had to story frame house for every man. The hich tonloads are carried at a “,,." Now be moved whenever the path of the tunnel 2,500,000 tons of rock which are to be taken gnd then the pedestrian is confronted by a intercepted them, and you may realize what out would make a solid wall three feet workingman who waves a red flag and cries a tremendous enginecring task is being thick, six feet high and near 500 miles gyt ‘Fire! and the pedestrian knows pushed forward mnow in New York City long, and if the dirt were spread over Cen- that an explosion is imminent. Crowds months ahead of contract time tral park the entire area would be covered watch daily the operation of the com- gtyyeture, and the plan to tunnel to Brook- ten inches deep. As a matter of fact, acres pres air drills which bore into the solid |yp lll‘l‘.lll.lth it advisable to locate the and acres of New Jersey swamp land are ypick; at times the monotony of living in postoffice and furnish room for the maln to complete one part before beginning an station, and it was understood that all the other troing, both express and local, should pass Mine in (he Big City, this way. The task, however, was too diffi- cult. It was not poseible to pass under thoe postoffice building without weakening that es and sewa From the bridge station the four tracks will extend in practically a straight line to Forty-second street thence over to Broadway and up Broadway to One Hun The comparison is not quite accurate, but dred and Fourth street From this poit it serves its purpose of calling attention to et wain station at the bridge. Accordingly the most gigant piece of engineering in being made habitable since the Rapid Tran the neighboerhood is disturbed by the thun- Mp, William Barelay Parsons, the chlef en- sit commission began to dispose of the sur- (er of a blast, passcngers in nearby street there are two branches, one extending up N ™ or near Broadway to Two Hundred il modern times. Three million cublec yards gineer, planned a smaller loop and a local of space underncath a teeming city are to Plus dirt and rock upon them ars feel their hats lifted slightly from t(rain station which has aroused the admira make room for a $35,000,000 railway. Sixty- It is a veritable city under a city which their head They remark, “Only the sub- (ion of all the engineers. There i1s not o five thousands tons of steel will be used in the engineers and contractors are building, way,” and wonder when all the confusion straight line at thie terminus. The station the arches, pillars and rails. Ten thou- a city of one street, to be sure, now with and muss will be over is a curved platform, the roof is a series of sand men will have been engaged for nearly two roadways, now with four, but it is an Down below, on the damp, sunless bottom domes and arches within arche The four years in bringing thie marvel about. electrically lighted, clean, well ventilated of the many openings, the real state of the change in the loep made neces fteenth street, the other cutting through a corner of Central park, under the Harlem river, and up into the suburbs as far as Bronx park Over this line all Kind ol operations are being carried on, from the sary a (Continued on Eighth Page.) N the floors, arches and entrances of the s he J Neted ) rine i turbed the street surface with its ceaseless | pese state y » excursi ’ “vh n l'nn]]h -Il‘] .\ll\\ \lm le that fnlun e ;“ “‘, A «” ot 1‘ i pr nt state than in any other excursion tion are now being completed. The City taken up. On both sides of the localty v J « 1 ere as solid aflic going above e excavations i l¢ i . B 7 9 New York to velar there wa oli 1 g o 1hove 1 1 1 in Manhattan. New Yorkers have not yet Hal to' te work has been going on for nearly two - GENERAL VIEW AT THIRTY-FOURTH AND PARK AVENUE BURNED ARMORY IN RIGHT FOREGROUND. SCENE AT BROADWAY AND SIXTY-N INTH, SHOWING NEW ANSONIA HOTEL ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINTH STREET AND BROADWAY, LOOKING NORTH INTO ROCK HEADING