The evening world. Newspaper, October 27, 1904, Page 18

. 44 THE WORLD: THURSDA PRING 4 Tremendous Problems that Were — WK [How tr Sut bad Encountered and Had to Be Solved. way Will Set | Power ror the werk of construction the subwa nr ibway for more than a nile by ful vo) m in phe . | dete Aiud WP K becleg 40 baglaretiog pels Tk wee found a He font cite fa wountant Tie (Se Operation a eal os , ' briek ' ‘ 8 wit reular iron t ! t ' we 4 eiiia~) ty ; ag i } st Subway in tne} y ng wt and ‘“ " ' pilla u c " i less men who bored through so far under: ae : kitting the founda. velcwlar trtth pune world New York will tion walla of the tallest buildings In world, 1 Tunnelled Through Sand, Fear was expres When it was made know that ~have, as a ary ud Al without disarranging the most complicated system — The it ewer by bway was t #h Columbus Circle Pjynet, the greatest power of sewers, conduits, pipes and ducts, was one that tunnel? The on \ be tunnelled through tl Columbus monument would ndermined Shouse in the workd had to be 2 vlong entirely ortginal ines was very f I, and a new mothod of boring | Die wer thal 8 F Seine The byllding ix betwee Before the aubway could be started artangoment 1 to be a okt wa modifieatho ‘ usm nt was not disturbed a fra ; ain had w be made for moving the sewers and eondul 1 tem used f 1 Ung under ri anid to y Bh the subway passen direct! shila ee ll ial MM Palcaas @ithach. SShAbAina Mik dervite tee wi) © laboriousn may be imagined from the Und n cant side, three feet from the centre niith streets and Bh pice debts ; Lt ie ha a ; hia i rate of work allowed t tune were buil and unde enth u, we and the Nort) thee utilities were designe keFe edullt be no I bist ie nak Wee anedat illed with concrete and 80 braved that nae , ference with the water, ix, electric and telep Duk cap > tool’ atbealan risk dewan daa thes hake ike Rial eady until the subway }River. In time it will oc systems. Pie pay level at Ons Hondrod © mple'ed and braced cupy all the space be- ‘ Hu Reconstructed Sewers, | Tent wt | Lenox avenue, Part of ft w Foway runs direc: winder the Hotel Hels Ptween the river and the t Aoutt i 1 1 ‘ ist-lron pipes, running t, Forty-second mreet # Park avenue, and un avenue. It will contain The sewers presented the grew ditflow I a $ At One ' tow Times Hullding at Forty-second , nearly half the entire distince of the subw Sand Forty-nine eet and Railroad, avenue, t r | Broadway, The foundations for these )bollers and 12) engines clone to the surface of the street. The sewer wer I wil net ary ding hat t 1} rock on Which the snp. each engine directly con { sudh depth as to Interfere with a tun netru run it tor tide level his called for permanent porting columns ar eed away below the kvel Jnected to a 5.000 kilowat hose to the i ” ewers had to ber iw . w th nly in f jbway bed ' ‘ mr 1 ter it ‘ae Phe ‘ structed along half the subway ro this im ; sess ‘oil rag hick# of atationg, ) Alternato ‘ that sewers would thay ' n Mf as weil a I ind gas pipes wer ih 3) ira ree ' m the subway $l develop 100,000 horse hanged and sewers that emptied {nt river wou 1th patee wr 4 power without the slight- have to be shifted to empt vanother. Ina ' W parallel w ead of The tunnel between One Hundred and Fifty-seventh fot stein on the ma- milea of sewer were re tructed, m ny small w titted ind Fort Geor 8 the longest two-track tun- nicaes sta: Of ‘ 1 ohines te subawy pond b13 t ’ 1 tal ; . Lin the world w ex n—the Hoosae tua 4 sa tha: danied The biggest job was encountered at ¢ t ly the wa was tur into Them nu Oniy tw woh dui, Wank bun ce avold the danger 0 where the flaw of the sewer was main ples, and the Me wee t y uid, A general breakdown of Bust River instead of the Huds hi . pert pew wor y end. The shafts ww ned (¢ power the boiler-house 5 rouble With Surtaece Lines, , tations on the tunnel leve 4 FL Devo mtinued in use, A new sewer was constructed | apel lad if iy < nisin teats Ween , is nano loved and generating-room are Mote @y ALMAM & Uo fy. © east side, running away from the route of the : q 3 Under the Harlem River, divided Into six sections aruer ENG oe . ‘ thom where they could be removed to the _ # far the most interesting section of the tunnel feach independent of the Jos of the street w anderw m with tun. [79m an engineering standpolnt Mat under the Yother. Nothing short of s . ‘dle of | Harlem Riv Th fof ther a 8 tat normous Difficulties yi he mi hea, 7h af ea ato arte val reet y 9 Ls lint ice, eee 1 had to be devised, ‘Two separate tun. Qsibly render enough of = 18 ye ' ren es Oy reeet ‘ ; r form, built of cast tron and ateci, {these sections useless to One of the m teresting truction ek beds built In calasone tn pile-in - The bollers ure fed au = ¢ mulde s de in the f «© bottom. he S b C t ti work ‘ wed . a done Fone ik bak dk be ss "© Fiomaticully from gigar { WwW . five-trach ‘ vid atreet tunnel under th u ay ons ruc 10n, ‘ IP + iia 11 way. ‘Phe exenvae From start to fr " Jifficuity, $tle coal bunkers iovated aauicaiaia t ore wa mith thirty fi deep, and ex. Dut these particular e were punder the roof of th tended from te fifteen feet tr k the e most obstacles, Foatiding. ‘There are Yi/ IAY Sl vo ha e to de POR THE EVENING WORLD SUBWAY SOUVENIR, ak 4% ary wherever the yy Not ty have time to Fide {soon tunkerw in all, with fi i 4 tirestiand th careful note of it as " s ) f mands of New (he H emselyes will they realize what }4 combined maximum of i BY S. L. F. DEYO, Yorkers remember to thir sorrow, the four stairs @ big Job It has been, 18,000 tons. ; A : ‘ wit tion Were y over the subway Chief Engineer of The Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company. *" Mach of thes stairways had to be t for them by Pe , *) \ * WO million irda of earth and one mi The Londen tu ted lelally thr Aen f t yan y , r f yw wh \ ’ \ ; Goble yards of rick have been removed from while a great portoln of our aystem doe require i" silnen ‘wien Veal A. T the subway—enowgh material to build a pyra- artificial tight One of fi t ay Wea te MAIN (ER House \ ¢ 4° \a° ot \ ef ald BO feet high with a base WO feet square. ‘The building of the New York subway hae furs jy.” a ge fouith and Parte dinnt 111 & 187TH PS. \ r "i . we This W not vo great ay the amount excavated and plahed i917 ofr all classes of Work- giscre tt w re that shittiie gack wus found 4 587 & G97 STS 4 » Borrved to sem every year from the now cellars uf men, skilled and unskilled. Ae high as 12000 men rau Wald ; ; : rt ‘ aA N My ge OROADWAY Mow York. There le no danger of Manhattan Island have been employed in a single day, ‘That was 1 a ; dies Mapes. It Wes here tha \R r Sn Hr] Hither caving in or falling over because of the 4, i ime - : ho gunmer and fal 8, when work Was iN Stijor ima A. Shaler mank unfortunate othe \® j i Amount of material removed to make room for the ' ' bubwra: progress ali along the Jine nish ~ . 1 , 1 \ ‘ Te cities of the wore now provided with sub. , ThE have been more diMoulties to the tnewt! \ tl ‘| Ways are London and Wudapest, Paris and Glasgow {9% on the New York subway than on any ot) Vie ‘| tp Kuro, and Boston in this country: but the New raiitoad work ever undertaken. ‘These difficulties in = i Tork subway is the longest. It is the only subway jn ‘lute the care of and reconstruction of the sew rig B WBe world that has four tracks, The London subway %e @aa and wate private vaults and th fe much de Mations, wh CENTR requiring the use of elevators at all *Ufface railroads, together with the underpinning - ) makes it much harder to ventihte, of the tall buildings. r Mh ' 4 ey | ee | LENO ivtevtaia? amt 4 Tle oe Suge “18 \ t t - Vy wir ava, | ' ; ree pF a oe UL re antl : | mA werilen ey ae, “ Hi i GRIND CSnTAAL NEW YORK CAN NOW HANDLE 0; ——@- aay ve) 3,100,000 PASSENGERS DAILY, S4gram nit ‘a a ed ae i en Bott, P id - NQO—IE ~ Png ° - Subway (eventually)...ssses sevesseeees 600,000 passengers a day. Shows Depths | + 1,500,000 “0 Gunnel S$ st” /2N1Ees I\SMULES Surface lines ' EMV BYGONE J ecvecciwavecnesaditescnceeacsdaeeate 1,000,000 bs “ '1 MILE FROM ' Fitilcciemiern teenie ee ae u' Mong Route 1 CITY WAL SEE aEEeE . eral bond of $1,000.00 to secure rom City Hall to Kingsbridge At present trains run only to One Hundred and 4 perform. of contract and Bronx Park on the east side. Porty-fifth street. The system will be complete One Hundred fi acts A bout Ho organised mautruet ten main line from Clty Hall to Kingsbridge f@ through on the east and west sides in three pooner Auguet Belmont feaid ‘ . 13. miles long, with four tracks to Ninety-sixth de is one of 3 per cent. on each side per , Subway was zed of the tunnel under the Harlem River T Y J \ \ e east wide line from One Hundred and Third t * r t downgrade of 21 j r ‘ r y ‘ r ‘ p ‘ ing the road for fifty years, with F ilk ay ne Lives Lost in the Work, wr ~~~ mo i wd ; he cae re 11 miles k and sidings the work of construction 120 lives were lost, Une i . ‘ PY “aia 1 third of between New gre t number at one tim the Park avenue em= | dite ~ York Ibany 1, which wrecked the Murray Hill Hotel ps i ler Avie The stops average three a mile for local train and ‘ctual me spent in construction was Lae | City 1 sental @ i te t t * every two miles express trains. . Mr MeDonald sublet the work of construction to There are & statl mt tire system, 33 un: uged by the number of men employed the work é t ul derground, 1 on viaduets, th part! » the sur ays numbered 5,943,917. } he ¢ “lw broken for the Bubway on March %, face and partly underground, and one partly on the employed in conmiruee. /° ile . 19m, in ff a the City Hall by Mayor Robert A. surfMce and partly on the viaduct e ) i Contractor's Heavy Seenrity. Van Wyek Two of the underground stations are reached by The average number of men employed per day Wap Ste $1,000,000 1 ose The contrnetor pledged timacit to have the fub- elevators. and one of the viaduct strtions is reached 4.66 r ourity for comstructiun, a bond with surety for 4, way ready for the people in four and one-half year by escalators. - a. \ ‘There, were 200,000 cyole yards of earth and ijei\sele ' ‘ i vw £ H rilah . i aah arith eli td la tcl ay tl all hie less wee)