The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-02-12
RAPID TRANSIT
Speedy Progress Of Work on All
the Lines.
E Q U A LIKING GRAD ES.
Iron Columns Raised on the Third Avenue
Elevated Road.

on the line Of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway
may at last rejotce. For the last three night
the columns have been LAID al the beginning Of
the east side road tho FUNSTON OF Front and White
hall Streets where the west side, or Ninth avenue
line, terminates and connects with the Third Avenue
Elevated road. SO silently and impercoptbly have
these posts gone up during the nishtday work being
avoided account OF the obsrucons to traffic which
1t would produce-that very lew people the
CITY are even that this part OF the iron
superstructure is already being built. The posts,
which from IA to - feet high, differing according
to the grade OF the street. are 10 inches square aud
weigh, AT an average, 1900 pounds. Like those used
by Gilbert road, they are hollow, but unlike those
to roman permanently and not to be filled with
cement. The engineers Of tho Third avenue line
claim that when the pouotrates 10 she cement,
which may be probable contingency, the iron 10
likely to rust
WHAT mas ALREADY
The posts, up to midnight were already raised from
the terminus OF the west side road through Front
street TO Coenties sip through the slip
to Pearl, and thence passing Hanover square, along
Pearl across Wall and 10 John street. In some
places the posts be OF q differ
ent design ana are not ready yet, and
these points have been skipped. Tho columns
considered strong by engineers. They made Of
channel bars Iatced together Tor the purpose Of aE
iron Is about thrce-quartsrs OF inch thick. The
openness OF these lattice posts gives them deceptive
oil lIghtncss and airness, ana most people VINO
have them will DO surprised to learn that they
are 100 pounds heavier than tho columns sixth
avenue, winch, according to statement furnished
tho Engineers Office OF the New York Loan Im-
$500 pounds. Inc posts GU the cas-, SIDE
limo put even moro rapidly than
they have been are The Sixth avenue road, the
average limo consumed IN erecting thcm being only
fifteen minutes Tue work begins 1T about hall-pAsg
the evening aud ends ~ one two 10 the
ing, In the engineers claim nity posta
DC easily put up. rms work Will now steadily 70
TIL all the posts are up TO the Junction OF DIVISION
street and the Bowery, and IN ABOUT two weeks tha
superstructure wii also be raised along the Bowery
and third Mr. Cyrus W. Field, the presdent,
still man Iains that the road will DO running 10 tne
Park by the lst Of May.
THE AVENUE
Along Ninth avenue The vicinity vi Twenty fourth
street posts OF tie same lattice construction wcro
being spread yesterday and the OF putting
them up Tor the second track is 10 be begun ia a 10
days While the lattice posts have doubtless the adj
vantage that any interior law or rust will be easily
discovered In them by Simply peepng H. yet viii they
not a-suredy give rise 10 the nuisance OF inviting,
II we're, al The miscnevous street boys ~ climb upon
themy
TO EIGHTY FIRST STREET, WEST SIDE.
IL Will be remembered tnat IRON Fiity-tnird to
10th street the sixth ana Ninth avenue roads arc
obliged to build IN common ulOhg Ninth avenue and
their road jointly. The Sixth avenue viii
Fifty third street WITH the Nntn avenue bil
awaiting the action OF the Legislature pei
the elevated railroads 10 complete those portions Of
their roads above the Park. Mr. Pullman, who a.
trOls the GiOcrt IL AWAY, was asked yesterday when
the company meant to build their road aoove The
Park. He replied that ran.ements had been made
with the Ninth avenue ROAD TO complete their JOINT
road Ninth avenue to Eighty hrsl ST. oct within
montIs or certainly w Tho LIST oil next July Beyond
Eigty-nrst stree' no arrangements nad us yet been
made and would Lot be Tor some little time 20 como.
PkoGRkss OK THE GILBERT
Great progress has been made IN pushing forward
the Sixth Avenue Elevated road, and crowds OF hun
dreds anu hundreds OF people nave been Watching
daily and nightly the work at the three dinereD
points ut winch II has been pr0gr g--nameiy,
avenue. On West Broadway the work mas been -
slower than on the avenues. Not TO obstrue.dga
enormous tralic the great steam dcrrlcks eIarcu.
the avenues we're useu, d..
derr'cxs placed upon wagons have ~ ~
tho extraordinarily heavy ir0nwork Move Wind
the section IRON Worm to Canal street. United
completed, including the paint ties and o,a cor.
The rails The difficult crossing OF Canal st '"' I'm
the span. both Ia width and Length, unud ex-Con-
has been successfully accomplished Tue are at tho
span here from post 10 post Is nol less ina = :,
feet the upper side OF Canal s,re'r' it, o'
eet seven inches on the lower. no come
nine feet WIDE span Is the widest ,or C. w
road. 1t Is made 20 WIDE by reAsoi s..,,.
east column having been placed sevcrn'of"tnor
You'd the curb on account ot the sewer
point IL Is upon tlIs span ut the north sid
street that the structure looks TO the unset.
the weakest account OF tho extraordinary
tho transversc girder out MI. Shreve, the cous
engineer Of the iins, says mat the heavness
grder Is IN precise proportion TO the greatness oil
span.
WHAT REMAINS TO DE DONE
Beyond Canal street Clark, Reeves Co., who have
the contract. nearly up south Fifth NV.
enue, while tho Edge moor Company, who nave been
rasUg he supersructurc on south Fiith from
West THIRD street dow ard have alrcuay uassed
Brootno street. Hence there IA only n BLOCK between
the sections, winch viii DO jVinod IN very feW
d.ys IL Will ue red that mart OF this sontn
F,th structure. was put up "a long 90 as ar
summer The now irouwork bore Is subst autully tho
the old. except that the spandri knee
brackets instead vi being oil lattice are Of solid plate
giving an tiona a,r Of soliiy to the
whole. Tnen there remains to be Completed the
bet ween south Fifth avenue aud West Third
street wnere tue curve viii be a sharp one aud
The work may taSo some days Inc connec-
ton between mo West Third slreot section already
built and sixth avenue Is
now virtually completed Here Que OF tho most DIN
Gull points the reached on account OF the
sharp curve Tho Whole plan The structure had TO
be changed for tho last few spars on sixth avenue.
ana some extraordinary nkeshts hal TO ue resor tod
to, even To produco "a curve ninty degrees radius
curve which an ordinary locomotive could scarcely
make, but which tho engines OF tho Sixth Avenue
Ee vaed road will 10 aple accom- plsh by reason Of
thcir short wheel Dases. In these last lew sixth
spans there are ouy transverse grders