Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-17
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
DREAMING Up THE LOTTERY GANBLERs-THE
USDEEGEOUED RAILEOAD-wORK OS THE
EAST RIVER TUNNEL

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD-WORK OS THE
EAST RIVER TUNNEL.
The city authorities haYe at last made
a determined stand against lottery-tickets
dealers, and their business is virtually at
a stand still. At $40 Broadway, the head
quarters Of the Louisiana State Lottery
Co. the change is most noticeable. More
than two-thirls Of the tickets Of this lot
tery are sold in New York City. For a
period Of five or six days previous to each
monthly drawing the Office is thronged
with lottery gamblers, men, women and
children; not even in the lowest dens in
the Bowery and Chatham streets are such
villainous faces and hang-dog expressions
to be met with as in This most respectable
part Of Broadway at such times. Men
whose whole existence appears to haYe
been passed at the gin counter, or in the
penitentiary, make themselves conspicuous
in the struggling throng by their oaths
and curses, while others still under the in
huence OF a nights debauch, flourish their
tickets in drunken glee. The female ele-
ment among the crowd is generally the>
worst. No tickets are now being sold here,
and the Mayor is determined that they
shall sell no more.
Ground is soon to be broken for the IN
derground railway, under Broadway and
Madison avenue. The road will be 7miles
long, and cost about 50 100000 per mile,
giving some 5000 men employment to
build Bids for contracts will be adver-
tised this week and the work pushed as
rapidly as possible. When completed the
road will be patronized by those who are
now afraid to ride on the elevated road,
and will no doubt relieve the Broadway
stages Of a part Of their load at certain
times Of the day.
Work on the Hudson river tunnel pro-
crosses slowly, and the engineer, Mr.. Love
| JOY, says the work is the hardest job be
has ever undertaken. The question, from
the time Of the accident, was whether to
build a caisson or try to get at the end Of
the tunnel. The former has been done,
and the air-lock, for which the men have
been waiting, has been delivered and work
in the caisson commenced. The caisson
is an immense inverted box % feet high
and 40 feet square, and made Of beams
and timbers securely bolted together 1t
is air and water tight, and is operated by
compressed air. The main shaft or en-
trance is five foot air-tight cylinder ex-
tending from four feet above the high wa
ter line down into the bed of the caisson.
1t is made of heavy iron plates and con
tains three entrance door above the water
line, from which an exit can be made if
necessary. Next to the main shaft is the
supply shaft, three foot cylinder through
which the air will be forced and material
supplied for carrying on the reconstruction
Of the tunnel walls Water and mud will
be forced from the interior Of the caisson
through the discharging shaft, which is a
: six-inch pipe. The bodies will be taken
out first and then the work Of excavating
the tunnel will go on. The bodies will be
identified by the rubber boots the men
wore. Each man was numbered on the
books of the company and his boots bore
his number, so that there will be no diff
Guilty in identifying the bodies. The men
will be buried at the expense Of the com
pany, and some provision made for The
support Of their families.
New YORK, Sept. 10, 1880.