The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-23
UNDER MADISON AVENUE.
RAPID TRANSIT COMMISSIONERS LAY
OUT ANOTHER TUNNEL.
vlnduct Above Ninety.sixth Street That
Might Coincide with Centrars yinduct-
broadway hOrinGs Reveal Onick 80 nds-
WIN

MsGnt SOincido with Scutrars SInuuct-
broadway BOrin1s Reveal Qnick 80 nds-
VIII There Bc AN East slide Routes
The Rapid Transit Commissioners have de-
termircd that folks In this city shall travel
under ground. 1t inns been more than half
suspected. since the opposition to their west
sidc plan. which 10 for an underground road.
was so strenuous. TINT their east side plans
would DO for fresh air road. Their east side
plan was malc public yesterday. and It is for
structure exactly similar TO tho ore proposed
for the west side. 1t Gun hardly be called IN
enst side rapid transit route either. The route
is through Fourth and Madison avenues.
There are Ave. ard n good part OF the way
seven, long blocks between the avenue and
the river. The resolutions passed by the Com.
mlssioners aud given out as their plan are as
follows:
Resolred. That this Board approves a plan
ing from tho proposed Broadway line ,at or
square to Fourth avenue and under Fourth and
Park avenues to nenr and south. Of Forty second
AZ s4sh 70
Madson TO pont near
sss o yM sasson bs
not less than loo feet. east Of Madison avenue.
T. q point near and south Of ia4th street street:
Rs.olsed That The general plan OF con,
sSa be either doubis deck .annei With two
trnc ks upon each deck. or tonr tracks upon the
level. as may DO found. upon further examine.
near The surface Is shall be found pract,sa6le;
From Niinety.six,h street north the route Is TO
Rssoirsa. That the conditions a., to location
OF stations In tunnel and all appinnces con
As s9s Ss
side line. descrised In resolution OF this
hat Ma sSo 81 of this Board
surveys; plans, and Specification. for re
Harlem River, at the earliest practicable date.
and submit the same promptly to this Bonrd
,hs city 9, New Y2rk as required by tho
"Resorra, That from tho Harlem River north
to the city limit the exact location and mode OF
can @ oay y tE
eeano@y q eSnstrSc cho and tina. tue ensi.
cable; but Without deIaylng !he preparation Of
lie line south OF Harlem Aver
This WAS adopted unnr !monsly. Clerk Bushe
s sn o G e west
ResoTsh. That ths stations iof such line Of
shall b sbs be oysd sab os
b.. ,wenty feet or more below the curb line.
railway shall be electricity or some other
Ipowsr, not requiring combustion within tue
As usual. after the preparation OF the reso-
lutions Yesterday. the Commissioners left
oS so
Assistant ENGINEER Within si b ~ Parsons was
IF, behind as said nat the tunnel above
to the Harlem river is very near to the sur!are
choosing OF the route along Fourth avenue and
Park avenue would Indicate that the Commits
aSreemens tn the Fourth Avenue Taii r.
for the use of the tunnel thore now. II they
have not they win haye to 20 undernea,h the
deck plan there will be three tunnels under
that eet. one atop OF The other.
plets the preliminary plans for the structure
Tor presentation TO the, Board o., Aldermen.
a general way it may be said that the road will
resemble. closely tho road proposed years ago
RS tfs on oy M se
to the surface OF the street rs safety viii per-
init: The tracks will probably be as far under
ground as the present elevated structures are
Interest centres in tho road under Broad.
street showing he result of boring. exactly
the depth Of rock. and other in,eresiax things
II shows that down town. between tho surTace
OF the street and the rock. there is a layer OF
sand. but they admit that 1t lie very little more
stable than the ordinary gncksand. and that
that the condition Of the soil under tho street
has changed in recent years. or else hat other
borers have mnde mistnkes In their re ports.
for all previous reports have placed the rock
nearer to the surface
16 to "a feet down 70 rock; and the everything
material Is sand From Morris to Reade 1t Il
sand and Guicksnnd. increasing in depth from
s. Wort ssa ws tss ss .ni
and Guicksand are 1919 fect deep This is tho
maximum. There Is sand w to Broome street.
nnd then occasional grave with the sand up to
Thereafter it is all sand. decreasing In depth
irr"Gularly. There is only II feat Of It ut East
Nineteenth street. "a Mt East Twenty-tifth. and
tits proposed that tho bottom OF the tunnel
shall be about Is feet below tho surface. The
foundation Of the Equitable building and Of
uniergrannd. The hnpld Transit eng aers
say the foundations, will not DO impaired. Mr..
Parsons said yesterday there would he great
many grades in the rond. The maximum
Work on these tunnels will begin probably
about the time that the cable road gets into
OPERATION and tho street Tor tho first, tims, in
GreathoAd system OF shiel work is considered
by nearly all Of tn, commissioners 10 be too
We e. not TO-
posed to- dig down to the desired depth and
1t was said last night that there might be n
enough east OF Madison avenue to accommo-
date the east side clear to tho river They
would attend to II. it was said. us soon as the
plans for the two roads now proposed were out