The Critic and record., 1891-05-12
CONCERNING THE CABLES.
Work Commenced on the Fourteenth
street line,

street Line,
A novel sight met the gaze Of CRITIC.
RECORD reporter, as he lazily climbed the
hill on Fourteenth street extended yes
terday. -Four hundred laborers, with
picks, shovels, horses and carts, mules,
wagons and ploughs were commencing
work on the new cable road by tearing up
the street and getting things in shape TO
put the yokes under ground.
Engineer Dunn, who is assisting Mr..
Caul in the engineering branch, said the
work would hardly be carried to the
foot of the hill at this time as they only
desired to complete the work on this sec
ton of the road to where the concreted
portion of the street ends, so as to allow
the city officials to finish the work of
concreting the hill to the end of the
street.
when do you think you will finish
here ?" asked the reporter.
by Thursday we will have the work
here done, provided we do not go to the
foot or the hill. Then these men will 60
over to Georgetown where the work will
be begun on the main line and pushed
through to the Navy-Yard without delay.
We will then come back here and work
down to New York avenue and Fifteenth
street.
"When do you think the road will Le-
gin operati onsY'
THAT is hard to say. but probably by
the next time New Years Day rolls
around our part of the work will be COM
pleted 1t is hardly probable, however,
| that the power house will have been fin
ished by that time"
ut will not be necessary for the power
| house to be completed before the road will
be in operation. When the walls are up
and the roof on the machinery can be put
| in motion, and, as the Chinaman says,
| you'll have
no hossec no mulcc,
| But 20 like hclce allesamee.
How long will it be before that will
come to pass ?"
81 think that in about year from now
| the road will be running, but the power
house won't be finished by that time"
| The yokes have been distributed along
Fourteenth street and NJ street in George
town, and in those places where the
| grooved rail has not yet been laid the new
rails have been placed.
Two massive plows, each drawn by
| four horses and handled by three men,
are going through the road bed which is
of broken rock, and are blowing around
a circle where the big wheel is to he
placed. This will not be put here until
all of the work has been completed.
Yesterday the gas company began the
| work OF lowering the siX-inch pipe along
NJ, commencing at High street, and ex'
pect to have the work finished by the
time the men at work on Fourteenth
street extended are ready to commence
operations in Georgetown. Men are sim
ilarly engaged along Fourteenth street.
President Hurt said this morning the
company expected to have the construction
work of the road finished by the last oil
the year. and he thought the cars would
be running by August 6, 1892, the limit
under the act of Congress granting the
franchise. The work will be pushed a
rapidly as possible, but it is of sucl
magnitude as to require many months tC
complete it.
The bids for the construction Of thu
foundation for the new power house vii
all be in by the Goth instant and the con
tracts will be awarded few days later
Work will be commenced shortly there
after.
| So far only the plans for the foundation
have been prepared. 1t will be necessar,
to use over 1000 piles to secure a sole
foundation, and this work alone will tax,
a long time.