New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-03

With dynamite will lend resonant bass 10 .he gen
eral clamor Ring Of backsmiths anvil and the fuss
and fury OF a half dozen circular saws in an In
provsed sawml are additional factors In the list
OF noises new 10 the semi-rura district lying in that
territory
This is where the first blow has been struck on The
gigantic contract which l. to be finished In about
seven years II no accidents intervene. ON a space
OF five miles circumference the face OF nature Is
TO be changed, obliterated in fact. banketed with
water. II you please. to depth Of about thirty feet
One OF the great historic places in TIE history OF the
American turf will disappear. The jerome PARK
cub house. whose walls could tell strange tales
doubtless OF revery OF the ol1en time. will be re-
moved from its vantage point on the bun overlook
ing the finish point OF the course. to Summer Hill.
there TO be utilized machine shop and power
house for steam drills and other appliances. The
dancing pavilion viii he set coo feet away across
the old aqueduct Grandstand, stables and sheds vii
mass TO the ward OF the dealer in secondhand build
ings The old John Dickinson mansion, completely
hidden among the trees north OF the Old Boston
Road and east OF the old aQueduct line, viii be re-
moved 70 a permanent site. The beautiful Wicks
home at the head OF the Park and just south of the
Old BOSTON Road line will be taken away. although
II is now valuable the official home Of the con-
tractor and engineering corps Residences SUFFICIENT
in number to make small village will have to pass
10 other sites. and the geography Of the Annexed
District will need new map. Groves OF beautiful
fallen victims to the woodlands axe. and the logs
are food for the sawmill
A FOREST TO GO.
This sawmiI is a curiosity to the layman II -
an evidence that the contractor Will cut his own
thinner from his own temporary domain to be used
on the works Two Pennsylvania lumber
men have it In charge-Captain {. h. HeoDle ana
John Lyons. Captain Hebble. and Lyons. as vel
have been following the fortunes OF Jonn Is. No
Donald the contractor. for years but they ooth ne
clare that the Jerome-ave. contract tops good
deai over ANYTHING that they have ever in the
way of single enterprise. SAID the Captain;
You see and his hand went out In compre-
hensive sweep over the surrounding wilderness OF
logs and brush. 1--WE get little OF everything here
on this property get elm and oak chestnut
horse chestnut. wild cherry. orchard cherry apple
white wood as they call ii here. but out in my coun-
try we won d call it poplar, maple, hickory and TIL
umphantly spice wood. There is more maple than
anything else What do we do with II? cut II up
into lengths Then some OF it is squared for water
tank timbers, and OF II IL cut into plankng
for castings. Some Of it we use for railroad ties
The refuse up into casing wedges. OF which
We shall require about five million. What is no
good FOR anything else makes excellent rewood and
that will probably be given away"
Many OF the stables will he preserved long az
possible for the convenience OF the iaborng men.
one OF them. which is go feet in length. Is the
storehouse for the contractor and at the present
time contains supplies Of all sorts. worth. perhaps
go 900 including bolts and nuts. costing anywhere
from Sc apiece down to 80 and less. In the
end OF = IL the superir tendents office and about IT,
in gypsy fashion, camp the workmen. 40 night falls
the campfres spring up. The flames dance and
cracke in the crisp night air. and cast strange
fanta site shadows over black shrouded nature. Fig
OF workmen. busy preparations for the
evening meal si.houetted against the flames. and
for a background there the ow-roofed stables
whose stalls once sheltered the kings and queens OF
the American turf but are now the home OF the
''guneas'-a pet nickname for the italian work
men. Some OF the stables reserved too. FOR
teams used in carting away earth 10 the various
dumping grounds although these are supplemented
by the steam shovels. two in number. which feed
the improvised railway that runs down toward Van
Cor;landt Park and Tibbetts Brook.
MILLIONS or CUBIC YARDS.
This Is the IVES; Side. on the East Side.
where the Harlem Railroad has a branch under the
Jerome-ave bridge, excavation Is going forward.
and speedily the earth will be loaded on the cars
and transferred 20 the Harlem road and on 10
the tracks OF the New-York New-Haven and
Hartford road for deposit In the marsh lands along
the Sound Indeed. IL has been whispered that Mr..
Mcdonald has been n close observer Of real estate
conditions all through the North SIDE for some
months and that the study OF these largely
guided him In the construction OF his bid for the
reservoir work. When the fact is taken into nc
count that he will have TO remove soIns thing Ike