New-York tribune., 1900-04-17
CONTRACTS FOR MATERIAL.

For material the following were the contracts
awarded:
For xs,s52aasng sSdsn yI c,,s Asphalt Paving Com
For structural iron and stee-Ine Carneeie steel Com
Portland and natural cement-The Tinted Building
Material Company, No 62l Broadway. New-fork City.
All these awards. it was announced had been
made subject TO the execution of final con-
tracts" or. in other words a mere signing or
the legal contracts. a formaty which will be
completed within the next few days The
amounts of the bids not given out. nor
would the bidders. in conformity with the wish
of August Belmont, make known the figures Of
the offers submitted by them. 1t was ascer-
tanned however, that the aggregate value of the
contracts decided upon yesterday was about
500 100000. Altogether. fifty bids were received
by the construction company.
WORK TO BEGIN SPEEDILY.
The letting of these contracts means a speedy
beginning upon the work of eXcavating the tun-
mel. So soon as the legal preliminaries have
been complied with the sub-contractors will
enter upon their tasks with more delay than
viii be necessary to put their plant in place.
The construction company will supply all the
material for the tunnel. 1t will be observed that
action has not yet been taken upon the bids for
the building of the sections between Great Jones'
st and One-hundred- and thrd-st. These divi-
sions include that part Of the subway which Will
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Forty-second-st. where many difficulties present
themselves. and the Boulevard where it is prob
able that the route may be altered in order to
avoid the tearing up of the parkway.
The most important of the contracts deter
mined upon yesterday that relating TO the
Postoffice loop and the section extending 70
Chambers-st. This contract was secured by the
Degnon- Mclean Construction Company, and
calls for the building of two double track loops,
one pair of rails being above the other By this
method of placing set OF tracks above the
orher there will be no necessity Of encroaching
fL1 fnrtFa dot Of he
Row buildings. The second section. between
Chambers-st. and Great Jones-st., is one mile
and half in length, with stations at Canal,
Spring and Bleecker SITS. The subway through
out this section is the surface, the depth
heioW varying from iouf 20 elsht ieet oec(Ioiis @
z and s, which comprise the route between one
hundre d-and-t third and One-hundred- and thirty
fifth SITS, about TWO miles long, and will cut
through the hills in the northern part OF Central
Park. The height of the tallest of these hills is
III feet. Section g. which stretches from
Ore-hundred- and thirty-fifth-st to Brook ave.
viii include stations at Mott-ave. and One hun
dred-and-forty -first-st Across the intervening
d strict between Sections II and 13 a viaduct
Viii be built.
WELL KNOWN FIRMS EMPLOYED.
The firms which have secured the sub-con-
tracts are in every instance reputable and sub
stantiaL The Degnon- Mclean Company is al
ready engaged in building the foundations Of
the New East River Bridge. Myron T Herrick
Of Cleveland, Ohio, prominent railroad man
and close friend of President Mckinley is the
president Of the company E J. Farrell
of the builders of the Aqueduct tunnel
and also did part of the work on the Baltimore
and Ohio tunnel in Baltimore John c. Rodgers
who has obtained the contract for the cast iron
circular structures through which the rapid
transit railroad will run under the Harlem River,
is the builder of the Harlem River Bridge
and of the builders OF the AQueduct
tunnel. L. B. McCabe is one of the largest con-
tractors in the country. He helped to construct
the Baltimore tunnel, and Mr.. Mcdonald said of
him yesterday that he had built more tunnels
than any other in the country. John
Shields was an associate of Sidney Dillon in
railway contract work.