The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-30
FOUND IN a BIG TRENCH.
Queer Things Unearthed by New
York Subway WorLmeu

(From the New York Commercial Advertiser-)
The wooden shauty at the corner Of
Worth and Elm Streets. which is sup
posed to be the main office Of sections /
and II OF the Rapid Transit tunnel, nova
days looks more like an old curiosity shop
than anything else 1t Is filled with al
manner Of coins. cannon balls. human
teeth and bones. uneaTthed by workneD
digging between City Hall Park and
Great Jones Street IN all more than 10
coins have been found. chiefly copper. and
from the minis OF Spain, France, Eng
land, Belgium, Sweden and the United
States The coins were found from six
to ten feet below the surface. For the
past month or more they have not beer
turned in to Levin and Stone, who are
in charge Of the section house as fast as
formerly The Italian labOTeTs seem to
have learned that they are finding things
OF some commercial value and recently
the foreman has seen them pause now
and then as If to cover up something with
a handful Of dirt The Iaborers, when
they strike relic appear TO hide il thus
IN corner Of the excavation ana MAKE
away home with il unObServed. What
kind Of a trade. If any. they carry on IL
selling the bones and coppers has not yet
been observed
Down on Elm Street, between Pearl and
Duane, articles have been found from
which II is not hard TO construct q trag-
edy Of some sort A piece OF cannon Is
wedged into an old brick wall, about a
foot of its muzzle projecting out below
the street The contra ctors have not been
able 10 get il out without disturbing the
buildings atoye. Of which the old wall
now forms pan Z tNe foundation The
strange thing is, that in the seIf-same
block with the cam on has been found
the over part Of 4 skull-only the lower
part, as If the top had been severed By
fOrCe-and in il is q set Of teeth in per
feet state Of preservation But that is not
all Near the skull are many human
bones and a great cannon ball with chain
attached Without the rust and SOL.
which has formed a rough. gTey-yelIOW
coat over tn ball IN the course Of time
it looks as # il would fit the cannon Il
was undoubtedly = part Of the chain shot
used a century ago
The finds which the contractors most
prize are pieces OF what they believe To
be the first water pipe laid in the CITY
was IN perfect state Of preservation.
The wood was solid cedar about a foot
square in cross section. and through the
middle Of II ran Q cylindrical hole about
six inches in diameter The pipe was cut
up into small square blocks and given 10
Mr. Parsons and Mr. Mcdonald as sOuVe-
Mrs.
Of the coins but one silver piece has
been found This is q, Canadian 1C-Cent
piece, bearing the date 1875. An Irish
copper coin with q head Of George " and
bearing the date Of 1868 was found to-
getheT with q complete collection Of the
big United States copper cents minted IN
the eighteenth century Cents were also
found bearing the dates I79S 1913. 1877
and the newest piece was a Spanish cen
tavo Of 1873
The collection in the section house Is
helped out with bayonets and pieces Of
bayonets, old swords. sabres. pocket
books. penkniyes. small tools, human
bones, and even buttonhooks-