The sun., 1901-04-05
DALTON HINDERS TUNNEL
BECAUSE CONTRACTOR WOULDN'T RE
PLACE A SO-INCH MAIN WITH BIGGER.
Refuses to Tura on the water and Let New
Laid 3O-Inch Main BE Connected Up r..
r. hoard WIN Either Turn IL on or
Ask the Courts 60 Make Dalton DO Il.

Refuses to Turn on the water and Let New
Laid 3O-Inch Main BE Connected Up r..
r. Board VIII Either Turn IL on or
Ask the Courts 60 Make Dalton DO IL.
The Rapid Tranht Commissioners have
got into another row with the Department
OF Water Supply. and at their meeting yester-
day they voted TO 60 ahead and do the work
Of building the tunnel regardless OF the wishes
OF Commissioner Dalton and his subordi-
nates
TIE Department OF Water supply foresees
time when IL will be necessary for 1t to have
4sxinch main In Eighth avenue. and when
tho tearing up Of pipes TO make room for the
tunnel began at the Grand Circle Commissioner
Dalton wrote 10 Contractor Mcdonald and
asked him II he would In relaying the pipe
substitute for tho existing 3O-inoh main n
4s-inch main 20 run beneath the station In
the circle
Mr.. Mcdonald under the terms OF his CON
tract, is bound to replace to the reasonable
satisfaction OF the owners all the sub-surface
structures that he may have TO remove. but
he Ia not compelled OF expected to. undertake
any improvements OF them or any new work
So he declined to do as the department wished
renarkins that II he did 1t he would have to
pay the cost Of the work and interest on II Tor
Then Naughton 4 Co. tho sub-coptrsctors
laid o 3O-inch main from Tbirty-eishth street
10 Sxtieth street to take the place OF the
old main Of the same sise. This was COM
pleted on March 10 and the contractors wrote
To the Commit ssi oner OF Water supply. saying
tn 1t they would like to have the water turned
on from the old main on March 70 so that
they could make the necessary connections,
The Water Supply Department refused 10
turn tho water on. saying ia letter signed by
Deputy and acting Commissioner James
The chief engineer Of this department
states that no provision for this work mas been
made bv the commissioners. which places
this departing cnt In the position nj being COM
PEELED 10 deny approval OF or permission for
any change in the water main distributing
system at the Grand Circle until the require
ments of the department concerning the con.
sstruction OF a ls-inch main are complied
with
President Orr wrote letter to the Water
Department on March 20. In which he asked
II to be good, but he had got no answer upto
yesterday. So this resolution was adopted
by. The board Yesterday .,
the President of the board under date Of
March 20 10 the Commissioner OF Water Sup
ply, 70 which no reply has been received.
and after hearing the statement OF the chief
engineer and in view OF tho peremptory ne
cessity to rapid transit work as well as to the
public convenience of a change Of the position
Circle, the board does hereby authorize and
direct the chief engineer and the counsel TO
take forthwith such steps as may be necessary
TO procure such change Of such position Of
su ch mains.
II was said after the meeting that this reso-
luton meant that the board would turn the
water of itself If II was necessary. or that II
might go TO court and get writ compelling
Dalton TO do
RoNx WANTS AN ELEVATED ROAD
committee OF residents of The Bronx
headed by Fielding l.. Marshall, william ID.
Peck and Joseph Wood called on the COM
mission and presented Il petition from Presi-
dent Haffen Of The Bronx and many citizens.
nsking for a substantial change Of route on
the East Side. The petitioners want To have
the road carried across the Harlem River on
bridge instead of under 1t through a tunnel,
and they want, instead Of tunnel to l4Sth
street and Third avenue, an overhead struc-
ture, the cost Of which will be about 81 900 900
less They want TO have the money saved
this way applied to the construction of an
overhead structnre up jerome avenue. Chief
Engineer Parsons figures out the length Of
the structure that II would be possible "a
build for this sum AZ three miles, which would
bring the extension up to Fordham road.
The residents Of The Bronx hope 10 see the
Third avenue elevated road leased by the
tunnel company some day and run in con-
nection with II
The board will give public hearing on the
petition on Thursday afternoon at o'clock,