The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-09-23
PROGRESS OF THE SUBWAY
Construction Completed and Streets
Restored at Many Points.

Up TO the Present s'N."OO.OOO Has
Been Expended ON the Great New
York EntcrPrisc-Thc Arrange
znenta for StatIcuS-Othc- Features
NEW YORK. Sept More than half
IN. work on the great New York subway
is completed. Some of the places which
have been sxcavated 10y the workmou ou
Jrc subway contracts are being filled up,
and streets are being U,laid. These facts
show that the second stage of the work
bias began. The operations thus Tar have
been chiefly of a destructive nature
PIVsmeHls hly, been torn zap. trees have
been upruoted and great trenches made
for the reception Of pipes which had TO
Dee removed from the line Of the proposed
underground railway. The process OF
baCkIIiuE, covering" and paving can
Dee seen now at many points along the
lire. and IL requires no close examination
90 lem thaJ the work is going ahead
rapidly The estimated cost Of the sub
way was about SI5.0J0O03. The outlay
thus far. in little more than a year of
working time. has been about SS500.pyJ,
and all the contractors have carried out
their Agreements In some Instances the
margin of time remains 20 the credit OF
the contractor.
The loop in front Of the City Han has
been completed for a distance OF about
100 feet. The concrete arch. which is If
teen feet wide, IS being covered over. and
the false work which has marked the
edges of the excavation is being removed
There is no steel work in this part of the
subway. a part of the excavation might
Le filled in, but il is left open 20 facii-
tate work in the City Hall station. which
viii be a concrete structure after plans by
Helms * La Fargo. The entrance TO this
station viii be from the broad walk In
front of the City Hall The concrete uu-
dorsround structure will extend under the
pcsJ0Mce vaults, In Mail Street, and
-n.lce under the main tunnel % Park
Row. where II viii emerge 10 the Level
OF the Brooklyn Bridge station.
Tn. excavation under Elm Street be-
tween Prince and BltCCEcr streets, Is COW
..,d- TIE structural steel Is erected, the
ruDf is laid and the street surface restor-
Cd Active work Is gplnS on in an eErl-
.aJ.ou in Park Row, which is entirely
covered over. The street. with It's trugNS.
and its E-'at harden OF traffic is held IN
place over the excavation by supports, the
posts 81 which extend far below the tuEu-
a4tiou OF the proposed subway.
The work in lafayette Place from Great
Jones' Street To Fourth street has been
completed, and little remains TO De done
% the section in Lafayette Place between
Aston Place and Fourth Street Ia Fourth
Avenue the subway has been completed.
except 70. the lDt T.ur finishing between
Tenth and Twelfth Streets, and between
Nineteenth and Twenty Streets
more than cue-haIf has been covered
From Tweuty-s sixth 70 Thirtieyh Street
i-- subway - CpmDl, ted. with the gEgep-
ton OF a part on the west side.
ON Ira 4. Shaler's contract, which in
Guides the removal Of large portions of
the rock on Murray HiIl. two tunnels are
being made These run parallel with and
under the Fourth Avenue surface railway
tunnel The work has been completed 10
the distance OF about GHJ feet from the
south end and about half that distance
from the north Between r'Orty-seventn
and Furty-Einth Streets Ia Broadway tho
west side of the work ~ finished. but the
other sIle has not yet been gAcavated The
block between Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth
streets mas tho steel WO-E erected and
the roof covered Ia Broadway between
Ei8hty-fgurJh and EiEhtY-fifth Streets
and between Eighty-seVenth and Eighty
erected and the subway made ready for
the finishing wo.k.
The subway structure between l55th
and l5Gth Streets and between l-Sth and
l5sth Streets has no steel UpriguLs or
braces u is built Of concrete. similar To
the loop Ia front OF the City Hail and is
reported finished At l6sth street shaft
has been sunk into the solid rock From
this shaft the tunnel has been cUt 100 feet
north and nearly the same distance south
making that part Of the subway ready
I . b- lined with masonry a similar shaft
exists 1T EIEhty-IrsJ Street. from which
e1caEatlons extending about 60 feet north
aud south have been made. About go feet
ot tunnel work has been done at Eighth
Avenue nd iU4th Street. In the park
south Of II0th Street there is Do feet more.
and south of 10th Street there is 300 feet
Of finished tunnel under one Of the park
drives. Much progress has also been
made IN LeUDN Avenue. and between 18th
and laid Streets there are many parts Of
[ The subway over which the street has
been restored
Along the whole lire Of the proposed
underground system the sewer. gas and
water pipes have been removed. and that
part Of the WORK is practically finished.