The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-22
MORE SHAFTS IN BROADWAY.
PARSONS HAS PLANNED A FEW
MORE FOR DIRT REMOVAL.
They're to BE Planked Over by Day ana
Used Only st Night-Consolation That
Paris Is Being Worse Ditched 1han
New York May Appeal TO Sufferers.

Paris Is Being worse D1tcHeu A"s"
New York May Appeal 70 Sufferers.
The rapid transit snail. which Ia creeping
underground from in front Of st. Pauls
Church toward the Battery, was reported
Yesterday to have got as far as Fulton street,
a rate Of progress by which. II continued
1, may and may not get to the end OF the
Journey in the ten years which Mr.. McDoh-
mid said last Thursday would be required
upder the present methods to finish the Job.
This week another shaft is to be sunk IN
,ha street near the north end OF TRINITY
ob,,rchyard. Then, little later, still an
e.":,er is to 20 down In the vicinity OF BOWL
inc Green. Between these three shafts
at st. Pauls Church, Trinity churchyard
and Bowling Green-it Is expected that other
sub-shafts will be sunk to remove the olrV'
This dirt removal, it is explained, VIII be
done only by night, SO that business IN the
DAYTIME will not be interfered with. Ihere
will he no work at the sub-shafts IN the Day
time. They will be bridged over with
heavy planking as the main shait ~ d.
paul's churchyard is now bridged over.
Chief Engineer Parsons said yesterday
that there were two reasons why the work
IN front OF St. Paul's Church had PROCEEDED
~ slowly. One reason was because IT TOOK
time to get the supports in place and INTO
clear space for work; another was oecauee
Of the steamfitters' strike
"The New York Steam Heating Company
said Mr.. Parsons, has pipe running unoef
the street there to the Park Natlonal nai'N
It leaks badly. You may always see
little column of steam coming up iro'i
the hole that has been dug. This escaping
steam has made the place where the Heu
are at work 20 hot that they could not make
rand progress The steaniftters are sthi
on strike and the laying OF the pipe oy
Ann street to the rear OF the bank Is thus
delayed.
I'm few days men will be working day
and night and working seven days IN the
week 1t is true that they have been only
working nights, but that is only tenn
porarily When the shafts are opened al
Trinity cehurchyard and SOWING OWL a, 1r epd
men working seven days q week Gay aho
night will dig both ways ..;.,..
sit is all digging. There is nothing but
eorlh, no rock, BET ween ST. PauIs Church
and the Battery. That simplities matters.
over the Trinity and Bowling Green shafts
rs in front of ST. Paula churchyard: There
is no objection ON the part OF business
houses to be overcome -..l
I'VE have come to an agreement with
the American Trust Company. they do
not object to the Trinity oh i arc su,
certain window in their building. That
has been promised and can be done with
out interfering with the work In any way.
Thus far we have not had single COM
plant from any of the lower Broadway
business men. Business has not peem
interfered with and IL VIII not pe' no' VIII
the street traffic
Az TO the time required to finish the hole
from Ann street to the Battery, Mr.. FAR
sons said it would take as long again to 90
1t by the present method as 1t would oy tne
open ditch. He laughed at the statement
by Mr.. Mcdonald last Thursday that it
would take ten years He thought eighteen
months would be the limit OF time required
to do the lob. With the open ditch and Its
consequent paralysis OF traffic and business
Il might be done in nine months
In letting the No. 1 contract said Mr..
Parsons. "the city gave the contractors q
free hand TO 20 ahead and do practically
what they pleased. They were under Few.
II any, restraints in regard TO oostructlng
the streets or interfering with business.
There was doubt then in the public mind
ms to whether the tunnel would pay even
If il could be built at all. There is no such
doubt now.
sBlt in view of The demonstrated facts
ir connection with 'ntract No. anu w. .he
immensely profitable character OF me
,hwav when completed, the city felt
justified in placing much more onerous
corI ions in the second contract, that in
volvjng the section from Ann street to the
Battery. Similar conditions Will ne I'm
posed upor other contracts.
n is imnossible to say just what methods
will he applied in cutting other subways.
Each street presents its own and separate
problem For INSTANCE. in upper Broad
way here is rock to 60 through. But
one thing may I've said for certainty. ana
tha, is that whatever method is adopted,
it will he one that will not interfere with
business or street traffic.
Il received to-day from Paris some pho
tographs of the work of subway building
that + Going on there. / don't know that
its any consolation when you are ID a mess
70 know that others are in a mes also, but
these photographs certainly snow that
he, ween the streets of New York where
subway building is going on and those IN
Paris where similar work is IN progress
there is little to choose. and from what
these pictures show should say that little
was IN favor of New York. The Place de
IOl e,a is an open hole completely obstruct-
ing the Boulevard les Capucines, making
vi1a detour around the plaza necessary LOT
vehicles and pedestrians, The hue de
Rivo is completely closed, the trench
occupying the driveway from curb to curb.
In other Streets there are masses OF litter
and building material making. passage
through them practically impo sible.
at is habit with some people TO say
that they do things better in France. These
phct graphs do not substantlate that
ihe1.v. | do not say this to bettle our
own street confusion. ! only mention II ny
way of suggesting that If we are pad
there are others as the saying goes.
A. TO the cost of carrying out contract
No . in its entirety. Mr.. Parsons said that
it would not he less than $4,000 900 The
bid Of the Rapid Transit Subway Construc,,
ton Company for the building OF the tunnel
was 80 600 100, with an additional 81 100000
for terminals. That the company was
willing TO undertake to do work at one-ftfth
of the cost was, he thought. sufficient
measure Of the value that is put upon this
connecting link between the subway lines
in Manhattan and those to be built In
Brooklyn. -,
The construction company is using all
but 81, 100000 OF its own money Tor the
work The contractors are under obliga-
tons to lease the road for a term OF fifty
years and have the privilege OF renewing
the lease for an additional term OF twenty
five years The rental to be paid the city
is the amount of interest which the city
must pay upon the bonds issued to pro-
vide the cost of construction and further
annual sum Of not less than l per cent
upon the whole of the bonds.
The control OF the transportation OF
hot, hat an X