The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-10

I necessary because the building on the upper
| side of the street is not exactly opposite The
| point whence the tunnel is planned to run.
When finished il will be more than 100
| feet long feet high and 10 feet wide. 4
horse and wagon could easily be driven
through il.
Running through Thrty-fifth street is
big sewer. which Is 10 feet below the
street level The tunnel will 60 under
that, lo feet below the street level.
Lined with cement and lighted by cleo
tricity ii will be miniature subway. Afford
ing easy communication between the two
buildings and making them virtually one.
The Sinking Fund Commiss ion recently
5000 year. That would pay the rent OF
a good-sired store in some sections and
seems much to pay for underground space
Like all other tunnels i is based on the
it runs. This tunnel will take several
months to build and, like the tunnels Of us
kind, save the Wanamaker subway will be
built by excavation from the street.
The same reasons which led to the PLAN
ming of this tunnel underlie another private
tunnel project, that Of the Presbyterian
Hospital. The hospital. like many com,
mercial enterprises, occupies all the land
1t can get on one block and has been Obliged
to annex buildings opposite for its opera
ing Of streets. there is only one way OF
connecting properties so situated as 20
make them practically one, and that is by
a tunnel -,
The Presbyterian Hospitals tunnel will
go under Seventy-hrs g rect and, connect
the surgical ward Of the main building with
tho nurses home on the north side of Sew:
enty-frst street. 1t will be feet high and
30 feel long and its roof W be almost SIX
feet below he street leyri. ne Slnkhuii
must pay $500 rent for slcl, a tunnel; llle
hospital ie seeking to get this rental low
cred. on the ground that it is charitab!e
institution and Should not te REQUIRE" to
pay rs much rs private enterprise.
Still another tunnel is 70 connect Stern
Bros. store in Twenty-third street WITH
another building which has oecn anneSei
on the lower side of Twenty-second stree.
IL ia to be a passageway about = feet t'"!""
the street and is to be- more than eighteen
feet wide, so that the stores customers viii
have difficulty in believing that there IL 2
tunnel at all and will be probably SURPRISED
to find themselves on the other side OF me
street. Permission for this tunnel Mas
given year ago. but no work has oeen
done on II yet. although the contract mas
been let
Within the next few years many more
similar enterprises will be started by firms
who cannot buy adjoining property. WIN
improved building methods and up-to-date
ventilation, underground structures uNe
these can be made a. comfortably as those
atrve ground. And without such passage
ways it is hard 10 make so-casled an'"A"s
pay.
In addition to these tunnels there are
undoubtedly many subterranean vaults
and passa geways that the cit" 6oeSn u
know about, built years ago and posslo'v
in use to this day. hotel on the East
Side has long had small tunnel extending
under side street Some wears ago
we'll was sunk in this tunnel and water
was obtained for the kitchen from 1t. I'M,
tunnel runs about thirty feet underground
and was consrructed long before tine CIV
decided to exact "a rental for space taken
underground in this way.
These tunnels, together with the different
underground railroad systems, sewers AMI
water pipes, will soon form this underground
city, in which land values are destined 10
become more and more valuable and apeos
more difficult TO obtain