New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-29
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planes and in many other duties which they will
OF may have TO perform
Men who survive the ordeal OF the skeleton car
go on the streets as motormen and conductors OF
surface cars or elevated road guards for practice
and for nerve Many a who energies from
the school with honor cannot endure day at the
dashboard. He loses courage and gets ratified III
close quarters. one bad case OF this klnd ehds MS
the front platform If he aspires TO De
motornan. If this test. however, is met and the
candidate energies from it unscathed. his future is
secure.
The underground road Is now practically finished
between the City Hall and ne-hundred-ano-Iourth
st The last connecting link in Broadway, between
e-hundred-and- fourth-st and the Manhattanvllie
viaduct is being filed in rapidly. and Will soon be
ready. TWO Of the headings in the deep working
under Washington Heights have come tose'heI,
and there is not much distance through the sold
rock vet TO be gained before the others VIII De
connected but when this will be done IS not Yet
certain The work from the shafts at One-huhoreo-
and-sixty-eighth-st. and One-hundred-and-elghty
Arst-st has necessarily been slow, and no definite
promises as 10 the Date of completion are given
At these points the tunnel is far beneath the sur
face and has 10 be cut through solid rock Inc
gaps at the site of the old Hall Of Records. al
Eighth-st.. at Forty-second-st near Park-ave- ana
at Broadway and Forty-second-st are being rap
idly closed little that would prevent the running OF
trains remaining TO be done at any of these points
The East Side branch however. through One-hun-
ed-and-sixth-st Lenox-ave. and One-hunoI Gu
snd-fortv-hfth-st to the Harlem River. Is not so
well advanced. It is more than likely tha' ne
trains will run at least far north as One-huh-
dred-a1d- ffty-eighth-st. on the West SIDE a CON
adorable time before they are run regularly OH TIC
East Side branch far the Harlem
Now that the work is near compIeuoh tue
obstacles encountered are recounted by Chlet En-
gineer Parsons and his staff with show OF par
donable pride One Of the greatest puzzles pre-
saated in the beginning a plan Tor curNlhs tne
subway un-er the new Belmont Hotel. at ParK-aVe'
and Fortv-second-Ut without ob-tructlns the con
nection which is later TO be made with the &c
messed tracks Of the New-York Central RalIroad-
There are five stories Of the hotel under ground
and the subway cuts through the second hooT'
passing entirely within the building line at the
corner The trouble was not 10 get the railroad
through the building-that easy-but to sup
mort the twenty-five stories that are 10 be super
imposed above the subway. Finally a single steel
pillar was designed with sufficient strength 70 sup
port the hotel corner and leave the usual large
margin Of safety.
Another problem that confronted the engineers
VAS the creation Of the necessary space for sta
finn in the solid rock Of Washington Heights, Ear
below the surface. and the support Of the uemen-
dous mass above it. That more a question or
buildinE the support little by little, as the eXcava-
ton Of the rocky chamber proceeded. than one o.