New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03

were much delayed because of the uncertainty
as to just how the plans would be remodeleo'
SIX TRACKS ON ONE LEVEL.
The enlarged plans call for five or six tracks
on one level in Flatbush-ave. and an extra
track underneath these This will provide
great trunk route for the accommodation OF the
trains of number of extensions that are now
being talked of. They include route cow .lte
extension of Flatbush-ave to the Manhattdn
Bridge, one up Lafayette-ave., another down
4th-ave, one down Sth-aYe, one out the eastern
Parkway, and the one straight out flalouSH-
ave. which has already been approved. inc
station at Flatbush ave. and Fulton-St VIII De
the largest subway station IN the city. mere
will be platforms to accommodate SIX trains OF
eight cars each at one time This is ToFty-elgnr
cars in all whereas the Brooklyn Bridge. station
in Manhattan can accommodate 0hly twet'g t 81
at time The work OF taxing OUT Ihese
walls that had been completed in FlatbuSh-aVe.
when the plan for only three tracks there'
and widening the subway according TO the ne"
plans has lust been started. There viii be
many difficult problems to be overcome In tnls
work. because, on account or the extreme "luth
of the subway the side walls will be close TO the
foundations of the big buildings. At one point
near F'ulton-st. the work will be some twenty
six feet below the foundations OF a large puho-
ing.
The walls of the De Kalb section had been
completed down as far as Duf1eld-st. when the
plans were changed The walls were tnen
stopped and columns were put in along the
straight line. The side walls cannot be putt
until new foundations are put in for one OF Ihe
large buildings. AS the bottom of the SUD
way is to be under the edge OF the foundaLoil oL
some of the buildings it has brought up cell
cate piece Of engineering, which, however. Is
being satisfactorily solved. Big girders are nrst
placed under the edge Of the building a snait
some twelve or thirteen feet is dug, ana TINS Is
filed with concrete up to the building; tne SlL
der is then removed. This makes founoatlon
which ought to last a thousand years
There is considerable of this work to be done'
which of necessity takes much time.
Work the digging on this section mas now
reached the end of the section at Smlta-st' me
t. oIyor ,OEQS y1 7aTrar
ports are laid for the street and the car tracks,
the dirt is shoveled into a conveyer-an endless
form sort of trough: The dirt Is dumped INTO
chutes, which empty into the mule cars on the
level below. These cars, which are IN Tea! NY
fat cars upon which great steel buckets are
placed are drawn to the nearest shaft Tnere
the buckets are hauled up by derrlcks ana
dumped into fat cars Of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company which carry the dirt to vari-
Gus parts of the borough, where it is used for
filling purposes
the material taken out is fine sand. rms Woulo
be valuable to the contractors, IL 1t was not
filled with SO much gravel, as clean sand is nuch
in demand for building purposes
The second station, In point or size. on tne
Brooklyn extension, will be that at the Borough
Hall. 1t Will accommodate edgnt-car tfdIns'
which means that 1t is to be 800 feet in length.
The entrances and exits will all be on the
north side of Joralemon-st. just behind the
Borough Hall There is an erroneous impress
sion prevalent that there is to be a loop around
the Borough Hail. but such plan was ever
considered for any length of time. At the juno
ton of Fulton and JoraIemon SITS, however. the
subway will be so constructed that 1t can be
easily made to connect with a subway which
NAV come up F>ulton-st-. from Montague-st, or
some point lower down.
An engineer who has no official connection
with the Rapid Transit Commission, and who has
seen the subway construction both in Manhat-
tan and In Brooklyn. declares that the latter Is
the finest in the world. The Rapid Transit
Commission is giving the most careful thought
to the ventilation of the new subway with an
idea OF avoiding the excessive heat ana inpurlIy
OF air which is objected to much in the Man
haitian subway.
Before the present subway is completed some
of the many proposed extensions Will undoubted-
ly be under way. and the citizens OF BROOKLYN
do not expect to be entirely free from subway
Construction until the borough has far sur
passed the other boroughs in the question OF
subway mileage.