The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-17

Dfexel Building does not depend upon the
York Steam Company for either and
gets water from Broad street. The
Atlantic Building is also independently
equipped. The United States Trust Com
pany Building, the Mills Building, and the
Bank Of America Building nave their own
power plants to be used in case Of emer-
gency, but the superintendent OF one OF
these buildings said last night that he had
doubts whether the machinery, which had
Deen some time out Of use, would prove
efficient.
The Manhattan Bank Building has it's
W power plant, but the twatohman VEN
tured the opinion last night that the boil
ers were out OF business and that they
would not rise to the emergency. There
are six elevators in the building, two OF
which are run by electrical power, the re-
naming four being dependent directly
upon the steam company for power.
Water can be got from PIN street.
On the south side Of Wall street, west OF
Nassau. the Bankers Trust Company, at
!, b and z, will be short OF water until
the main is repaired. All the other build
ings on this side get water from other mains.
On the north side tho Aston Building, at
10, and the Stevens Building, IA to IS.
get their water from the Wall street main.
The Trust Company Of America Building
suffered some damage as a direct re suit of
the incident. As Don as the hole was torn
In the street outside water began pouring
into the sub-basement 80 feet below the
level Of the street. The foundation COM
pany has had difficulty with the water
seeping m from the street. and it had been
found necessary 20 rig up an electrical
pump in the front Of the sub-basement to
keep 1t dry. Up to yesterday 1t had been
necessary TO set the pump 10 work only
two or three times a night and then for
short intervals only, but last night the men
in charge kept the suction going at intervals
OF fifteen minutes on the water that flowed
In through the cracks IN the retaining wall
OF iron sheets. AZ one time the water had
flooded the whole forward compartment
OF the sub-baseunent TO the depth Of several
inches. 1t did no damage other than to
Hood the firebox of a donkey . n CINE and
wet down some riveters' tools.
The turning on OF the steam will cause
a suspension Of work on the part OF all the
riveters, since the 20 horsepower engine
on the lirst door. which Ia driven by steam
from the main in the street and which COM
presses the air for working the rivetting
machines throughout the whole building,
will have 70 remain idle until steam in again
turned o. through the street pipe. The
hosting work on the building also depends
upon the steam from the steam supplying
compsny's main.
Edwin s. Jarrett of the foundation COM
pany said last night that he guessed the
collapse was caused by the undermining Of
the street through leakage from a cracked
water main.
in digging the foundation" said Mr..
Jarrett, we ound quicksand, as ia always
the case in deep e~xcavating in the lower
part OF Manhattan. We sank csissons
down to the bedrock and the structure
was started on concrete built up from the
rock. The quicksand could hardly have
caused the sudden depression. 1t Is too
far down.
-Quioksand win not causc any trouble
until it gets an outlet. In the case of many
such happenings it has been found that
the hauling OF heavy steel and other ma
terial over the surface Of the street had in
time been too great a strain and that a
water main was cracked IL might be the
smallest kind of a leak, but in time this
leak would work out a cavity and then the
collapse followed"