The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-21
WALL STREET STEAM CLOUDED
HEtT. LIGHT AND WATER cut
orr FROM BUILDINGS.
Bresk u n -Four Inch steam pipe Due 20
GrOun settling Drives Workmen
From Their Tasks and Causes wire and
pipe TangIe -Repsirs Pushed NJ Night.

Wall street from Nassau to William
was clOuded with escaping steam for four
hours last night and il was not until the
arrival Of District Superintendent O'Mara
Of the New York Steam Heating Company
that the cause OF the trouble was found.
Meantime the 10 inch water main which
supplies Wall street was shut on from
Broadway to William street and the Edi-
son company had shut OF its power.
The cause of the trouble vas a broken
4 inch feed pipe Of the steam heating COM
pany which led into the pew building OF
the Trust Company OF Amer lea, 81 to AZ
Wall street. 1t was the result OF the cave
in in Wall street OF last Sunday night, which
caused the pavement to sink for fifty feet
in Wall street. The break IN Sunday
night caused heat and power to be shut
of in the Drexel Building. in which are the
Offices Of j. p. Morgan a Co.; in the Me-
chanics' National Bank Building, the Mills
Building, the United States Trust Company
Building, the Atlantic Building. the Sub
Treasury and Assay ONCE, the Gallatin
National Bank Building. Post 4 F1agg's
building, the Bank Of Manhattan. the Mer-
chants National Bank and the Bank OF
America Building. The break last night
was about twenty feet east OF the first.
Since Sunday night the steam heating
company has been ~excavating in the street
to find the cause Of the trouble with ite
pipes. When the workmen finished last
night they bridged over the hole in the
street with heavy planks. Soon after they
left steam began to pour into the basement
of the new building OF the Trust Company
of America. 1t drove the workmen from
the basement to h street. Steam was
also pouring up through h cracks OF the
boards Of the excavation. Workmen re-
moved these and the cloud Of steam became
so dense that the men had to run away and
call on Policeman Goodwin Of the Old Slip
police station for assistance. He t~elephoned
to the steam heating company and a force
Of men under Assistant District Superin-
tendent Maloney was sent around.
The roar of escaping steam could be heard
as far az Broadway. Maloney and his
men tried to find the break but were I'M
able TO do 40. District Foreman Maloney
Of the Water Department soon appeared
and turned on the water in the IL inch
main from Broadway TO William street.
Then came a "%iointer" of the Edison COM
pany with a force of men under orders
from Night Foreman G. Kahn to rectify
three breaks in the Edison circuit
Assistant Superintendent Naloney Of the
steam beating company tried in vain 10
find the break in his pipes and finally Dis
trict Superintendent 0'Mara was ordered
down. He closed the IS inch steam main
| from Nassau to William street and found
the break was in a 4 inch feed pipe Lead
ing into the new building. He said il was
due to the removal of earth from beneath,
| He could not say how soon the break would
he repaired. Until il IL the steam will he
shut off from the block.
District Foreman Maloney Of the Water
Department said the turning on Of the water
| depended on how sOOn the steam heating
company was able to repair its pipe. The
Edison compsny's men were working all
night at Nassau and Wall streets to get TO
the conduit containing their wires. There
are three breaks, one at Nassau street, one
between Nassau and the new building and
one near William street. Since the break
Sunday night the new building has been
supplied by the Edison company by feed
wires from the United States Trust Com
pany building. Other buildings have also
been supplied in the same way. There has
been no failure to give light. The breaks
Of the Edison company cannot be remedied
until the steam heating company gets ITS
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