New-York tribune., 1910-11-13
BIT Of SUBWAY COMPLETE
Fourth Avenue Construction May
Be Finished Within a Year.

The first bit OF the new Fourth avenue
subway has been completed. The work
on the subway began November l3 OF
last year, when Chairman Wilcox, OF the
Public Service Commission. lifted the first
sradeful of soil in the Fiatbush avenue
extension not far from Fulton street The
actual work did not start. however, until
January of this year. BY November 9,
1911, the construction should be finished
The part of the subway that has been
completed is forty-foot piece along
Fourth avenue at 10th street. The con-
crete fooor has been laid along Fourth
avenue from 10th street to 18th street
and IL will only be a little while no"
before the builders will have fairly
respectable sample of their workmanship
20 display TO the authorities The subway
route is about four and one-half miles
long and runs from Nassau street to 43d
street Brooklyn Most OF the run is along
Fourth avenue The construction work
begins about a quarter of a mile from the
end of the Manhattan Bridge. because the
Bridge Department has other plans for
the space there The work is divided into
six sections.
The first section runs along the extension
from Nassau street to Willoughby street
Smith. Scott Il Co. are the contractors
Some 20 men are employed on the section
daily So far about As per cent OF the
$500 cubic yards of soil has been removed
The contract for the section is sllzi"o-
The most spectacular work is that being
done in connection with sections NO ana
No. g. William Bradley is the contractor
for both sections. Section NO wlnoS
from WilIoughby street and the FIatouSh
avenue extention around into Fulton street
TO Ashland place. Here. 1917" cuo'c
wards were to be excavated. and the work
is AZ per cent complete About $40 men
are engaged on this section daily The
contract price is s3,5O0,Ooo-
To build the subway the contractor has
been cOmpelled to take down three blocks
of buildings along Fulton street and the
extension. While no important buildings
are To go. the contractor has been com
nelIed TO underpn the Crescent Iheatre
and the Majestic Theatre, in Fulton street
The work of removing buildings continues
ir section No. 3. This section runs through
Ashland place. under the subway in rat
bush avenue. and along Fourth avenue 10
Sackett street. The excavation of $4,000
cubic yards was called for ana the "olh
is % per cent completed Some $50 men
at WOrk on ttiS ScCtlOh NoiiN ~
contract price is s3600,000. Two blocks
of buildings in Ashland place are coming
down along this section. This raises the
total of the number of buildings being de-
mOlished To seventy-five.
feature of the work here IL the uI-
derpinning of the subway in FlatbuSh ave
nue. Another is the handling of the 10
foot storm sewer tnat runs from Hanson
place into Fourth avenue and down Butler
street to the Gowanus Canal The dis
charge from the sewer will have TO be car
ried in the east track of the subway until
the city builds divertins sewer in Tomp-
kins and ClaSSOn avenues, which Will carry
the waste to the river. The contract for the
sewer has not yet been let.
Section No. f. extending along Fourth
avenue from Sackett street to 10th street,
and section No g. running along the ave
nue. from 9th street TO 4Sd street, are in
the hands OF the f. E Smith Contracting
Company while the intervening section NO
) is in the hands of the Tidewater Build
ing Company an allied concern. Section
No + required 242 900 cubic yards of exca-
waiting and is 3S per cent completed There
are 45o men employed daily on the section
The contract price is s2.40O000
Section No. required 100000 cubic yards
of excavating. and is IS per cent done.