The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-11-21

| Arabian prayer rugs on the polished
noors OF some Of them.
Yes. and the dynamite cache 10 In
that little bit Of California--a neat.
| RED painted box. surrounded by q
rampant OF sandbags high as y mans
head. Fifty pounds Of the explosive
stuff 80 into and out Of that cache
each day. The sticks are carried
down below In nifty red hand boxes
six times day. to furnish the driving
force for the six "shots" Tired into
the heart Of Manhattan Island In
every twenty-four hours.
Then there's the cOmpressor-the
thing that sighs "chug -chug" TO all
unheeding Broadway durink the merry
night hours. Into little screened box
Mt the end Of the cOmpressor's intake
pipe go minute by minute the exhala-
lions OF Broadway's prodigal wine. OF
Broadway's sachet powder and Amerl-
, can Beauties and scented cigarette
, smoke. All this incense burned on the
altar OF the great god Folly Is sucked
| IN by the compressor. pounded Into a
, s0-pounds pressure and driven down
to feed the drills below at the rate Of
300 cubic feet q minute.
Consider how q "spender's" plum
pudding breath may ultimately help
to drive a steel drill into mica schist;
tWehtg-tou ioot uHueT~ Long Acro
Square!
HERES WHAT YOU SEE WHEN
YOU 90 DOWN BELOW.
Under the guidance Of Walter G..
Federlein. n serious young chap Of
little speech, who In assistant en-
gineer under Clark. you slip &'slick-
or" over your JOY clothes, exchange
your shining two quart hat for O SOU
wester and enter the Theatre Of
Many Surprises.
Behind you the myriad eyes of
! Broadway flicken a goodby from
flashing sign and feature ad."
| Down. down, down u narrow and
! grabbed stairway. wet with slime and
crusted with sparkling rock dust. into
the flinty vitals OF the island! There
u world Of light. Of automobile smoke.
of wine and song has changed to a
world Of sad. gray rock; Of steam.
snaky pipes and throbbing noise. The
flowers OF the cabaret show yield 10
the mica sparkling In the wall OF
schist; the honk Of the auto siren Il
replaced by the thunder Of the drills
stabbing into the swelling TANKS OF
tho man made cliff
No fluff and folly there. Just work
grinding. elemental toll.
Your guide points above. There
writing between the supports OF the
deck" which you called a stree,
whom your auto chug-chugged oveI
! II on the way to the theatre. are
nests OF long gray snakes-the in,
terminable stretches OF the telephon,
and electric conduits. Through then
the vital current In leaping to keel
Broadway alight. voices are purrinS
little tales Of love and death. Il,
ropes and slender steel cords thes'
nests OF live serpents are kept cling
: inR to the heavy pine above.
Slicing the space between ston,
floor and board deck" runs a brOaS
through like the rifle hume Of a ny
draulic mine. That Ia a sewer tenn
porarily carried across the spac
hewn out OF the rock.
sUeWAv WALL 10 UNCOVERED
WHILE TRAINS ROAR ~.
: Over to the right u a curving. red
1 yellow wall OF hollow tile, whic
|, comes out OF the rock and passes o.
= ahead into the dun spaces betwee
ten-in square wooden shores. Tina
/: In the wall Of the Interborough. her
: uncovered a. dentist unoovers th
!. embedded nerve Of tooth. Boyon
: that wall, red and green lights mas
and trains roar by. fretghtod wit
I. home-E going Joy makers, II 10 the d.
2 licate task OF the delivers here I
. pierce that wall. link with the preseu
gubway the new line Of tradlo Y