New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-27
FXPERTS CALLED
TO FIND REMEDY
Mayor and Public Service
Board Demand Stronger
Bracing at Crossings.
FEAR MORE ACCIDENTS
Heay, Traffic Stopped in Large
Sections Of Broadway and
Other 1hOrOughfareS.

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The Broadway cave-in Of Satur-
tay night may be followed by other
accidents If the same basic nature,
according 10 Robert Ridgeway. en-
eineer Of subway construction for
,be Public Service Commission. The
sliding Of rotten mica revealed an
imposing public menace and a fresh
obstacle % subway construction. En-
rireers have been summoned from
FAR and wide 10 assist the experts
Of the Public Service Commission in
devisng a remedy.
In the meantime. Mayor Mitchell
asked that the Public Service Com
mission order certain streets closed
against vehicular traffic and that at
these points diagonal cross bracing,
both longitudinal and transverse, be
installed before traffic is resumed.
The present methods Of trying to
locate schistic rock. such as the rot
len mica which. sliding. knocked over
the timber columns supporting the
sidewalk and street on Broadway,
between Thirty eighth and Thirty
ninth streets. are so unsatisfactory
hat a repetition of this latest cave
in is possible on any section of the
new subways whose construction has
lot vet reached the steel installation
tage
NO Remedy In Sight.
Remedies for this startling condi-
ton Of New York's many miles Of
shen-hke streets have not appeared
to the engineers Of the Public Ser
vice Commission. and of Mayor
Nitchers advisory board, who were
in conference all Of yesterday seek
ing a temporary means Of protecting
the public pending the discovery Of
ore certain safeguards.
Because OF tre conclusion that the
secidert was unavoidable the investi-
cations under way will not have as
,her objec. prosecution OF any person
connected With the building or super
intending O. ,his subway construction.
The purposes. therefore. Of these IN
Quires and conferences are TO decide
on means of permitting full traffic on
The streets row involved TO be restored
with tho greatest speed compatible
Vith safety and 20 search for methods
o. further subway construction that
will eliminate practically every possi-
bi.ity Of such cave-ins.
Az order was issued al o'clock
This morning az Police Headquarters
regulating traffic over the various
streets in which subway work is in
progress The command reads as fol
lows:
you Will prevent the passage OF
commercial automobile trucks weigh
iug three tons or over and Of all heav-
'y loaded double horse trucks on th'
following locations on cut-and-covei
work Of subway construction where
Steel has not been erected;
Whitehall Street. from Bridge "a
Stone 70 south side Of Battery Place;
Broadway north side Of Eleventr
Street TO north side Of Twelfth Street;
Broadway. north side Of Seventeenth
street 70 north side Of Eighteenth
Street; Broadway. north side Of Twen
Y'third Street 20 south side Of Twen
V'iourih Street. Broadway, south side
" I~enty-sixth Street 20 south side
q Iwen,y-seyenth Street; Cana
STeei thirty feet east Of BOwery
ron Bowery TO Mott Street; Cana
Nfeet from Centre Street 10 Lafay
eve Street Canal Street. west side
" lafayette Street. 20 thirty feet eas'
VI Broadway; Broadway. south side o.
l"en'y-sevouth Street 20 Thirty-frs'
'fee'' Broadway Thirty-third Stree
" ihirty-eighth Street; Seventh Ave
we tifiy-third 10 Fifty-ninth Street
T'enih Avenue. Seventeenth 20 Nine
eeh'h Street; Seventh Avenue. Twen
S'seeond TO Twenty-ninth Street
''eh'h Avenue. Thirty-third 90 Thir
S'ourin Street: Seventh Avenue
''''y'hfth 20 Forty-drst Street; Sew
sa'h s Avenue, Eleventh 20 Twelfth
.'ee'; NORTH side Of Fourteenth Stree
S'1'eenth Street in Seventh Ave
w flfty-ninth Street. from Fifth x
% Sixth Avenue.
Al. Avenue, from Fortieth 20 Forty
,''0nd Street: Forty-second Street
, 'O@ Park 20 Lexington Avenue
'agion Avenue. from Fifty-seconc
~ fi''v-third Street. and from
,4''h to l9s.A Street: i3s,h street
'm Alexander 20 Willis Avenue
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