New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-29
PROPSN SUBWAY
SHELL WAY END
BROADWAY PERIL
Weak Braces Menace Five
Points-Patching WIZ
Begin To-day.
EXPERTS INVESTIGATE
SYSTEM FOR FLAW )
p. s. Commission Puts Smile
Limit on Traffic Where Steel
Has Not Been Placed.

Work VIII be started this morning
70 I'd Broadway Of the danger spots
g, The subway construction which have
been called 20 the attention Of the
Public Service Commission by Nelson
p. Lewis. chief engineer OF the Board
o. Estimate and member Of Mayor
NitcheVs advisory committee.
Mr.. Iewis's report told that in FIVE
places between Twen;y-siNth and
Thirtv-fourth Streets the bracing be
meath Broadway appeared insufficient
to bear the weight OF vehicular traffic.
The sending Of his suggestions TO the
commission followed Mondays inter
change Of letters between Chairman
Edward I. Mccall and Mayor Mitchell
the latter writing that there still ex-
listed "a grave danger"
Yesterday M Mccall telephoned 10
the Mayor urging greater cooperation
toward making the needed improve
ments. that traffic might be restored TO
those sections from which IL has been
prohibited since sortly after Saturdays
eave-in. Then there came meeting
OF the Mayors and tho commissions
engineers. and another tour Of the
construction under Broadway.
Experts Seek Subway Flows.
The men we're accompanied By Ed
nund 6. Davis and Henry Il. Quimby,
chief engineers Of the Boston and
Philadelphia subways. who arrived IN
this citv Yesterday upon the invitation
Of the comission for committee OF
three to investigate the entire system
now being built. and devise a remedy
FOR slides such IS caused the recent
disasters on Broadway and Seventh
Avenue.
Difficulty has been experienced in
finding a third man. The original
choice w,s D. c. Jackling. who tele-
graphed Secretary Travis II. Whitney
yesterday that business would prevent
him from coming to this city before
November !. Then John Hays Ham
mond was chosen. but when he. too,
found IL impossible 70 attend the In
spection. he suggested B. 3. Thayer.
fromer president Of the American In
stitute Of Mining Engineers. The
latter 10 expected 10 reply to-day.
This committees inspection will be
thorough. and not only will include
,Le arts Of the subway which have
been reported as dangerous, but the
entire system. The report OF ths
dndings will not be made for d week
Mr.. Lewis's memorandum concern
Inc the timber supports on Broadway
stated that there were signs OF move
ment near Twenty-sixth street, ana
urged that although four braces al
ready had been put in. the bent al
this point is not continuous structure
and should be improved" 1t pointed
out that between Twenty seventh ana
Twentv-eigh;h Streets the earth was
backed bv sheeting blocked against
nosts. but that the rangers OF the
sheeting were not posted
Al Twenty eighth street no eN
nlained that the three-by-ten Inch
risnL did not give sufficient stiffness
N the structure, and that the posting
was Inadequate on both sides OF
Broadway; lust north Of Iwenty-nin,1h
street the bllcing was described as IN
sufficient. The method OF securing
braces at Twenty-elghth, twenty
ninth and Thirty-fourth Streets was
criticized also. These repairs can be
made in twelve hours. -,
at is believed concluded the
memorandum. chat traffic can with
safety cross Broadway az twenty
,IYth. Thirty-frst. Thirty-third'
Thirty-fourth. Thirty-sixth. Thirty,
ninth and Fortieth Streets, ana
thst longitudinal traffic can alse
he permitted north and south on
broadway between Thirty-hrst ana
Tbj~tv-fourth Streets. such traffic, OF
course. not 10 include exceptionally
heavy or heavily loaded vemcles'
Traffic Over Subways.
After this report had been sub
ritted the Public Service Commission
NJ its noon meeting, adopted this reco'
luton: =
RESOLVED. That the resolution OF
September 26. with respect TO traihe'
DE rescinded. That all traffic over sub
way decking, where steel has not been
placed. be restricted 10 eight miles an
hour. That vehicles with or without
loads weighing over ten tons be pro
hibited on such decking. except AT
crossings and 20 points Of destination
within a block That there be eN-
oepted hcrofrom street cars and
vehicles OF subway contractors over