The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-28
Eighteen D~raughtsmen
Working Night and
Day for Six Months
Have Reproduced
City on Paper

IL laTSe HuIipeT ol maps lurpurf.ug 10
he authentic which were rr.,I.l.
printed.
What MI. Lewis set -tl' o.. d,. ID
to make a perfect map of the
which would infringe upon I.
right already held. This W., u. ,...
job. for it mean that h. c,llJ.'. e,
10 publishers and ask infurmat.u. l.
had to get his informlt.or from ,hn
various heads of city department. ami
from other original sources. f..
stance. he called up n the b,,arr.
of Docks and Ferrics. tho l.f. U..
partment. the Street Clcan.lr b,....
ment. the States Of New Yu,. .rt.
New Jersey. the different r.....
and steamship Compau.,.. the f.. .,t.
States Government and sp.r. .H...
these sources came a great pI.n.. .,
information which was s-..g.
under the direction OF Mr. Lows. H..
assistant, Mr.. futile. and ''.
draughtsman OF the board. .I.a...
Faust.
The map is twenty-five feet w.ls
and twenty-five and thrc. -u5.t..r.
feet long. 1t Is on white ANY,. r.p.~
with black lines, and tho seal. ME
inch to GOO feet. At frs ,-.t 'hi,
seems to be a very small S,aI, .tI..J
but it must BE- remembers '.a' New
York spreads over a wide a.,.. The
question facing Mr.. Faust Was How
can | reproduce all Of New York Nth
it's streets, parks, bridges. r...'- md
harhors on one single piece ~ paf,ro'
He Couldn't-he found that uu' .,r,hs
ago-so h. thought of another .ne
Of dividing the greater city into -.,.
tons and making a preliminary map
Of each section. and after ,h,-. sec.
lions were tested by all the methods
known to t~opographers ana Bound ~
be the result could b" trans
ferred to the big map. This ula. Was
followed from the first.
In the early part of last SUNNI 4
call vas sent out for expert drau-.'s.
men for map work. Many a.sw. r~l
the call: few were accepted. \ d. z.n
experts at work in the diffor,u' ,.'y
departments wanted to jim N, u,r
squad, but the city Cuulduf
them. The civil service list was ',.d.
but the picking there was rather -.a't
Finally after some weeks 81 arch
eighteen men were chosen. 500 IS
to say they were experts. l.ni g. '..
guidance of Mr.. Faust they ta,r..i lie
big job six months ago, and hy N. B..
ing night and day through '. ...t
summer months and up u"..l Two
weeks L they completed IT,. u..l.n
the estimated tim.
see, rding to one Of the d-raugt'-M.n
who had a particularly hard -',' % 4
the city dealt out TO him u. n IN
work n whole day on a it'll. -e,... 10
bigger than two inches.
And by a whole day mo. q. N
Q in the morning until 1880 a. o. %
he said. som" people hav, 10. .m.
preston that because the una. $3.50.
done by draughtsmen couu.. ..' "n'
the city the working hours W,r. ..>.
Let me tell YOU We worked ass
lemons to finish on time. II IS
ant work, though. Every a.,.
man loves map wurk-csp,, t ,.
the scale We have done it-ar1 4. ...
hear "A grumhle from a s.r-' q
the eighteen
To obtain the cNa,, meas . s.
and location Of every s,.,,
island. lake and railroad .u ''..
system followed was thai. 50 .
used by the Government a.f .G
as the |po,yconic proj,,.
have the thing down SEQ l.. !
man with a miorom,t'r m...
curve in the lines that show ..
ute Of longitude,
When the preliminary nl|.
section Of the greater CTS
plotod the next task n..
them Ia flt. l.r maj. N.