New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
BIDS AWARDED FOR
SUBWAY SECTIONS
One Covers Broadway
and 9TH Ave-, Between
3Sth and 51St SITS.
THE OTHER ALONG
EASTERN PARKWAY
Brooklyn Contract Is for Route
Extending from Nostrand to
Buffalo Ave.

The Public Service Commission last
week awarded two rapid transit con-
tracts. for which bids were opened on
the previous day, as follows;
Section No. of Route No. II, the
Eastern Parkway subway in Brooklyn.
Awarded TO Rodgers 4 Hagerty, me-
the lowest bidders, for S2,l1O'6oZ.5O.
This section covers the four-track SUB
wav in Eastern Parkway, between Nos
trand and Buffalo avenues. The East
ern Parkway subway is an extension OF
the existing subway and will be oper-
ated by the Interborough Rapid Transit
Company. 90
Section No. 9 Of routes Nos. 4 and 36,
the Broadway subway in Manhattan.
Awarded to the Holbrook, Cabot q Roll
Inns Corporation. the lowest bidder, for
s374O9f3.5O. This section covers the
four-track subway in Broadway and
Seventh Avenue, between Thirty eighth
and Fifty-irst streets. The broadway
subway will be operated by the New
York Consolidated Railroad Company
under the dual system contract with
the New York Municipal Railway Cor
poration.
The plans call for a four-track rail-
road, with an express station at Forty
second Street and a local station at
Forty-ninth Street. Each bidder was
REQUIRED to submit with his bid GER
titled check for $4,000. The contractor
will be required 20 give a bond for
$500. 900, and as further security the
city will retain Is per cent of the
monthly payments to the contractor
until 10 per cent of the total estimated
amount has been deducted, and there
after IL will retain 10 per cent of such
payments until the work is done The
contract allows twenty months after
the delivery Of the contract in which
to complete the railroad for operation
and thirty months for all other work.
The Broadway subway runs from the
lower part OF Manhattan Island to
Fifty-nlnth Street. and through Fifty
ninth and SiXt0th Streets to the East
River. which IT will cross. probably by
tunnels, TO a connection with the new
rapid transit lines IN Queens. over
which the Brooklyn company will have
trackage rights. On the southern end
II will be connected through Canal
Street and the Manhattan Bridge with
the Fourth Avenue subway IN Brook
lyn, and also with the same subway by
new tunnel from Whitehall Street,
Manhattan, to Montague Street. Brook
lyn II is four-track line from City
Hall TO Fifty-ninth Street. All other
sections on this subway in Manhattan
are already under contract.
The Eastern Parkway contract calls
for stations at Kingston av. and Utica
az, the latter an express station. The
method Of construction will be by open
trench excavation. except at cross
streets, where it will be under cover.
Each bidder was required to deposit
with his bid certified check for S25.-
600. The contractor will be required
TO give a bond for 100000 and the
city Will deduct 10 per cent of the
monthly payments until 10 per cent Of
the total value OF the contract has been
deducted, and thereafter 10 per CEN.
until the work is completed. The work
is to be completed within twenty
months from the delivery of the con-
tract sufficiently for railroad opera
tion. and all other work within twenty
four months.
The Eastern Parkway subway is for
operation by the lnterborough Rapid
Transit Company as an extension of
the existing subway. 1t runs from the
terminus of the present subway at
Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, Brook
lvn, under Flatbush Avenue and East
ern Parkway to Buffalo Avenue,
beyond which point there will be an
elevated extension through East
Ninety-eight Street and Livonia Ave
nue. TO New Lots Road. With the eX-
ception Of the work under the Long
Island Railroad station at the present
subway terminus, all other under
ground work on the Eastern Parkway
line is under contract. 1t will have "A
two-track branch subway down Nos
trand Avenue TO Flatbush Avenue. One
section of this line is already under
contract.