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BROOKLYN BRANCH BEGUN SUBWAY MEN BREAK GROUND-CONTRACT NOT LET. SECTIONS or UNDERGROUND UAriD TRANSIT SYSTEM EXPECTED TO PRESENT TIG DIFFICULTIES. Although rub -con tracts for the extension of the rapid transit subway to Brooklyn had not been let yesterday by the Delmont-McDonald syndicate, work was going on in a small way opposite No. 17 State-st. At that point a sewer is to be moved out of the way of the tunnel, and gang of men in the employ of the Degnon- Company had begun an excavation.

It was cald that ground was broken there without any formality on Saturday, when the sixty-day limit for beginning: the subway extension work under the contract between the city and the Subway Construction Company was about to expire. Mr. Belmont said yesterday that the company was not compelled by the terms of Its contract to make any gub-contracts for the work, as the company bad given a bond to the city. Bids fur the cub-contracts were being considered by Mr Belmont, and Mr. McDonald yesterday.

X.at» In the afternoon Mr. Belmont said they were not ready to announce the acceptance of any of the bids. Three of the sections of the subway extension we expected to present difficulties which may make the construction work tedious. They are subway In lower Broadway, the tunnel under the river and the subway In Brooklyn. As the tunnel can be bored only from each end on down grades to the middle of the river, the workmen necessarily must take longer than in the construction of the subways In Broadway and where several pubsections can be opened on the cut and cover plan at the same time.

Serious delays In Broadway In Fulton-st. are expected, however, on account of the Immense traffic In both thoroughfares, that must be interfered with as little as possible. It is probable that the greater part of the labor in both thoroughfares will have to be done at night. In preparation for the work, the made elaborate plans, which show every ruction to be encountered, every sewer to lie depressed, every water or gas main to moved, and all vaults under the streets which must be closed. The advance explorations for the plans have shown that no rock blasting will be needed either in Broadway or in Fulton-Et.

The absence of rock will make the work on the rut and cover plan much easier than the work has aessj at several places in the upper parts of Manhattan, and much less dangerous. If it were not for the great traffic, the subways In lower Broadway. Manhattan and Brooklyn, could be completed In a year's time, the engineers ray. The work of constructing the subway in the great artery of travel in Brooklyn. is be made more difficult by the need of keeping elevater trains and trolley cars running.

TIM columns for the elevated railroad structure rise at the edges of the sidewalks in thoroughfare, fortunately, or It would be iiecetsary to support the entire structure while the subway Is beirg built. Most of the way in Fulton there will be space for only two tracks in the subway, allowing the excavations to proceed without undermining the elevated railroad columns. At sorae of the stations, however, new supports for the elevated structure will have to be provided. The time to be taken in the subway work cannot be estimated closely In advance, the engineers Ray, but they declare that the contractors will be obliged to go ahead with as much dispatch as possible, and at the same time keep side streets clear of building materials and permit traffic in the main thoroughfare to on without interruption, particularly in the busy of Use day. In the progress of the work the contractors will be allowed to open only one side of the street at one time.

The tracks of the trolley lines will have to be kept supported and unobstructed, as the tracks in Manhattan, have been during the work there. It is not to be expected that the work at any one point in Fulton-st. will take so long the work in Park Row has taken. The excavations in Park Row were begun more than eighteen months ago. For months, so far as any one BSBJM see from the surface, little work as being done, the yawning pits extending on both of the street were open and protected only by unsightly fences.

Apparently the work is to take about two years, and many people have declared that that is fully a year too long for the obstruction of such an important city thoroughfare. The engineers say. however, that the work has been attended with unusual difficulties. Comparatively few people know that this section has been constructed for five tracks, and hat it is to have no interior supporting columns. Four of the tracks are to be interlacing, so that trains arriving from uptown at the rig underground station Opposite the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge be sent on down Kroadway on the way uo Brooklyn, when the extension is ready; can be sent around the loop under City Hall Park, or can be switched back to either express or local tracks.

It is because Off the in the interlacing tern that the subway in Park Row between the big station and Broadway can have no Interior The roof of the subway, therefore, lias been supported by immense steel beams, which stretch all the way across the space to be occupied by five tracks. The fifth track, nearest to The Tribune Building. Is one that makes The loop In City Hall Park, goes under the other four tracks near the Post office to prevent a irrade crossing, and rises gradually to the level of the other tracks near the big station. E. P.

Bryan, general manager of the Interborough Company that is to operate the railway system in the subway, said yesterday that he had been misquoted as to the orders for cars. "No contracts for the manufacture of the r-ars have been let yet." he said, "and. In fact, the specifications for the contracts have not from the printer, and have not been sent to the car builders who are expected to make bids for the contracts. There seems to have been a mistake, too. about the reasons for not having the constructed entirely of fireproof materials.

No question of expense was considered. We had some experiments made to ascertain the value of electrical fireproof woods, but we were advised by some engineers of prominence that the use of woods was not to be desired, and we learned that it would be impossible to procure enough of such woods for the building of the six hundred cars within the necessary time. The. cars will be made so nearly fireproof, however, that It is not to be expected that any of them will take fire. The bottoms of the cars will have metal coverings, and the electrical wires will be encased in asbestos TUNNEL CO-OPERATION REPORTED.

THE PENNSYLVANIA AND THE EW-YORKBROOKLYN ONES MAY WORK TOGETHER. report printed In The Tribune some weeks that the building at the southwest corner of Pearl and Betkman sts. had been bought as part nt the site for the Manhattan terminal of the New York and Brooklyn Railroad was yesterday corroborated. About five men are in the building making soundings for the tunnel, which, as previously announced, will run from Ann at. and Park Row.

Manhattan, to Brooklyn. It was learned that the were begun more than a week ago. and that the drills have already been 116 One of the workmen said that rock had not yet been struck, and that centrifugal pumps are to be used to pump up the sand in the line of the drills. Walter H. Knight the engineer la of the uurk.

It waa also said yesterday that all the real estate tfca-t the tunnel company needa here and In Brooklyn has been acquired. There was a report that mmm to carry oat the project had been raised la London, and that that sum had already According io anether report. ie ectatlves tie. Manhattan Tranelt Ceaspany and President Caauatt or the Pennsylvania Half, road Company have, haa a talk, whfch la understood to Up oa possible co-operation o' the New-York and B-oolilvn and tha Pennsylvania tunneU. two win Cm.

Widely and how those with them have any interests in common at present is yet to be M'CARREN FOR LEADER. PLAN TO MAKE HIM NOMINEE FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR, AND CON FUSION MAY RESULT. The friends of Beoatoi P. H. Cairfn are booming him for the Democratic leadership of the State by suggesting that he stand as a candidate for I'nitt-d States Senator to rarrrta Benatoi Ptatt.

As the friends of ex- Senator Hill PTC likely to vote for him (or that honor, the tion of IfeCarren would invite a test of strength between the Albany man who mismanaged the last campaign and IfeCarren, Who was sidetracked for John Carlisle before the campaign opened. McCarren was selected by Hill for chairman of the campaign committee. As soon as Cok-r was nominated, however. he and his friends made It plain to Hill that McCarren would not do. Mr.

Hill aske.i Mr. Coler's friends whom they wanted, and they took a week to decide on John N. Carlisle, of Watertown. Mr. Carlisle told a Tribune reporter that the farmers were thickheaded, and when he saw how it looked in print he sent telegrams to all the up-country Democratic papers repudiating The Tribune? interview with him.

McCarren wanted Judge I'arker nominated. and even when Hill suggested that Parker would not do it is a matter of history that Mc- Carren hung out for Parker until the venerable "Boss" McLaughltn made a trip to Saratoga and compelled the Brooklyn delegates to get in line for Cqler. McCarren opposed the turning down of the Herrick. Murphy and Weed delegates, bur Hill was bent on punishing his old enemies. The home counties of these three leaders unexpectedly went Republican by large pluralities and defeated the Democratic ticket.

If McCarren becomes a candidate for I nited States Senator in opposition to Hill, it will be interesting to watch the lineup in Tammany Hall. Sullivan is a thick and thin Hill man. but Charles F. Murphy is not. Sullivan controls the Xth.

Xlth. XHth and XHlth Senate Districts and the ten Assembly districts In the lower part of Manhattan. If Charles F. Murphy should join with the friends of McCarren in try- Ing to down Hill. It is likely that Sullivan would stand by his old leader and prevent his humiliation.

Furthermore, McCarren would have less than half of the Assemblymen and Senators from Brooklyn, as "Boss" McLaughltn Is still doing business st the old stand, and he thinks Hill is the only man fit for State leadership. Senator McCarren when asked about his reported ambition yesterday refused to discuss it. MAT RriX SPECULATORS. PELAT CAUSED BY FIRE WOULD HURT VALUE OF LAND TO BE OPENED UP. The delay in the completion of the New East River Bridge as the result of the fire will mean the loss of many thousands of dollars, and may result in the ruin of many who have speculated In land in the region which the structure will open up.

Much of this land is bought on a margin and must be realized on within a certain time, or the bonus will be lost. Consequently a delay might possibly result in the losses Indicated. EX PA YING TELLER ARRESTED CAPTAIN TITIS DKCT.ARES PRISONER SPENT RANK'S MONET ON A WOMAN. At the Hotel Bartholdi, Twenty-thlrd-st. and Broadway, yesterday.

J. Sherbourne Singer, a banker, up to two weeks ago paying teller of the Mutual Alliance Company, of No. Orand-st aiTested and afterward locked up at Police Headquarters, charged with the larceny of S2.KM) from the company. Titus says the man has heen spending the money on a woman. He also declares that a letter from Finger's wife In Philadelphia was found.

In which begged him to send her a dollar for a pair of shoes. According to Captain Titus. Singer absconded two weeks age. He was traced to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington New-York. His accounts bad been gone over and all the money he had access to counted.

The condition of some bags of coin was such that Captain Titus was asked to arrest the man. Titus declared all 'he stolen money went to pay for dinners and outings with a woman, whose name he would not divulge. When they had dinners Singer paid with a check on the Mutual Alliance Trust Company, the captain declared. The Detective Bureau chief explained that Singer, being paying teller, had charge of the checks and access to the cash. Coin was kept In hags.

The detective pays that when his own checks would come in the paying teller would meet them with cash from the bags. Singer is a retired major of the 2d Pennsylvania Regiment, N. O. B. P.

He is a Philadelphian. He was once paying teller of the Fourth Street National Bank, that city. A few years ago he was sent to Cuba as the bank's representative, to establish a bank there. After he had finished the work he accepted the position in the New-York company. Captain Titus says the man's wife and several children are in Philadelphia, but he has not yet been able to find them.

Singer will be arraigned in the Market court this morning. PLFWX NOT GUILTY. JEROME TO PUSH CASE-BAIL INCREABED TO turn. Pottos Commissioner Partridge said yesterday that had expected the arrest of ex-Police Captain Moynlhan. who Ik accused of receiving bribes to protect disorderly houses in the East One-hundred-and-fourth-Bt.

precinct, but bad not anticipated that It would take place so soon. He had cooperated with the District Attorney's office in the case. When asked If the arrest portended trouble lor officials or ez-oAcisJs "higher up" than Moynlhan. the Commissioner said he had nothing to say. Moynihan was arraigned nt p.

ni. yesterday before Justice Holbrook, of the Court of Special who was sitting as a magistrate, the charge against him being that of accepting an unlawful fee. Abraham Gruber, of the firm of Black. Olcott, Gruber Bonynge, who appeared for the prisoner' said that his firm would protect the legal rights, with Mr. Olcott In actual charge.

Because Mr. Oleott Is engaged In the Molineux trial and bocause the firm has other important trials to handle. Mr. Gruber asked that the hearing of ttm charges against the prisoner be postponed for two weeks. The plea was "Not guilty." Assistant District Attorney Morgan, who has charge of the prossecution.

6ald that the adjournment for two weeks was agreeable to him. but District Attorney Jerome jumped to his feet and said that he would immediately place the before the grand jury, lie agreeable to an adjournment until Wednesday, but finally accepted a week from to-morrow, or November 18, at Justice Holbrook's suggestion. Ball was fixed at 17.500, with the understanding that the bond of already given would be continued and additional ball of $5,500 furnished today. "Big Bill" Pevery. with "Big Tom" Fofey.

was In the Court of Special Sessions, and had a private talk with Justice Wyatt. Devery insisted that he was not interested In Moynlhan's case, as did Alderman Foley. FIND TWO CAPTAINS UNFIT FOR DCTT. At the request of Police Commissioner Partridge, the Board of Police Surgeons yesterday examined several policemen as to th- physical ability to continue duty. Captain Creeden, in command of th- Eat-t EightyelKblh-st.

station, was declared physically unable to continue. Captain of Long Island City, and Patrolman John J. Murphy were found unfit for duty. Captain Burford of the Humboldt-ave. station.

Brooklyn, was able to continue his duties as was Acting; Captain O'Toole. In command of the Morrlsanla station. MAT BE TROLLEY STRIKE IS ROCHESTER. Rochester. Nov.

Rumors are current that the employes of the Rochester Railway Company are about to submit a statement of their to the company, and that if their accompanying; demands arc not complied with a 1 ut follow employes have recently an eelv 'd charter from the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes. be rtci llt meetings grievances 11 UUt i by cc rt motormen and thought that comparably few Strn? and forTrecog. NEW- YORK DAMT.TKITTf!rB, TUESDAY. 11, 1001 FLAMES WRECK RRTDGE. itnlinurd from first top of the tower made it Impossible for them to get (lose enough.

Finally a. ladder was stretched and extended from Truck No. 11. --n the Delancey-st. pier, as far out as it would reach.

Then ropes were thrown to the men, who diinbed back up the steel frame some twenty or thirty feet, and made the ropes fast to the framework These uere fastened to the extended ladder and drawn taut. Then, between falling redhot bolts and sizzling planks, the firemen slid down this rope to the ladder and crawled along that to the pier. They all got down safely, although they were burned by redhot sparks. When they reached the pier there was a tremendous cheering. THOUGHT THREE MEN LOST.

About this time James McKeon, of No. 434 Brooklyn, a foreman for some pf the cable constructing work at the Manhattan end of the bridge, told the police that four of his men had been at work on the top of the tower when the fire broke out. He said they were Daniel Brophy. of Montreal, Canada, and hi? brother John, a laborer, known only as and A. P.

of No. 434 Brooklyn. He said they had been trying to cut away the woodwork about the twelve small UVi-incb cables, when suddenly the framework on which they stood pave way. The two Brophy brothers, he said, and "Tom" were thrown the river, while by catching some projecting pieces of the steel framework, managed to save himself McKeon said he had been to the Brooklyn end of the bridge, and was on his way over to thto side, walking the foot bridge, when he met who told him the story. McKeon went back when he learned the foothridee had fallen at the Manhattan end.

find came over to this side on the Brooklyn Bridge. Tp to midnight, however, the police and the life saving men. who were patrolling the river in boats, had found no bodies, and bad no further verification of tru story. While the Oreboat Zophar Mills was underneath the bridge, up to the tower, a big bolt Ml and struck Fireman Jeremiah Hnggerty, of No. i55 Vandewnter-st.

He was seriously Injured, and after treatment on bo-it by Ambulance Surgeon McDonald, who had heen taken out in a rowboat, was taken to Gouverneur Hospital. His condition is said to be critical. When the foot bridpe fell the horses attached to Engine No. 15 ran away, breaking the hydrant connection. A number of planks and heavy iron bolts fell where the team had stood.

The horses attache. to the engine tender also ran. Both teams were caught a couple of blocks away. The team attached to Truck No. 11, standing in a hundred feet away from the tower, were cut loose when the foot bridse bepan to sway, and ran.

The truck was almost buried by the debris, and the horses would certainly have been killed had they been left there, the firemen barely got away in time. After the firemen bad been taken from the tower Chief Engineer Kingsley Martin, of Commissioner Lindenthal's department, appeared at the scene. He became anxious as to the safety of the four bic cables. He raid he wanted to go up and look after them. "Well you up." said Battalion Chief Guerin.

CHIEF ENGINEER MARTIN CLIMBS BRIDGE. Bo with the battalion chief and a fireman. whOM name was not learned, as escorts, Mr. Martin began the perilous climb of 355 feet up the steel framework. The wooden stairway or ladder had long since been burned away.

Up the eteel frame of the great tower the three men started. The big crowd stood back, breathless almost for one minute, and then yelling Itself hoarse with terrific cheers the next. The trio climbing the steel paid no attention to the crowd, but steadily mounted upward. the firemen carrying two ax Up and up they went, their bodies seeming smaller and smaller. Finally they reached top.

and were almost In the dark- Once on top the work of cutting away the woodwork that remained about the four big main supporting and permanent cables was begun under the direction of Chief Engineer Martin. This work went on for some two hours. At its end. and when they had done all that could be done, chief engineer an I his escorts Started on the climb downward. According to Battalion Chief Guerin the firof the four big cables, known as Cable No 1 was all right when be saw It last Cable No.

1' had some strands on the outside thai were i idly warped and a few that had parted. He could tell nothing about Cables Nos. and 4 for the tire was at its hottest at the point where they crossed over thi-tr saddles and were fastened to the steel tower. After the firemen had thHr reports to Chief Croker. said: "I am told that an engineer has been to the top of the tower.

He says that all of the twelve cables have parted and that some of the big supporting cablet are lv bad shape There is grave danger of at least one of them breaking. In that case the danger Is very great, and cannot be estimated." Chief Croker then ordered a battalion chief to Inform the police to stop nil traffic up and down the East River for the night. He said that it was too dangerous to allow river craft to pass up and down under the bridge cables. STOREHOUSE HISSES INTO RIVER About 7 o'clock the fire spread from the framework on top of the tower down to the big storehouse of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, on the platform from which the bridge promenade will start when completed. This storehouse was 125 feet from the water surface.

The Qreboat Zophar Mills steamed up under this and turned streams of water Into the storehouse. It had about as much effect on fiercely raging flames as the stream from a squirt gun would have on a gasolene torch. The storehouse was filled with tool chests, barrels of oil and tar. and other stuff of the most inflammable nature, In it were tons of bolts, nuts and rivets. As the storehouse burned the floor gave way, and this mass of red and white steel debris plunged with a steaming hiss Into the river.

There were two or three big hoisting derricks on platform also, and they, too. went Into the water and plunged Into the mud at the bottom. In the mean time Battalion Chief Guerin had ordered all firemen to turn out with all the Babcock fire extinguishers and all the apparatus on the scene. The firemen started at the storehouse with them and used them, but with little effect, and the fire practically burned itself out. A RAIN OF WHITEHOT KTEEL.

The scene about the bottom of the tower was a most awesome one. From the platform on the top, as the floor gave way, fell great redhot bolts and blazing timbers. This floor was of timbers twelve Inches square. The bolts were eight, ten and twelve feet In length, and from three to six inches in diameter, and many of them moulded down to an almost sharp point with the screw threads for the nuts cut half way up their length. These bolts, weighing in the neighborhood of three hundred pounds, according to workmen about the scene, fell fast and thick for a time.

Some of them plunged down straight as an arrow shot from a bow. and buried themselves three and four feet in the earth or Jammed through the floor of the Delancey-st hot were they when they struck the Pier that they would no sooner touch than a und hh BPUrt ut fro The nuts that fell were as large around as a man a thigh, and weighed from twenty to thirty pounds Great sections of red hot and smouldering timbers came crashing down as well and fell, some on shore, some on the pier and some struck with a splash and a sizzle into the river In the midst of all this deluge of red hot material the firemen worked away They laughed and Joked each other regarding these terrible missiles as they fell. They Jestingly re ferred to one particularly vicious looking" red hot iron bolt, sticking upright through the dirt as a "toothpick." "Better have one," said a fireman. "You may not need It to-morrow. Some of us won't want to pick our teeth If this thing keeps on much longer." These falling missiles soon set fire to the Delancey-st.

pier. Lines of hose were then run into the river and streams of water continually played on the pier. Nevertheless, the pier is damaged to a great extent. On the Broome-st. pier, just north of the northern side of the tower, stood scores of barrels of oil.

The greatest precautions were taken to prevent, any possibility of this oil catching Several times big blazing firebrands fell perilously near the barrels, but none of them were set into a blaze. Streams of water were kept playing on them, so there would be no danger from occasional heavy sparks that blew In every direction. At 10 o'clock the firemen succeeded in runnlnr up a second line of hose to the. top of the tower, and Engine No. 11, with a steam pressure of three hundred pounds, pumped up the water.

Twice the bOM burst, had to be restretched. but tit. ally a tiny stream of water was forced through clear to the top of the tower, and squirted feebly out on the smouldering The stream was so feeble, however, that it had no appreciable effect, and the effort was not long kept up. Chief Croker said that the started from a forge used to heat rivets, that stood in the toolbouse on the south side of the tower, at the extreme top. The burning timbers and oils that fell through to the storehouse on the promenade platform, two hundred feel and more below, set fire to that, and the firebrands from that started the fire on the pier, so that there were really three fires burning at once.

Chief Croker said that about six months ago there was a small fire in the tollhouse on the promenade platform. 27, feet up. but that it was put out by the fire apparatus which the workmen used and that there was a damage of S.VK"». He thought that the four supporting rabies were damaged from to -Jim feet out from the tower. These he said would have to be replaced, as many of the outside strands of the cables were badly warped, and the temper taken out of them.

LOSS AT LEAST $600,000. Mr. Hildebrand. who has entire charge of the work being done by the Roeblings, and" who represents that firm, said that he didn't know the extent of the damage done to the bridge work. He said he could not tell until to-day how badly damaged the four big cables are.

So far as the foot bridge is concerned, he said that could be rebuilt at small expense and at no great amount of time or labor. Asked as to the extent of the time it would to replace the damage done by the fire, he said he could make no estimate until to-day. At 2 o'clock this morning Mr. Hillenbrand declared that no lives had been lost. IS JURY TO BIG CABLES.

CHIEF ENGINEER MARTIN ALSO TELLS OF THRILLING EXPERIENCE ON THE TOWER. Chief Engineer Klngsley Martin, in charge of steel construction of the bridge, told a graphic story of his climb to the top of the toiver and gave some facts about the fire and the in- Jury to the bridge. He said: "I was at my home in Brooklyn when I was informed about 7 o'clock of the lire. I hurried over and met Battalion Chief Guerin and four or five men who had just come down from the top of the tower. The hose line had broken anl they were helpless.

Gucrin de. ided to another try and Axeman Mi. had Callahan, of truck No. is. who proved to be a creat worker and fine fellow, volunteered to ro with him.

"The stairs are of wood, leading up through the tower, and the stairway is in the northern tower. It took us about fifteen minutes ta get to the top. It was a. bid quarter of an hour, as the French say. I wouldn't want to go through it again.

Bolts and rivets of steel. heated to whiteness, fell all around us. Tlmbets of pretty good size, with end and sides lighted and flaming, also tumbled about our heads. "When we reached the top we found the platform of the toolhouse. or the under part of its Boor, burning.

Timbers and rivets were falling from it through the door. The sight was a remarkable one, as the wood and Irot hit the steelwork in the fall of 330 feet. What we immediately were forced to notice was that the fire was rapidly gaining headway toward the Etalrs and if these caught fire our escape was cut off. The footpaths had burned away and we had no other means of getting back to earth again except by the stairs. We had to fight to keep that, and at once.

"Battalion Chief Guerln, with fine presence of mind, spled'a barrel half filled with water. We bailed that out in our hats and threw It on the lire as It burned the wood near the stair and in a few minutes we saw we were successful as the lire stopped gaining, then lost ground and then we had It altogether away from the "By this time two hose lines had been got up. spliced and made into a Siamese hosellne with three hundred pounds pressure on each line. served to break the Siamese connection again and again, and made heaps of trouble. The first time it caused a delay of half an hour.

When it did get going after each break, It made quick work of the fire. It took half an hour about, to put out th- blaze. In that time you can Imagine how much water was poured on the lire and from that Judge how the poor firemen at the foot of the tower were drenched. Tons Of water fell the height of the tower on them an 1 it was heroic work they had to do. Guerln and that axeman, Callahan.

are heroes, I think, for the work they did there to-night. About a dozen or fifteen men came up from truck IS and engine 11 and soon got the fire out. "The four cables, numbered from the north and called one. three and four, are on saddles, each saddle weighing thirty-four tons and made of steel Nos. 1 and were red hot and No 4 was red hot all the way through.

The thirty-four tons of red hot steel could not be approached and I could get my hand nowhere near It. I could not get over to No. I. The intense heat will not injure the saddles and they will need no repairing. The heat from the saddles, however, played havoc with the cables.

That part of the cables Nos. 1 and 2 resting on the saddles will have to be entirely replaced. The heat makes the wires brittle and for fifty feet on each side of the tower the cables will have to be replaced by new wires which will spliced. The cables will not have be made over and the splicing and replacing will not injure them. It Is done on the Brooklyn Bridge and on all bridges and even while the bridges are being used.

It does not weaken the cables. There is not much probability that any more than fifty feet of the cables are injured, and not all of th-wires in that space are damaged. "Perhaps half the wires for fifty feet of No '1 will h'rive to be replaced. These wires will be put In one at a time and spliced or repaired with cuffs. Not nearly as many wires In the other cable will be replaced.

Bui it win cause a delay of. at the very least four months to do the repairing. I could not estimate nearly the actual time It will take. "I want to say that there is no danger whatever, not the slightest, of the Cables falling or of the tower being injured. The cables can stand the weight on them now.

Of course, with the wires damaged, they could not stand any very great additional weight, but they can stand their own weight, and what is on them now. So far as the fire Injuring the tower is concerned, the effect of a fire like that on the tower is like hitting an anvil with a tackhammer." DELAYS IN BUILDING BRIDGE THE ORIGINAL COMMISSION APPOINTED IN VAN WTCK DISMISSED IT. The history of the New East River Bridge Is one of delay and legal complications. The original commission, consisting of Andrew D. Bair.l, James A.

Sperry. Henry Battcrman, Francis B. Thurber, Richard Deeves and Salem H. Wales, was appointed by the Mayors of this city and Brooklyn in 1895. They decided on the route from the foot of Delancey-st.

to South Brooklyn, and purchased for $200,000 the rights of the East River Bridge Company to build a bridge between the same points. The general plans were adopted on August 19. 1596. and filed in this city and Brooklyn. In May.

1597. an amended plan, making the bridge straight from end to end. was adopted. The plans called for a structure I.SOO feet between the the largest of its kind In the world. It was to be 118 feet wide, with accommodation for four surface railroad tracks, two tracks for elevated trains, two loads ays, two footways and two cycle pathe.

The estimated cost was Twj full city blocks at each end were devoted to plazas, or approaches. During the summer of 1896 diamond drill borings were made the sites of the tower foundations. Work on the Manhattan tower was begun on No- ember 7 and completed In September, 1898. The for the tower foundations were built on the Brooklyn side, then taken across the river and sunk position. The Brooklyn tower foundations were.

begun in July. 1887, and completed in March. IMS. On January 19, 189 S. Mayor Van Wyck summarily dismissed the original commission and appointed Messrs.

Lewis Nixon. Smith E. Lane, Julian D. I'alrehild. James W.

Boyle. John W. Weber and Thomas 3. Moore. Lewis Nixon became his first step In political life in this city.

Under the old commission delays and legal complications had been numerous. Extensions of time had had to be granted on many contracts, and Mayor Van Wyck warned the new commission that no such condition would be tolerated. The contract for the Manhattan anchorage was given to Shanley Ryan for $750,770. while that or the Brooklyn anchorage went to the Degnon- McLean Construction Company for $713,578. contract for the steel towers was obtained by the New-Jersey Steel and Iron Company for $1.

220.230. The steel cables were furnished by the John A Roebltng's Sons Company for $1,398,000. The first wire for the temporary footbridge was strung on April 11, Ml: the first wire of the first permanent cable was strung on Friday. November 29. 1901.

In the course of construction, there were many accidents, several workmen being; killed, il Buck Is the chief engineer, with O. F. Nichols as his assistant AIARKLE MEN TO GO BACK. SETTLEMENT OF DIFFICULTIES IN HAZLETON REGION STRIKE MAY COME IN PANTHER CREEK DISTRICT. TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.

I Wilkesbarre. The strike of the G. B. Mirth Co. mine workers ended to-nlsht.

ati-1 there is prospect that the- Bros. Co. men will agree to-morrow to return to work. These are the two largest individual operators in the Ilazlcton district, and this will practically end the strike there. The officials of companies and the strikers had promised the strike commissioners when they were on the scene a week ago to-day that they would make an effort to settle the strike at once.

The Markle (M in all. while they did not agree individually to abide by the decision of the commission, met to-day and passed a resolution declaring: We hereby resolve to abide by the decision of the commission appointed by the President of the United States under the conditions specified by the President to the large coal corporations. John Markle declared this was acceptable. He. however, maintained his new brass check system, and the men agreed to this, anil he also retains his right to engage or discharge any employe.

As Mr. consider? personally the case of any one who has a complaint, the strikers were sure that he would be fair in this, and they accepted. He has refused work to several and evicted them from the company's houses. The union will provide for these until they get other work. A number of the men returned to work to-night, and all will enter the mines The mines are the Jeddo and Efaervale and Highland No.

1 and No. 2. Their output last year was LMB.ON tons. mines are in excellent shape, having been drained by the famous Ebervale tunnel. Not a non-union man was employed at thorn during the strike.

A committee of the Coxa Bros. Co. met Major Steams, the head of the company, at Drifton this afternoon and submitted a proposition to him. He replied, but neither side will what the, answer or the proposition was. Major Steams left It the hands of the strikers and awaits their decision.

President Mitchell says that it may be made tomorrow. He will not state what they demanded. While the conditions are thus Improving In the Hazleton district the prospect Is that there will be a large strike in the Panther Creek region. There the strikers' committee to-day waited upon Superintendent W. H.

Zehner and informed him that unless the men to whom was refused re-employment are taken back, they will declare a strike of 5,500 next Sunday. These men number 218. and the company has refused them places on the ground that they were active during the strike, and that 112 of are under indictment for rioting: or strike violences of some kind. Mr. Zehtier gave no answer, and If it does not come before Sunday they will call the meeting for considering the strike proposition.

An effort will be made to have President Mitchell present. This evening Mr. Mitchell received from Carroll D. Wright, of the strike commission, a copy of the answer made by President Baer of the Philadelphia and Reading to his demands In behalf of the miners. He would make no comment upon It.

saying that would come when the commission held Its and he would not make it public. "I understand Mr. Wright is to it out In Washington," he said. Hugh McCaffrey, of Harrisburgr. at one time the most prominent labor man In the State, being president of the Knights of Labor and the Mine Beneficial Association, was summoned here by Mr.

Mitchell, ajid they had a long talk. Clarence Harrow, of Chicago, who Is to conduct the case with Mr. Mitch before the commission, arrived hero to-day, and with John Shea, of this rtty, was taken down a mine to pee the conditions of which he will have to talk. The shipments of coal this week promise to reach 225.000 tons dally. For the last few days the Increase has not been much, owing to the fact that repairs at the mines which are damaged are not proceeding 1.0 rapidly that there Is room for many more men daily.

Then the men who are nt work have not yet become hardened after their lons Ktrike to a proper working condition, and are not able to work as hard as they will be able to. The present dally shipment is about 305,000 tons, while the average for this of the year Is about tons. There are many men still 1 die. but if the strikes In the Hazleton region all end, as did the Markles' strike to-day, there will soon a liberal Increase In the production. President Mitchell to-day sent out orders reducing the strike fund assessment from $1 to 50 cents a week, being effective upon all wages earned aftor November 1.

In the call says: During the continuance of the strike the coal companies deemed it better to permit many of the mines to fill, or partly till, with water, rather than permit the engineers, men and pumpers to work removing it on an eight hour work day. The result ia ihat many of the mines are not ready for operation, and about eighteen thousand men are still Idle an that account. Several of the Independent coal have refused to accept the terms of settlement, and are insisting that their employes sign individual ironclad agreements. Acting under advice from the officers of trie organization, the miners have refused to blgn any agreement until the commission has decided what the form and terms of the agreement shall be. nere are about twelve thousand men still on strike rather than sign these agreements.

Tnat makes a total of 30.000 men still out of employment in the anthracite coal fields. It Is necessary that they should be cared for by the United Mine Workers of America. As soon the number of idle men has been reduced to thai point when the organisation can RatlroaOe. ST Afr IO foot of WEST TWENTT THIRD STREET ESHROSSFjS AND CORTUXDT BTREETS. rif.T"'' leavlnpr time from Ilnbronri and Strerta la tlte mlnotea later than L.

below for Trveitty-tlilrd Street 2 where otherwise noted. A FAST Limited to two Parlor New York to Plttttburij. Sleeping Car Pt.tsburg to Chicago. No coaches to Plttsburg. AST -Plttsbuiw an.l Cleveland.

X. M. PENNSYLVANIA UMlTED. Compartment Sleeping. Dining.

Sknoklns. and Observation For Chlcann Cleveland. Toledo. Cincinnati. Ind-1 m'Tu St.

LnuU li'Atl- THE PENNSYLVANIA to Chimera. Pullman Observation. IJTawlns-room. Sleeping. Dining, and Cutlet JiaiialiM a 'p cwcaoo AND ST.

LOUIS EXPRESS (via Cincinnati and Louisville). ft' lU ci ca 0 st VMng Car. i RT LOtTia PRESS. -For FSttibure. Cln- Lvaiavtllo.

a. liming Car. "ik it vla Valley Route). i.t PTERN EXPRESS. -For 60.6 0.

For Vt, eep i Sa Car. Pacific For and or dally, via Valley 8 '2k Olln 1 for nevelar.l except Saturday. BVB AND CINCINNATI Tim south. rr 1010 and Certa Streeta. Cart Car).

2. t0 (Pejbrossee and Cortlandt ninin W) all Parlor and La 523 mining Cart. 4.23 Oar). 4.M Pr! rV nl ht Sun.iav. ll ln 1035 (Oinlng Car) a.

12.55 Car) i3.2S Uvr all Parlor an.l i' runt; 325 (TMnlnsr (Pining Car). 433 rt ir to night. nlgl.t Express. 3 3 iZS p. 12.10 A OAST UNE 9 2 a.

9.23 A AR P. AtR r.INT "FIojiiSa and Metm- I mUe(i 12 55 da Expresst 13 10 i I AXD WKSTKRX For Memphis and New-Orleana, 8.25 m. dally m. CHESAPEAKt: A a. m.

and 4.55 p. in. dally ZUZ COMFORT and a. m. tti ay 8 II NTIC a.

tn. and 2.55 p. m. week-days. 7.53 a.

m. Through Vestlbuled BnfTat I arlor Can and Standard Coaches on week- daya. Parlor Emolunr Car Parlor Dining Car. and Standard on Sundays. CAFE m.

week-day or points en New fork and Long Branch Railroad 55 Twenty-third Street StaUon). 8.3.1 a. 12.10. 25 and 4.55 p. re week-days.

Sundays a. 4.58 p. (From Dasr-rosaaa and Cortlaodt a 12.20. 3.40. 4.30 and 610 p.

m. week-days. Sunday. a. S.IS m.

FOR rHILAUULPIIIA. 01 and Cortlandt Streets. 7.23. TBS. 8.23.

J. 85. 9.25 Car) (0 55 Penna. Limited). 10.10 and Cortlandt Streets, 10.2n) 10.55 (Dining Car).

a. 12.55 Car). 1.35 iDinlng Cart. 2.10 and Cortlandt Streets. 2.20).

3 25 (Pining Cart. 5.53. 4.23. 455 (Dining Car), 4.55 (Dtnln? Car). 0.53 (Dining Cart.

7.55. 8.25. 5.55. p. 12.10 night.

Sundays, 6.10. 7.83 (no coaches). 8.25. 9.25 (Pining Car). 0.53 (Urn 3.85.

10.53 (Dining Cart a. 12.53 (Wntng Cart. 1.53 (Dining Car). 8.25 (Pining Car). 3.55.

4.23 lLUr.lr.< Car). 4.55 (Dining Cart. 6.03 (Dtnlng Car). 7.35. 8.25.

9.83. p. 12.10 night. Ticket offices. 1334.

11l and 281 Broadway. 183 Fifth Avenue (below 23d 263 Fifth Avenue (corner Actor Bouse; West Street btation. and stations foot of and Cortlandt Court 860 Fulton Street. 98 Broadway and Pennsylvania Annex Station. Brooklyn; Station Jersey City.

New York Traaafer Company will call for and check bagsijc from hotels ani resUencta throush to EUStetntK Street" tor Pennsylvania. Railroad Bervtee. J. It lIUTCHIXSON-. j.

wood. General Manactr. I J. take care of them without further assessment Tan will be notified, and it will then be which we hope will be within two weeks. 13 COAL STRIKE COMMISSION.

Washington. Nov. Carroll D. Wright, record. er of the anthracite coal strike commission, has received one of the reolies of the coal operators to President Mitchell's statement filed with the.

com. mission. The replies will not be made public until copies have been furnished to Mr. Mitchell. STEAMERS BRING MM TONS.

Three steamers arrived here from Europe day with anthracite in their holds. They were Tropic, from Hamburg, with I.sOO tons; the Atbara. from Glacgow, with 4,000 tons, and the from Manchester with 2.300 tons. The total amount brought Into port was tor.s. The car-, on the Tropic was American anthracite shipneT Europe when coal was less expensive than it now.

Bailroaoa. NEAVYOKK (entral HUDSON RIYEB R. R. THE FOUR-TRACK TRUNK LINE. VIA NIAGARA FALLS.

Trains arrive and depart from Grand Centra! 42d street. New Tork. as below: North and west bound except those leaving Central Station at 15. 3.30. 11.30 A.

M. 13 a3 0.15. 11.30 p. will stop at St. to receive ten minutes after lea.

ing Gran Central Station. All Mmthbeund trains. except the 20th and ttt State Express." and Nos. and 66. win tia at 125 th St.

ten minutes before their arriving tlma Grand Central Station. 1210 A IMIDXIOHT EXPRESS. Dua W. Niagara Falls 5.0S p. M.

3.15 A. 'EXPOSITION FLYER. Pus MS, Cleveland 4 45. Indianapolis 1145 pi Chicago 7.10, St. Louia 7.30 next morrUni 7.54 A.

LOCAL. Slops at portant atatKna. 830 tEiIPIRE STATE EXPRESS. famous tra.n in the world Due Buffalo Niagara, Falls 3.43 P. M.

0 4.C A. 'FAST MAIU 24 hours to Ciicasa, Buffalo 7.1 Niagara talk 10 30 A EXPRESS. Make, local I U.O Buffalo 1.13 A. M. 1 .30 RL rLi KXPRESS Dm Rutlasi 12 50 P- BCFTALO UMITED Due Buffalo 11 V.

M. Nlaaara Falls 12.28 A. M. 1 OQ LIMITED. clnnati 10.30, ladianapoLs 11.30 A.

St. Louts P. next day. 1 nfl P. LIMITED.

hours to CW' cago via Lake Shore. 27 via C. 2On 20TH CENTURY LIMITED." hour train to via Lake Shore. She-3 trie lights and fans. OQ P.

ALBANY AND TROY FL.TER. ou Albany 6.40. Troy TOO P. M. OR P.

'ALBANY AND TROT EXPRE3S. O.OU Local topll 4- 00 'DETROIT. GRAND RAPID 3 1 CHICAGO SPECIAL. 30 P. 'LAKE SHOF.E LIMITED.

21 hour ww train to Chicago. All Pullman Cars. Cleveland 7.23 A. Cincinnati L3O, 3.li>, Chicago 4.30. St, Louts P.

M. next day fi Of) 'WESTERN KXPRES3. 23 hours U.UU Chicago via both L. S. and M.

C. 5.35 P. EXPRESS via D. or Rutland. 730 AND MONTKSAI.

8 00 ANP TOHO.VTO OfJ P. 'BUFFALO TORONTO PPECIAt. UU Pie Buffalo 725 A. HI 133. QIC P.

MAIL. LIJnTEIX car only for Rochester. Oft P. SOUTHWESTERN Cincinnati 7.30. Indianapolis 10.10 P.

St. 9 Louis second Of) P. 'PACIFIC EXPRESS 34 hours Michigan Central. S3 hours On p. -NORTHERN NEW TORIC EXPRES3.

Vincent. tExcept Sumlay. Monday. HARLEM DIVISION. 9.09 A.

and 3.3« P. Daily, except PttUflelJ and North Adaus. 9.20 A. M. Pullman on all through trains.

Trains lllumlrate-1 with Pir.tsch light. Ticket offices at US. and 1.21« a Union Sq. 275 Columbua 133 125 th Oraa4 Central Station. 123 th St station 139Q 8t station.

Now York: 838 ana Fulton St. and lir B. "POO Street" far ohjeked from or mWOTCT b7 Weatcott Express Compar.y. SMew York Central Route in NEW YORK. BOSTON AND NEW ENGLAND Via Springfield an-! BOSTON AM) AhllA.W RAILROAD.

York Central Hudson River R. Trains Central Station. Fourth Aver.ua tat 42.1 Street, New aa 'ollfows: A. noon. P.

m. P. Boston 330 P. 3-40 P. 10.00 p.

8.15 A. Breton A. M. noon. H.M P.

P. arrive New York 3.30 P. 5 P. lO.fO P. a.

m. Tickets at Central 4T3 Broaiiwav and at liranl Central Station. A. H. SMITH.

GEORGE H. DANIELS. General Superintendent. General Passenger WEST "SHORE RAILROAD. York i Hudson River R.

Trains leave Franklin St. Station. York, aa follows, 13 mm. lavr foot West N. R.

a. M. r'or intermediate points to ACwsr. t11.20 A. M.

Saratoga and Mohawk P. Chtcaijo Exprc-aa P. Cunt. Urn. for Chi.

and St Louts. P. For Hudson River points and Albany. P. For P.och..

Buffalo, devel'4 and ChUago. P. M. For Buffalo. and St.

P. M- Tor Niagara Falls. VeT. CM. tDaily except Sunday.

Brooklyn at t10.4."> A t-O at t.T<M P. 31. Lea. Jersey Cltv P- R. at til 2" A.

at IS.S3 P.M. Time tables at prtni tpsl hotels a- offices. checked from hotel or by Westcott A H. SMITH. C.

E. LAMBERT. General Superintendent. General Passenger A sent. system SEW JERSEY CENTRAL R.

R. Liberty Street and Simeh trca Souti flve minutes earlun. BETHLEHEM. LW MAI I'M CHI Kaston s) A- m. 1 S.liO Easton only) P.

M. A. 1 00. 5.3i> P. M.

WILKKSnAUUE AJID SCRASTOS- It) A. SI. P- A. M. LAHKVtOOU.

TOMS RIVER A.Yd EG 040 A. I SO 13 40 Lakawood 4.J0 P. M. Suadajra, lO.tiO A. M.

ATLANTIC A. tSiO P. t4t 4 (X) A. V. BRANCH.

ASBIRV PARK. OCCAM GROVK. PLEASANT SEASUOUB POINTS- 14.00. 11 30 A J.Sa. 4 45.

P. M. Suii.H>». esctpt Ocean Grove. Mt A.

Jl (KKAPINT, no ts tll.OO A. M. ii t3.CO. ttJ-00. tT.SO.

00 P. 3t. 'aNd'cHESTNT-T JU23. 3f. 24TH AND STREETS -ft 25, t- 10 A.

S3 F. M. 15 Mdt. HARRI9BIRG. POTTSVItLE ASD it 23.

tS.i>\ ll.tKi A. Reading iiil.Oc. 120. KM P. Reading.

Pottsvtlle and only. tS.OO P. M. ROYAL BLUE LINE. FOR BALTIMORE AXIi A.

100, t'ilO. "T.W P. Mdt. Liberty Street only. tDalty.

nets' bur. Jay. tSnnlny only. tPar'or only. Tadaqua.

Offices: Liberty St. Ferry. South Ferry. Ast 113. Ml 434.

Proadway. Sth A- 23 Square. West. 153 East 123 th St 273 West 125 th 51 New York; 4 Court 344. (WO Fulton Brooklyn: Broadway.

Willlamaburg. New Transfer Co. calls for and checLi tagsasre to W. O. RESLER.

M. BUST. General Manager. General Pass'r BALTIMORE RAILROAD. NEW-YORK CITY South Ferry.

LJberty St. rhicauo. rittsburst Chicago, Columbus Mi 3p. m. p.

tn. Dinar, Cleva p. m. m. liaH IJmiteU" p.

m. p. m. Bu-W. Cincinnati.

St. MS. 15 at. Cincinnati. St.

Louis 0.21. 21 a. m. a.m. Cincinnati.

St. Louis T5 p. m. p. m.

Norfolk p. tl.oOp.ro. Vise. ROYAL BLI'C Washington. BalM a.

m. m. fil' 1 Washington. Balto a. m.

eT Washington. Balto a. m. Ml.3oa.tn. TJr.er.

Washington. Balto 2.55 p. m. m. vr.tr.

"Royal Ltmitwl" p. m. in. MiW- Washington. Balto p.

m. p. m. Balto p. m.

Mp. m. Billet. Washington. Baito M2.lont.

12.13 nt S.eeper*. tDaily Sunday. ISunday cnly. Offices: 113, 26. Bread HoMJ SB Union Square S9t Grand Street.

N. 343 JJiltoa Brooklyn: Whitehall Terminal and Liberty S.re«.. checked from hotel or residence to destination. LEHICH VALLEY. fool of Wast 3d A CorUiMt aaU lim Except fcuadiy.

SaaJaj 4 7.15. H9.S3L aial BsJatoLoeal A I BuSalo Chicago Exprres -S hijack. maiio.ni> tii.M Mauca Chunk and Uirletoa 1 B.SS3 vising. Tj-g Lacka.wa.rvna Railroad. foot Barclay and Chrlatopliar Sts.

IS.CO A. For Blnatamton and Syracuss. a. Fcr and St. Ixiuta.

44 P. Battalo t4.WP 31 Scrantaa and Plytnoatlx P. For BuSalo and Burra.o. P. II.

Utlca. Oswego. Ithaca. A. Sleepers open MIMM 1M Tlekets at 113.

Broadway. N. Erocklya. 'Dally. tExjert.