The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 40

Tin: mtooKLYN daily haule. new yokk. sun day. apiul 20. 1913.

(r InUW Uliuci vv aj KJii aicuoii jiiiv Alias, win icvuup uuiiij aaj 4 FORGING AHEAD WITH FOURTH AVENUE SUBWAY EXTENSION Brooklyn Vill Gain Most By Subway Construction structure, bat the number of tracks Increased to as many as right, where undergrai connections ar? prav.ded fir future extension. There also additional track, usually depressed. In order to avoid grade crossings. Such a depressed track near t'ne east end of the Manhattan Brldee. making It possible to operate subway trains onto either side of the bridge.

From DcKalh venue nortnwari there will be four tracks at normal level, and two tracki to be on the level as the floor of the car, and provided with a continuous handrail ao that passeiiC'-rs may wa'k iro.u a disabled train to the nearest station in mfctv. In addition to this and In connection with this walk, there are emergency exits placed about halfway between the stations, by means of which pafsrncers may puns to the stre-t when occasion arises. It Is not know.) to the general public that the platform of stations are made to overhang abnui two feet, so that shouiu a person a 1 iff a platform be might escape eu approaching train by merely rolling underneath this ovfrhang. The solid walls between tracks will causa the trains to act as pistons an I Tunnel Bores, Already Made, Prove Practicability of Running Tubes Under River Progress Noted on All Lines in Commission Report. v.

a A jt' which pass northward and westward be- i low the other tracks Into Wtlloughby street. Thee will eventually form the 1 connection for tho tunnel under Wll- lough by street, the East River and Into Whitehall street, Manhattan. On Fu'tn street, near Ashland place, the structure' is double-tracked with eight tracks; the upper four forming the beginning of an i extension eastward along Fulton street, while the other four below them turn southward through Ashland place, and i passing underneath the Atlantic avenue1 ubwiy. continue down Fourth avenue. It was the necessity of passing underneath the Atlantic avenue station that caused the aubway to be constructed no deep through Ashland place and the northerly end of Fourth avenue.

The Pacific street station will be connected by means of an underground passageway with the Long Island Railroad via the Atlantic avenue station. Automatic Pumps Take Care of Leakage Into Tunnel. The tunnel being many feet below the grade of the sewers, sumps and automatic pumps are Installed at tho low points in the subway tracks to take care of any leakage or seepage Into the tunnel. At most places there are two pump3 so adjusted as to work alternately, or in the event of water rising too fast for one pump to dispose of it, both pumps begin to work together. This Is a safe- guard not only against excessively heavy rainstorms, but also against the possibility of a water pipe bursting in the vicinity of a station.

Another safeguard is the continuous bench along the local track, so placed as erated when the other long-term routes are put into operation. The Public Service Commission re the absolute bosses of the city's money for subways. They have at present put out into the construction of subaya. Tho contractors doing their work nave i03 men at work. Public Service Commission Report Shows Work Already Done.

The following report from the Public Pervi-e Commission shows the progress of the work on Brooklyn sections of the dual svstem. or on the Manhattan sections that are to be part of the amplified Brooklyn system: BROOKLYN COMPANY' LINES Broadway-Pifty-ninth Street Subway. Section No. 1 In Trinity place and Church sireet. between Morris street and Pev sireet; V.

L. Cranford; Excavation is in progress In Trinity place, north and south from the shaft, near Thames street. The contractor is shor-i invntH railroad columns and At Seventy-eighth Street, Where Night and Day Shifts Keep Up Steady Boring and Building of Underground Rapid Transit Toward Elevated Line to the Sea. buildings south of Canal street is going on. Average daily force, 210 men.

Section No. a In Broadway, from Howard to Bleecker sireet; Underpinning and Foundation Company; Excellent progress bas been made on this section, and 44 per cent, of the total value of the work has been completed. The building of the subway structure and the restoration of subsurface structures continues between Prince and Houston streets, and construction was begun south of Prince street. Excavation and the underpinning of buildings between Broome and Spring streets Is going on, and the subway structure Is being built south of Broome street. The excavation is 63 per cent, completed.

Average daily force, 384 men. Fourth Avenue Subway, Brooklyn Extension. Section No. 1 In Fourth avenue, from Forty-third to Sixty-fourth street; Deg Colonel Williams Predicts Real Estate Boom How All Sections of Brooklyn Will Benefit Is Pointed Out by the President of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. 1.

Let the contract for the Broadway subway from Ninth street to Fifty-ninth street. 2. Open the Steinway tunnel for temporary service. 3. Let the contracts for the Canal street connection between the Manhattan Bridge and the Broadway subway.

4. Let contracts for the work on the Queensboro Bridge Plaza. 6. Let the contracts for the work in Flatbush avenue and Eastern Parkway, and for the connection of the Brighton Beach line. 7.

Start work on the downtown tunnels to Brooklyn. rr lilis 18 the programme of the en-l I gineering department of the Public Srrvlce Commission for getting action on the dual ys- teni, so far as the department has formulated any programme. One or two of these Items may not be In their uroiier order, but they represent the viw8 today of one of the engineering authorities of the commission. The con-'racts for the tunnels may precede the Flatbush avenue work. They are not I Illfly to, but they may.

Nearly nil of these Bcctions are of vital lutprost to Brooklyn. This borough 13 poir.g to be favored in getting its sub-1 ays rapidly under way, according to the look of things today. Engineers Have Finished Borings for River Tunnels. This Is what has been done: The commission's engineers have finished the rorlngs tor the Clnrk-William street In Brooklyn, the Whitehall-Montague tunnel and the Fourteenth street-Eastern District tunnel. They have reported that there are no natural obstacles to the construction of the tunnels, and are putting on paper the plans for excavating under the river.

They have divided the entire dual system Into sections for letting, and are pushing the sections In the order men tioned at the beginning of this article. They are working hard on the Flat-bush avenue plans, but have given practically no consideration to the Una through the TCastorn District, which is to run from N.ortu Seventh street to the Uushwick Junction. Whatever may be the reason, this work has been flatly laid aside. The engineers do not even claim they are pushing it, although they conceded that it will certainly be built and in time for the subway to be op ill- -u! i sV sN -Sr-t f' Li-' Vt 'P -II -i Iki YtV.Iu'1.' These apartments on a BEAUTIFUL Cortelyou Road, are near from Flatbush avenue. The Decnrntioua Are Every modern convenience, including closets, etc.

Roililer on I'i'rnilir I'll ICRS ir.T Kings s- aW' -a 3- I i (IU Ar Prt trt VnT.n nT 1 5 vVs3 Highly underpinning buildings between Rector) end teoar sirena. contractor uncovered an old well, ll feet deep, on the east side of Trinity place, and later excavated a human skull underneath the retaining wall of the Trinity Churchyard. Less than 3 per cent, of the total value of the work has been completed. Average daily force, 109 men. Section No.

In Church and Vesey streets, from Dey Btreet to Broadway and Park place; K. Cranford; $982, 740.70. Work has only fairly started on this section, and about 1 per cent, of the total value has been performed. In Vesey street the contractor has sunk a shaft and started the underpinning of buildings. Average daily forrc, 4fl men.

Rapid Progress Noted on Section No. 2 of Broadway Line. Section No. 2 In Broadway, from Parli place to Walker street: Degnon Contracting Company: $2,335,528.50. Rapid progress Is being made on this section, and about per cent, of the total value of the work has been completed.

Steel work is being erected, and concrete and water proofing placed In the lower level of the station at City The upper level headings have met north of Reade Btreet it is now possible to pass underground for the entire length of the section. On the upper level, just north of Reade street. In the middle of Broadway, several human skeletons were exhumed at a depth of from 4 to 6 feet below the street surface. They are believed to be remains buried long ago in an old cemetery which existed on the present site of the Stewart Building, during the British occupation of New York Cily. Tho work of underoinning buildings between Chambers and Reade streets and between White and Walker streets continues.

Average daily force. 510 men. Section No. 2A In Broadwav, from Walker to Howard street; O'Rourke Engineering Construction Company; About 12 per cent, of the total value of the work on this section has been done. Excavating the upper level, north of Canal street, and underpinning New Flatbush Apartments "781 OCEAN AVE.

i r-inea sff patft -fi w9 MVl f- LMfSs THESE ARE CARLEY'S ONE-FAMILY BRICK HOUSES THEY ARE SITUATED ON SEVENTY-SIXTH STREET, Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. They contain seven rooms and bath, parquet floors, electric light, and are equipped with every modern improvement and convenience. The houses are situated in one of the finest residential districts of Bay Ridge and within one block of the subway, which is now in the course of construction. The fact that I have built 60 of these houses, and they are all sold but four, is a record which speaks for itself. THESE HOUSES ARE $6,100.

I Will Sell Them on Easy Terms. Brides these houses, I have several flats and stores on Third, Fourth and Fifth Avenues, which would be suitable for any line of business. I will sell these on easy terms and show you 10 on the investment. P. J.

CARLEY, 275 Seventy-fourth Bay Ridge push out the impure air and tend to suck in the purr nlr from the street through the stations where large ventilating openings arc provided. On Fourth avenue, where the width of tho roadway permits of It, luO feet long and six feet wide have been left In the roadway, affording method of ventilation that is nearly perfect. Centre Street Loop Subway. This subway connects tbe Williamsburg Bridge with tho Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges, running through Delancey strait extension to Centre street and south in Centre street to the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Br'dge. It is completed with the exception of section No.

SUl, at the southern end. Section No. 901 In Centre street, between Park Row and Pearl street; Bradley Contracting Company. Good progress is being made in finishing up tho work on this section, which was delayed by the' construction of the Municipal Building. More than 77 per cent, of the total value of the work has been completed.

Excavation is practically completed and 06 per cent, of the steel work has been erected. The station finish work in the Chambers street station, which Is in the basement of the Municipal Building, continues. Back-filling and regradlug Dunne, Park and Pearl streets, readjusting subsurface structures north of Duane street, is going on. Average daily lore 231 men. I PERFECT IN rvrov DETAIL CASH $1,000 IK.

Thfso liouses arc sit ua tort In the finest residential neotlon of Ttu-k hlglily restricted neili-borhond nil street imprnvement.s innelp; witliln two block.s of the ex-piens station of tho New Utrecht avenue subway. They are up to clute: detached; separate entranee fifteen rooms, baths; beautifully decorated; hardwood trim throughout; parquet floors, electrie lights, and every modern improvement. PRICE, $8,750 $1,000 less than tli nsiml price sold on eiiKy terms. CkII unci soe them any day. C-Jr'Jk h.

(By T. S. Mlliniw. Minii ueucuia oi lue new suDways I I seem to be too obvious to re quire any extended discussion. So far as real estate in Brook lyn Is concerned, the same may be said.

Anyone can take a map of the proposed new lines and figure out for himself what particular localities are situated bo as to derive the moKt Immediate benefit from them. My own opinion is that the entire territory to be served by the enlarged Brooklyn system will como iuto a period of development such as has hardly been dreamed of in the past. The Rrlghton Beach line will be a four-track railroad, without any grade crossings all the way from Malbone street to Coney Island. At Malbone street it will bo connected with the subway running through Flatbush avenue and St. Felix street into the six-track Bubway in Flatbush avenue extension, and thence by tunnel and Manhattan Bridge Into the Centre straet loop (extended down Nassau and Broad streets), and the Broadway subway running from the Battery to Flity-ninth street, and thence over the Queensboro Bridge.

From Malbone street and Flatbush avenue the Brighton Beach line will also have a northerly branch running through the heart of the Queensboro Bridge Plaza. Vast Territory Bound Up by Genuine Rapid Transit Routes. It will thus be seen that all this vast territory south of Fulton street and Flat-1 bii3h avenue, all of Maubattan south of Fifty-ninth street, and all of those por tions of Brooklyn and Queens tributary to the trunk line from Atlantic Ocean to fHOMES "DE LUXE" AT SEA GATE, 1 to a considerable extent. As yet the contractor has not hit. uDon a plan to save these trees, and It is probable that many of them will have to be cut down.

Fourth Avenue Subway, Brooklyn-Original Line. This subway, which runs from the end of the Manhattan Bridge1 through Flat-bush avenue extension, Fulton Btreet, Ashland place and Fourth avenue to Forty-third street, is completed except for a short portion In Fulton street and Ashland place, and this Is nearing completion. This part was not begun until nearly a year after the original contracts were let. The total length of this subway Is six and a half miles. The short connecting portion through the Bridge Plaza is to be built by the Department of Bridges and must be provided before the subway can be operated in conjunction with the subways in Manhattan.

The subway is normally a four-track Surf avenue. Coney Island. This, like the New Utrecht line, will afford express and local service on three tracks. 1 have read all the Important contracts made by the largo cities of the United States during the last fifteen years, and I say without hesitation that the New York contracts of March 19, 1913, surpass all of them in their safer guards of public interest. Ail such contracts are founded necessarily on self- interest the interest of the city and Its people on the one hand and that of the private corporations and Its stockholders on tbe other hand and the test of superiority is the skill with which these apparently, but not actually, opposite interests are reconciled.

All of tho contracts to which I refer are In the nature of partnerships not legal partnerships, but equitable partnerships wherein there must be on both sides consideration and Incentive. No bargain Is good or lasting which Is all one-sided. A great deal has been said about these contracts. It Is not my responsibility to defend them except to my directors, and that has not been a difficult task. But here In this Intelligent audience and among men who put civic pride above individual selfishness I should like to for- get my corporate relation to tbe con- tiacts and present as a citizen lo citizens some general aspects of these doc-iuments which distinguish them from all instruments of this class.

Colonel Williams Interprets Clauses of New Contracts. To the citv the returns, direct and In- direct, have been vastly greater, and yet I by the new and modified contract ot March 19, with tho Interborough Company, the city lias practically said to the company: "You shall not take any additional profit out of your original contracts until you shall have furnished lone-half of more than $100,000,000 worth of new subways, and until the city, upon contribution thereto, shall have re-j eclved a return of 8.76 per cent, per an num, and then your additional protlts will be divided equally with the city." I have seen no municipal officer nnd no Interborough officer who believes that there will ever be any such additional profits to divide. So that by this new con'ract tiie city has not only put a stopper upon the effervescing profits of contracts Nos. 1 and 2, but has compelled the use of those profits as partial basis of credit for supplying many miles of new rapid transit lines to cost about $112,000,000. And not only this, but tho Ty has compelled the acceptance of many substantial safejtuar.ls which were omitted from the early contracts the operation of extensions, tho widespread application of the five-cent fare to all lines, the better regulation of operation, the closer supervision and control of accounts and expenditures, etc.

The mueh-pralscd original subway contract nowhere approaches In points of municipal advantage the revised contract entered Into a ago today. Baltic Lodge, F. and A. M. The Kntered Apprentice degree was conferred In Baltic LodKe, In the Temple, on Monday evening.

April 14, by Wor. Wllllnm Carson. There was a good attendance. Brooklyn's Best Two-Story Two-Family Houses Stone front, beautiful porelics, parquet floors, o(t. Complete In every detail.

Too ninny fuulurea to enumerate. One Block From Subway Station Only Three Houses Left We Haven't Raised Our Prices LOUIS BEER'S SONS Builders on Premises Sterling hi. near Rogers av, Prostmct Park s'atfon Br' gh ton Noatran'l, Lorhner, uc'an or KiHtuush av. trolleys. jsjlius mzY Iron Works 11 irt It 777 Rutland Ilklvn I Phono Flnthnnh Cnnnplcs RHlllnqs Crlllcs Fencra Window Gunrds Sun Parlors nd Iron and Glais Front Doors a Specialty S' A KM 1 i BCWiM dm Jut It LOCATED IN AN EXCLUSIVE SEASIDE COLONY 100 FEET FROM THE OCEAN ,4, ii l.i I i MB non Contracting Company; $1,930,258.50.

Section No. 2 In Fourth avenue, from Sixty-fourth to Eighty-ninth street; Degnon Contracting Company; Excavation Is in progress between Sixty-fourth and Sixty-sixth streets by means of a locomotive crane. A tramway running from this point westward la nearly completed. From Eighty-sixth to Eighty-fourth street a trench, about fifteen feet deep and of the width of the two tracks, has been excavated by a steam Bhovel. Temporary tramway rails have been laid in Fourth avenue and a portion of Seventieth street.

Pending a decision on injunction proceedings, work on the tramway has been suspended, and the contractor has been loading excavated material Into trucks and using It to till in property near Colonial Road. The contractor is having trouble with large trees on the west side of Fourth avenue, the1 roots of which spread out the Queensboro Bridge Plaza, and the connecting branches to Astoria apd Flushing will be bound up by genuine rapid transit routes, furnishing quick service for a single fare. In addition, by means of the intersecting elevated lines in Brocklyn, comprehensive rapid trau-st will be extended all over Brooklyn, land eastwnrdly to Jamaica. What an opportunity for development such a vast improvement in an extension of transit facilities presents needs no elaboration. Its immediate possibilities would have been beyond belief a few years ago.

Tho West End line, which Is generally referred to as New Utrecht elevated line In tho description of the new rapid transit routes, and the Culver line, 'which similarly appears In the rapid transit plans officially a3 the Gravesend avenue line, are both to be constructed as three-track elevated roads, title to vest in the city, so that tho roads become integral parts ot tne city-owned system. These two lines will find their connection with the main stem of Ihe Fourtu avenue sub way, at. a point rear Thirty-eighth street. From that point, partly underground, and partly tnrough the Thirty-ninth street cut, these two operating routes will proceed together as far as the block hounded by Thirty-eighth street, Tenth avenue. Thirty-ninth street, New Utrecht avenue and Ninth avenue.

At a point In that block the New Utrecht line will branch off in a southerly direction to a point near Tenth avenue, upon an embankment or viaduct over private prop erty; thence over Tenth avenue and New Utrecht avenue, private property, Eight y-Eixth street and Stlllwoll avenue, to Surf avenue and Coney Island. Gravesend Line to Provide Express Service on Three Tracks. The Gravesend avenue line branches off at the Tenth avenue bloclt referred to. nnd crosf-ve other private property to Gravesend nvenve, following general the route of the present Culver line, running over Gravesend avenue to about Avenue and thence over Shell road to at tho Corosr of Flutbuah Avenue, nnd Hckwell Place. j- Jilt Restricted Section of Detached Residences SIX-STORY BUILDING IN FLATBUSH AVENUE SECTION IMPROVED BY THE SUBWAY PRICES $8,500 to $35,000, EASY TERMS Magnificent Houses containing from 6 to 12 rooms and baths.

Cellars all high and dry; tiled roofs; hot water and steam heat; parquet floors. One offered for rent. See your own broker, or owner, JOHN OFFERMAN, 503 Fulton Brooklyn SEE DAHL'S 1 FAMILY BRICK HOUSES naTVt i li iL Vjt WZSLJir iwima a rr-nii 1 1 naii inn t.t iha Kt iTi: bi nun Wmsi PRICE $5,650 niirnncs from J'ark Wow. Ten from Oie orjean by th trmiapm-intinn in fircaiT N. Y.

I In Hrlr lit on Bench and Snlinny Uttr. Siuiill liuu.sef? of high claf.t con-it ruction and tlnih. cin-laminjf t-v-ry luxury ht1 improv'ni-nt that In fount! the iKMier cla.s of apart nitnts (ot on-haIf Die couti and 1ijh evriv of th clly, with tli Joy of a cubur'i coin inn'J. A Place Where Life Is Worth Living. Price $3,500 upward.

Terms to Suit. I'rlvllrne with Mvery lluuiie, A rumple! elv furnllipil inudtl Hlwayd opt-n fur lni'jtec-tlon. lukn llrlKhton Heach olT (it Klriga Hlli- Vi'tiy, wulk over on Avime to n-enn J'nrltwfiv. We to liellneil I'enplo lnl, liooklct on r'-tiucKt. IM)on Miiiuocd RICHARD C.

DOGGETT, 0we, B.ad.r en Awime to I'arkwny. of 4, 5 and 6 extremely larae rooms, facing ITALIAN GARDEN, located on N. E. cor. Brighton Beach Station, also one block nnd Strikingly Original.

telephone, hall service, vacuum cleaners, large 914 TO 12.no Tel. I'latbash SHOD Cawn ASSOCIATES ASSOCIATES GOOD H0USF.S mmm mm 1 I TJ ''it Ilpfor linytiiK eluewhorr. Lninte1 2(ii) fort from e. .1 utittlon, on llrlKhtun HciK'h l- nnt Ir.lh 7 lnriec, Unlit i. mill Mitlil nil tliruiiKliunt, JOU S.

DAlll, OWMCIl AMI lit I I.I) 1 II () I'll I f.H. MIDY00D Connelly's liigh Class Two-Family Houses 9 Cottages and Bungalows BEST VALUE IN FLATBUSH All bathrooms, hardwood lloore throughout, real open firrplare: every modern Jcafur? known to home building. PRICES TO 88,500 Es.si Seventeenth Street and Avenue Brighton Bea- I'. R. or Avenue trolley to Avenue N.

I a inirmles walk lo our properly. ,5 MIDWOOD 1 BUILDERS OF Owner on Premises. 53d Street and 15th Avenue Or Write or Call, 5107 New Utrecht Avenue, Doruugh Park. 2TB MOHOI'OH P.lllK. c- iln E.ac'.iO by Frederick Cranford Lafayette Avenu?.