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mni? i a -rj a 17 aht NEWS EDITORIAL NEWS EDITORIAL 1 XI J3 JXVJ viVJJ 1 1 1 UxY 1 JU 1 JCjAUTJuXL. NEW YORK CITY. SUNDAY. JULY 7. 1907.

THREE CENTS. si si east-bound track will have to pass under I the Fourth avenue line. The Flatbush avenue excavation work nairii cnmnleted to the Long Island Comprehensive Scope of Subway and Tunnel 1 In every detail the leading Retail Establishment of Work, Which Is Now in Its Last StagesJ July Brin ing greater height In that way. Most of tbe work requiring reconstruction was done prior to February. UW5, long the tubPS WPre jolne(I the middle of the river, which event in me norm tube and In April In the south tube.

The work of calking ihe Joints of GEORGE H. PEGRAM, CHIEF ENGINEER. Clearance Sales. Great Values. See Pages 4 and 5, This -i! I 1 9 A At f4 I Ct 6 tr lb Vv 4 a 7 A CCORDING to the confident dec- laration of George Pegram.

chief engineer of the Interbor- ough Rapid Transit Company and the Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company, Brooklynltes will be able to ride through the two tubes of the Underground Rapid Transit Railroad, between City Hall, In Manhattan, and Borough Hall, In Brooklyn, In October. The work of placing the pile supports to prevent the slDking of the tubes, where quick-can! and silt prevented a foundation, that was regarded as safe beyond question, is nearly completed. It is expected to have all the piles In Place at the end of this month. Then It Will be possible to remove the air pres-ure and persons will be able to walk freely through the big subaqueous thoroughfare from Brooklyn to Manhattan, and track laying will proceed rapidly. In the north tube, nearly all of the piles have been placed east of the middle rock reef for the 800 feet between that reef and the Brooklyn shore.

Half of those to be placed under the same tune in the west channel are also In position. Only eighteen piles, or nine pairs, aro Vet to be placed under the north tube, to complete the work on that tunnel. On the Bouth tube four pairs are to be placed In tbe east channel and five pairs In the west channel. These piles, the engineer says, will make the tubes as solid and firm in their position as though they tested on a continuous solid concrete viaduct with Its foundation upon solid rock. Acccording to statements made by offl-ctrs of the tunnel company the urban traveller will, before next Christmas, be anabled, upon the completion of the Manhattan subway route to Two Hundred and Forty-second street.

Van Cortlandt Park, to ride eighteen miles over a road that cost nearly $80,000,000, for a 6 cent fare In a first class train, and at a rate, Including stops, of twenty-five miles pel tour. This is said to be unparalleled in any other portion of the world. The extension to Flatbush and Atlantic avenues Ailll be completed before tbe Long Island Railroad summer time table takes effect next year. Capacity of 30,000 Passengers Per Hour. The run from Bowling Green to Borough Hall will be made in about four minutes practically a 3 per cent, giade, descending and ascendlug from the lowest point under the middle of the river bed.

The run from Wall street to Borough Hall will be made in Ave minutes and from City Hall, Manhattan, to Borough Hall, Brooklyn, in frqm seven Ito eight minutes and to Atlantic avenue tixt year in twelve minutes from City iHall, Manhattan. Eight car trains will be run through the tunnel under a two minutes headway and the trains will be able to carry safely and comfortably 30,000 passengers per l.ojur during the rush hours, when the maximum of service will be provided. This, It Is said, is fully half the capacity of the Brooklyn Bridge, which will bp relieved to that extent. The Brooklyn cars will skip the Battery terminal. After leaving the Bowling Green station they will pass straight across and underneath the circular loop, forming the South Kerry terminal on a descending grade, entering the tunnel at a depth of 94 feet below mean high water.

The first station to be reached by Brooklyn homebound passengers after leaving Bowling Green is Borough Hall, Brooklyn. Sixty steel cars of the highest type of Construction will be delivered In omple time for tbe beginning oi the service in October. Work of Reconstruction Completed. The work of reconstruction has been completed, says Mr. Pegram.

He declares the reconstructed sections are stronger ttfan the original plans called for. I Abdut 1.700 feet has been reconstructed 1 i railroad station at Atlantic avenue, and now that all the steel work Is on hand the contractors are confident that wtthla i a very short time the work will be com- I pleted, about the middle of June next, The automatlo electric block and safety signal and switching plant Is being In stalled all along tne line, ana ms citric lighting wires are in for a good part of the way. The hundred pound steel rail tracks have been laid as far east as the DeKalb avenue triangle, and the Fulton street aection of tho tunnel, except the stations, is finished up to between Hanover place and Flatbush ave- nue. The Bridge and Hoyt street station will bo completed within three months. The larger part of tne me, is set.

the stairways built, ths vault lights three-fourths completed, and the rough work all done. The big Nevlna atreet station, wliere the heaviest work is being done, will be completed by the first of May next. Brooklyn to Have Best Ventilation of All Tunnels. Besides the big ventilating shaft on Joralemon street above mentioned, there are to be big ventilating chambers, one extending for 12U feet along the north nf Pulton street. Just west of Smith street, another at tho junction of DeKalb avenue, another at Larayeue.

ano sun another at Borough Hall. These will have big blowers set in all of them. The Cranford Brothers, and, later, Cranford McNamee, have carried forward this work with remarkable speed, in view of the enormous difficulties they have had to overcome in the way of supporting foundations of buildings, the entire elevated structures on Fulton street and Flatbush avenue and providing for the street surface traffic. They had their entire plans altered after the work had progressed far toward completion on Fulton street, and It took them longer to do the new work than if they had started the Job entirely new from the beginning. The ooo.uuo cup.c vards removed In the distance from Clin ton street to Flatbush and Atlantic avenues gives but a faint Idea ot the amount of work that has had to be done work Involving not only the sand hog and the patient mules and the engineers, but employes In the iron and steel mills hundreds of miles away; men In tile shops, anl glass mills, pumpmakers, plumbers and others connected with many other Industries upon each of which the contractor had to depend for the completion of his work.

MANT0NS WILL LIVE HERE. Young Brooklyn lawyer Married Miss Marguerite Morler in Chicago on Wednesday. Martin T. Manton, a well-known young lawyer with an office at 375 Fulton street, was married In Chicago on Wednesday, to Miss Marguerite Morler at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Edmond Morler. Although Manton has been practicing law for only three or four years, he has mado considerable progress In the profession. He was counsel, by appointment of the state to Dr. James W. Simpson, "horn nO BUt CCHUtfU IU llt'UlllK hum lira of murdering his father-in-law, after a trial at Rlverhead that attracted considerable attention.

He also figured In some other prominent criminal cases and de-. spite his youth, Is considered a capable lawyer. Ho was born in Sayvllle, L. I. After graduating from the Sayvllle High School he studied law at Columbia College.

Then he began practice here iu Brooklyn. Mr. and Mrs. Manton will live in Brooklyn. RAPS GILSEY HOUSE CLIQUE.

Insurrection Against Hearst Fourth Assembly District. in The Independence League of the Fourth Assembly District is about to cut loose from the controlling forces In the organization, and will, In all probability, adopt a resolution at its next meeting, to be held on July 14, at 74 Lee avenue, changing tho name of the organization to the "Independent Municipal Ownership League." Such a resolution was proposed by Win. Wlnham at Friday evening's meeting of tho league, but Alderman Peters suggested tho wisdom of thinking the matter over more fully and. consequently, action was adjourned for a week. This is part of the resolution offered; Resolved.

That. we. the Independence League of the Fourth Assembly District, repudiate the said Kings County com- mlttee and the Baid "Gilsey House clique' and withdraw our support and connection with the Independence League, branding said so-called "Independence League" as a boss-ridden, time-serving movement, working In open antagonism to the vary principles that they advocate. BURGLARS ON PARK SLOPE. Two Robberies Reported, One on Ber- keley Place; One on Carroll Street.

mm VaOM, 4n. rv.m lit sw WVWWItW IW1 WMIfcl vatlon by Children In Brooklyn. PROF. HANNAT0 DIRECT THEM. Playgrounds for Mothers ar.d Babies Have Been Increased Vrca-tion Schools.

The summer activities of the Board of Education will begin to-morrow. These include the vacation schools, playgrounds and gardens. Tbey are Intended for the use of the thousands of children who do not leave the city for the country, who have no place In which to play except the Btreets. These activities have now been established for several years, and each year they aro bet'er appreciated than the last. This year, efforts will be made to lnlarge their scope.

In the past summers some attempts havo been made to cultivate a portion of each of the open a playgrounds; but It I dQne a yfTy sms way Tbe Com. mlttee of Special Schools, which has charge of the summer activities; Dr. Strabenmuller, the associate superintendent, and Miss E. E. Whitney, tho district superintendent, have decided that much more can be done to interest the children in gardening than has been done In the past.

Professor Albert S. Hanna, of tho School, has been selected to oversee tho work on these "farms." The professor Is Interested In what may be called "nature study." He Is himself a "farmer," and is convinced that the nearer one gets to nature the better It Is for the character of that person. Professor Hanna has made an inspection of the entire city, looking for vacant lots near school buildings. When any auch lots were located, ho has striven (0 ggt (helr ow)erB ,0 pprmt for garden purposes. He has been quite successful; but was really astonished to find that there are people In the world who own land out of use, but who are unwilling to lend for the purposes of cultivation, even by school children.

Ho has succeeded In obtaining permission to use these places in Brooklyn: Public School No. 5, Dijffield and John when wet. In the deepest portion of the west channel ihe rock Is only 54 feet be- low the level of the tubes. After passing through the 600 feet sand section the tubes go for 4H0 feet through a rocK pinnacle. This rock ridge, form Ing a division line between the east and the west channel of the East River, ex- tends from Governors Island to Black well Island, and, in fact, to a point above Hell Gate.

After passing through mis pinnacle or rock the tubes again enter sand, through which It continues to the Brooklyn water front. iro-n this poM eastward to Clinton street, whore, the end, they pass enrougn a coarse sand similar to the strata unden.eath a large part of Brooklyn, which makes one of the best foundations known. Tubes Reinforced With Concrete Piles on Bock Foundation. The contractors have placed concrete plies reinforced with steel beneath all of the under river sections outside of tbe rock comprising the stretch of 600 feet through the sand under the west channel and the 800 foot stretch under the east channel. These columns are sunk down to bed rock.

They are built in pairs an.l are 20 inches in diameter and the two legs of the pair are 7 feet from center to center. Each pile is reinfurcd with eight 1'4 inch square steel rods and the steel casing of the piles is inch thick. They are wrapped In steel bands each 1 Inch by 3-16 inch. These plies support a circular cradle feet across. Each of the tubes rests on the line of these erandle.s, which are 50 feet apart.

The tubes and heaviest trains that will go through them will weigh ab-iiit 11.000 pounds to the linear foot of tunnel, whiln the sand material displaced neighs 22,000 pounds to the linear foot. The passive pressure of line sand has a powei to resist several times the active pressure. Sufficient Eoof Clearance for Cars. From careful measurements recentlv made, at no point In either tube will Ihe roofs of the cars be less than 8 inches below the roof of the tunnel. No tunnel in Manhattan has as great clearance.

The subway has only 5 'neb clearance and the tunnel undet the Harlem river ouiy inch clearance. There are four cross tubes all through solid rock and connecting the north an! souih tubes, containing sumps for the collection of drainage water which will bi pumped out. into the. main tunnels atii thence to their entrances. This will be of small amount.

The ascending and descending grade is slightly over 3 p-r cent, in each direction from the lowest level under the middle of the river. Th-i engineers say that no more change of motion will be observed in passing over tbe lowest depressed section than would result from the usual slowing up of trains in approaching stations, and. in all probability, passengers will he agreeably surprised at the comfortable and smooth ride tbey will have from Bowling Gro.ej to Brooklyn borough hall. Air to Bo Fresh and Invigorating. The air will be fresh and invigorating at all seasons of the year, is the statement made by the officials.

The contractors are now working on a big ventilating shaft at 85 Joralemon street, containing both an intake and an outlet, half being devoted to each. This shaft is 5 fert by 2i fet and with a nf r.S fept extending to the level of the tunnel floe- Thre will be another similar shaft at the battery end of tunnel in Manhattan 1 Brooklyn Borough Hall Station Nearly Complete. The Brooklyn Borough Hall station, which for seven months will be the Brooklyn terminus of the tunnel trains, until the work is completed lo Atlantic avenue station of ihe Long Island Railroad in June nei is almost completed. Only about a per cent, remains to bo done. Tho tracks in the station are about in position and workmen are engaged in putting in the- switching system at tbe east nf the station, between that station and Court square.

This will have to be used for th return of trains that, have come over trom la hs long as Borough Hall Is used for a terminal station. The concrete platforms of Borough Hall station are complete anil cleared of rubbish; the tile walls and mosaic lettering and name plates and borders are done. About all that remains is the erection of the kiosks or bronze hoods over th" stairway entrances. Company officials say that within three months the tunnel from Boroush to Nevins street station will be completed. I East nf th" Borough Hall station and out as far as Court square, in which section a clear unobstructed space is required for switching purposes, the roof is supported by giant girdles 52 feet Id length and weighing each 18 tons.

Tunnels Beneath Tunnels. At the Junction of Joralemon and Fulton streets a sub-tunnel has been built, starting at a point directly beneath the north wall of the present four-track tunnel and crossing diagonally at a depth of 18 feet below. Its tracks and thence turning at Its north side runs parallel with the four tracks eastwardly. rising gradually until It reaches the level of tbe floor of the other tunnel at Smith street. This Is made In anticipation of a future feeder to be built up Fulton street from another tunnel to go under the East River at Cranberry street, or some point near that thoroughfare.

From Court square eastward to Loser's the tunnel is still 62 feet in width, but Is divided Into three sections the middle being the original tunnel, with two tracks that had been completed nearly to Flat-bush avenue. When the order came to double the else of the tunnel and make It a four-track affair, It was deemed the wisest course to leave the Bide walls of the old tunnel Intact and to build two single tracks on each side of the existing work. Eastwardly from Loser's to Flat-bush avenue a fifth track has been built to connect with the proposed Lafayette avenue extension. The tunnel from Loe-ser's to Nevins street station Is 65 feet In width. Tho fifth track, which Is on the south side of th four-track tunnel, descends by an easy grade to a point about 20 feet below the level of the Nevins street station at the Junction of Flatbush avenue and Fulton street.

Then it passes under that station and crosses the tracks at the southerly end to a point under the easterly wall of tho Flatbush avenue section of the tunnel. An opening Is made In this wall In anticipation ot the Lafayette avenue connection when that tunnel Is built. Tunnels 130 Feet in Width on Flatbush Avenue. In Flatbush avenue the tunnel Is 130 feet In width, with six tracks for most of the distance and In some sections seven tracks. Practically all the steel has arrived for this section, the last to be constructed under tbe present contracts for the Brooklyn extension from City Hall, Manhattan, to the Long Island Railroad depot at Atlantic avenue, and work Is being pushed rapidly.

It Is now confidently predicted by the engineer that the entire work will bo done and trains will be running to the Flatbush and Atlantic avenue station in time for the summer time table of tho Long Island Railroad for 1908. A Great Traffic Center of the Future. This part Is the neck of tho bottle and eventually the main traffic of Brooklyn and a large section of Queens and the rest of Long Island will pass through this avenue at various levels. First In Importance is the traffic over the Manhattan Bridge, the elevated and surface lines of which will carry an Immense volume of passengers, equal to that of tho present Brooklyn Bridge, It Is predicted. The cars from this bridge will pass direct to the tunnel platform and thence the bulk of tho passengers will go down Flatbush avenue over the subway line to the Long Island Railroad station at Atlantic avenue, or be able to go through the Fourth avenue subway to Coney Island.

Othera will go to their homes east of this point by the Lafayette avenue subway after going Edward Payson Bryan, Vice Pfcidnt ami Giieral Manager of tb Interborouli south to the crossing for that avenue. Still others will take surface and elevated lines. Next in Importance is the traffic to come by way ot tho four track tunnel under Fulton street, thence through Flatbush avenue to the Long Island Railroad station at Atlantic avenue and the traffic from the same Fulton street subway, destined for the Fourth avenue subwav to Coney island. Tho heavy traffic of the Lafayette avenue extension from the Fulton street subway will also pass through the neck of the bottle, and the bit traffic over the various surface and elf vat ed lines will have to go through 'h3 same funnel foru? passageway. Most Difficult Construction Work of Its Kind in the World.

Along this section of the great undertaking is some of the heaviest and most difficult tunnel work of the world. In the lower Broadway. Manhattan, part, where the foundations of the big buildings extend down 40 to 50 feet below the sur face, and where the tunnel was built he- tweon two firm side walls, the work was. it is said, play to 'he Brooklyn undertaking. As one stands at the lowest level at the corner of Fulton and Nevins streets, and looks upwari.

ne nec iioti feet above him the bottom of the foundations of tho Smith Gray Building, supported by a solid concrete wall built dow to a depth of 50 and more feel below the surface of the street. Above him, supported by a labyrinth of big timbers, will be seen the regular four-track subway and the floor and platform of the subway station. Superimposed upon this are the surfaces of Fulton street and Flatbush avenue, with their heavy traf fic. Above these again are the Fulton street and Fifth avenue elevated lines, one above the other. This makes four great arteries of travel and construction work, all supported in tiers, the last named 75 feet above the noor of the lower tunnel and supported so firmly that three or four elevated trains passing that point at the same tlni hardly cause a tremor.

Moreover, there are supported entirely on new foundations over 3.500 feet, or nearly three-fourths of a mile, of big stnr fronts. Including that of Loeaer's. and extending around to Fourrh and Flatbush avenues. Twenty per rent, of this underpinning had to go down be low tide level. Great pumps are kept going, drawing up hundreds of thousands of gallons of pure, cool spring water that would prove an acceptable addition to Brooklyn's supply If allowed to go Into a settling basin.

All this second subway work is to prevent the crossing of tracks in the tunnel. The same methods are being carried out at the Junction of the proposed Fourth avenue extension at the Long Island tall-road station on Atlantic avenue. The Long Island railroad tracks will come in on a level until the Fourth avenue subway Is completed, but a change will then be necessitated for that road, and the in. every baby Is given Its She wants to teach the mothers how to bathe their babies, and hopes that some time there will be a bathroom fitted up In all school houses, so that mothers can be shown the correct way to do certain things. To show the necessity of instructing the mothers the supervisor told of a very dirty baby which was brought to one of the playgrounds.

The klndergartrr advised the mother to take it home and wash It. "It has been measllng," said the mother, "and it mustn't be washed for three weeks." The supervisor said that she desired to have work provided for the girls and women who attend the playgrounds and tbe directors will encourage the mothers to bring their sewing, and to get tbe girls to make garments for the babies. Morn and more, she says, domestic arts should he taught. These playgrounds for mothers and babies in Brooklyn are: Publlo School No. 6 Dumeld, Johnson ani Gold streets.

Public Bchool No. Mlddagh street, near Henry. Publlo School No. 4ft Union street, near Henry. Publlo Bchool No.

58 street, near Bmlth. Puollc School No. fiO Fourth avenue and Twentieth Btrcet. Public School No. 107 Eighth avenue and Thirteenth street.

Publlo School No. 13s Fourth avenue. Fortieth and Forty-first atree-tj. Teaching City History Through Excursions. There Is another department connected with this summer work which is of Interest that ot city history.

It will be continued this year. Excursions to historical spots are arranged and con ducted, and the lesBons are correlate! with nature study. In Manhattan last year 8,000 children were taken on the city history trips, and several thousands in Brooklyn. It Is hoped that many more will go this year. The vacation schools are In demand In some sections more than In others.

The schools were open for two days the past week for registration, and In Brooklyn about 10,000 applied for admission. Those who applied late In some ot the schools were Informed that they could not be admitted. There were 783 more applicants In Brooklyn than could be ao- commodated. in Manhattan upward of 2,000 were put on the waiting list. Many more will apply on Monday, but t.hey must wait.

VACATION PCHOOLS. Public School No. 6 Dumeld, Johnson and Gold streets. Public School No. 27 Nelson and Hicks streets.

1'iibllc School No. 30 Conover, Sullivan and Wolcott streets. Public School No. 34 Norman avenue. Eek-fonl and Oakland streets.

1'ubllc School No. I.lnwood street and ArlliiKton avenue. School No. Hurrlflon avenue, Hey-ward and RutledKe street. Public School No.

Irving and WUloughby avenues and flu'ilarn street. I'crplli: School No. l.V-Hlake, Uockaway and Thntfnrl avenues. Public School No. 112 Henry and Rapelye Ftreti.

Publi? Selio.il No. 14.1-Havemeyer, North Sixth and North Seventh ntreetf. 1'ubllc Rho.il No. mi Eighteenth and Nlm- 1 'j'wep. iixtn ana fcevemn Public School No.

Dgraw gtreet, near HI- kf Public Bchool No, streets f'utiliR School Nn. Ralph avpnup. Public Hch'-nl No. 27 Nelnon and Hlrki Hrktmer iiwt, near street, near Manhattan avenue. Public School 47 Pacinc and Ican sirpt.

rtpur ThtM nl' Puhllc ScVitjI N. i3 Htarr street, near Central avenue Public School No. 63 Flyemn street, near Myrtle avenue. Public Hchoi.l No. atraet, near Tompkins avenue Public Sch'ii Osborne and TVatklns strt'Pts, nai- Sutt'-r nnus.

Puhllc S'-honl avenue, Powell and H'lckmnn ntrrt Public School Ns. V.mdf rvonrt place and Thamos fitrfpt. Public School N'. 1 IT-Ruh wick avenue, Stajrir anl Ten Eck stiver. p.ihlii- n-i.

ZZ Hnrrldn avenue. Keyword and Hutle.lK" street.f Public Sdi') N'-. KM Fifth avenue, Thirteenth am! Kotjrtcpnih Mr'eis. Public School OMorne and Watklns streets. nar Sutter anu Public Sclwti and Met-ropniitKn avenue mvl (''psfl'' siret Public S.

141 Leonard and McKlh-bfn and ium e'reet. Publio No. Mr Henry and Rapelve street Public P'-h'-i N. 1 13 Havmyer, North Sixth ana" Nor'h Seventh tretis. Public S--ho-l N'.

hi-H-iwrH avenue. placp Hti'1 St. Mtirk'H avenue Public School No i4--Elirhfeenth and N'tne-tr-enth streets, between Sixth and Seventh avenues. Cfboot No. I4r-Puehlck avenue, Sel-gel and M-Kibbin street OVKX AT It Ir.A YiiROt'NDS T.an-I npnoslto Public S.hor.j Columbia flni Amitv streets T.m'l sdjolnti.ir Public fSrhoni No.

7 Wyni street nar avenue T.HMi on avenue, west of KVKV1NG ROftF FT. YORofyp1. Puv -A No. r3 Sarr street, near Ten. tnl f-nue publi s.h-.i -Harrison avenue.

Ht-aM an-i streets. ALIVE AFTER LONC DUOP. 18-Months-Old Infant Fell 5 Stories From Window, but Will Eecover. Rnp'e Fliegenbaum. an lS-mont hs-old child living with hr parents on ihe four'h floor of the flat houso at 321 East One Hundred and Twenty-first street, Harlem, was playing about a chair in a bedroom vesterday afternoon.

When no one was she climbed on chair and from 'hat to a winnow sin. anVnlm'oat instan'ly toppled, down an air- to fh1 Pnhrnrmin UnU. of Th East On Hun-'r- ar.il v-sirih s'ation. srnt in an amrmlanro hrinein Or. Kishpr from Harlm Hnspital.

Th doc-mr paii 'hat asi'lf from contusions on nelit Mo. rieht i1f anl rliht sirt" nf tu. hP(l1 nml possible fracture of rh(M qR a(1 riKhu anl Fkull. tli nxpei'tl it 'o TP NEGRO O. K.

TN KANSAS. TV Furr-ms r0urt last nicht rl-ci lei that the city of Wjcntil its hoard of education la the sU.utory authority, has no right to exclude child, by reason of its color, from any of Its public schools. Iq Wichita passed an ordinance pr viding separate chools fr aesro drcn. a- son Btreet, 1,500 square feet, yard of i Si hoi No. 147 nushwlrk avenue.

gel and MeKlhbln stroete. Public School No. 108 Land on Atlantic Public Sch ml No. 1 Ninth street and Van avenue and Warwick street, 75x100, three 1 Alet avenue. Long Island Hty.

VACATION- KI.AVOFtOCNnS blocks from school EAST RIVER TUBE, SHOWING CONCRETE PILES the iron tubes with lead and making the rust Joints and lining the tubes with concrete will be completed In the last seo-tions of the tunnels not now under compressed air in a few days, and in the other sections, after tho arls removed. Tunnel Sidewalks of Ample Width in Case of a Tie-up. The building of the concrete duct benches is following the lining of the tubes and these benches are all in on the Manhattan side of the river down to. the air locks or nearly half way to Brooklyn, in both tubes and in the south 'tube in Brooklyn to the river's edge. Nearly all are complete 1 in tbe north tube to the river.

These benches, which are in the form of two hteps on each side of the tunnel, form sidewalks of ample width for passengers in case of a tie up. -They contain fourteen ducts, seven on each side of the tunnel. In the bottom of the tubes after the con crete lining is in place, the drainage pipes are to be laid, through which the water will be pumped from the several sumps. A concrete invert will then be built In the bottom of each tube as a support to' the ties and rails. The 100-pound steel rails for the tracks over which the trains will run are now being laid from Bowling Green station to the middle of the river In the Bouth tune.

In Brooklyn the tracks have been i laid in Borough Hall station and down the south tube learly to the river, Over 2.7o feet of the two tubes easterly from the Battery are built through solid rock. Then conns a depression In the i rock, or a fine sand section 500 feet in length. Through this section the tubes i aro supported on reinforced concrete piles that go loner to solid bedrock for 'their foundation. This sand, say the tunnel engineers. Is similar to that of the 1 Coney Island beach, Arm and compact i roach of land owned by the city for play- grounds, and believes that it would be The sneak thieves who have been active we if porlj0nl, parks and play-of late robbing apartment houses on the grounds were used for gardens cultivated Park were again at work In that by the children.

He would ask for a plut district Friday afternoon. They sue- in each. ct.ee in forcing an entrance into the1 M'" bhney says the central Idea of naiure studv work in the vacation schools apartments of Mrs. Hilmer of lb nm 8tu(Jy dead nor drieii Berkeley placo- while the family were plants. away from home.

When Mrs. Nelson re- "We will teach animals and plants as turned about 4 o'clock she found things 'hey are." said she to a reporter of the Public School No 122 Land across street from school, Harrison avenue 20 ylOO. Public School No. 125 Land across the street from school, Blake and Rockaway avenues, 75x200. i Public School No.

143 Land across the street from school. Havemeyer and North Sixth street. 25x100. In Long Island City Prof. Hanna has obtained a plot.

SOxlfln, two blocks from I Public School No. 1. and two plots in Manhattan, one of which belongs to the Rockefeller estate and which Is two blocks in extent, from Sixty-seventh to Sixty-ninth street, near the East River. i ne protessor louna. too, mat ntteen public schools are within easy access of small parks, and four schools are within nave him I maU examined as curiosities, nor as ran Konm snprimnna.

Tht rhilrlrpn are fo heromo acquainted with the animals, to study their ways of Rettlnj? a living, to learn to appreciate thir life problems, flnf tf sympathize with them in their Uifflculrips, "It. is our plan that th" children shall plant seds In window boxes at school ami gpf a'ouaintd with their ways of that they shfill take some of the speds home and raise plants of their own: har JJffPrent modes of lif ahall i'n- ing animus. in nrooKiyn scnooi yarns and In lots 'h ub of' which has been obtained small gardens ar to be plantel and cultivated by the children, em-h to plant, cuU'va'e anl harvest it as his own." hitherto. Two veara ago the first plav Kroun, for the use of mothers and hahies n-as opened, quit" late in the season, in prooi(yn. Last the number was Deraiii; It was found that xhvro wa9 rpav demand fr km pRl.Pttm anr they were bv thosA w.ho niade use of them.

Lltflo 1 for hab-es were, put up. sand bins arats were arranged for th flm, n.pn; kinderCar ner i pt in charge, ana sh told stories and used all her art to amuse and instruct -the little mothers. The older women tnmr im" nn 'awiiiic. morn oirun tnPr to watch 1 children. A nurse was In attendan.

stated times to Instruct the mothers! on tho care of the babies. The supervisor in charge of these playgrounds is en. thuslastic In the work, and says that! much more should be done than ts being i done. More swings Bre needed for the babies; no swing Is ever unoccupied, aud nreltv 7nnpr.l fcllirherl about. the houBc.

Bureau drawers, closets niul cup boards had all been ransacked, thoir con- tcuts strewn about the floor. So far as can be determined the thieves got away with about ST5 worth of things includina a gold watch and chain, another watrh, a blue srRc suit, a gray coat and vest, a black overcoat, a silk umbrella and a suit case In thiy parked everything save th timbrel. a. The front door was "jimmied" open member of the Dronson family, living the second floor, bellrves she saw the tli It vps. As she cams hoin two men passed out the front door, politely holding the door open for her.

One of them crried a suit case tr.rbrt li.t. She gave a description of th two nit'n to a dtMocttVH from ihu Bergen street station. The police of the Bergen street Mation were notified Friday of a burglary at Playgrounds for Mothers and Babies. 835 Carroll siren, the home of Nathan Those who are managing these summer Leopold, who owns a large tobacco manu- tivitiea of th" Board nf Education ln-facturing plant. In Manhattan.

Mr. Leo- tend to do more for the "little mothers" pold's family is in Kurope. hut he sleeps anr the big mothers than ha? been done llfeffiSpite casino i'Tme -JImS jjjpllji 20 DiWETtR 5-0 slTie'tS, 7 u- the arroll street nouse at nignr. Tuesday evening, on hln return, ho dis- coverrd that tbe House nan: ncen emerm during the day and about worth of jewelry and clothing taken, was not until Friday morning that he was able to tell exactly what had bepn taken. when he turned the ease, over to Pe- trtive Gl-ason of the Bergen otreet sta- tlon.

It was rouni mat tne tmcs nz into the house by bending off a very thin oar on in iruni A PINE LAWN VIOLATOR. Albany. July h-Mate nmmmsionor oi Excise rifmpnt reports that he haa re ceived In payment of the bonil In suit In an action brought against Casper Helbrork and the surety on his Hquor tax bond. Helbrork trafficked in liquors at Pine Lawn, town of Babylon, Suffolk County, and violated the liquor tax law by having his barroom open and Belling liquor oo Sunday. the land section? of the two tubes Joralemon street and 1.100 feet inder the bed of the river.

In most cases this reconstruction was done by taking out the bottom pistes of thi tubes and rebuilding that section with concrete reinforced with steel rods and cast iron plates. These tunnel sections hav been made deeper at the bottom, thus filing greater room for the cars In two places the roof -has been reconstructed, thus giv-.