New-York Tribune from New York, New York • 37

15 CASED ZH BBJCK. ssswasjk at TmSy aii nnfl rt sad Park-are. The bsMasflh Cssi BftvajL ELECTRIC DUCTS. and other connections are TIUBUJSE ILLUSTKATED SUPPLEMENT. UNDERGROUND FROM CITY HALL TO along the top of the wall, and on the walla, flaring away on each Bide of the opening running Lack to the ticket office, are ornamental panels of white mosaic, bearing the words "Bleecker Street" In big blue letters.

only a. blind man cuuld be in doubt a-s to what station be was at on looking from the windows of a train In this or any other subway station. The color scheme of the Bleocker-st. station celling Li yellow and white, while the walla are of white tiling, with borders of blue mosaic at ton aud bottom. In the rear, between the stairways, coming down on either side.

la the ticket office, with three windows. In a rush hoar there Is little likelihood of a Jam at the ticket windows, for at the stations where the largest crowds will sck transportation each office has windows so arranged that the line of persons coming down the stairways on either aide will go direct to the window without breaking the line, while in the centre there la the third window, to take care of those who TICKET SELLERS' BOOTH AT TWENNTY-EIGHTH-ST. STATION. arc In too much of a rush to tn the line. The most Striking effect in all stations Is tint of cleanliness, given by the predominance of white tiling in the wails.

No two stations are decorated alike, but ill have this tame feature. The station at Astor Place looked uncommonly i iteerless and chaotic In its unfinished state, with the pleasing sped of Bleecker-st. still lingering In the mind, Parti of its walls Were still boarded up, and the platforms litter' with building material one of the express stations, was next. Here the platforms are built between the local and express tracks, and stairways lead to bridges that connect the express and local platforms. Eagle shaped shields display the umber of the station, which is nearly advanced toward completion as the Bleei ker-sL one.

All white was the celling of the Twentyelghth-sL station, its walls white and yellow, with borders of drab, and Its number In druM letters set In a background. THB EIGHTY-SIXTH-ST. SUBWAY STATION. Canring entrance stairs and toilet room. At Thirty-thlrd-sL the tracks for Urn local trains take a gradual while the express tracks In a gradual as.

cut, and the one tunnel diverges into two. This spot is under tho old I'ark-ave. tunnel, and the station Si fifty feet underground. The clang of the car gongs they go through the iv. tunnel sounds like i faint tinkle.

Wide und long and spacious are the station platforms) here, built to accommodate the shopping- crowds that will soon till them. The wall borders are a chocolate color, and yellow eagles, their daws clasping shields, are the chief decorations. The station number Is revealed by yellow ea a black panel uf encaustic mosaic, one on each side. Leaving the electric lights and the hisalns; flare of tank lights behind, the handcar Into Lho Stygian darkness of one of the twin tunnels which extend from Thirty- thlrd-st. Is Continued an fourteenth pufra.

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