. The Cuba review. D. L. Hough, President of the New York Tunnel Co. and The United Engineering and Contracting Co., now constructing the huge sewer system for Havana. Among other noted work carried on in New York City luider his directions, were the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels across the city and the tunnel from the Hattery under the East River to Brooklyn for the Rapid Transit Subway Co. President Gomez has ap- Pavituj of proved the plans for the Havana's new paving of this cit\', as Streets. presented by the commis- sion composed of Mr. Paul E. McComb, chief engineer of the sewerage works
. The Cuba review. D. L. Hough, President of the New York Tunnel Co. and The United Engineering and Contracting Co., now constructing the huge sewer system for Havana. Among other noted work carried on in New York City luider his directions, were the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels across the city and the tunnel from the Hattery under the East River to Brooklyn for the Rapid Transit Subway Co. President Gomez has ap- Pavituj of proved the plans for the Havana's new paving of this cit\', as Streets. presented by the commis- sion composed of Mr. Paul E. McComb, chief engineer of the sewerage works; Mr. J. M. Babe, chief engineer of roads and bridges; Senor E. Diique Es- trada, chief engineer of public shops, and Walfrido Fuentes, municipal architect. After careful study and observation the commission recommended the use of gran- ite blocks for the thoroughfares where traffic is heavy. For those streets where the electric cars run compressed blocks will be used, and for the rest of the streets asphalt blocks, with modified layers. The streets surrounding public buildings prob- ably will l)e paved with wood blocks. The paving materials will be imported from the United States. The McGiveney and Rockeby Companies are the contract- ors. The total outlay will be $f),0()0,000. The work will begin tliis month: in the suburbs it will begin at an early date. Part of the plant to be used in paving the streets of Havana arrived June 22d, con- signed to the Cuban Engineering Company. It is understood that the paving part of the contract will be carried out by the Uvalde Asphalt Company. The lesson of the Pinar del Storatje Rio dynamite explosion in of May, when some forty-five 'cs lives were lost and a hun- dred or more persons wounded, has been learned. Instructions have been sent to the provincial governors, which will prevent any such dangerous ac- cumulation of explosives at any point near public buildings and roads, as was foimd to i)c the case in Pinar del Rio. The (|
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