. The street railway review . 0 in cash as a farther and tan-gible evidence of his good faith. Moreover, Mr. McDonald pro-vides another bond of $r,oao,ooo, which is given by Mr. Perry Bel-mont, as guarantee for the payment of the rental during the fiftyyears of operation. It is believed that never before has a greatpublic work been so thoroughly protected against failure or possiblemistake on the part of tlie McDonald announces that he probably will not operate the As soon as the contract was let the route was divided into fifteensections, each of which was sub-let to a contract
. The street railway review . 0 in cash as a farther and tan-gible evidence of his good faith. Moreover, Mr. McDonald pro-vides another bond of $r,oao,ooo, which is given by Mr. Perry Bel-mont, as guarantee for the payment of the rental during the fiftyyears of operation. It is believed that never before has a greatpublic work been so thoroughly protected against failure or possiblemistake on the part of tlie McDonald announces that he probably will not operate the As soon as the contract was let the route was divided into fifteensections, each of which was sub-let to a contractor, who agrees tocomplete his section in accordance with the main contract. Underthis arrangement work was commenced simultaneously at manypoints along the route and has been pushed so rapidly and yet sosmoothly that few persons in the city have realized that the sub-way is now nearly half completed. Although the road is called the Tunnel Route, as before statedthere are but two or three portions of the work that may properly. road himself, but will turn it over to the Rapid Transit SubwayConstruction Co., or to a new operating corporation to be financedlater. Actual work on the Rapid Transit ttmnel was commenced onMar. 24, 1900, when Mayor Van Wyck in the presence of membersof the Rapid Transit Commission, public officials and a crowd ofcitizens numbering several hundred thousand, turned out the firstshovelful of soil in front of the City Hall. The Municipal Assemblyhad appropriated $5,000 for the occasion and the event was fittingly be called tunnels. One of these is through the hill of Gneiss, onupper Broadway and nth Ave., from 158th St. to a point near FortGeorge. This tunnel is two miles long, it being, next to the Hoosactunnel at North Adams, Mass., the longest in the United are in progress from headings at either end, and from twointermediate shafts, sunk 100 ft. to the floor level of the are made by compressed air drills and hoists taking
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