NEW YORK CITY. 



liiuie on a level grado as far as Front Street. 

 \\ hen it reaches Vcrnon Avenue the tunnel will 

 In- about 40 feet below the surface of the ground. 

 Running between Bordcn and Mushing Avenues, 

 I he tunnel will still farther descend on a grade 

 of l.f> per eent. to the pier-head line. I'Yom here 

 the grade will be 0.17 |er cent., and the line of 

 the tunnel will go as si might us an arrow to the 

 ferry-house at :Mtl Street, under which the tun- 

 nel will make a curve westward. I'Yom hen? on 

 ,the tunnel will rise gradually, the grade to Lex- 

 ington Avenue being 2.5 per cent., the steepest of 

 the entire line. Crossing underneath the rapid- 

 transit tunnel, the rise will continue on a grade; 

 of l., r ) per cent, to Sixth Avenue, and from there 

 on it will continue almost on a level to the ter- 

 minal at -15th Street and Broadway, which is 

 reached through Seventh Avenue. The curve at 

 Seventh Avenue and 33d Street will be the sharp- 

 est of the whole line. The greatest depth to 

 which the tunnel will descend will he underneath 

 the Kast river, where the roof will be about HO 

 feet beneath high-water mark. The water at this 

 point ranges in depth from 57 feet near -the center 

 to a few feet near the shore-line, HO that the roof 

 of the tunnel will be 20 to 75 feet beneath the 

 bottom of I lie river. 



The announcement wan made on .lune 3 that 

 the engineers of the Rapid Transit Commission 

 would begin at once a series of borings in the 

 bed of Kast river, to inaugurate the beginning of 

 work on the tunnel to Brooklyn. It was said 

 that several months would be spent in surveys 

 and the preparation of working plans before the 

 contracts could he let. 



The old North river tunnel, on which work 

 was begun many years ago, has been announced 

 for completion within a year, and negotiations 

 are said to have been arranged with street-rail- 

 way companies by means of which trolley-cars 

 will be run through the tunnel to New York. 



New Armories. On Sept. 21 the corner-stone 

 of a new armory for the First Battery of the 

 National Guard was laid in (Kith Street, near 

 Columbus Avenue. The plans of the new build- 

 ing called for a three-story building, of pressed 

 brick above granite, at a cost of $157,000. A 

 riding-ring and stabling for 7(5 horses will be fea- 

 tures of the building. It is to be completed by 

 .lune of 1002. On Oct. 2, plans were filed for a 

 new armory for the Sixty-ninth Regiment, to oc- 

 cupy the entire block front on the west side of 

 Lexington Avenue, between 25th and 2(>th Streets. 

 The drill hall will be 2(12 feet long by 181) feet 

 wide. On the first floor there will be a library 

 and meeting room, as well as accommodations for 

 the quartermaster, commissary, and armorer. 

 The second floor will be devoted to company 

 rooms and stall'-oflicers' rooms. Besides a gym- 

 nasium, 35 by 70 feet in size, the third floor will 

 have a kitchen, storerooms, and quartermaster's 

 issuing room. On the 25th Street corner a tower 

 will rise to the height of 7 stories. The basement 

 will contain the rifle-range, 22H feet long, with 

 12 targets, and a plunge-bath, 25 feet wide and 

 70 feet long. The estimated cost is $450,000. 



Monuments. The two bronze figures repre- 

 senting Painting and Sculpture and Architecture, 

 each (5 feet 3 inches m height, were placed at 

 rach end of the white marble monument of Rich- 

 ard M. Hunt, against the pilasters. The figure 

 Painting and Sculpture holds in her hand the 

 Theseus from the pediment of the Parthenon, 

 and Architecture holds a model of the Adminis- 

 tration Building of the World's Columbian Expo- 

 sition, one of Mr. Hunt's masterpieces. 



<>n Apil 15, a bronze bust of Charles Broad- 



way Rouss, by Pompco Coppini, was presented 

 to the city by women of the South. As the Park 

 Department can not receive the statue of a living 

 person, the exercises were held in the Arsenal in 

 Central Park. 



On April 15, the Mary Washington Colonial 

 Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo- 

 lution unveiled a bronze memorial tablet on the 

 old prison, now the Register's office, in City Hall 

 Park. The inscription reads: "This tablet marks 

 the site of the Provost Prison, where patriots died 

 for the cause of freedom about A. n. 177(5. Erected 

 by the Mary Washington Colonial Chapter, 

 Daughters of the American Revolution, April 15, 

 A. u. 1001." 



A bronze statue of Henry B. Hyde, founder of 

 the Equitable Life Insurance Company, by J.Q. A. 

 Ward, was unveiled in the arcade of the Equita- 

 ble Building on May 2. The exercises were infor- 

 mal, but addresses by James W. Alexander and 

 Chauncey M. Depew were made at a luncheon 

 that preceded the uncovering of the statue. 



A tablet commemorative of the hundredth an- 

 niversary of the birth of Peter Cooper was un- 

 veiled in the southern end of the main entrance 

 of Cooper Union on May 11. The tablet repre- 

 sents the combined work of the sculptor Augustus 

 St. Gaudcns and the architect William C. Haskell. 

 It is of Siena marble, the entablature being sup- 

 ported on carved consoles. The panel, measuring 

 24 by 4 feet, is of green serpentine marble, and 

 in this is embedded a tablet 22 inches in diameter, 

 a plaque intaglio of Peter Cooper done in bronze 

 and surrounded by a laurel wreath. Bernard M. 

 Wagner, President of the Alumni Association, 

 presented the tablet to the trustees, and John E. 

 Parsons accepted it on behalf of that body. 



On Nov. 10, the one hundred and twenty-fifth 

 anniversary of the battle of Fort Washington, the 

 Kmpire State Society of the Sons of the American 

 Revolution, with the cooperation of the Amer- 

 ican Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, 

 dedicated a memorial marking the site of the 

 Revolutionary fort. It is on the northeast bas- 

 tion of the fort, on Fort Washington Avenue, in 

 the line of 183d Street protracted. At that point 

 the western sidewalk of the avenue cuts through 

 the native rock, leaving a vertical face about 10 

 feet high. Against this is the memorial, con- 

 sisting of a wayside seat and step, about 8 feet 

 wide, flanked by two pilasters rising to the lop 

 of the rock, supporting an entablature and em 

 bracing a tablet inscribed as follows: "This 

 memorial marks the site of Fort Washington, 

 constructed by the Continental troops in the sum- 

 mer of 177('. Taken by the British alter a heroic 

 defense, Nov. 1(5, 177(1.' Repossessed by the Amer- 

 icans upon their triumphal entry into the city of 

 New York, Nov. 25, I7H3. Erected, through the 

 generosity of James Gordon Bennett, by the Em- 

 pire State Society of the Sons of the American 

 Revolution, Nov. 1(5, 1001. Site registered by the 

 American Scenic and Historic Preservation So- 

 ciety." 'Extending back on the ground level with 

 the top of the structure is a com-ivlr platform 

 for a cannon and pile of cannon-balls. The di^ign 

 is by Charles R. Lamb. The tablet was unveiled 

 simultaneously with the hoisting of the tinted 

 States flag in the fort by Christopher II. Korbes, 

 whose ancestor, .John Van Arsdale. raised the flag 

 on Evacuation Day, 1783, at the Battery. 



A monument, to Robert Kullon, inventor of I lie 

 steamboat, was unveiled on Dec. 5, in Trinity 

 Churchyard. The exercises, which were under the 

 auspices of the American Society of Mechanical 

 Engineers, began with orations l>v Rear-Adnmal 

 George W. Melville, U. S. N., and Dr. Robert II. 



