Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1904 — Lessons Learned in the Subway. [ARTICLE]

Lessons Learned in the Subway.

In digging the New York subway the men uncovered many sewers which had to be rebuilt At first they built the new sewers of brick. Presently the bricklayers, who were receiving 15.20 a.day, struck for higher wages. The work stopped. The indispensable bricklayers left the subway. But the old adage came to Mr. Parson’s mind: "There are more ways to kill a cat than by choking him with cream." Concrete work was cheap; why not build the sewers of concrete? Experiments were unexpectedly successful. Thereafter concrete was used almost exclusively—a new kind of sewer been evolved, cheaper than the brick sewer and better. Thia Is one of the many contributions the building on the subway has made to engineering—M. G. Cunniff In the World’s Work.