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Show Stopplnc Dmk(a Claim. "Do you see that long crack down the side of that building?" inquired th official photographer of the subway. sub-way. We were standing in an excavation ex-cavation sixty feet Deiow the surface of the street, and the bare wall of a building towered 160 feet aboTe. "Suppose "Sup-pose the owners claimed that the excavations ex-cavations here had caused that crack. I would go over my photographs taken here before the work was begun at all, and I would show a picture of that building with the same crack in it. I have taken hundreds of pictures just as a matter of record to show how buildings, streets, sidewalks, etc., looked befoie we began work, and how these have actually been affected by the excavating. You would be surprised sur-prised at the number of damage claims which we can stop in Just this way." New York Commercial Advertiser. |