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Show A NOTABLE BRICK WALL. When the Pennsylvania railroad's great granite passenger station In Manhattan had been completed and they came to finish off its surroundings, surround-ings, the curbing of the broad sidewalk side-walk laid around It excited admiration. This curbing Is composed of deep blocks of granite each about ten feet long by a foot and a half In width and each having at one end a section hollowed in, and at the other end a rounded section projecting, so that as laid these curbstones are continuously continu-ously Interlocking. It Is a curbing that is very sightly to look at and that nothing Ibbb tnan an earthquake could displace. Now around the great subsurface area to the west of the station in which the switching tracks lie, extending- from tho station'B Eighth avenue ave-nue front and on beyond Ninth avenue ave-nue to the portals of tho undor river funnels, the Pennsylvania is building ,at tho street level at the Inner edgo of the sidewalks surrounding tho sunken track area a brick and granite gran-ite fence that is in Its way remarkable. remark-able. This fence or wall, which is six and a half feet high, is built of light gray mottled brick set on a foot high, granite gran-ite base and having a solid heavy granite coping. To break what "would otherwise havo been the monotony of for hundreds of feet there are built such a fence extending continuously in it at regular intervals of about thirty feet square posts of about a two foot face projecting slightlj beyond be-yond the fact of the wall and carried up above the coping and crowned oach with a granite cap; and further to relievo the wall's monotony certain courses In It have been laid with alternate al-ternate brlclcs slightly projecting, to give in the face of the wall between tho posts the effect of paneling. Now York Sun. |