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Show DERRICK IS NOW BEING PLACED VIADUCT WILL RE A SCENE OF GREAT ACTIVITY. Contractor Has a Gang of Men Prepar. ing for the Handling of Structural Iron Yard Improvements. Contractor Dundas, in charge of viaduct via-duct construction under Engineer Campbell, Is now completing the erection erec-tion of hla larger derrick and as soon as the 'traveling" derrick la ready for lire the structural Iron will be unloaded un-loaded and the Iron placed In position. Work will be started on the west end of the big Btructure first, and'construc-tion and'construc-tion will proceed eastward over the vards. Seven cars of the heavy bridge material ma-terial will be unloaded In the western par of the yard, and the other material ma-terial scattered along the Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth Btreet crossing at points where It is required from time to time by workmen. With the exception of planking for the structure and for erecting the guard rails on either side, and separating separ-ating the wagon roa.1 from the pas-seriger pas-seriger walk, the bridge will be thoroughly thor-oughly completed as the work proceeds, pro-ceeds, and when the steel spans have reached the eastern approach, at the Intersection of Twenty-fourth street and Wall avenue, the viaduct will present pre-sent a handsome and attractive appearance. ap-pearance. ' The finishing touches will occupy two or three weeks at most. As soon as the Twenty-fourth street crossing is closed permanently Engineer Campbell Camp-bell expects to commence the work of rearranging the yards andxmaking other oth-er Improvements, all the plans of which have been drawn and approved bv those In supreme authority in the Harriman management. |