Show BUSY NEW YORK A city of boilers toilers who rare alysee the sun extraordinary development of subterranean activities upon the increase of skyscrapers with their series of sub extending far downward unapparent to the eye a great underground der ground city has developed in manhattan a city densely populated by workers who rarely see the sunlight it Is be city of the skyscraper base mente and extends downward to bed rock in some places below the surface of the east and north rivers there built amid bunken cals sona and within cofferdams coffer dams of steel and concrete are three four or five stories of the build ing lower than tho street A terIn tho worlds work notes that most of the dwellers underground engineer and other employed emp loyes ore nearly all men past middle life brewa of from forty to sixty men are required to operate the mechanism ot tho great ofick buildings in the boiler and engine rooms bo forca works in three shifts of each atie early watch begins at 7 a m and ends at 3 p m then the middle watch comes on and works till 11 p m when the lute watch begins no man leaves hla post till he Is relieved by his successor each vatch comprises an engineer an two firemen and two coal passers and there Is always ready at hand it wanted a chief engineer with hla assistant the remainder of the working force of the building is cora posed of allera ollera one for each four elevators electricians ians plumbers machinists ts carpenters cabinetmakers cabinet makers masons plasterers painters and cleaners they arc comfortably housed and surrounded by many appliances of lux ury tubs for bathing shower baths dressing cabinets marble haud basens Is a profusion of nickel and pol steel and hardwood trimming might be ached tut in th moira home the building really works only ten hours and the night shift Is smaller than thi day in one or two 0 the large hotels abero the day overlaps thai and the night margea with aho day there Is no dit in tho power rooms of the three stories below the street aan are employed there toa ln winter tons of coal a dacri in seven furnaces for a hotel must beeri tholf warm at every hour of alio twenty four fifty tons of ice are used dally during the ummer and half a thousand carabes carafes of water chilled by the ace machino pounds ot meat fish and edmo are at freezing temperature pera ture in the every drop ct water consumed in tho underground city Is filtered draughts lit awl air fan he hot breath of tw furnace aiom the brow of the coal hcan d in the of thy new exchange a ril device for supplying cold air and tern poring tho hot 9 perspiring broker Is said to be the perfection ot ventilating systems what Is to be he ultimate development of new below thea pavement already stores along the subway are in perspective while the great borny ot the pennsylvania railroad with the worlds largest passenger station to be built anoro than halt underground equipped with waving platforms and stairways and other projected subways to up visions of a city beneath a city of great buildings connected underneath by lri ull passage over wide areas may bo accomplished without the need 0 mounting to the surface perhaps in the new york at another century much of the heavy truck traffic will be carried on underground leaving ohp surface streets to the pedestrian and the light vehicles |