The Street Railway Journal
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Through the courtesy of the offici- completed a stable for the use of the Put- it will be fouud more interesting to a als and especially of Mr. Dickey the archi- nam Avenue and Halsey Street line of cars liirge class of readers than the stables of tect for the company we are enabled to give that may beregardedas a model both of sim- greater cap\city would be. Few roads have complete illustrations showing the arrange- plicity and convenience. It is not as large need of accommodations for three or four ment and construction of the building. 234 THE STEEET EAILWAY JOTJRNAIi. [May, 1886. Tiie Hitlsey Street line having outgrown its original accommodations on Gates ave- nue, it -was decided to erect these stables on their present site. TJiey stand at the end of the line, facing Halsey street, and west of Broadway, having stall capacity for about 400 horses. The construction of the building was car- ried on in a most thorbugh and workman- like manner. The walls are of brick ; the front being supported on iron columns across the car shed, leaving openings for the tracks ; while the interior is of wood neatly whitewashed. Below the offices which are located in the southeast corner of the building, there is a small cellar, with light holes. There is seven feet of head- i-oom here clear of the beams, with the floor six feet below the top of the main walls. The trench for the front wall of this cellar was sunk to the same depth as that of the muiu foundations, while the inside walls run down to 12" below the floor. The trench for the walls at the uorthwe.it corner of the building was 3' deej) and wide enough to receive a 24* concrete base. The excavations for the piers on the Halsey street front were carried down to 7' below the top of each capstone and w;ere 3' 6'' square at the bottom. The same was done at the elevator and runway. All the dirt that was removed from these excavations was left upon the premises and after the walls were down, was carefully rammed iuto place, and what remained was used for grading. The concrete placed in the trenches for the stonework to rest upon was made from fresh Eosendale cement, mixed with clean sharp sand, broken stone or screenings, in the proi^ortion of one barrel of cement to three barrels of flue stone or screenings and two of sharp sand, thoroughly wet and mixed in boxes before being placed in the trenches. Before placing it in position, however, the treuches were carefully clean- c.l out and squared up to the proper size and depth and the mixture then placed in before settiug. After this it was rammed aud settled down iuto place. In this work all sand or screenings containing any loam whatever was rejected. This concrete was laid in a course of 3' 4" wide and 12" deep under the main foundations, aud under the 3' 6" 3' 6" l^iers it was made in squares X aud 15" deep. The inside walls of the of- fice and cellar being lighter have a footing 24" 12" course of only wide and deep ; the same being used for the inside walls of the dung yard. Concrete was used as a flooring of the 4" cellar. This was floated to a depth of and drawn down hard and smooth. A 3" flUiug o£ the sime material was placed between the sleepers of the change room floor. It was used as a deafener beneath the floors of the shoeing shop and the en- giue room, aud served as a bed for the iron gutter boxes on the two fronts. The foundation walls and piers are of New York boat stone, laid in cement mor- tar, well bedded and tied together and lev- eled off ou top to t:ikc the brickwork. The east and west sides are 2' 4" thick built with 1. li KIse to East 235 the outside face to the building line. The north wall is the same but projects 4" and the office wall on HaLsey street front is on- ly 21" thick with a C projecti jn. All piers throughout the building are built with good selected stone thoroughly bonded together, and battered from 3' 6" at the bottom to 2' square at the top. Xo cobl'le or round stone was used. The mortar used in laying this work -was from fresh Kosendale cement mixed with clean sharp sand in the proportion of one of cement to four of sand, well wet and mixed. The east and west walls start from the stone fouudations in two courses of brick of the full width of 2' 4", and thenfaU back between the but tresses A" on each course until the thickness of the main wall (20") is reached, whence it runs up to the fuU height of the second story, the buttresses being 28' thick. The window sills of common axed blue stone are set 5' 6' above the stone founda- tions. Thelintelsnre of the same material. A granite block 8" thick and 24" square is placed in these walls opposite each buttress and flush with the inside face of the wall to carry the 12" X 15'' girders. These side walls are 16" thick up through the second and third story and 12 inches above ; the wh ole being built of hard up river 210-0 l'. SEliie to Gimt HALSEY STREET 236 THE STREET RAILWAY JOUENAIi. Mat, 1886. I brick. Thebuttressesrun to the roof thefall X 10 inch and 8 inch X 12 inch girders. as fur the shoeing shop, except that it was thickness. The side walls are further coped The floor and roof beams throughout are lurneil up at the walls and at the ends above the roof with 3 feet X 16 inches cop- of spruce, and of the following dimensions: ..f each separate row of stalls. At these ing stone, the buttresses with 3 inches X 24 ofiice floor 3 inch X 10 inch with 4 inch X |ioi. ts a IJ inch X 9 inch pine base plank inches of square edged common axed blue- 10 inch sills, and spaced 18 inch between beveled on the top edge was placed imd stone, and the chimney is capped by a 5 centers; second floor 3 inches X 12 inches spiked to the brick walls, or to the head inch X 24 inches X 5 inches X 4 inches per- for single lines and 4 inches X 12 inches for of each row of stalls. This part of the floor forated blue-stone cap square edged and double lines of stalls ; the third floi r 3 nai then laid with a second covering of 2 common axed. inches X 12 inches throughout ; the roi f 3 incl es x 6 inches yellow pine laid in hot The rear wall is 20 inches thick on first inches X 10 inches. l^itch and well spiked to the beams. The story, 16 inches on second and 12 inches on The floor beams of the stable are hiid stall floors are laid in the same manner third, laid up in the same manner as we butting one against the other in single cour- from the gutters up to the head of the stall, have indicated for the side waUs. ses on the center of girders while the doulile with the addition that a third floor 2 inches The front wall is 16 inches thick at the beams butt against the 6 inch X 6 inch thick is laid on top. After the stall and office with the door sills 21 inches above posts, and are strap anchored across on head partitions had been set, this third floor the top of the main foundation, proiectin'^; both sides of these posts. The 14 inch wns laid beginning at the head for 3 feet 2 inches beyond the face of the wall and double lieams that are placed at the head 8 inches out and down towards the gutters, are leveled to throw the water out. On the of the stalls rest directly on the girders and then a 1} inches X 9 inches spruce plank second floor the front wall is 16 inches have the top edge 14 inches above them. was placed against the side f)artition on thick and 12 inches on the third. All sills For leveling up on the walls no wood was each side running from the 2 inch spruce and lintels on this front are of fine axed allowed, only slate being used.