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Show -H-H--M-H-4 I Residents of Utah f on Their Travels :: l M M M tfHWHt Special to The Tribune. NEW YORK, Oct. 31. Well, the great and much-heralded "subway" Is opened, and many Utahns, to be In tho swim the first day. Buffered themselves to bo tram-plod, tram-plod, elbowed and Jostled about for houm. Just for the sake of saying, ' I rode In tho subway tho first day " When one considers consid-ers tho magnitude of tho undortalclg it Is Indeed wonderful. New York now has tho greatest subway In tho world, which to dato has cost WO.COO.CCO. Is thirteen miles long and has four tracks nearly tho entire en-tire way, running under tho most crowded crowd-ed streets in the world, skirting tho foundation foun-dation walls of tho tallest buildings In tho city, which really means In tho world, and all without disarranging the most complicated com-plicated system of sewers, conduits. Pipes, etc. Then the task of tunneling under the heavy elevated roads was no small task, but by far tho most interesting interest-ing section of tho tunnel, from an engineering engin-eering standpoint. Is that under tho Harlem Har-lem river; the bed of tho river Is so soft tunneling of the ordinary kind was Impossible, Impos-sible, and a new method had to be do-vised. do-vised. Two separate tunnels of circular form built of cast Iron and steel were planned and were built on shore and sunk into concrete beds built In caissons in pile-inclosed pile-inclosed guldeways down In tho mud of tho bottom. The tunnel under the river is as dry as a bone Tho subway was begun March 25, l&CO, and as many as 12,000 men were employed dally In Its construction, while the aver-ago aver-ago force at work from tho start was 41CO daily, and has taken 1275 working days to complete. There were 111.SS1 passengers who rodo on tho subway cars the opening day, October 27, tho average number per hour slnco then has been 25 000. It Is estimated es-timated that 200.0CO.000 passengcra a year will travel over the subway. In addition to tho greatest subway In tho world, New York will have as a necessary neces-sary adjunct tho greatest power-houso In the world. The buildings erected between Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth street? and Eleventh avenue and the North river will contain seventy-two boilers and twelve engines, each engine directly connected to a 5000-kllowat alternator. The plant will develop 100.000-horsc power without tho sllghtsst strain on the machinery. Tho bollors aro fed automatically from gigantic gigan-tic coal bunkers locnted under tho mof of tho building, seven bunkers In all, with a. combined maximum nf 1S.0O0 tons. Col. Wlllard Young arrived from the West last Friday. His daughters, Claire and Hattie, who aro studying at Vassar college, came down Friday to visit a few days with thqlr parents. Col. Young and family will remain East this winter and possibly return to Salt Lako next spring. j Miss Ruth Fabjr, so well known in Utah, and a niece of A. W. Faber. the man of pencil fame, entertained a number num-ber oX artists and musicians Saturday evening, and among those present were Mias Veda Eccles. now studying under Madam Von Klenner; George W. Barratt and C. Clyde Squlrca. William M. Bradley, altorncv from Salt Lake, has been visiting here tho p;ust ten days, and left yesterday for Philadelphia, where ho will visit relatives for a few days, when he will visit Wisconsin and thea return home. Alonzo Squires, son of John Squires of Logan Is now enrolled at the Northwestern Northwest-ern university at Chicago, and Is studying dentistry. A Will Jnmes, Sid Savlllc, Georgo W. Py-j Py-j per and Chester Clawson sallod from Boston Bos-ton for Europe last Wednesday. Harold Orlob is now in Chlcaco on business bus-iness connected with the music ho recently recent-ly finished for a prominent theatrical manager. Mr. Orlob will remain In Chicago Chi-cago for Home months and expects to make the East his permanent placo of residence. Miss Louise Wev. daughter of Mr. Wey, owner of tho Wilson hotel, arrived yes-. yes-. torday and will spend the winter here MIsa Wey returns to continue her vocal study under the well-known Madam Von Klenner, and will remain all winter. IL S. Woollcy. who has mado Now York his headquarters for somo months past returned from Philadelphia yesterday', whero ho has been on mining business for a few weakfj. John Q. McQuarrle. president of tho Eastern States mission, who has been visiting Utah for somo wreks, returned Friday last. President McQuarrle mado mention that before long the Mormon church expected to buy a permanent location loca-tion lu.Tft, as hns been done In Chattanooga. Chattanoo-ga. Teiin., Chicago. Denver uud other places. It has not yet been decided whether wheth-er a place already built will bo bought or a tract of land purchased and a now building erected. This will be decided within a week, as Mr. McQuarrle pronv lscd to announce next Sunday Just what would bo done. m 1 Tn conversation with your corresponu-ont corresponu-ont today. Dr. Rnlph Richards sold that tho contract has been placed here for all tho fixtures, etc., for tho new L. D. S. hospital at Salt Lako. Dr RIchurds expects ex-pects to spend at least another year at Bellevue hospital, where he has been slnco graduating a year ago. Ho treated tho first "subway" accident caso sent to tho hospital and feels as proud of It as tho man who bought the first "subway" tick-et tick-et or tho ono who was the first to enter a "subway" train, etc. Jack Scars. cartoon!nt, who h;u boon i dojnw wjrk horo since arriving a mouth a;o, Is maltliiR' rapid procrcsa. Dcsldc-s his regular work. "Jack" attends tho National Na-tional School of Caricature half a day and stands at tho head of lils class. Dan McCnrthy, who conducts the school, ha.i placed Soars In charge as monitor of hln cla.sa Mr McCarthy Is one of the dcmJ i"urtoonlata In America and predicts for Vrtlat Sears a bright future, J. S. S. |