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Show IN ONE YEAR MORE TRAINS WILL START Third Anniversary of Beginning of Work on the New York Subway. NEW YORK, March 24. Today marks the third anniversary of the beginning be-ginning of work on the Rapid Transit subway. Contractor John B. McDonald McDon-ald asserts that the fight for trains to Harlem in fifteen minutes will have been won by the beginning of another calendar year. Up to the present time J24.4SO.OOO of the contract price of $36,500,000 has been paid by the city to the contractors. Of the total length of twenty-one miles of tunnel, 95 per cent of the excavation has been done. |