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Show energies that rise hundreds of feet above him in Broadway and of those who tleen above him In Trinity churchyard, but the New Yorker hlmseif will rtmemtwr Such things rarely: they are too commonplace. Portland Oregonlaa. A Dash Under New York-Trains York-Trains of cars shooting under abodes of the living In skyscrapers and of the dead In churchyards such Is the realization of New York's long-cherished dream, "Battery to Harlem In fifteen minutes." The subway will begin Its career today. to-day. No city In the world can boast of so grand a system of underground transit- A new era Is Inaugurated In the American metropolis, for now human ingenuity in-genuity will build a honeycombed city beneath be-neath Broadway, Just aa It has been raising rais-ing skyscrapers above. Men will win their bread from underground commerce, women will save pennies In underground bargain sales, and when night comes both will go to the theater underground. More than r75.OiO.000 is the cost of the new system. Three years and seven months have elapsed since the blasting and digging began. The length of underground under-ground tracks is forty-six miles. One-third One-third of the entire cost was in excavating. excava-ting. The amount of excavated material was 1212.000 cubic yards, of which 1.312.-000 1.312.-000 was rock. In construction work S3, OX) tons of stoel and cast-iron were used. Nearly 10.000 men were employed. The carrying capacity of the system Is nearly 100,000 persons an hour. Such Is New York's grand municipal achievement, for it should be noted that the subway Is the property of the city, leased to a private corporation for fifty years. This great public enterprise was financed by New York's ablest moneyed men. chief of them August Belmont, and it Is worthy -of remark that there are no vestiges of graft. . , A stranger in New York who rides In ths subway may think of ths vast human 1 |