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Show through the country, and all the steam railways that enter New York City . are installing, initial electric plants to keep the locomotive out of the city. Thirty-five Thirty-five years ago it was pronounced impracticable to tunnel under the rivers that flow by Manhattan island. isl-and. Now fourteen tubes are completed or in process of building under the' Hudson and East rivers. In 1870 it was determined to build the Brooklyn bridge and it was cautiously asserted that when completed as. many as 10,000 people might cross it daily. In 1892, nine years after its completion, those in charge announced .that during that year 120,000,000 people had crossed, an average of 330,000 daily. The river traffic around New York has increased until its utmost ut-most limit has been reached. Every foot of ground from the Battery Park to the Bronx is pre-empted by workshops, stores and dwellings. Every day three-quarters three-quarters of a million people enter and leave New York. There is plenty more of the same in the article, but the foregoing is enough to show how the "great center of the country is advancing. Of course, New York City is fed by the whole country behind it, but what a country it must be that can so equip its commercial com-mercial capital while in every State great cities arc keeping pace with the commercial center. Americans certainly ought to be proud of their native land, so limitless is it in resources, so, swiftly is it dwarfing all the world outside. Hbratius at the Bridge has been famous for a good deal more than '2000 years. It was not much of a bridge, it did not span much of a river, the river did not compare much with East river, the bridge was not much" like the Brooklyn bridge, butllora-tius butllora-tius was ail right for a man, for in his soul was the thought : . VFor how can man die better . . Than facing fearful odd, For the ashes of his fathers. For the temples of his gods?" And that is what we as a people should be Anxious Anx-ious about.' Our country is incomparable, buf-arjp our people keeping up to the old standarfH . That should be our anxiety. Our country is great enough, are our people keeping up with it ! OUR COUNTRY AND PEOPLE. ' ' We who watch things every day can hardly keep ' tip with the progress of events. In the Outlook is an article on "The Gates of New York," which 'sup-: 'sup-: "plies some most interesting statistics, some of which 1 " apply as well to the whole country as to New York ' City. For instance, the first trolley railroad was made a success & Richmond, Va., in 1888, only nine-' teen years ago. Now every city has a system and Jong suburban lines stretch in every direction |