Show CITY A VERITABLE BEEHIVE according to ao this little old now york must be about crowded to the limit we are told that if the inmates 01 0 1 all the office buildings in the most moat over billt section of lower now new corb were to leave their skyscrapers at the same time six strata of sidewalks would be required to give this mass masa footway it is asserted that the population of new york Is growing at the rate ol of persons a year which means that in id the next halt half century the city will contain double the number of inhabitants that it does today to day even granting that this rate of increase Is somewhat exaggerated the necessity of arranging for tremendous expansion Is obvious to all the problems of transit up and down town and from one quarter of the city to tho the other the means of ingress and egress cry aloud for immediate consideration I 1 am reminded of the story of the tha elderly spinster who was a witness in court and when asked hor her age hesitated a long time after much delay and several repetitions of the question the judge rapped on the desk deak impatiently and said hurry up tip madam entry minute makes it worse this thid Is our present condition harpers weekly |