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Show CHICAGO'S City to Construct Elaborate Elab-orate System of Underground Un-derground Railways Chicago, Feb. 1 Chicago Is to have the most elaborate subway system of any city in the world, If plans drawn by the city's traction experts are adopted. Complete details of the plans which will revolutionize the transportation business of the city, have been worked work-ed out by Bion J. Arnold and will be submitted to the city council next Monday. Warned by the experience of New York, which found its subway facilities facili-ties overtaxed a few months after it was opened for traffic, .Mr. Arnold has provided for tunnels that will extend ex-tend from building line Cb building line, instead of curb to curb. The bottom of the subway will bo forty feet below the street level at its greatest depth. It will be constructed con-structed on two levels so that there will be no grade crossings below the ground. On April 1, the special traction fund available for the subway scheme will be $C,000,000. The first section of the system which will be constructed will run from the vicinity of Chicago avenue and Well street to Twenty-second and State streets, a distance of about twenty-one and a half miles. |