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Show GOTHAM'S RAINY-DAY CAVERNS. New York's Financial District Honeycombed Honey-combed with Tunnels. No city In the world can present such raluy-day conveniences as New York, says a writer In the Telegraph of that city. Take the financial district, for Instance. In-stance. It Is not known to any but those whose business carries them Ihrough that district enough to know tho paths, but on a rainy day one can travel almost all around downtown New t York without going outside except ex-cept at certain places where they have neglected to make tunnels. . The knowledge of all these subterranean subter-ranean ways In lower New York Is of Immense valuo to the men who handle the millions in that section and to the clerks who chase around on various errands, especially on rainy days. I was downtown the other day and It, was raining. I had stopped In to see a banker friend and le proposed that wo go to a certain plact for lunch. I remarked that I had no umbrella. - "It makes no difference," he said. "Wei. will not go outside." I arose and followed him, wondering what he meant. He took me down to a basement in an elevator. Then we wound around through the basement of one great office building after another. an-other. We arrived three blocks from where wo started and we never went Into the outside air. It was a revelation to me. He said that was nothing. "We traveled over but a little bit of the ground wo might have gono over, or perhaps it would bo more proper to say 'gone under,' this way. You may travel all over the financial fi-nancial district without going outside except at two or three places, and these will be tunneled within the next year or two. It takes an expert knowledge of downtown New York to get through these passages, however. There is no danger of getting lost. It Is not a cave. But If you do not know tho way you are liable to fetch up at some other point than the on you started ou for." |