| Show transportation IN MEW NEW YORK the tile rapid transit qu question in in the city of new york is is growing decidedly serious not many years ago when the tile project of elevated railroads for local as designed there was a doubt that the paroo paro aze naZe a at t a live five cent rate would support the en and so a ten cent rate was granted in in the charter for certain hours of the day when it was presumed laboring people would not need to ue uee u e he the road within the last few years ears the rate haa has been reduced to five cents throughout and the block stock is is paying heavy dividends the tile carrying capacity oi of the tile rca real l has been increased to tile utmost at ble limit and now the accod accommodation mo dation is is far short of I 1 lie ilia damand alador Ue Ile witts suggestion esti orl for ovi overcoming the he difficulty was the adoption of the underground system as used in london londen this has not yet received ed favor the project now mooted is is to erect another line of tracks square above those now in in operation and so 13 double the capacity of the road 9 0 II 11 is is incredible what a mitat passenger radio traffic has sprung up since since lie tile opening of the ele elevated elev aed road such a development waa wag not remotely antic antie when the project was first thought of afi since the road was d what is is virtually a new now city has bail sprung into existence peopled in in a great measure by the poorer and middle classes whose employment is is in ahe city laborers receiving meagre salaries may now enjoy comfortable quarters in in the suburbs a distance of several miles from their places of employment and for ten cents a day may be with their families every night losing less than an hour in transit to euch such persons the elevated road has bag been a blessing too great to ba be estimated and their app appreciation reeta is boing being expressed in the urgent urgen t demand for greater accommodations it mu only be a matte of time however when tile roads will be ordered underground under ground at I 1 least east in the lower part of the city |
