Show owl AA apt rpt 5 I 1 CITY long time residents along broadway Broad wn income become hardened to everyday happenings ju just s t the same as people in small towns 1 bac become ome used to the W whistle ot of the noon train to anyone still gaited to live in a small place this town pos possesses besses annum 1 erable wonders 0 henry never ran out ot of amazing tales just for instance visualize a subway train rushing through the bowels of 0 the earth at a speed of sixty miles an hour with people packed in its ten c cars ars to the point ot of sul location catlon there 19 m no 0 danger to them but still it Is t the he height ot of modern travel one in motorman torman sitting up alone in a stuffy little compartment controls the lives ot f vast hordes or of his fellow alti yens yem lie he gets about 0 a day tor for carrying BU all that responsibility 0 SUBWAY I 1 the subway Is a mysterious ions piece ot of engineering at ore one or e station one rides up five floors to take the train three miles away on the same line lime one leaves the train enters an elevator and rides up six floors to the street level the engineers must have had some bad days trying to figure out how they could run tr trains sins up and down hill at sixty miles an hour even the switchback railways at county lairs fairs would have been tame beside such a road in tact fact it have been done and so one Is rushed d home on a track that crosses valleys at treetop heights and burrows below ground between 70 and teet feet ACROSS THE TRACKS most small towns have the poorer section of the town on the other side of the tracks where the section hands and other men who live by hard labor live new york used to consider anything east of second avenue or the bowery as the other side of the tracks but things have changed somebody found that the air along the east river was just as pleasant as that along the hudson an experiment was tried and a high priced apartment house bouse put up tenants whose social position was beyond question flocked to the new building others followed rapidly and now there are arc miles of expensive apartments art ments all full and paying well located across the tracks QUEER NEIGHBORS S greenwich village anich used to be bordered on one side by the residences of 11 H rogers and his friend mark twain and other noted and wealthy families and on the other by italians recently from the old countey Is another part of town that has been changed from a place of evil looking houses to a section of high rents ali the penetration of the wealthy residents into the cheap districts Is continuing there are streets yet where one house will have eight or ten residents to a room and the next block wui will be filled with tenants paying to a month tor for three rooms the two classes of tenants pass on the street without any feeling of class distinction A auto often parks just L lhand bind a barrow from which some foreigner c ner Is selling overripe bananas or even fish |