Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-14
SWEDISH REPUBLICANS.

They Meet and Organize a swedish
 Republican Club and Elect Officers ! Addressed by Hon. N. ID. Sperry-TWe
 Thousand swedish Population In
 New HaVems
 A large meeting of Swedish Republicans was held last evening in the old Russell school building on Wooster Place and they organized Republican club largely compos- cd of young men. The meeting was opened at o'clock, B. E. Elmstedt presiding. Hon. N. D. Sperry was introduced, the meeting unanimously voting to ask him to make an address. MT. Sperry spoke for half an hour, speaking chiefly of the Republican candidates and on the tariff question. He was warmly applauded. On closing he was given vote of thanks by rising vote, such vote being in Sweden an emphatic mark of approbation and satisfaction and a peculiar honor. MT, Sperry then retired and the club elected ofd- cers as follows: B. E. Elmstedt president, Gustave Ostrom first vice president, John Nelson second vice president, J. A. Westlund recording secretary, Gustave Dahlbeck core spending secretary and 0. A. Millquist treas urer. The club starts very auspiciously and will do good work in the coming campaign in getting Swedes to declare their intentions and take out their papers. They will again meet two weeks from last night the place to be announced. Good judges among the Swedes on the subject say the Swedish pop ulation of New Haven is about Z, 900, among whom are several hundred who are twenty one years of age and upward and the greater part, in fact four-ffths, would if voters vote the Republican ticket. Unfortunately many of them have never declared their intentions, while many more who have done this have not been made citizens. The new club will work heartily to remedy this.
 A BIg Scheme on Paper-Revival of
 Rapid Transit Talk.
 The Boston and New York Rapid Transit company is out with new prospectus show- ing some further developments concerning the new road that is to shorten the distance between New York and Boston to 190 miles or 35< hours, and to have no crossings at grade, no sharp curves, no wooden bridges, absolute safety at 60 miles at hour The company expects to build an independent line between the two cities, and owns fran- chise to run to the corner of Fifty ninth street and Broadway, New York. The Peo- ple's Rapid Transit company intends to ex- tend this line to the Battery, and also to build double track road from Harlem river 70 1arTytoWn on the dudSon TOT local travel. Financially these two companies are separ- ate corporations, but tor business purposes they will be united. Boston capitalists are stockholders and officers of the Peoples com pany, which, when completed, will furnish ample terminal facilities for the Boston and New York line. The company proposes to build viaduct road from the Battery to Harlem river. The plan is a novel one in this country, although it has been tried suc- cessfully in Vienna, Berlin, London and Glasgow. It is simplicity itself. All the property, including the land, on the proposed line is to be purchased by the company, the houses torn down, solidly built structures put up on the top of which the tracks will be laid. That is, the railway will run over the houses and stores instead of alongside of them. The total estimated cost of the via- duct road from Tarrytown to Park Place, 2511 miles, including real estate, construc- tion and equipment is about $70, ,00O, 900.