The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-14

nourishment or refrsshment with him In
other words, be never known TO treat
When his Office was blown up the other day and
he was abraded as to his cuticle and shattered
as TO his nerves, his return to consciousness was
celebrated by desire TO ge: back into the
hideous ruin to search for SIS over
coat had heard the story told
that in the early days of the elevated
railway, when communication trains were run at
half during certain hours of the morning
and evening, Sage wont to stand on the
steps OF the Rector street station waiting for the
clock to point 10 $50 p. IN, that he could ride
up town for cents instead of 10. This was be-
fore he became heavy holder OF the wstered
stock. He now enjoys pass. related this
story TO Jay Gould one day, and tod him that
could not believe it possible for human being
10 be constructed ON small scale. Mr. Gould
smiled and vOuched for the correctness of the
story. ~ have seen Sage myself. he said,
standing i'll the scent crowd of poor working
people at the station entrance with his nickel
in his hand waiting for the card 10
be hung out bearing the glad tidings
OF 30 per cent. reduction on transportation"
Mr.. Sage's only extravaganza Is horses He loves
to drive good team and he has as hands ONE q
pair of trotters AS can be seen on the uptown
drives. With true selfshness he always drives
alone. DIR. TBlmage'S panegyric OF the old
broker may be due 10 the fact that when the doc
tor required additional funds for his new
tabernacle Mr.. Sage advanced them and took
w.
was frugal woman, who died after his removal
from Troy to this city. Although he purchased
a tine residence in Fifth avenue, he fitted it up
with his shabby old Troy furniture. His
present wife was a governess. She is
said 10 be a cultivated and refined woman.
The Underground Railroad.
The very magnitude OF the proposed under
ground railroad in New York makes it a fas-
cinating study. Capitalists rarely have had
such an interesting problem upon which
TO figure as this rapid transit problem affords
them, and the shrewdest tnanciers in the
country are AT present calculating its chances
business enterprise. Interesting figures
are the result. The London underground
road gives them basis OF calculations, both
as 10 cost and TO earnings, SO that they have
not the unknown quantities 10 deal with which
confronted and puzzled the English capitalists
tor 80 long time. The New York project is, in
brief. to dig about twenty miles OF tunnels under
New York extending some distance above the
Harlem river. ana construct thereon a four
tract railroad 10 furnish rapid transit for this
rushing population.
At frsi glance there would seem to be insur-
mouutable obstacles in the way of such an
undertak NJ. and yet science says il can be
done, and capital is endeayoring 10 ind out
whether it wants 10 do II not The nlonsy
necessary 70 complete such vast work Is, OF
course, prod gI0us enough to bankrupt d gov
yernment. The fascinating side of the prob
lem TO capitalists is the enormous income of
such system Of travel in city like New
rolls into the various city passenger roads
amounting 10 more than 81. 09otV0 = year. The
proportion of this that may bo diverted 10 a
better system OF traye. Is the plum that attracts
the man with the money bags. Il he could
count on one nith OF this sum, say s.. % 90 per
Gnnum, ne might be tempted 10 engage in the
enterprise Even less might seduce him. /
have seen es.lmstes which place tae total cost
OF this system It SI5.FOuU. while o hers are as
ilgh as Slp0Qt0,p6l, ana some even higher. The
nrst Judgment 4 Xes IL around sltu0J000) This
Is Slu,pN,00e more than il cost TO build the Suez
canal. connecting the Mediterranean and the
ke,t ana shortening is distance nearly 1000
miles. IL Is twice a. much, with sl4U0CO0 on
top or II, as il VIII cost ~ build the Manchester
snip canal, or Great Brltains vast commerce
!ai projects The -. GotAari tunnel, which
! Italy. France and Switzerland combined 10
build, cost but Nj,tOisj frames. aud the sum re-
CURED ia thls New y ork Improvement would
tul4G seven 1Cres like own ffOo<ac tunnel
AM Het the capital Necessary 10 complete this
project can realty lie raised GU Manhattan
island as soon as IT is settled that there's
money ia Il"
At present the work cT obtsininc the consent
al proUerty-owners IS SeiCg pushed ana this
In itseit : no small affair. Men have ouail,.i