New-York tribune., 1902-04-30
APPLAUSE FOR THE TRIBUNE
APPRECIATION OF ITS RAPID TRANSIT
CRUSADE HEARD ON ALL SIDES.

Now that the Rapid Transit Commission has
ordered it's chief engineer TO make an early re-
port on a plan for an East Side tunnel. Inc
Tribune has been receiving applause for its aa-
vocacy of increased facilities Of travel on the
East side The Commercial and Financial
World" prints the following under the head
line, "A Great Triumph for The Tribune
For several weeks past The Tribune has been
resiGents OF Of the East side Of urging the
need OF the extension OF me rapia 1FanS n1 iidgtng
from the UI TrogTess that IS being made success is
Side raxpayers' Association called upon Mayor Low
to ask him to lend hand IN the mater & ana IN III
addition was needed and that IT should and could
be built The Tribune has secured eNIresslI2Hi;s o.
OF Influential business men and property owners o.
Transit Board directed the chief engineer prepare
a plan. upon Mayor Lows resolution reahlhS as
Resolved That IT he referred to the chief eng-
naTIv date as possible plan or plans for the
extension of the subway north Of torty,seGqnq-s,
preliminary steps looking to the construction and
operation OF sun an extension & 80 eTit S0f ma, be
taken without unnecessary delay"
the c secures S hs Easp SIDE subway it viii
II directly The Tribune than TO any other
factor that can be mentioned
The Bronx News" says in an editorial prais-
ing Mayor Low and the Rapid Transit Commits
son
Anything of praise that can be said OF the action
by the commission yesterday would be incomplete
without reference to the good services rendered
in the matter by The New-York Tribune. which
for months has agitated this important matter
and was the chief factor in bringing about such
splendid results 1t IS without doubt. the grea test
and most valuable service ever rendered TO this
end Of the city by any downtown newspaper, and
The Tribune deserves all the praise we can give IT.
That paper shows. from study made or the
reports of the office that the increase In the
assessed valuations of real estate is about $1,000
600 year rms means an increase or Sa;9oVVW @ a, a
subway will be bout 100000. Thus, with the
natural increase in the debt limit the city will be
able to build the subway IN two years.
Assemblyman Gherardi Davis yesterday ex-
| pressed the hope that the Rapid Transit Com
mission could begin actual work on an East
| Side tunnel soon. He added:
| persons who opposed the construction of road
| Under Broadway will wish they had not done so.
and I should not be surprised to hear such a road
| asked for. There seems to be no limit to the
| skill of civil engineers and with the experience
! they have had the work under way the
| construction of any new underground roads ought
| be carried better, faster ana with
| fewer accidents than on the present work.
People must be carried up and down Manhattan
| Island rapidly and the only practical way to do
this is trains underground. or course. this
| is d tremendous undertaking, but any who a
! few years would have suggested the work
| now being carried on by the Rapid Transit Com
| Railroad and the New-Tork Central, would have
been told he romancing.
| But this is the day of great engineering works
| Our population is growing fast-so fast that the
! means of comfortable transportation cannot keep
| pace with its growth-and people must travel fast
| to get o and from their work downtown. For this
necessary. and its construction ought TO be begun
| possible