Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-07
c..,oondscs 10 The Dsera Nes by Frank G. Carponter)

cannot De estimated. With fast trains.
twice as many will ride as under the
present system, and rapid transit will
make the city grow beyond conception.
II has G,0O0,0O0 people now and II is
estimated tina, Il win have 1900 900
within 80 years. The new electrical
schemes proposed viii make the whole
Of england It's suburbs and by the
Mono raj systems OF which / shall
write later millions OF people outside
VIII be brought to and from 1t in less
than an fouf.
in THE TUPPENY TUBE.
But let us enter the Tuppeny Tube.
We are In the west end of London, and
there Is The Marble Arch station lust
over the way, The ground on which
II IS butt IL worth about ST. a square
men, but Il Is only one story. You zee
the sign Central London Railway"
ana rare I'd, TO any station" on the
'front.' windows We make our way
through die Fuses and hansoms and
enter tine door.
How clean everything u.s. The walls
are u led and all above Is white. There
are grass doors IN the ticket windows
and over them incandescent electric
lights. We each shove in two pennies
ana are handed our tickets, which we
drop into the chop boxes just as you
do IN the elevated road In New York
when you pass through the gate
we are now on the level of the street
and we must go down almost one hun
dred feet to get into the mighty tube,
which VIII take us to the Bank OF Lon
don. We might enter the elevator
put In by Americans, but we prefer to
Walk down the great spiral staircase,
Down, down, down we go. We wind
our way around and around an enor-
nous we'll walled with porcelain bricks
as fine as those In q mllionaire's bath
room, The well Is brilliantly lighted
with electricity, and we can see our
selves In the white tiled mirror as we
wind our way dawn 1t,
We stop midway and listen to the
tramp OF the people above and below
U.S. We can hear the hum OF the city
overhead and the volcanic thunder OF
the cars far beneath. We wind around
and around step by step to the bottom
and enter one Of the subterranean sta
lions We are In O great cave, rooted
and walled with white tiles. with rail-
round black holes at each end The
cave is as light as day under the rays
OF electricity and It's brightness ac-
centuates the darkness OF the entrances
to the tunnel tube. These black holes
are where the trains from the tube
shoot into the station and out, and
stations like these are at every half
mile throughout busy London along the
line Of the tube.
THE AMERICAN INVASION
While we walt for the train / notice
that the walls are hung with framed
advertisements, and ] look about for
signs Of the American invasion. II
sticks out like a boil on your nose.
There ~ an American typewriter pic
ture Just opposite me, You can see the
hig red zeal which forms It's trade mark
and above Il Is the statement that 300
OF these American typewrlters have Just
been bought by the British war office.
Beside Il Is card pulling well-known
brand OF American oats, and farther on
Is another of those Internal Yankee lit
tie pill ads, which keep your liver turn
ing over and over faster than ven
tilatlng fan run by electricity. You
find them all over London and you
can't escape them even in the bowels
OF the earth
But what Is that noise? II is the
advance thunder OF the INVASION That
Is the Tube line train OF American cars
carried by American built electric loco
motives through the Tuppenny Tube.
Keep your eye on the black hole at the
left. See that turtle back engine as II
shoots out, dragging the long train be-
hind IT, That IL the little Yankee baby
that does the business. In size II Is
perhaps the smallest working engine
OF the world, but II has all the strength
OF 500 horses. and II can drag that train
along at 40 miles an hour, although the
average speed down here is less than
half that. The engine weighs As tons
and II gets its current from that third
rail in the center by means of two
contact shoes which are mounted on
eaoh side OF the locomotive.
The engineer stands In the center OF
the engine and operates the controller
There Is q circuit breaker and an am
meter mounted on each side OF the cab,