Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-07

80, with me and take a rae
n o .la,,gn the Tuppeny Tube DO
| ,.oo know what 1t is9 1t Is an
snsrse iron tunnel 80 Dig
that two men could siana a, V"s
'l' ,,o ahoulders of the other
.,sh, within II and the mar
IL u " ,Se upper man would Jus,
~ roof. II Is six miles In iens'n
r'i' u" ,,ns under the busiest part Oh
~ y .'as, city of the world 1t lies
% O @ 70 100 feet below the SURFACE
Nm " ,.aots and there Is an electric
I'iII ,,s rom station to station where
T'pun limb up or climb down. 1t Is
y9' '' y, cast.lron pipes bolted togeth-
n's .sgments. 1t Is laid in cement
!, "a |" 4 ' cost something like "'O0V''O'
nile ga n hecause II Is a
want you 70 see u ,a,.n
s,, n this American invasion !
% Ia,l pI come here to describe. The most most
n''' \. ', macblnery was made in New
3nd ,be locomotives were con-
l"s .,'S ~ the General Electric COM
' '..,y a the United States
~, y. y Tupenny Tube carried more than
$4,000 passengers last year ana ils
, ,ss,Ipts during u months were ,I more r..
NAV, ~, million and a half dollars, i,s
, ,"'@e Is steadily increasing ana II
Wv. .,., soon TO become one OF the
,,',, oroatable railroads of London
,ocoMoTIoN IN LONDON
p,,o,s va 90 into the tube | would
,u, n say A word about the possiplii-
~, d Investments in London locomo-
IN, The population here is enormous
M ,be facilities for carrying 1t are the
.,,,.st NJ those Of any capital OF Eu-
~, The streets are narrow and the
. . a, them are accessible only by
,s',,, or cabs. There are underground
r,,d. run by steam and tramways
b,uled by horsepower but as yet the
electrical undertakings are at their
beginning
have before me the number of pas
sseers who paid fares on cars CAPS
and buses last year This Is counting
. D.s,ereer to each fare. The number
,s more than one billion. OF these SOl
millions rode On the railways, SSl mil
lions on tramvays and 1855 millions on
pmnibuses.
Think Of that More than four times
as many omnibus rides were taken In
London a. there are men, women and
children IN the United states, and every
one Of those rides was a bus dragged
" two horses. There are more than
tyg mnlbuses In the greater London.
nd more lhan 100000 horses are used
h had them back and forth through
M streets. One omnibus company car
nd more than 200 million passengers
ID, year. 1t used 5000 horses, and its
lNs averaged about three cents n ride.
lbagt one.thlrd Of all the people who
MI IN London last year rode In omnl-
tsSs while two-thirds Of them were
yvIti BY horses. And this is In the
tlg,st city OF the world
FORTUNES IN ELECTRICITY.
Il 4 any wonder that the Yankees
Ne grasping at these enormous posi-
lilIiiss with itching palms? | know
takers dozen Of New York millionaires
th are scheming to carry the Lon
ioher 10 and from his business more
APPLY At a good round profit to them
kRes You ha all heard OF Charles
ly'on Yerkes He made q few millions
% Chicago, the most rapid city OF the
world In cartlng passengers TO and fro.
Ne has come to London and expects
V make tens Of millions In carrying
!nese sowest people In the same way.
Ne has, II Is said, the control OF the
heVopolitan underground steam roads
una VIII change their power to cleo.
uIely Pierpont Morgan Is In another
~ scheme and the chief systems seem
us,sunsq TO be owned by Americans.
IL.hdon Is 20 big now that the posi-
pu'uss OF electrical traction within II