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

How American everything is We can
almost imagine ourselves back In dear
old New York. The cars are almost
fac-simile Of those on our elevated rail-
roads, except that the ceilings are lower
and the seats are upholstered,
But we have left the station and shot
into the darkness Of the tube We can
see nothing out OF the windows, but
within electric lamps In balls of cut
glass as big as your fist make the cars
as light as day. We go on shooting
through section after section OF the
great dark tube and coming out into
light at the stations II II like riding
through a flute and looking out at the
holes. We ride 10 the bank and then go
back TO Shepherds Bush, and then
back TO the bank to study the road,
TWENTY ACRES OF ELECTRICITY.
AZ Shepherds Bush we come again TO
the surface and go over the enormous
electric works built there to operate the
Tuppenny Tube. They cover 20 acres,
and with the tube Itself cost all told
about $4,000, 600 There are l6 boilers
under one roof and six great generators.
The machinery Is almost altogether
American The most Of II was made By
the General Electric company, and
Americans have much 20 do with It's
management.
Here | learn something about the
tube, The tunnel Is six and quarter
miles long, II consists Of two great
tubes running part Of the way side by
side and in some places above one an
other. The average depth OF the tube
Is about 20 feet below the surface al
though at the bank II almost approach
es 100 feet, The tube runs right under
the streets and not under the houses.
This was partly because II was much
cheaper, as no right Of way had to be
paid for the route below the streets.
whereas had II been under the houses
each property holder could have
claimed damages, for every man IL sup
posed to own down 10 the center OF the
earth and this road runs less than one
hundred feet from the surface,
AMERICAN ELEVATORS.
The elevators which carry passengers
up and down from and to the streets
are also American They are immense
affairs large enough to accommodate
several hundred people. They are oc-
tagonal in shape, with seats about the
walls. They move slowly and smoothly
without giving you the sensation Of
goneness and sickness Of the stomach,
as some of our elevators. The walls are
hung with advertisements, and among
them We notice some OF American shoes
and other things. | rose by means Of
one OF these elevators 10 the Bank sta
ton, and there found myself IN the very
center OF financial London. The great
treasure vaults Of the British empire
were all about me, and could see John
Bulls subjects rushing and scrambllng
this way and that after the pennies.
Notwithstanding they had allowed their
YANKEE cousins to get the profits OF
supplying the great $40, 000, 900 undertak-
! Ing had Just passed through.
CITY AND WATERLOO RAILROAD.
London already has several other
tube lines hut none To compare with
the one we have been through. There
are several which come out at the Bank
station. suppose we enter the tube of
the tunnel Of the City and Waterloo
railroad. We go down through a long
pipe walled with porcelain tiles as fine
as a dinner plate. There is a board
chute running up and down floored
with cement This is filled with people
rushing back and forth from and to
the cars and street. Their steps have
curious echo, and ! stop al the en-
trance to listen, The Incline is easy,
and pick up my camera and run with
the crowd down through the tiled hole.
The wind from the ventllating fans
pOmag fresh aQainet my fapa 90 I tyof