Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
GOTHAM W|NDYW WAYS
Protests Against Abuses
Usually End in Talk.
CASE OF BROADWAY
TUNNEL COMPANY HAS MADE IT
A DITCH.
Other Streets Which Have Been Wreck
ed by Improvement Companies
Gossip From New York.


Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
| NEW YORK. October - 1903.
1t is as well to wear a wind shield when
| you talk with the average New Yorker, IL
you prefer not to be blown off the curb
or out of the window. Above all urbanitSs
| of Alnerica-more, even. than the bluStery
| denizen of Chicago-does that same average
| New Yorker possess the knack of making
| all the blasts OF BoreaS sound, by compari-
| son with the spOutings from his facial
| orifice like the dim faint echoings from
| dreaming Aeolia. There is this difference:
| Boreas has been known to topple things
over. The New Yorker spouts for the
| simple love of fatulence. When he has
emitted his blast there is end to it.
Nothing topples. Nothing happens.
| Just now the New Workers are erupting,
| with a roar almost elemental, about the
| etching of Broadway This ditching OF
| Broadway, in truth. is very great out
| rage The consent of the town was OBJ
| tanned for the building of rapid transit
| subway under Broadway 1t was the UNI
| Outstanding that the projectors OF the en-
! terprise purpoSed boring tunnel under
| Broadway, and it was virtually with this
| understanding that the plan was consented
|
foreground are not going to bore any tunnel
| They are going to convert Broadway along
| the greater part of its business length
| into horrible unSightly, DEMONSTRATING,
| business wrecking and wholly dangerous
ditch for several years, instead of boring
a tunnel. for ditch costs a heap less than
| tunnel.
| Consequently Broadway will be thor
| oughfare only for the exceedingly venture
some for a number of years to come. Mil
| lions, tens of millions of dolla1s Will be
| lost by the Broadway merchants, the
| Broadway theater proprietors, the Broad
| way restaurant keepers, the Broadway
| everybodies who have money invested
Forty-second Street Ruined.
Forty-second street, that used to be one
of the great business streets of New York.
has already been all but ruined by the
| subway ditching that has been in progress
along the greater part of its length for
| several years and the 42d street merchants
have been Hooking through the bankruptcy
court in battalions
| 1t has been proven in New York time and
again that once street loses it's tide of
| business travel. once the thoroughfare is
set back as important artery for any
| reason whatever it never regainS It's
clutch, and nobody figures that 42d street
will ever again be the street that 1t once
was And now the dtchers. who professed
| at the outset to gain the franchise. that
| they were only going to be tunnei-borers
| have got possession of the great ciuttered
| Appian way of the western hemisphere, and
| are going to do what they like with 1t as
| long as they like. The people behind the
! Job know, by plentiful experience, that all
| of the frothng at the mouth on the part of
! the New Workers over the outrage Will
| come to naught-that the present frenzy
| will expend itself in outpourings of fruit
| less CUFF and that nothing will be done.
| And then the ffitefIers will proceed to make
| Broadway look like side-seam in a wrath
| full and torn volcano. and the New Workers
| will dance over the hot rocks and go gaily
up in the air with the debris of the ditch
blasts and see the Broadway buildings
| wabble on their foundations like unsafe
| chicken GOODS and duck around the little
suualid side streets to get to and from
| their work-and it'll be all right The pro-
! jectors of the Broadway ditch are rather
! pleased. in fact. that the New Workers are
exuding all of their bowls at once and in
| the beginning, thus getting it over with, for
they know that the New Workers. quickly
| tire even of a grievance. and that when
| once they drop 1t they never by any chance
| pick it up again. They wear themselves
| out in the emission Of their one huge, bar
| barrie yawp, and then they stand for the in
| Fiction against which the yawp was direct
| ed with nary an after kick.
! When the New Workers become particu-
! larly wrought up over public outrage
| they repair by thousands to a mass meet
ing at Cooper Union. and bawl at the top
| of their voices and iack their arms in imi-
| tation of the curves of Dutch wind mills.
and draw up bunch of resolutions. any
| one of which, If carried into effect, would
| heat-wither and wind shrivel the vegeta-
| ton of whole province. Then they go
| away from Cooper Union smiling urbanely
| upon each other and wringing each other S
| hands in congratulation upon the blither-
| ingness of each others remarks against
| the outrage. Then they go home and for
get all about the outrage. and the pro
| jectors of the outrage dance to the center
| and rub it in four times harder even than
| the plans and specifications call for. That's
| the style of little old New York. 1t is one
| ong-suffering, long enduring town, sure
| enough. But, then, look at the fun they
have in saving the ambient and in declaim-
ing into the blue dome of heaven.
Disappointment Over the Honorable
Artillery.
| In addition to the public calamties, other
| cruel disappointments are visited upon the
| populace over here The Honorable Artil-
| lery of London, for example. proved a sore
disappointment to New York. The MEM
bers of the Honorable Artillery Company
| Of London had the indecency, that is to
say, to behave themselves like gentlemen
and reputable members Of society while
| they were being entertained here and New
York is finding it difficult to forgive the
| ancient outfit for that. The New York
| papers-one elephantinely funny New York
paper, in particular-had been giving the
| town to understand for years that the
| Honorable Artillery Company of London
| was composed of the greatest aggregation
| of high-grade rumsoaks-supposing. that is
| to say. that such a thing as hlgh-grade
| rumsoak could be-on the globe.
The Honorable Artillerists were por-
| trayed as a gang Of paunchy roystere-s,
! nodded more or less on the Falstan pat
| tern, and therefore New York was pre-
] pared, in it's dumb ignorance. to see thu
| Company turn the town upside down and
1 INV tha NJ 6rn l1nxv
| over 1t in the course Of one stupendous
| saturnalia from the minute that they got
| here until they got away. New York ex
| pected to see fat and bleary Honorable
| Artillerists trundled through the streets In
| wheelbarrows and push carts the while
| they bawled mess-room songs and howlcd
| at the top of their voices for sack and still
| more bulge. Consequently. the disappoint-
| ment of the town was acute when the
| quiet orderly, reserved lot Of clipper-built
| decidedly non-adipose Englishmen came
| along and behaved like decent individuals
| who have due regard for their stomac chs
and the International prophecies. Lemon
| Oh io tha Dit ctn for