Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-12

tubes about $40 100000. The popularity
OF the road Ia shown by the fact that
the first year after II was opened--that
is TO say, In l90l-it carried 35,000,OOO
passengers In 1909 45O0OOO0. and the
traffic Is steadily increasing. When
one remembers that single omnibus
company has handled as many as 2Oo,-
600 900 passengers a year the POSSIBLE
ties OF the future IN electrical traction
in London, both above and below the
surface. can readily be imagined
In Paris is to be found the greatest
likeness to the underground system
about to be lnaugurated In New York.
That the French capital Is thoroughly
alive to the necessity of providing
proper transportation facilities for It's
citizens win be understood when II is
said that the completion OF the Paris
Metropolitan Underground railways
plans will see the city In possession OF
nearly fifty miles of railway lines al
most entirely beneath the surface.
This will not be for three or four years,
but today a goodly proportion OF the
mileage is In daily use, comprising for
ty stations The work OF building the
road was begun In November, 1898, and
within two years the first section. trav-
ersing Paris east and west, was ready
| for use The Parlsians took TO the
road from the first, and within Few
months of the opening $50 600 passen-
, gers were daily carried, The disaster
| I'm which so many people lost their lives
| was temporary check to the popular
| ity Of the road, but traffic Is again
heavy 1t Is said that when the COM
| plete line Is In operation there VIII be
| 1888 stations located along the different
branches. The tunnel is about sixteen
feet in diameter, and, while 1t Is not so
far below the surface as the London
tuppenny tube, It's depth IL greater than
that of the New York subway. The en-
frances to the stations are graceful and
take up little room. The trains are OPP
Grated under five minute Roadway,
overcrowding Of the cars being prohib-
tied by law. The total cost of the tun-
nels and stations Is estimated at $751;
100000, the construction being In the
hands OF the municipal council, which
has leased the operating rights to a
| DllNdlt tOlpoi uNlOli w " iSiicO Va N'''
ty-five years.
In Berlin the rapid transit problem
has been attacked with vigor. The city
possesses network OF electrical sur
face lines, an elevated steam railway
the "stadtbahn," as il Is called, and an
electric belt surface railway circllng the
city. There has also been In operation
since February of last year a new cleo
trically equipped underground and ele'
waited railway traversing the city from
east to west. As long ago as 1892 Il
was recognized that the old stadtbahr
was inadequate to handle traffic prop
erly, and the new road marvel o.
aesthetic construction, is the result. i
is not altogether finished, but trains
have been running over the greater
portion of It for some time The under
I ground section is I'm the densely bull
central portions of the city. while II
the southern and western sections
, where space and other conditions favo
the construction, the road Is elevated
When the line passes through a publ
square it is on solid and artistlcally de
signed masonry, but the ornamental 1
not lacking even In the iron and stee
work. The elevated stations are o
, stone, steel and glass, and no two ar