Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-10-29
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GREAT SUBWAY.

GREAT SUBWAY.
New York. oct 27-rho Rapid
Transit railroad tbe subway. as 90 is
popularity Nnoun. and tho most co
iossai undertaking uf ita kind Boa iho
worlds history. was formally opened
today with imposing ceremonies The
exercises took place under tuo joint
auspices ol .bg marlborough company
and tnD board Of aldermen lu Cts
ia.l park where tho great down town
terminal s located. and where the
irst suadCiuI off dir. was turned. tho
principal ceremonies of the day took
place shortly before noon. The park
and city ball wore myish0y decorated
Bishop Potter opened The ccromon.
.ts with prayer and was followed by
am address by Alexander D. orr pres
idout of iho Rapid Transit commits
sion who turned the subway over 90
DO, city Mayor Mcclellan accepted
thp trust. and thea ulHtd tho road
over 10 August Belmont president
oft the luIorburough company. who
also made a brief address Archbishop
Farley closed Che ceremonies.
A. O'Clock inc first rain was
started over thc road operated by
Mayor Mcclellan Boa person Bands
of music were stationed at nll the
principal stops along the route ga.
cIudod among the passengers ON the
first train we've the city officials.
officials uf the lnterborough company
large party Of distinguished ongi.
nocrs and other invited guests
| Promptly at midnight tonight me road
viii ho opened to me general public
/ That part of the road chat will be-
operated iur the present Includes the
whole of che main line from City HAIL
park to tho Harlem river ON tho up
por west side % Is expected to have
| tho entire west side line opened tu
| traffic within "a month or HO aud also
the east side branch to the Bronx
The great subway opened today con-
sisis oft 2i miles of railroad under the
city .gom.ug stoots Tho actual vofk
OF construction has taken just four
years. and ihp cost has exceeded $50.
0O0 900 Whom the entire system ig
completed 30 win enable one to tray.
! eI from the limits uf Brooklyn to the
/ uurthorumosi end of Manhattan en.
tiroly undorg '0und
a dazzling array of facts and flg
uros .ell the story of the building of
tho mammoth underground road For
instance. more than 5000 600 cubic
yurds of dirt and rock were blasted
and due from the streets of the crowd.
ca city no tear away the rock co..
0OO pounds of dynamite were used.
/ Eleven thousand men were employed
/ in tho work. and of thIs number sew
cral hundred lost their lives through
accidents. premature explosions. cayo.
ins nnl falling rock
/ ~ is estimated that thp road viii
carry $4,000 O0o passengers a year.
The faro ls o cents when the extern
sion to Brooklyn. under the East riy.
CO.. has boon completed O. is estimat.
ol thnt the road viii carry 20o 0n0-
| 600 passengers year.
Express trains viii rum through the
| subway 1t me rate ar mile q min.
wo for inc honoGt of tho lonz aauls
from the Bronx to the busiest sec.
| U0uR of tho clty below Fourteenth
street Local trains win stop at an
of thc underground stations. every
half dozen blocks along tho route.
The tunnel is ventilated hy n system
of electric fans and Illuminated the
oniiro route hy lucaudesceui lights.
| A trip through the great tunnel Is
au that ls necessary 90 convince ono
of Goa entire security white enamel
el bricks wall mp The sides go a
I brickod arch overhead Everything
Clso Is 0f stone and steel and heavy
plate glass az tho stations TO Def the
light ln from the siroot overhead
| n would secm impossible for ais
aHor tp occur whore everything r.
now aud strong and perfect nppar
en'ls. as % BE- within the power ~ man
to contrIro The pneumatic block sys
tenn is pronounced w experts 90 be
tho most wonderful thing of its Kind
iu tho world and o. ls calculated Ga
make collisions impossible
The cars have stool ho.toms, COP
| per shoalhed sides and thoro "a very
luuIo wood in tholr construction The
lighting system iB entirely separate
from thc power plant that will move
trains hy means of the third rail-.
Tho route OF the main limo is ur
/ Fourth avenue 10 Fortyeocnnd stree,
lthm nap broadway until ono Eundrod
land Fourth street is reached Thorr
In branches INTO two sections Tho
lnrst continues straight ont Broadway
/ to King bridge g. distance Of more
than ~ miles from battery park The
second section runs east cutting oH
o. solid rocl corner OF Central park
thon north through Lcnnx avenu'
land 0- to the borough of Bronx