The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-13
TRIP THROUGH SUBWAY
JTHORESS LEADS PARTY ON
 TOUR OF INSPECTION. #

perior Service on Subway Cars-"Co-
 umbus Circle" show Place of Road
 messengers Not Troubled With Dis
 .ordant NoIses-TunneI Model of
 CIeanIiness-Proverb Soon to be Re-
 lIized-James BIake Manager of New
 PIay.
 The other day in New York a party
 seventeen, headed by General Will
 ln Seward, a retired officer of the
 ited States army. and Mrs. Jean
 ldWell, a clever little western woman
 To has written play called ''The Se-
 It's of the Subway" who had with
 "a some relatives and friends, made
 trip into the subway, entering the
 derground tunnel at the Seventy bond street station of the Subway.
 The party picked it's way out of the
 lr of upper Broadway, down a flight
 iron steps, into a broad, silent white
 II, with painted iron pillars and light
 from above through a thousand tiny
 cles of glass, making this under ound chamber as bright as the mid- y street without.
 The guide led them through piles of
 ards and heaps of lime for the sta
 n is not yet finished.
 A glow and flash from the south, and
 large car, shining in it's new copper ess, passed silently as a phantom on 5 other side. The crew looked out
 riously, for no passengers are yet
 rmitted to ride in the Subway. The
 ps are all for experiment, and those Do dare to ride do so at the risk of
 and limb.
 The big, copper-bound cars went on way noiselessly and disappeared tn last flash of light in the distant rkness like the backward glance of eye. It had come and gone abso- tely without sound.
 The party found that riding on sur ce car is very different from riding a Subway car. On the underground rs the guards speak in low voices. rhaps 1t IS the hush of the world un-
 rground that teaches them distinct eech. Strange to say, the guards call
 the stations in English The off, ils will not tolerate brakeman dialect
 the Subway, and the crews are talk g lessons in vocal culture.
 The party took seats in one of the rs, and as 1t started there was a out from the world above. Four ur- fns were peering down from the sta pn door and ripping their throat with eers.
 When the Seward party had slipped trough the Sixty-third street station was found that the trip had taken irty seconds.
 'sEhe car sIackened speed at the sta-s bn at Fifty-ninth street and Eighth. enue. This station is called ..Colum- Is Circle" Here electric lights blazed wel-like behind flat, opal -colored l.pbes in the wall. The Columbus rcle" is the show place of the route, Ed the officials are frankly proud of it. At the Forty-second street station the. rty climbed to the street 'sWhat most interests women in the shbway is its cleanliness, the stations ling as spick and span as a drawing som, while the cars are a shade clean
 than the stations. For this reason se Subway will be a thing of delight 4 the shopper.
 IA person will not have to endure lch tortures when travelling as the nging of bells, the blowing of whistles IAd the clang and rattle of slamming attes. These in fact will fade into ,ere memories.
 < Also timid women need not fear pick ,9ckets at the luxurious stations, for stey are as light as the upper streets. !fThe Subway will be an incarnate joy s all of New Work woman kind until Ise new road is crowded. Then 1t is 'pped there will be another Subway. James Blake, the popular and courte- Us amusement manager at Savin