The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-11-12

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| treated in color schemes with ceramic
thing. Each station has it's own dis
tinctive color idea, and the decorative
| scheme is varied in each This was
done not only for decorative effect, but
| in order that the prevailing color may
! indicate the locality to the underground
| traveller, whose usual means of know
| ing his Whereabouts are not avail
| able The stations are commodious and
| brilliantly lighted, and the finishings
are all of bronze brass and other metal,
woodwork being eliminated as far as
J possible.
System Is Electric.
The system is electrical. one great
power house developing the required
energy. The cars are of the latest type,
being especially designed for the sys-
TEN and are either copper or steel
sheathed
Every known device and every idea
suggested ty skill and experience have
been provided to insure safe transport
tation. A complete signal system is in
operation, and for weeks the trains
have been running regularly in order to
train the motormen and guards in their
duties and familiarize them with the
. road.
When Mr.. Mcdonald secured the con-
tract for constructing the subway, a
group of capitalists organized the New
York Rapid Transit Construction COM
pany. with a capital of 100000.
This concern furnished $4,OOO,O00 OF
Mr.. McDonald's s., 600 bond to the
city. the other 100000 being placed in
security companies. Two years later
the company formally took over Mr..
McDonald's contract and it is under
it that the subway will be operated
for the fifty years provided in the
agreement.
The rapid transit system, of which
the subway is but the first stage; when
completed will make New York unique
among the worlds cities. Its twenty
six miles of underground tracks, ele-
waited structures and viaducts, over
which will run express trains at nearly
a mile a minute, viii reach to the city s
northern and southern limits, and div
ing under the East river, make the ex-
IRENE eastern skirts of Brooklyn as ac--
cessible to the great business districts
as the apartment house crowded
heights of Harlem.
It is estimated that over this vast
system and those of the Metropolitan
Street Railway company and the Man
haitian Elevated company VIII pass an
nually more than 600, 000, 600 of passen-
gers. Crossing this huge system of
public utilities will be the great $780,.
600. 600 private tunnel of the Pennsyl-
vania Railway company which, cross
ing the Hudson river from the Jersey
short to Manhattan island, will so un=
der the city, dive under the East river
and furnish an exit to the great Long
Island country. Other links in this
giant system are the New York & New
Jersey railroad tunnel, the Hudson &
Manhattan railroad tunnel, the New.
York & Queens tunnel the New York
Central Terminal tunnel, the Williams
burg bridge, the Manhattan bridge and
the Blackwells Island bridge, involv-
ing all told an expenditure of about
$205, 900, 600
The Rapid Transit system proper,
however, which includes the present
subway and it's extensions already au-
thorized, is owned by the city of New
York. It has not expended adollar in.
it's construction, but, as has been said,
loaned the money for the construction,
and the terms provide that it shall be
operated by the contracting builders
for period of fifty years, with the.
privilege of renewing the lease for
twenty-five years longer. =