Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-22
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIes on the Current of Life in the
Metropolis.


Charles Mellcn, president of the New
York. New Haven & Hartford railroad,
has adopted novel means to adiust
tram service on his road to the needs
OF patrons adjacent to New York city.
For long time the commuters who
reside in nearby villages and do
business in New York city have been
i'll a state of almost open warfare with
ten railroad company over the running
OF trains and what they claim to be n
lack of consideration for the best in
terests of this travelling suburban pop
ulat ION.
MI Mellen has executed a very neat
flank movement which has filled the
minds of the complaining citizens with
mingled establishment and apprecia
ton. He has invited the presidents of
the towns and mayors of the cities To-
Gated in this territory to assist him in
the making up of a time table which
will meet the views and requirements
of those who travel along the line. The
prospect of conflicting interests being
harmoniZed is not promising. but MI
Meilen will receive a large and varied
stock of knowledge on how railroad
ought to be managed.
One of the most complete electrical
contrivances in the new subway is a.
miniature telephone system that con-
meets all stations. yards. power
houses and supply depots Of both
the elevated and underground
roads. 1t has its own central.
directory, its complaint and
managing departments. and by il any
man in the 1000 employees can be locat-
ed and brought to the phone in less
time than it takes to tell The Inter
borough system is for operative pur-
~ ""ly and is not connected with
the public lines
The twenty or more famous retired
prize fighters who have made New
York their home make up the most
anomalous group in the city. Nearly
all Of them are physical culture in
structors and at the same time saloon
Keepers. 1t is hard for the average
person to reconcile these two callings.
The flooding OF the interior with
whisky does not seem to be compati
BILE with the DEVELOPMENT Of perfect
physical condition. Yet Kid Mccoy
Tom Sharkey and Billy Madden.
Sharkcy adds to the abs,lrdty Of the
situation by acting as physical instruc-
tor to the boys of st. AIMS parish
Imagine a man swinging from that
odiouS Fourteenth street resort to the
gymnasium of church. Mccoy has
number Of preachers among his pupils
f %hol
Sun. "have often been described. but
they are more wonderful in reality
than they can ever be made in any
description. and noW in the season Of
shortened days is the time to see them
"Niehtfall comes before the close of
business hours. and so all the build |
ines may be seen fully lighted. The |
place from which to see them to the
greatest advantage is the Jersey side
of the North river.
THE scene that meets the eye from
there across the darkened water-sav
from the bow Of ferryboat living in
its slip. the hest point Of all from
which to see it's one of marvellous |
splendor and beauty. Not even the
outlines Of the great buildings them
selves. that are assembled on the lower
end Of Manhattan island. can now be
seen. hut these now rise all together
from the water like great clff-sided
nromOntOry, snarkling all over with
lights innumcrable. reaching to giddv
heights. like a gigantic Illuminated
Gibraltar.
From this great. glittering noun
tain the lights in countless myriads
stretch northward for miles continu-
ously. hut here and there dropping into
valleys Of light. and here and there
reached along in plains Of light. with
towering. isolated mountains of light
rising at irregular intervals from tn"
glowing lower levels. Altogether it is
a wondrous snectacle.
"Broadwav lighted IN makes bril-
liant show. but if one wants to see the
lights of New York he should take q
look at them rs they anpear in these
DAYS from the Jersey shore just after
nightfall."