New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
ST7BWAY EMPLOYEES WELL.
.Sav the 4ir Has Not Impaired Their
Health AM.

-~,s employees OF the subway are almost a unit
against the theory that the air in the subway IS
impure This may in measure be due TO senti-
rnent The employees are proud OF the subway.
eager 20 make excuses for delayed trains. anxious
~ explain the operating system and jealous OF all
attacks
This is t.a largest station the road said a
ticket chopper at Fourteenth-st. the ether day
and you'd think we might have some trouble
vcatGating it. The entrances are all OPEN though
no swinging doors anything Of that sort. and
the passing trains dc the rest"
Don't let the ar down here worry you' said
AZ express motorman. Its one OF the best feat
,,rss about the tunnel. 1 run with ny window
down al the top and the air pours in on me for
eight houT day. I've had not sisn OF e0id
though 1S been running trains month. and al
WAYS worked in the open before.
The public is hard TO please" declared FuAFe
on local train There enough Te;iti.ators ii
this car 10 keep the air fresh and Purc. even wnen
Il IS hacked There is always some fresh air crahh
however who insists on having window down IL
he could get II up FROM the bottom he'd probably
stick his head out the window and almost CHOKE
himself with the rush OF air Well. put the Win
dow down from She top TO suit one ana the next
thing I know some ether person is complaining
that there Is TOO much d1aught. So it goes
The employees Of coarse. cannot say as to wheth-
~r the air is lacking IL oxygen, as some chemists
have asserted. They DO say. however that 1t seems
90 breathe all right, and they are not Worrying.
They have other troubles luNtHei "a "'''Ni '--"
question Of ipurity OF air decided for or against
the subway underground work is not going to be
oyerpopular.
IT'S a nerve racking job, this running an ex-
press underground declared the Inotorman or a
Brooklyn Bridge express TO a Tribune reporter the
other day Its a good bit harder/on the man at
the controller than running elevated train. in
spite OF the safety signals and mechanical devices
which they have down here. and which take much
OF the responsibility off the motormans shoulders
There is the monotOny Of 1t for one thing.
That's why Wen be glad when they open up SUD
way stores for there will certain relief about
the stations, anyway: On the elevated one Goes
not have keep ones eye on the track Tor hours
at a time. There you are WhiZZing past open WIN
dows in tenements stores and dwellings,, ana across
OF eyes straight ahead. What IS there 10 LOCK
& either side \ never ending row or Willle
mans eyes of business IN week II ne looked
AT them steadily 1T.
Another motorman with whom the reporter talked
thought that the intermittent never endlng IasIlhs
az red greer and White signal lights the hardest
thing about the tube for the motorn1en: = dream
about red lights and green lights and whlte hsIts.
sleep since I went on the job. one night II Is 2
nightmare Of downtown express on an uptown
track The next night perhaps III dream thet
NV train has Jumped the elevated strip at Manhat-
can't turn off the current. OF course. none of
theee things will ever happen 1t Is q Iot SAFER IN
running a train up there never had bad creams;
rs the effect Of working down here in the DARK,
The guards OF the subway trains WouId De Ihut 81
Ia Dpier II the station platforms were cuiNe9 70 1T
the trains At stations there is CONSIDER oie
space between the cars and tne patLoli: oI. ne
traveller steps into the opening. Ihey nave 70
hang ON be; 1een the cars at each station and
ErJfnble a warning against the open space