The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-12-15
NEW YORK NOT A
COMPLETED CITY.
Mechanically the Most Wonderful
Town in the World. But Cincinnati
Observer Sees Problems Head.

Probably no city in the world just
now is making such progress as New
York. The metropolis Of the Western
world has long been a great city. With
all of its greatness, it has been and
still is more or less crude. Nctwith-
standing its magnificent buildings and
its teeming. busy population, the New
York of the past two decades has al
most invariably impressed the thought
full visitor as city in process of con
struction. The nucleus of the great
city was there, but the constant rush
Of building. Of tunnel and bridge con-
struction, has made it apparent that
the even moderately completed city
was still dream of the future.
OF course all great cities are con-
stantly changing to a greater or less
degree. On this account no place where
men reside in great numbers-save a
city OF the dead-can really be regard
ed as a completed work. AS com
pared with New York, however, Lon
don, Paris or Vienna seems amply
rounded out and finished. They change
little. New York is constantly
changing a great deal.
Just now New York Is passing
through the greatest period of mechan-
ical development in her history The
man who visits the metropolis five
years from now, after an absence Of a
decade, will scarcely recognize the
place. The recently finished Subway is
to prove merely the first step in vast
system of underground railroads which
will stretch ike a web under the great
city. Two or more tunnels will carry
passengers under the North River.
Others will do the same service for
travellers between Manhattan Island
and Brooklyn. With all this tunnel
work, and with the new electric subur-
ban service which most of the railroads
running out of New York are soon to
establish, it will not be long before it
will be possible for the workers of
New York TO live in homes purchased
at a reasonable figure twenty or thirty
miles in the country, and still carry on
their occupations in the city, with no
more time spent on the cars than the
inhabitant of Harlem has devoted to
the same purpose in the recent past.
Mechanically New York is already
the most wonderful town in the world.
1t still has problems of politics and art
rather more formidable than those
which confront the capitals of the Old
World Twenty years from now there
will still be plenty of work requiring
courage and skill ahead of the people
of New York. Probably the problems
of the future will be far more subtle
and hard to solve than tha mechani-
cal problems in which New Yorkers are
so much interested to-day All OF her
tunnels and her bridges and her parks
will not profit the greatest city in
America a great deal if her political
situation grows worse instead Of better
while these great feats of finance and
engineering are being performed. The
energy and courage with which the
people Of New York are meeting Their
present problems render justifable the
hope and belief that the problems Of
the future will be met as energeticaily
and as successfully as those of the
past have been.
New York is a remarkable city. well
worthy of the study and, in some re-
spects at least, the admiration of out
siders. What will it be century from
now? The question Is one well worth
the attention Of those who like strenu-
Gus exercise for their imagination
Cincinnati Times-Star.