The Delta independent., 1906-04-27
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but the morning and evening crowd
that makes the lively hours ON the
elevated and surface roads had In.
creased by SO per cent, or from 81 1000
to over 100000. before the subway had
been In operation nine months.
For all hours of the day between .
In the morning and s In the afternoon.
the city's rapid transit system u more
than adequate. though the average
daily trafnc amounts to about 1000 s13
north and south. and about 100000
east and west The trouble comes b.
tween 1880 a. m. and 800 a. m. when
radius Of IS miles Of the borough OF
Manhattan are rushing toward the
downtown section of the city (below
Twenty.third street), and again be-
tween 500 p. m. and 500 p. M, when
the same Thousands are struggling back
70 their homes.
BY far the greater portion Of New
York's business is transacted below
Twenty-third street, on an area having
. maximum length Of three miles and .
maximum width Of two miles. Where
there is so little ground to build upon.
naturally real estate and skyscrapers
4 rise together. the former to millions OF
dollars, the latter to tens of stories On
that triangle having Twenty-third
street for its base and the Battery for
~ very pointed apex. there are hum
dreds Of buildings housing over 5000
people each during the working hours.
Standing on the roof Of one Of these
towers Of industry, one rising twenty.
nine stories. for instance, with the aid
Of q glass, q man may count four elo.
vated roads running from the upper
sections of New York City down to the
triangle; surface line after surface line
running under or paralleling the II"
roads, but converglng and becoming
consolidated at Twenty-third street
Into only six roads, there being room
for no more below that thoroughfare:
crosstown surface lines still served BY
about 400 horse cars; the innumerable
little glass and iron entrance and exit
structures that dot the route OF the
subway from the Bronx to City Hall:
the twenty or more tireless ferries pad.
ding back and forth across the Hud.
son and East rivers; every car and
boat crowded to the last finch Of stand
ing room, all unloading into that roar.
ing triangle. The problem is to carry
Into and distribute through this tri.
angle. within given time, CONSTANT
" Increasing horde Of workers.
Forty-flve Hundred a Minute.
The traffic returns for the year end.
ing June 30, 1904. show that during Q
single rush hour, the elevated and sur.
1ace lines running north and south
carried $1,000; the ferries crossing
fom Brooklyn. other Long Island
points and Staten Island, 81 900; cars
over the Brooklyn Bridge, $4,000; the
New Jersey and Hudson river ferries,
$4,000; crosstown lines. $4,000, a total
OF 175,000 landed and distributed be-
tween Twenty-third street and the Bat.
tery In go minutes. BY June 30, 1905.
the rush hour crowd had increased TO
27o,00o.
The strain Of carrying the incresss
falls most heavily on the elevated
roads. the surface lines and the sub
way. which have to take care Of mot
only the business people from Mar
haitian and the Bronx. but the thou
sands Of Hudson river commuters
landed BY the New York Central e
Iroetv.second street, and on the Brookp
lyn Bridge. The new Williamsburg
bridge 70 unpopular because only one
BROOKLYN elevated line connects with
Il. and also because its New York tern
inal = Q mile and half from CITY
Hall. I
a Host Of New Subways.
TO relieve the elevated road. -.
faos lines and subway Of New Yogk
City ITSELF, nineteen new subwaye heIV1
hesn PROPOSED. Greater spesd Or =
lAsUf number ~ traiua or ma sIls
~ subway " impossible vithest g