The DeLand weekly news. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1887-190?, 1906-04-20

! 10: the morning and evening crowd
Tat mafes tie lively hours on tie
elevated aud surface roads hAi o..
creased y 81 per cent, or from s. .oVO
~ over ly0.VU0. hefore the subway hAi
beea IN operation niue months.
For al hours % the day between 8
n the morning ana 5 In the afteruO on.
the city's rapid transit system u more
than ADEQUATE. though the average
daily traf1c amounts 10 about 1000 90
noFth and south. aud about co. 90
east and vest The trouble comes -
tween $50 n N. and 600 a m. When
thousands from all directions within q
radius % IS miles % the borough q
Manhattan are rushing toward the
downtown section Of the city (belou
| TvCnty-thir1 street,. and arain b.
tween 500 .. N and Geo p. M. when
Tie same thousands are struggling bach
% their homes.
BY fAr The greater portion % Nsv
Iorks business II transacted below
TSeaiy-thIrd street, on a. ara haSins
. maximum length Of three miles ana q
uAIinnm width Of tWo miles. Whsre
there 10 30 little ground 20 build up0n,
aatGrally real estate and shyscrapers
rise together. TIE former 70 millions %
eollArS. the latter 10 tens Of stories. On
thai triangle hayiag Twen;y-thir8
8EeCt FOR is base and the Battery fer
ne very pointed apex, there are hun
dreds Of buildings housing over 5000
people each during the working houra.
Btasding On the roof q one q these
toSeTs Of Industry. one rising twenty.
nine stories. for instance. with The ala
o. glass. nan may count four ele-
waited roads running from TIRE upper
sections q New York City dOaa 20 The
triangle: surface line after surface line
running under or parallellng the IL
roads, but converging and becoming
consolidated 40 Twenty-third street
INTO only SIX roads. there being room
tor no more below that thoroughfar0:
crosstown surface lines Still served b.
abort 800 horse cars: the innunsrabla
little glass and iron entrance and exit
structures that dot the route % the
Gubway from the Bronx 10 City Hall:
re twenty or more tirelsss ferries pas
ding hack and forth across the HUI.
ooa and East Tivers: every car ard
beat crowded 90 the last inch a stand.
ing room, ell unloading into that roar.
ina triangle. The problem e q carry
into and Distribute through this trt-I
angie. within q given time. . constant
v Increasing horde u workers.
Forty-fsvs tisndred a Minute.
The trafne returns for The var cad.
ne June 30, isot. show that durlng q
single rush hour, TIE elevated ana SUI.
tace lines running north and south
earTied 1900: the ferries crossing
Eon Brooklyn. other Long Island
points and Staten Island, 81 coo; cara
ever TIRE Brooklyn Bridge, 33.0V0: the
New Jersey and Hudson river ferries,
x7.ooo: crosstown Lines. is.0o0, q total
% fTs,0o0 landed aad Distributed -
tween Twenty-thlrd street aad he Bat
tsry IN 90 ninutes BY June %. 1905.
TIE rusA hour crowd had increased 90
10000.
Tie strain q carrying TIE Increase
fAlis most heavily On the elevated
ToAes, tie surface lines and Ire sub
way. which have % take care C not
ezly the business people from Ma
katiaa and the Bronx. but tie thoa-
eands q Hudson river cCmuutsrs
landed ~ tie New York Central a.
Forgssco1d street, ard on the Brook.
In Bridge. The new Williamsburg
bEidEe q unpopular because only one
hrookEn elevated line comets with
u. and also because Its New York term.
inAl y Q mile ana . half fr0a City
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