Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-05-11
Al His stealth was Useless.


The only time I Y tried 70 beat
the street car company" said . Kan
~ City man q day or two ago. was
I'm Cleveland. o., several years ago.
Myself and afriend rot On thu car
and finished our cigars on the rear
platform before taking seats. The
conductor did not seem anxious 20
come after our fares and this put I'm
my way the temptation TO try TO beat
the company out Of q ride. I decided
TO give the fare taker the paid look
when he came around and see. if I
could work him. As 1 sat there.
ashamed even TO look up. q sense OF
degradation settled down on me that
was awful. I began TO feel like q con.
victed thief. I felt as I would IL L
had been arrested In the presence
Of ten thousand people for stealing a
sack Of candy from a child. II seem.
ed to me that my whole soul and con.
s~ciousness were exposed TO the View
OF every one and they were gazing al
my innermost c~ussedness and plying
me for a degenerate. Sometimes one
dreams that one appears before some
brilliant company and suddenly dis
covers that he Is clad only In his
pajamas. ! felt the way one feels
In those Nightmares. When We reach.
ed nj destination, I skunk off the
car like q dog caught sucking eggs In
a chicken coop. When I reached tho
ground 4 bumped UP my shoulders ~
II expecting q blow from behind. look.
ed around guilty and exclaimed TO
my companion: Well. I beat the rail.
road company out or a nickle.'
No You didn't. he replied. Il
paid your fare when we got on
Kansas City Times. ~
To Solve Transit Problem.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit com.
pany has evolved plans Tor solving the
traffic question. which. if carried out
will enable the street railway lines
to carry annually 100000, 900 more
persons a year BY 1910 than are car
ried now across the river every year.
In a general way It Is the intention
Of the company TO do away with ter
minais, where no ones journey ma
turally terminates, and to substitute
subway loops.
The details Of the gigantic scheme
are complex and many notifications
and alterations are probable before
y y complete. but In rough outline III
Is simple enough. Passing under the
East River In three tunnels, one or
which Is to have four tracks. subway
trains will run In double loop through
the lower end OF Manhattan Island
and through the shopping district of
Brooklyn around Fulton street, inter.
secting I'M both boroughs many of the
most important OF the existing lines.
BEGINNING at North Seventh street In
Williamsburg. a four track tunnel will
run under Fourteenth street to Uni
.versity Place, where 1t viii split into
an outer and inner loop, For. the
#fhe former the subway, with only two
tracks nov Is 10 run west to Ninth
avenue. then. turning south. It will
pass through Greenwich street and
pass through Greenwich 1t. and wash.
ington st. to Liberty. Through Liberty
street It will be carried across town
to William street and down william
street to the mouth of the second
tunnel. which, starting at Old Slip.
will emerge into Brooklyn III Monta.
gue street mt far from BOROUGH hail
The inner loop Of two tracks also
is to turn south at University Place
running through Wooster street to-
Canal street, whence ii will be car.
ried eastward again to Center street
and then south again and will reach
the third tunnel at the foot Of Maiden
iLarh. This tunnel viii come out
at Pineapple street. and a short dis.
tance beyond trains running through
u Will rejoin the trains on the outer
loop. whose route has already been
described.
After the Junction In the BROOKLYN
half on the subway -four tracks run
under wuloushby street and F1atbush
LAFAYETTE to the bedford