The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-15

New York, Sept, 14-As 0iy e
 travel New York leads the woriu. Within the limits of the greater cisy the travel every year by cars caus, autos and various other means totals mere trifle of three billions Of miles, enough to equal 120.000 trips around the earth each year, S33 every day ol about fourteen trips every hour eoihe idea of what this enormous Ta'el
 means may be gained from the .aes
 that if one individual had'to oo all it he would have to move at the raee of, nearly 5000 miles a minute to ac- complish the task. Tremendous as is this total of traVei | in the city alone, it shrinks ihto in | significance when compared to s l travel originating and ternhiLas sims .,a.s here. While absolute figures are iil- possible to obtain the returns run only a part of the steamship and rall.
 way lines reaching this city show that | 1OO. .OOO 900, 900 miles. equal to nore
 more than 5.0o0000 round trips to tne 1 sun, does not exceed the total or ih- l dividual Journeys beginning or eIS, | here More than 16,OOO persons .sNS
 daily between New York and Fhliaaei- | phia, and between this city anu DostIn D, i about. 5000 More than 2,OOO people | find if necessary to make the trip from | Chicago every day while twice tha' | number travel between here ana bur l falo every twenty-four hours Aho or | these figures are for through traset | and do not take into consideration .no millions of miles of local traVel aLons | these lines. It is no uncommon lAae | for Transatlantic steamship lines ~ | hiring in 5000 persons in one day. III | fact considering all 'Iines these iIehis | the total of 100, ,000, 100000 miles is | probably too small. What the hanu- | ling of these travellers means may o
 seen from the fact that at the Sranu | Central station this week fOO men nave
 been employed to do nothing put nano.o ..o baggage. During the week at thls one
 noinf alone more than 100000 pieces have been handled, running as hsh sometimes as 25.000 in one day will the tunnels be safe? Ihat is | the question which many New YorKers are asking today concerning the Srea. tubes being run under the North anu
 East rivers. Unfortunately the us covery of alarming structural weakness in the tunnel from the Battery to RrookIvn has postponed a practical answer5 to this question and given pes
 simists ground for argument. Whlle n
 was promised that this tunnel "ouiu | he opened by the end of next month' | New Workers who now traVeI on lne
 surface of the river by ferry VIII nc" l have to walt until next summer at | least
 since the era of tunnel construelIott | opened in this city, there nave not l been wanting these to assert that they would never be foolhardy enough to | risk their lives in the tubes. Rlolns | complacently on the ferryboats apu | above the course of these tunnels they
 have pointed triumphantly to the | ..geysers" in the rivers, as the larse
 masses of water lifted above the sur
 face by the compressed air escaping l from the tubes far below are called | Now if has leaked out that the
 Brooklyn tunnel from the Battery WlIi have to be practically mace oyer, although completed except TOT Ae"
 details. The engineers in charse U
 the construction have been , e@ .hat | reticent. but it has been learned that orders have already been issued Tor lining more than .O0O feet of each tune
 with. concrete. No sooner was the
 work finished and the interior air pres
 sure removed than joints in the DIE
 pipe began to leak and plates to stalt
 While some engineers believe thal safety can be achieved oy cohSl eo lining, others hold that it will be neces- sary either to envelope the present steel tubes in others, an enormously expensive job, or to abandon the Work: Meanwhile New York's first taste or | tunnel travel is indefinitely postpoh The Eleventh Assembly District, in
 some respecis one Uf the most corrupt
 in New York, promises to produce real | old-fashioned New York fight TOT US Tammany leadership. While Governor
 Hughes continues to preach good gov ernment and clean politics, the Elev- | enth" Is in d fair way to sSow that
 it does not know much about either
 Not since the years when the Tamma-
 ny tiger roared corruptly unrestrained has there been such a situation in New York and one so typical of the worst
 side of the city's politics. Boss The
 McManus of the Eleventh District hay | ing incurred the displeasure of Boss l Murphy of Tammany because the
 world famous The" didn't obey all of
 Murphy's orders at Albany. is now con- | fronted by former Boss Plunkett new | ly arisen from the political grave to
 which he was consigned by Tammany l three year sago after a record in the 1 Legislature so bad that the organiza- | tion really could not stand for it. At | that time on account of his record l Republican defeated him for reelection | in the heart of Tammany's domain. | But now the Little Boss McManus, 1 three years ago after a record In the
 with Big Boss Murphy" Plunkett has
 suddenly returned to life. In the cam
 paign which he has just opened, typi-
 cal of the days gone by, he asserts | that there are 1,7S5 reasons" why he | should be elected. The reasons" in
 question begin with S60 street clean
 CTS and 400 policemen and run down
 through eleven. janitors and two bridge
 keepers. Certain unkind persons say 1 ---------------....--..