Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-12-09


wild-eyed prophet should arise In
his place and assert that at some fur.
ture time it will be possible to travel.
from New York to London in trains
operated on a transatlantic, suOaT
way, he would peobably be looked.
upon as fit subject for the psyca=
pathic ward.
If, fifty years ago, or even lass.
anyone had dared enture the opin-
ion that a subway under the East
river was possible or feasible, that
person would likely have resolved
the immediate attention of alieaists.
Yet, the other day, a train passed
through a tube under the East river,
carrying passengers from New York,
by way of the battery, to- Rnooklyn
/ borough hall and back again. BY
the first of the year, Extraordinarily
promised, at least one of the twin
tubes will be in regular operation.
Thus will another transportation
problem have beeh solved Human
ingenuity has again aecomp lfshed
the apparently impG ssibla
The formal opsning Of the. tube
was accomplished without fuss or
feathers. A party of commonplace
capitalists, railway officials and en-
gineers boarded train, rode over to
Brooklyn and back again. and re-
turned to their offices, as If trip
ne trly hundred feet below the sur
face of the, water was an, everyday
experience
IN any other city of the world
such, an event would have been mace
the occasion of parades and brass
bands and oratorf'af fireworks and
great popular demonstrations. In
New York it was merely a business
affair and an engineering problem,
No one was surprised that the solu-
ton of the problem had been found
That was to have been expected.
rhe new subway has cost the city
on the original contract only 3d.
900, 900, although SIX times that sum
has been expended in its construc-
tfon. The low contract price, is due
to the fact that at the time the Bel
mont interests bid upon tho. tAnnel
the 'gent1emen's agreement be-
tween the traction magnates had not
been consummated, and there was, in
consequence, considerable competl.
ton
The contract for the, East River
subway was signed by the Belmont
construction syndfcrte ON September
, I, 1902. Ground was broken for the
tunnel on Decembe' rs, 1902. The
headings in the north tube met II
! the middle of the liver on December
| IA, 1906, and in The south tube, or
! March l of this year. A short tim'
| afterward the engineers discovered
/ that both tubes were showing
| tendency to sag and they wer
| Ipropped up with cylindrical stee
| piles filled with concrete,
| There is only four-inch spac
| between the top of a train and tn
| roof of the tube under the river
| The grade from New York to th
| middle of the river and from Their
| to Brooklyn is a tlife over pc
| cent.
| "Prddery and Pantalettes"
| What a certain famous American
termed the 'mock modesty of pru
: derry and pantalettes' has broken GU
!, over in Trenton. The Trenton In
: dustrial School Of Arts was tn
! scene of the outbreak For man
! years the institution has struggle
i? along in obscurity. known, union
ored and unsung Hama, Apollo
I Daphne and many other classic fig
! ures were to be seen in the art gal
lery of the school-that is, the
! were there to be seen, although fey
I really did see them.
] This condition of innocuous desue
7 tude was hateful and abhorrent {
the directors of the institution. The