Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-09-15
TO "a TRIPS ROUND
The WORLD EVERY HOUR
Travel Adds Hundred
Billion Miles 10 TotaI-S0me
Staggering Figures = News
and Gossip Of Gotham

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enough - equal 8-8.aae .rips ar9un
the earth each Hesr. 5zS even Gay
or about fesrteeu tnps every hour.
some ioea Of aba nix enormous
travel means may be gained fnsn1 the
fact that n ems individual had "a Ga
IAN 81 il ne RoEid have t. 81 ~ 80
The rate ~ nearly G-n0H miles a min
ute 20 accomplish the task. Trenen-
mendous ~ Is this total 81 rave -
1.-The city alone. II shrinks into insiE-
|uinCance when compared L me rave.
Originating M terminating h-F
While Absolute figures are impBsslbIe
r. obtain the returns from sukf g paFs
- the steamship n Tallwey Hne1
reaching This city show that 8N.0N0.-
eeH.eOH miles. equal 20 more than
: eco. eco round tFfps 70 the sun does
not exceed n total ~ Individual gaur-
neYs beginning or ending here. &ere
than is. q persons travel daily be-
and between this rltF and Bosom
about 5.3ee. More than z.0a0 people
md il Necessary t. make the trip %
or from Chicago every day while
twice that number travel between
here and Buffalo every t~wenty-four
hours And al Of these figures are
for through travel and do uof take
into consideration the millions ~
miles Of local travel along trese lines
u u 10 thing 80 Eansaf-
lanuc steamship lines ~ bring IN 900
persons in one day in facL c9nsid-
ertng ali Of these teEns the total 81
E ice. Hee. NaM. Gee miles s. probably fsu
small What the handling o. these
travellers meas mas be- seen from tae
fact hat At the Grand Central Station
this week zee men have been en-
plpYed 90 do nothing but handle bag
gage. During the week at rhis one
point alone more than ice. 08n pieces
Hnana haHm HM mHfHA wHHmEHnm IS his 81
sometimes as $4,000 pieces IN n
VIII h tunnels be safe That is
the question which many New York
ers are asking every day concerning
the great tubes being run under h
North and East rivers Unfortunately
the discovery - alarming structural
weakness in the tunnel from the Bat
terry to Brooklyn has postponed 8
practical answer TO This question and
given pessimisfs ground for argument
While N was promised that this tun-
mel would De opened by The end 81
next month. New Workers who nov
travel on the surface ~ ;lte river by
ferry viii now have 10 wai1 until mex
summer ~ least before travelling n
der H. Ever since the era 81 tunnel
construction opened im this city there
lave not been wanting those to as
~NAN ANMA ANRN MWANM a#AFa Wt AHAt~
hardy enough t8 riss their lives in The
tubes Riding mplacenly on she
ferry boats far above the curse OF
hos tunnels fhey rave pointed tri-
upphantly @ the geysers IN the rive
eTs. a. the large masses ~ water lifted
above the surface by the compressed
air escaping from the tubes Far bri08
are called. NOW U has leaked out that
the BROOKLYN tunnel from the Battery
viii have o. D. practically made over
although completed except for a few
details The engineers IN charge Of
the construction have been extremely
reficenL but li has been learned thai
orders haye already been issued for
lining more than z.00o feet - each
tunnel with concrete. No sooner was
the work finished and the Interior air 1
pressure removed than the joints in
the big pipe began 70 leak y plates
90 start. while some Of the engineers
believe that safety be- achieved by
concrete lining Others mold that q
AiIi be necessaR either 20 euEeiaH tn
present steel tubes iu others. an ennr-
mousiy expensive Job Or 90 abandon
the work. Meanwhile New York
first taste ~ tunnel travel is indeh-
niteiy postponed
The eleventh assembly district. tn
some respects one ~ the most cor
Ia New YORK promises Ia pro-
duca a rcd uld-fHhiuued New York
Tor 81. Tammany eadefship.
While Governor Hughes continues e.
preach good government and clean
politics. "the eleventh Is IN a fair
10 show that H does not know
much about either Not since the
years when TammanX Tiger raarel
cnrrurtiY unreefTaiued has there been
a situation lu NfN York and
one - typical ~ the worst side =
the cifs's pohtles Boss The Ne
Manus OF the eleventh district having
Incurred the displeasure If Boss Mur-
ply u Tsmmany because The world
The didu'f obey an % Mur-
orders al Albany. IS now con-
By former Boss pluukafti
newly arisen from the political grave
10 which ne was consigned By Tam
many three years 2 after q record
In the Legislature 80 had that the Of
sanitation really could not stand fal
E Al that time or arruunt Of his
q republican defeated him for
-e-eleciiou in the heart Of Tammanys
But now that Little Boss
NcManus cs1u monty called The.
i IN d"irErac With big K0ss Mur-
nhy. Plunkett has suddenly returned
- ffe. ~ The campaign which ~
sns lust opened. typical 20 the dafs
By. ~ asserts that there arr lss
reasons WHY ne should BE- elected
ne EtA-tMH NU MAF~AAHN kEAM WIN
,f0 street cleaner and zee policemen
md run down through m lanitors and
bridge keepers Certain unkiuu
SAY that reason IT. this ras
simply means "lnh and fear that 8
this number s~kHlfuily sis-n aua 9
nIunkeff maB D. elected and later
q republican leader q the fa- g
nous eleventh once more. Z
Ancnnlinc g. TIE --latest hEuHas iusr {.
i~rapared 81 AIhauy Nfu YORK Hat-
,anfinues % lead al others lg tne @
81 automobile De- usa NHhlH !
- border White the numhf 80 5
Irrldcnts lately may have eausaf
ame people 60 suspect fhis 90 never :
halezz cuTues a. "a surprise a. u q
haf the Empire state has uitnin re 9
borders a6aTa cars ~ anHrh thr 3
may D. roughly placed az &iaa
zee zee. The greet majority - lhsse
~ ceursa ere fauud Iu tire EltF
r. Greater Nea 1lrk bur ID spite - :
hts fact this CH takes aaeaud place +
% Los Angelo m ire number - RH !
"a proportion Cd ane population. fne {
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