The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-23
GOTHAM IN NEED
OFMORESUbWAYS
NEW OBSTACLES SEEM TO pop
UP CONSTANTLY TO HALT
WORK ON NEW LINES.
FIFTH AVENUE HOMES
Are Big Office Buildings Instead Of
Fashinoabe esidences-Many
New Schools Are Demanded
Cry for Pure MIX.

New York, Feb. 22-New obs acle'
seem 10 develop every few days Z
block the city in its attempt to pro
ceed with the constnc ion Of more
rapid transit subwaY.. 1t is now 81,
[ years since work was begun on thu
present, subway. which has been per
to the public for nearly two and ;
half years,sa
In SPITE OF this lapse of time the
city has progressed no further in sub
way construction than 10 prepare
plans and specifications for twenty
new routes, practically all Of which
now mag have 10 be revised to meet
the wishes OF the men in control ot
the local traction companies no IN
slst upO vthe alterations as conditions
for bidding on the new contracts
Whenever the city appears to oe
ready to 20 ahead with the work
which Is not often, the traction peo.
pie step 'in and delay things in
terminably This situations has e%.
listed 50 long the public is becoming
convinced the local traction men afe
not anxious 10 expedite the construc,
ton! of new subways while they can
continne collecting fare from every
strap-hanger on the eXis ing elevated,
surface and subway lines.
It was expected the Rapid Transit
Board would finally approve the plans
for the new subways ten days ago
and would proceed at once to adva'e
tse for bids for the construction
work. All, supposedly, was in reali
ness, when al the last minute, repre-
senta;ives of the traction combipe
stepped in and urged many radical
alterations in the proposed contracts.
The changes which the company de-
S re- if made by the Rapid Transit
commission viii place the city in
about as disadYantageous a position.
as tar as control over the subways
is concerned, as it is in the pre- ent
subway.
-se--y7~ ~ 1<ss-sssss -
One sec .b.. If the metropolis which
now IS undo Going a most radical
change is ne Park ayenue from
Sxtieth street 10 the Harlem river
The big terminal improvements of
the New York General railroad are
responsible for this, as the substitl-
Of electric power for steam in bring.
ng trains Though the Park avenue
tunnel TO Graad Central station will
make it poss sible to cover completely
al of the tracks now sunken in PARK
avenue.
When the work is through a hand.
some and unbroken thoroughfare will
1e left, with no more sign OF the pres
'nce Of traits than are to be found
low on the street surfaces over the
subway lives. -From 6ixtie h strehs
south to Forty second street PIX F..
venue will be AiycJ o ar to the rail.
Dad terminals, 8ut nolts of Sixtieth .
treet Park ayentfe soon III become /
fine residential street. hk the same /
venue is today from Thir g-fourth 10
'oriieth street. The rebuilding of the ,
venue from s.xtieth street north as
IesideE'iai section already is well
nde waH
Fifth ayeuue and BroJway. from
street solth also are being
'aetlcaily rebuilt. Handsome new
en- ard twelve-story Office buildings
re b. ng constructed every three or
)ur blocks while ~operations now IN
er way indicate that xithing the
ext ten Years practically every ore
The old building on these tho~
ughfares Will be replaced by steel
-dme structures.
One of the great obstacles that has
OOd TO the way of rebuilding these
reefs has been removed throurh
le change of policy on the part Of
Ne directors of the Astor estate This
5 ate controls large blocks of realty
! al nf the different busine e. {
ons. and for years its managers % I
lsed to give long term ground leases v
lcept on terms 5hat were practically q
-ohibitive Nov they have adopfei y
more liberal pal.cy and there l. 2
'ci9ed boom in he construction d
business buildings. least \ +
ven Of which are row going IN in Z
nh avenue between Madison Square n
ID Central Park
New Schools Needed.
Try the city officials viii. Il n
ems r. Be impossible for them to -
lid new s.. hool houses fast enough 81
take care of the ch.ld-en Of sch ol Z.
p who apply each year for sittiues. e.
'r wears the overcrJWdirg Of the 2
hools. and the consecu-n necessity "a
2 placing q large ngn..T OF The P
pills in paft-t'me classez. las ia
Used the greatest c0ncerl. .17
Appropriation aggre eating S1j. g.
. 30 have -beeH made in the las is
o years for additional sch ol a.
uses but, as has been the case for III
a1rrar