Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-03

and west, the tHnHeI uiluel tht
 Harlem river having been completed 1 and in use for nearly two years. IT
 will witness the operation of anoth-
 CT tunnel leading from Manhattan
 on the south so as to connect with
 Staten Island and the Jersey main-
 land in that direction. This, how
 ever. because of the length of such
 q tube. and because also of the present comparatively small popu-
 ation on Staten Island, will not
 come for several. years.
 Tunnels Planned.
 | Tn addition to the two tunnels 1 that are promised to be in operation :, within the next six months, there : are so many other tunnels in course l of construction that it is hard to keep track of them. The Pennsyl-
 vania railroad rapidly is pushing work on it's North River tunnel, by
 which it's trains will come from
 Jersey City into it's big Manhattan terminal, occupying the space be-
 tween Seventh and Ninth avenues,
 Thirty-first and Thirty-third streets.
 It's tunnel under the East river,
 connecting the same terminal with
 Long Island City and the Long
 Island railroad, also is being built
 rapidly. Then there is the Stein
 way tunnel, being built by the Bel
 mont interests, running from For l ty-second street in Manhattan to 1 Queens Borough The McAdoo in- terests also are completing sec
 ond tunnel under the North river,
 to run from the. foot of Christopher
 street to Jersey City where it will
 connect with their first tunnel
 which reaches Manhattan near COrt-
 landt street.
 These two tunnels form letter
 U with each point in New York and
 with the base in Jersey City.
 The construction of tunnels. sub way extensions and other transit l lines is accomplishing much in the | way of distributing New York's pop l ulation over territory that, for years has been nothing more than l farm land and poor farm land at
 that.
 During the present year enough 1 persons will move out of Manhat- l tan Island, to the new suburbs, to
 make half dozen cities. No less l than 300 ,000 persons will figure in
 this shifting of population because
 of the Rapid Transit development.
 Sites have been mapped out for l nearly score of towns, all located
 within the city limits, and most of | them in Queens Borough, where | people will De able to secure small | detached houses for rentals that would be insufficient to hire tene- ment quarters on Manha ttan Island. l Real estate boomers have been
 working on this proposition for
 some time, and, naturally, they l have overdone things considerably. l Small homes have been built all over the new suburbs and development 1 is rapid The great middle class of home investors are fiocking to these places and the various colonies are 1 fourishing. The history of these places is merely repetition of the history of New York itself, for Man l haitian Island today is merely a gathering together of scores of these old villages.
 Streets of New York. As a result of the outrageous con- ditiOn of the streets of New York during the past winter the Depart ment of Street Cleaning has come forward with belated plan to keep the various thoroughfares free of snow and slush. The plan, of course, calls for large expenditure of money, but this always is to be expected in any plan for municipal improvement, especially in this town. The worst feature of the new suggestion is that it would l take at least year to put it into effect
 + Commissioner Craven, head of the Department of Street Cleaning, l has laid before the Board of Es- innate a suggestion to dispose of
 snow by dumping it into a large
 number of basins conveniently To-
 cated, throughout the city. over
 trunk sewers. The present sewers
 would be used as far as possible and 1 additional 1;roc would ho :.