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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

day Thus, for those people, the UNI
brella and the gum coat may be elimi-
mated. Verify they will lead the un
foreground life, or rather the sheltered
life, as they will be up in the air dur
ing the working hours.
This terminal is intended to be the
great nerve center of lower New York's
business and stir. Focusing all the
underground transit lines and COM
municating with all the surface and
elevated railroads, it will be like the
central part of a spiders web, from
which all the strands of the web pro-
coed. Here the analogy ends, for the
human fly. while constantly going to
coming. away from this center, will not
be imprisoned in a net.
One of the very interesting things in
this terminal building will be the great
glass covered arcade, the largest in the
world-another superlative. This is to
be an inside street, well lighted and
ventilated, with big shops on each side.
To attract the patronage of the 100000
men, women and children who must
pass through this building and along
the arcade every day the most enticing
stocks of goods in various branches of
the merchandising business will be dis
played. The show window exhibits
will resemble the displays in a great
exposition building. 1t is promised
that one may buy almost anything
here. from pin to piano.
The cafes here and there through
out the great structure will afford ac-
commodation for all gradations of
purses. The Wall street banker or the
Fifth avenue society swell will find
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

100000 cubic feet. Thus we see that
this largest office building on earth will
be nearly three times the cubic area
of it's closest competitor in New York.
On the twenty-five floors above
ground there will be 1000 offices.
Counting an average of only two and
half persons occupying these offices or
employed therein, we have a regular
population of 10000 persons in this one
building above ground. not to speak of
those employed below the street sur
face. Thirty nine elevators will carry
these 10000 persons and their business
callers up and down in the building.
Twenty-Five of the Elevators will be
express cars. not stopping below the
eleventh floor 1t is Expected that at
least 10000 passengsrs a day will be
handled by the elevators.
The occupants of this building. when
all the subway systems now in course
of construction shall have been finish
ed. may live anywhere in New York,
Brooklyn or Jersey City and reach
their place of business without emerg-
ing from underground after they once
enter the tunnel station nearest their
homes. They may take an elevator
from the station platform up to their
offices. work all day. eat luncheon at
one of the several restaurants in the
building, buy their cigars, get their
shoes shined and their faces shaved,
purchase some trinkets or goodies for
the children, all inside the building, and
descend in the evening to the under
ground station and ride home under
ground without having been out from
under shelter at any time during the
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to New York. Westward in Jersey City
is to be an extension of this tunnel sys-
tenn for three-quarters of a mile, the
trains to emerge al last and run on the
Pennsylvania tracks to Newark.
This same system will have an up
town terminal at Sixth avenue and
Thirty third street for the northerly
tunnels built from Jersey City. All
will touch and articulate with the city
subway lines already in operation, so
that one may enjoy a tunnel ride, if he
likes, under the chief business section
of New York, under the Jersey City
water front and twice under the Hud-
son river, finishing at his starting
point.
But perhaps more interesting than
the tunnels themselves. to the ordinary
sightseer at any rate, will be the down
town terminal station building OF this
new system. This will be the largest
Office building in the world. Though it
is now under construction, one cannot
say that il is going up. AS matter of
fact. it is going down for the present.
The underground portion is the i'm
portant part. This terminal station
will have twenty-five stories above
ground and space for about eight
stories beneath the surface. 1t will ex-
tend seventy-five feet below ground.
In the underground part will be the
railroad station, and through it will run
five tracks. Tunnel trains from Jersey
City during the rush hours of the day
will consist of eight cars each. run
ming on a schedule of one and a half
minutes between trains. AS each car
will seat fifty persons-not to speak of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

the strap hangers-it is easy to figure
that 10000 passengers an hour will be
brought into this terminal station from
New Jersey. 1t is estimated that on an
average, day in and day out, 1000 per-
sons a minute will enter the big build
ing and descend to the station rooms
to take cars and that in the course of
a day 100000 people will pass through
the station.
The first floor below the street will
be known as the concourse floor. Be
low this will be the train platforms.
On the concourse floor the great wait
ing rooms will be located, with res
taurants. lunch counters, news and
bootblack stands, retiring rooms and
other conveniences. The steel cars will
have doors on each side The plat
forms are to be so arranged that while
passengers are getting out at one side
those waiting to take a train may en-
ter at the other side thus avoiding
confusion.
Above ground this great terminal
structure will be apparently two build
ings, with Dey street running between,
though it is probable that the two Sec
tions will be connected overhead by
bridges across the narrow street. For
purposes of description and COMPARE
son the whole scheme may be treated
properly one building, with the Dey
street division as an open court.
This huge structure will contain a.
500, 900 cubic feet of space above
ground and 1850. 600 cubic feet below
ground, a total of 18,150000 cubic feet.
The largest Office building now in Man
haitian the Broad Exchange, contains
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his courage. his fortune and his inven-
tiveness. he employed experts of his
own and brought others from abroad,
and before long the alternating cur
rent was everywhere in use for the
transmission of electrical power over
long distances. He made it practicable
and conquered the dangers.
How much temperament has to do
with health or health with tempera-
ment and both with success we do not
always know. but we can sometimes
guess. Mr.. Westinghouse is one of the
most sanguine of men and has never
had an illness.
In that big frame cf his the red blood
flows and the human engines work full
powered. He has been written of as
"a hundred thousand. horsepower man."
No phrase could better describe him.
The men who are near him say that
his capacity for work is greater than
that of any ten of his subordinates.
and he has $4,000 men working in his
industries.
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VT is easy to employ superlatives,
but no other adjectives need ap-
ply when one seeks words to
describe the engineering opera
tions now being pushed forward under
meath the surface of the Manhattan
island section of New York city and
the beds of the two rivers which di-
vide it from New Jersey and Long Is
land. Stupendous is word that comes
in handy when characterizing the new
underground New York. All these tUn-
nels, Subways and terminals belong
exclu' vely to the twentieth century.
whic. is still an infant. Nearly every
week some new extension of an under
ground transit system is adopted or
proposed.
Old New York. which means Man
haitian island and is the commercial
and financial center of America and
the rest of the world, was richly en-
dowed by nature with facilities for
water transportation. But these nat
ural endowments in the way of water
courses cut off the city from cOnven-
lent land communica ton with tine out
side. After many years of dreaming
New York is now doing things to over
come this difficulty. Overhead i'm
lfrovement in the line of bridges, while
still proceeding upon large scale. has
been supplanted in popular wonder and
interest by underfoot improvement.
Not only are the streets in Manhattan
and Brooklyn and the Bronx being
bored for subway tunnels, but the East
river and the North river, otherwise the
HUDSON. are being similarly treated.
Mother SYMPTOMS ancient prophecy,
Under rivers men shall walk.
Shall ride. shall sleep, shall talk
is being fulfilled at New York The
city subway system has several tun-
nelS under the East river to Brooklyn
almost ready for the running of trains:
the Pennsylvania railroad is complet-
ing its tunnels under the Hudson from
New Jersey. and down at the lower end
OF Manhattan island is the terminal Of
another tunnel system which appears
to be the most stupendous of all.
Twin tunnels. one for trains in each
direction. are being bored under the
river from Jersey City to enter the
great terminal station under Church
street near the river front while an
other pair of tunnel twins is burrow-
ir g under the river a mile farther up
town. These two pairs of tubes are
connected by transverse tunnels run
ming near the river front in Jersey
City, passing under the tracks and sta
tions of three great railroad systems
the Pennsylvania, the Erie and the
Delawa-'e, LEckawanna and Western
roads may enter tunnel trains and ride
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where his traffic agents met those of
the Burlington, the Northwestern and
the st. Paul.
Z He mastered the rate problem. Prob
ably no man who lives has mastered it
so thoroughly. Among the things that
he acquired was the wisdom of paying
rebates so long as it can be done with
out detection He learned also to
charge the traffic as much as it would
pay so long as no one else was near to
charge it less. He comprehended the
necessity of making rates that would
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work in relays, that he has an army of
them and that he keeps them all busy.
1t took Hartman precisely three
years to master the detail of his roads.
That of itself was an achievement that
proclaims him to be a genius of the
first magnitude. 1t is by no means
easy to comprehend what is involved
in such a tremendous undertaking.
During these strenuous years Harri-
man watched the growth of the traffic
Of his roads with eyes that overlook
ed nothing and still had room to note
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placated him. Always for every yard
yielded he gained two.
Thus he moved, quiet, persistent, ag-
gressive, always subtle. Thus he push
ed his empire into the sturdy north.
Little by little the business of the rich
northwest began to pay toll to the
Hartman lines He gathered traffic
from all fields, made markets where
they had not existed. helped to devel-
op the great desert and nursed Port
land and San Francisco into greater
power. In fact, he it was who made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26
REMARKABLE RAILWAY.

An uphill railway. perhaps the most
remarkable in the world, is the Oroyo.
in Peru. It runs from Callao to the
goldfields of Cerro de Pasco. From
Callao it ascends the narrow valley of
the Rimac, rising nearly 5000 feet in
the first fifty-six miles. Thence it goes
through the intricate gorges of the
sierras till it tunnels the Andes at
altitude of 15,645 feet, the highest point
in the world where a piston rod is
moved by steam. This elevation is
reached in seventy Eight miles.
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ninety-eight feet to strike solid rock
The cofferdam construction was neces-
sary in order that the big house might
be founded upon the rock. and its un-
derground section be kept dry and
coy. Holes in the walls of the Golfer
dam will admit the trains from the
tunnels.
This system comprises what are
known as the ''McAdoo tunnels nam
ed after William C. McAdoo. a native
of Georgia, who came to New York
some years ago and organized this stu
pendous terminal and tunnel enter
prise. Charles NJ. Jacobs is the CHIEF
engineer. About a quarter of a century
ago some of the earlier dreamers of
underground transit undertook to tun-
mel under the North river. but aban-
doned the scheme after digging a part
of the distance. The methods of tun-
mel engineering in those days were
comparatively crude. The kind of con-
struction material employed was not
practicable The old tunnel attempts
We're fiat bottomed and comb rooted.
The new tunnel is a circular tube OF
steel, in successive sections. pushed in
to place and solidly connected after the
powerful hydraulic jack has bored the
hole in the earth. Thus equal resis-
lance is given at all points. The Nc
Adoo tunnels use the old borings so far
as they go, but employ the new tube
material altogether.
Tunnel workmen are subject to an
ailment called bends" due to their
working in an area of compressed air.
1t is highly dangerous for man with
the bends to come outside at once,
so the engineers have devised a Curl
Gus emergency hospital. This looks
like a huge boiler. with door in the
end. When "a man coming out of the
tunnel is taken with bends" he is
thrust into one of these little hospitals,
near the mouth of the hole. The air in
the hospital is compressed, and the pa
tient is gradually brought around to
his normal condition. so that he can
breathe ordinary atmosphere without
endangering his life.
ROBERT DONNELL.
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the traffic of his roads competitors.
He learned to judge~of the compare
tive advantages of war and peace with
his rivals in the western markets. He
measured with keen eye the chances
of successful war and profitable peace
in the rich valleys of the coast, where
his Oregon lines met those of ]. J. Hill,
and on the level plains of Nebraska.
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bring the grain of western Nebraska
the lumber of central Oregon, the ores
of Idaho and Wyoming into the cities
of the central west. where the markets
were good. He not only initiated the
methods of j. ]. Hill, but he improved
on them. Sometimes by cutting rates
he fought his strong antagonist on the
north: sometimes by a traffic truce he
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office at 12O Broadway. Those who
have seen Mr.. Hartman at this desk
realize that he is a veritable whirl-
wind of energy He extracts the gist
of his correspondence and disposes of
the reports that reach him daily with a
celebrity that is unrivaled in Wall
street, that region of reckless speed. 1t
is reported that his stenogra piers
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-06-06
FIT THE GROCER
Wife Made the Suggestion.

A grocer has excellent opportunity
to know the effects of special foods on
his customers. A Cleveland grocer
has long list of customers that have
been helped in health by leaving off
coffee and using Postum Food Coffee
He says, regarding his own expe-
rience: 1.-TWO years ago 1 had been
drinking coffee and must say that
was almost wrecked in my nerves.
Particularly in the morning l was
so irritable and upset that 1 could
hardly wait until the coffee was
served, and then 1 had no appetite for
breakfast and did not feel like attend
ing to my store duties.
"One day my wife suggested that
inasmuch as / was selling so much
Postum there must be some merit n
it and suggested that we try it. 1 took
home package and she prepared it
according to directions. The result
was a very happy one. My nervous
ness gradually disappeared and to-day
am all right. would advise every
one affected in any way with nervous
ness or stomach troubles, to leave off
coffee and use Postum Food Coffee"
There's a Reason" Read, "The Road
TO MELVILLE" in pkgs.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-06-06
An Oversiqht.

When Chappie got up the other
morning he wandered around his
apartment in his pretty pink pajamas,
the very picture of woe.
whats the matter, sir?" inquired
his valet.
II don't know, Alphonse," he groan-
ed; 81 passed most unhappy night"
Alphonse looked him over carefully
ooh, sir" he exclaimed, II know
your pajamas were not creased. You
must be more careful, sir. Those
had prepared for you were hanging
across the foot of the bed. The b.
hemian.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-06-06
Desert Lands Made Fertile.

According to official figures, since
the reclamation law was enacted by
congress in 1902, eight towns have
been built and 10000 people have set
tied on what were desert lands One
hundred miles of branch railways
have been built, 1857 miles of canals
have been dug, many of which carry
whole rivers, and AZ tunnels have
been excavated. 1t is estimated that
the territory embraced in what is
known as the arid regions of the Unit
ed States covers 600,0O0,000 acres, of
which about 6O,OOO,OO0. acres are sub
1ect to irrigation and can be converted
into farms as productive as lands in
the most favored sections.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-06-06
An Antique Joke.

Funny, wasn't it," remarked Her
cules, rs he dropped into the office of
the Elysirfm Herald. "What?" asked
the editor, looking up from the article
he was polishing UP on the last matri-
monial shindy kicked up by Jupiter.
The strong man laughed like a child.
Why" he answered, that my IL la
bors should have made ten strike"
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-06-06
siamese Object TO Walking.

The Siamese, above all nations in
the world, hate to walk; no such mode
of progression is tolerated by Siam
csc if he or she can by any means
ride. A Venetian gOndolier will walk
sometimes; even a Hollander will ride
on his rough cart but Bangkok man
not if he can help it. His family
lat for him.-Windsor Magazine.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-06-06
BLIND KEY OPERATOR
TELEGRAPHER KEEPS FAMILY BY
HIS SKILL.
Left Without a Father at Age of ~
he Learns to Send Out and Re-
ceive Messages and Becomes
Highly Proficient.

Carmi, 1ll.-Blind since birth, Gil
bert Mcdonald, probably the most
wonderful telegrapher in the world,
lives at Maunie, little village on the
Louisville & Nashville railroad, and
earns living for his widowed mother
and three sisters He is perhaps the
only blind telegraph operator in the
world, and can practice at the key
with as much dexterity as one not
minus his eyes Mcdonald is %
years old and has been d telegraph
operator about ten years. Not until
recently, though, has he been recog-
Eized by the railroad and given per
Dianent employment. He is now as
sistant operator at Maunie and also
has charge of the Western Union
Telegraph company's Office
Left without father at the age of
IL, the blind lad was forced to assist
his mother in making living. He
was greatly handicapped by the loss
of his eyesight, and many neighbors
sought to contribute to him through
charitable motives. But the lad would
have none of it, and worked at what
ever he could find to do. He sold
papers on the streets, BACKED shoes
and ran errands.
He finally drifted to the depot, and
a strong attachment grew between
John W. Foster, agent at the little sta
ton, and the blind lad. For hours the
boy would sit and listen at the busy
clickety -click of the wire. One day
Foster asked him if he would like to
learn telegraphy. The reply was al
firmative and the boy went to work.
In less than a month he could send,
and in less than half year he was a
marvel at the key Each day he would
copy messages and take them home at
night. There his sisters would teach
him their meaning. He soon became
proficient on the typewriter and could
take the fastest message that went
over the wire with ease.
Persisting in this unique schooling
the boy learned the meaning of over
1000 words, knowing the spelling and
proper use of each. He in time learned
to make change, sell tickets and weigh
baggage. He became an object of in
terest to railroad men, and the agent
at Maunie employed him to assist him
with his work.
One day when the agent was away
the fast ST. Louis mail and express
flyer stopped at the station. Superin-
tendent j. w. Logsdon stepped off and
ran into the depot He looked on in
wonder as the blind boy sold tickets,
made change and answered questions
as well apparently as one with eyes.
AS soon as Mr.. Logsdon returned
home he interested the railroad of
ficials in the blind boy and Mcdonald
was accordingly sent to the state
blind school at Jacksonville. While
there he distinguished himself by
rapid progress. He remained but a
few months and returned to work at
his post at Mamie
Mcdonald is one of the speediest
operators in the west. When the
flood threatened to sub
merge the town last January he was
ordered to assist the Western Union
operator in handling press specials
The sender has to read the copy to
Glib" as the railroad men call him,
and he gets it on the wire almost as
fast as it is read.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-06-06
MRS.NELLIE MARKHAM

A nervous irritable woman. often on
the verge of Mysteries, is source of
misery to everyone who comes under
her influence, and unhappy and mis-
cradle herself.
Such women not only drive hus-
bands from home but are wholly unfit
to govern children.
The ills of women act like fire
brand upon the nerves, consequently
seven-tenths of the nervous prostra-
ton, nervous dependency, t h e
"blues". sleeplessness, and nervous
irritabilitv of women arise from some
organic arrangement.
Do you experience fits of depression
with restlessness alternating with ex-
treme irrita bility ? Do you suffer
from pains in the abdominal region,
backache, bearing down pains, nervous
dyspepsia, sleeplessness, and almost
continually cross and snappy? If so,
your nerves are in a shattered con-
dition and you are threatened with
nervous prostration.
Proof is monumental that nothing
in the world is better for nervous
troubles of women than Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
made from native roots and herbs.
Thousands and thousands of women
can testify to this fact.
Mrs. Nellie Markham, of Isl Morgan
St., Buffalo, N. Y, writes
Dear Mrs. Pinl1ham:-
II was a wreck from nervous prostration.
LYDIA e. Pinkham's Vegetable Co
herbs, contains no narcotics or harmfr
the largest number of actual cures {
world has ever known, and thousa
file in the laboratory at Lynn, Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable COmpOul
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-06-06

My doctor kept me on a strict diet, but
as his medicine was not helping me,
| began using Doan's Kidney Pills.
They helped me at once, and soon all
traces of sugar disappeared. I have
regained my former weight and am
perfectly we'll"
Sold by all dealers. SO cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-06-06

that my homework
was becoming a bur-
den. 1 tired easily,
had no ambition and
was fading fast. My
complexion got vel
low and l lost over
so pounds. My thirst
was terrible, a n d
there was sugar in
the kidney secretiOns.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-06-06
WORN TO A SKELETON.
A Wonderful Restoration Caused
Sensation in Pennsylvania


Mrs. Charles N. Preston, of Elkland,
Pa, says: Three years ago | found