The San Francisco call., 1908-09-20
San Francisco to Liverpool
in Eight Days Is Plan
Deep Water Harbor at Montauk Point Will
Bring Europe Closer to New York
BY c. G. Carlton
srECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALI

Carlton
-CH TO THE CALL
the interior diameter OF each tunnel
TO 1s feet The concrete lining has
never before been used in tunnels of
the kind and is employed to give ad
ditional strength TO the tubes
X is now possible TO enter one of
the four tunnels at Long Island City
and walk all the way underground or
under water to the west side of Bergen
1 hill in Jersey.
The Pennsylvania road made some in
teresting Investigations before il en-
. bsrked upon the colossal undertaking
which is nearing completion. 1t figured
that the population of the metropolitan
district. that is. within a radius of 19
miles of the New York city hall, would
be 100000 in 1913 and 5000, 600 in
4 1890. 1t decided to put itself in the
closest possible touch with this vast
! aggregation of humanity and run its
tracks where it would get most OF the
4 business when any of the S.0O0.0 trav-
eled by rail, and also where it would
I haul the foods. the coal and the end
less commodities daily consumed by
such a stupendous number of people.
HARTMAN TO AID ERIE
Not only does the Pennsylvania plan
to run its European express trains
between Chicago and Montauk in 20
/ hours. but it is said that E. H., Harri-
man is to make the Erie the shortest
/ route between Chicago and New York
as a part of his transcontinental sys-
J tenn The Erie is in poor physical con-
dition. In railroad circles it is said
J that Hartman is crazy on efficiency"
! He is firm believer in physical bet
/ terments. Under his administration
/ $500 100000 has been spent in better
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cifc railroads embraced in what is
popularity known as the Hartman sys-
! TEN. Last Sunday The Call told how
4 he once ordered the water tank pipes
! TO be enlarged in order to effect a
4 saving of time in watering the loco
motives. This is only characteristic of
! Hartman. II is said that he will take
! numerous kinks" out of the Erie, as
he did out of the Union and Southern
Pacific and improve the road in many
/ other respects.
Some who profess to know Harri-
man intimately would hardly accuse
! him of being sentimental, yet those
/ nearest to him say that he raised
money TO save the Erie from bank
ruptcy and put it on it's feet. because
his magnificent estate of 10000 acres
and summer home at Arden. New
York. is on the Erie railroad, and he
has planned to spend there the days
remaining after he has retired from
| the railroad and financial world. At
Arden he proposes also to establish
a home for boys. So it appears that
Hartman is. as he SAYS. growing mel
! lower as he grows older.
NEW FORESTRY BILL
When United otates Senator Reed
Smoot was here a week ago en- route
TO Salt Lake from a sojourn in Europe
/ he stated to friends that he would
introduce a bill in congress authoriz-
\ ing the various states and territories
to take charge of the timber tracts
situated within their respective bor-
! ders and to reforest and administer
them, the state and territories to pay
! the federal government a nominal
price for such tracts.
Senator Smoot is chairman of the
national commission for the conserva-
/ tion of our national resources appoint
/ ed by President Roosevelt last June as
an outgrowth of the convention of
governors. He has been studying for
estry conditions in various European
countries with an idea of introducing
/ into congress measures calculated to
prevent the ruthless waste of forests.
The senator says that such propo-
sition would be a paying one to any
state, county or city, for, judging by
the way forestry is conducted in the
| three countries he visited, the revenue
]
Quoted upon economic lines.
! One of the best administered forests
4 visited was that of Silhwald, Switzer-
| land. The city of Zurich owns the for
/ est 1t is the best managed forest in
the world. One hundred years ago
Switzerland and Germany were in the
same position in which we find our
selves today. Their forests had been
cut away and there was little timber
/ to be had. The forest of Silhwald costs
for administration $3.50 an acre. The
/ city of Zurich receives $2S.25 an acre
from the output Of the forest every
| year. Not a foot of timber that can be
est. are made excelsior. hammer han
dies, shovel handles and fence poles,
and the timber is sawed into lumber.
KEEP RECORD OF TREES
Professor Meister is the head for
ester and he has jurisdiction over
$500 acres. The forest is divided into
q districts. In every district the trees
are certain age. Say, in district No.
| ! there are nothing but trees 100 years
! old. They are never allowed to get
/ older than that, as the tree is consid-
cred mature at that age. In district
! No. there are trees only three years
/ old, and so on down to the Seeding.
| Every tree in every district is num-
bered and a record of the tree is kept
( see on the record how much each tree
has grown at any year of its existence
from the day the seed is planted until
it is matured and cut. They take
( stock every year. They know exactly
how many million feet of lumber are
I in each of the divisions.
/ Society was much surprised this week
TO learn that Mrs. Clarence Mackay
has joined the woman suffragists, ia
4 miliarly known hereabout as "suffra-
| gettes' 1t has been known that Mrs.
Mackay is what is commonly known
as "a strong minded woman" She has
several times been a candidate for
4 superintendent of schools at Roslyn
Long island, and has been elected after
more or less exciting campaigns. When
the duchess of Marlborough was here,
too the pair made the rounds of the
/ slums to see what missionary work
! would better the condition of the poor
( people men, women and children, who
/ work in factories and sweatshops and
| live in tenements But that she has
actually Joined the women suffragists
! and will make some speeches advocat-
ing the right of franchise for women
! created genuine surprise. She has Of
fered a prize for the best paper on
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