The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-03-06
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GOTHAM

NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-Police Com.
missioner Bingham wants 500 addition.
al men for his trafic squad, which now
numbers 600 men. the very pick Of the
metropolitan police force. These 600
men do the. best they can toward hand.-
ing the traffic OF New York; congested
streets. London has 5000 men for that
purpose, and yet London complains Of
conditions.
New Yorkers win admit that condi.
tions today are vastly better than they
were FIVE years ago, when serious and
often fatal accidents ct street cross.
ings were almost Of hourly occurapcs.
For example, it has been months since
any one was injured ct Fifth avenue
and Forty-second street, long regarded
as the most difficult and dangerous
crossing in the city. Nor are West and
South streets longer biockaded, as tney
used to be Tor hours at time. Traffic
is kept moving, which undoubtedly il
the main consideration in . great city,
and the danger to life and limb which
pedestrians run IL much less than it
used TO be, but still conditions ass far
from what they ought to be in . sivi-
lized community.
Those in authority in New York rec
ognize that the day is coming when al
heavy vehicular ftratic On Manhattan
must be underground. Already the
crowding for room has forced the great
% psst Of traction trsfie into the air
or bsusath the surface, and the truck
ing trnfiic will have to follow. Already
plans have been drawn for . system Of
tubes FOX vehicular trahks, but the lack
Of money stands in the wAy Of their
building.
Every true son Of the metropolis d
convinced that within the present gene
ration New York win b The wosj1su
greatest city, that It win havs pegs'
lation exceeding that Of Londoa, Rasfs,
and Berlin combined. When that day
comes fewapsspls, Of course, will have
their homes on Manhattan From tbs
Battery to Tia nssaa it will - = mari
Of trade, with nsse theatsn and hetsls
than in any similar area on the eay&A 4
surface. The streets will BE- 9eep
canons between sky-ssrapsrs and thsse
will be sidewalks sas shove the other.
Already the problsn Of how to re.
move the workers nd their families
from the eongested tenement districts
is engaging the best thought Of the
city. Not only 10 their removal desir-
able from Humanitarian view points,
but the land upon which the tenements
stand has become too valuable for
that purpose. It ise needed for COM
mercisl purposes, especially for ware
houses. Trinity ehurch, one Of the
largest tenement landlords Of the city,
already has torn down some Of its
tenements and ID erecting warehouses
ON the land. Other tenement owners
are following or preparing to follow
Trinity's example. At present the only
result 10 to drive the tenants Of the Dc.
stroyed buildings into other and a.
ready overcrowded ; districts, and con-
ditions are becoming worae instead Of
better. The tenement .dwellers do not
respond readily to the call "Back ia
Nature" and attempts to induce them
to cross the East or North rivers have
not met with overwhelming success.
Fears already are expressed that
next summer will see an ice famine in
New York. The Hudson river crop has
been very short, and - the ice Il now
breaking up there 10 little prospect that
more will be harvested. Maine offe 6
practically the only other field for nat
ural ice, and the Ice trust ID now at
work in Maine with feverish activity,
While there Is plenty Of ice ON the