Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-08


Of the Pennsylvania railroad IL to occupy
a prominent place in the great terminal
building the company has about com
pleted in the heart Of Manhattan is and.
The mammoth passenger station. and the
tunnels linking New York with New
Jersey and Long Island are a more inn
posing tribute to the genius of the man
who conceived the project and lived TO
see the undertaking well advanced to
mo holder conception"
says the Philadelphia Record was ever
formed and carried 10 a conclusion than
Mr.. Cassatts idea OF station in the
middle OF Manhattan Island. First and
last II involved the acquisition of the
Long Island railroad. although that had
reference moro particularly to securing
the trade OF New England. the tunneling
Of the North river and the East river,
and the construction of the greatest and
most expensive OF railway stations. A
man OF ordinary Intelligence would
not have been easily convinced that any
increase of business could accrue to the
Pennsylvania railroad that would warrant
the enormous expense OF getting 20 Man
haitian Island, but Mr. Cassatt had a
very extraordinary intellectually. He
saw that the greatest railroad system in
the United States must have a foothold
within the limits of the greatest city
of the country, and not reach it by means
of ferry. He had the courage OF his
convictions, and believed that il his rail-
road would be incomplete without sta
ton on Manhattan, 20 station would
Justify itself So far as It has gone the
company has found Mr.. Csssatts con-
victions verified. and there is remarkable
RI ~ In, nla ., to 90, L.,
the Manhattan terminal
Ten thousand persons were unhoused,
according to the New York World, ito
make room for the Pennsylvania station
Less than ten years ago these people,
enough to make a flourishing city by
themselves lived in $4,000, 900 worth of
buildings in the blocks bounded by Sew
enth and Ninth avenues, Thirty-first and
Thirty-third streets
mot the least marvellous thing in con-
nectlon with the splendid terminal struc-
ture. which was formally opened to COM
pany uses last week, is the speed with
which the great site was cleared, exca-
walton made to me depth on forty feet
and the vast new edifice erected. In
another month the new station will be
opened for traffic uses, and the monopoly
of direct train entrance to Manhattan.
held for generations at the Grand Cen
trail. will be broken. The event Will
make an epoch In metropolitan as we'll
as in railroad history.
THE terminal station fronting on Sew
enth, avenues, twin-tube tunnel to Long
visible feature of a s120, 900 improve
ment. Other parts of the scheme are
a double tunnel under the Hudson river,
with approaches In New Jersey, a four
track subway across Manhattan, suO-
grade trainyard between Tenth asd Sew
enth avenues, a twin-tube tunnel to Long
Island City under the East river, a giant
electric power house in Long Island City.
the largest freight yards in the world
at Greenville, N. j.
"A quarter of a million people could stand
in the floor space of the terminal station.
Seven of the largest ocean steamers could
have been noated in the excavations be-
meath 1t. No structure ever had clearer
title to rank as wonder. OF the world
Yet II has been planned and built to meet
simply the pressing, progressive demand of
a workday traffic. 1t is the traffic. after
all, that makes the marvel"
'If you see a woman half sliding off a
bench with her jaw dropped and breathing
heavily. don't turn in a call for an am
bulance," said park policeman quoted by
the New York Sun, for she's only relax
ing and taking her daily breathing exer-
cises. The first time ( saw woman doing
this 1t gave me quite a turn and thought
sure she'd been done up by the heat AS
she looked as though she'd have the price
OF a cab 1 stepped up to her and said
Shall l call cab, madam, to take you
home
Mercy no. says she. quite upset, I'm
not sick. I'm only taking my breathing ex-
ercise out here because it's SO hot in the
house Then she got up quite mad and
walked off.
''Since then I've watched for these deep
breathing women and in the early morning
and late afternoon I see a good many Each
one seems to think no one will notice her
She looks as limp as sick cat, drops her
jaw and breathes deep and it's no wonder
person would think she was sick"
When they stationed Pop" Geoghegan at
the East Ninety-sixth street public bath
house his superiors thought they were doing
a favor for a policeman with stripes on
his sleeves representing twenty-five years
service.
1t is due to the fact that Pop Geoghe-
gan did not let his years interfere with his
duty that Mrs. Clara Bromwitz, 1856 East
One Hundredth street. did not lose her
daughter, Sadie. so years old, by drowning
in the East river.
All that Pop" did when he saw the little
girl fall overheard was to jump overheard
after her, uniform. shoes, revolver, billy,
handouts, watch and all.
That part OF the river into which the child
fell is called Little Hell Gate because OF
rocks and a dangerous current. Only the
best swimmers venture into It ana as a
swimmer Pop Geoghegan has been out
Of training for some years. He was In the
water twenty minutes and when he reached
the bath house with the girl hanging on
his neck hundreds Of persons gave him a
roaring reception.
The mother of the baby flung herself
on the old policeman and tried to tear from
the lapel Of his uniform the numerals "3s. .
the number OF his precinct, for memento
OF his heroisrn. she also wanted him to
join the family at supper.
Then persons who had witnessed the
rescue swarmed into the station house
and told what they had seen, Geoghegan's
only comment was: