Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-22
THE STEAM ENGINE
BAN|SHEO FROM
NEW YORK
Last Locomotive DISAPPEARS
Before the Modern ElectricI
Enginei the Opera Octopus
Latest Of the Trusts,
Especial correspondence TO MorninS Journal

Especial Correspondence 60 Morning Journal
New York. March 20.-~leor the hfst
time since the wonders of Watt were
applfed to traction on this island over
q half century ago, steam locomotives
have today been banishcd trom the
entire city with the finnl electrical
ton Of the railroads of the upper
Wcstchoster suburbs. Within a rauiHs
Of a dozen miles outside the llmits oI
Greater New York in this state The
sight and sound OF the good old steam
engines is now gone forever o the
roadbcds. whore strings of cars wnlrl
back ana forth under the silent spell
of electricity. In a carnival Of civic
celebration All the towns Of the llar-
lem VALLEY are today marking tlifs
missing of the heavier and more noisy
traction beast of burden to make way
for the tremendous circuits of current
that nov move to and from the city
eenters many millions of people each
or all the changes that haNe
come over the face OF Manhattan
within the memory of the present gem
Grafton. his elimination of the steam
locomotive is considered by New
Workers the most striking.
Opera Octopus.
no combine American opera into "a
trust as arbitrary as ;tns in the N0pd.
Il Inc MAN OF "a small group or Wall
street mnsnatesk no arc today per
fectinp plans to corner the human
song-bird market, With the mutual
control of the opera houses of bus-
ton. Chicago and this city as "a basis
II is now Intended to bind the opera
Consumer IN over the country to trust
tteEet tnriffs as wen as enslave every
,,.i,no aonna basso tenor and orches-
rai rorformA, M reduced salaries.
te,err nota Of each imported singer
n,nst heor the ham mark Of the opera
tr,,et ar he hurled FAR from the only
onn,, ho,,ens az the country. it is to
be decreed by the experienced com
tt,a monitors who are framing up
tbn schotnn While the opera octopus
is SIN in embryo here. It's t|entacles
~ nronteinp tn soon embrace every
stooe If rrnn1inenco i'm the land.
Snyino seconds.
That tho speed ana safety Of the
,,,sh Nam crowds in this metropolis
ts ,,,,th ar times oyer $1,000 Il sec
nod ~ bnen shawn today in the first
o,,eratfon of The increased schedule
no has hncn offered bV the subway
sn,,fna WIN one .sreat steel train az
ter another being shot through the
tubos each minute and forty-eight
seconds the snfest signal devices
known 10 science are set along the
line TO uIIard the lives of their human
freight no save six seconds and in
snre against accident at one particu-
lar turn Of the traction bore. some
$4,000 has lust been invested in a
single set of signal apparatus. over
a million human beings are entrusted
to the care of the subway crews in
a single day ana the men who must
whirl them at railroad speed from end
to end of the island are, in common
with All street railway men. cNcrting
every effort TO avoid the chance of ace
ctdents Tor which they are held l-
Martyrs Memory.
About a simple shaft in a quiet
rnrner Of calvary cemetery crowds of
pilerims from police headquarters ana
the lower East Side are today lingcr-
inp uncovered. before the new monp-
ment To the martyred detective, Pet
risono. Twelve feet above his grave,
81 Inst of the faithful policeman is set,
aazine orr over the city he once guard
ed with an the fearless calm that
. ANFNA NAH ~ NEE