Arizona republican., 1911-12-10
NEW YORK IS PLANNING
 EXPENSIVE BOULEVARD
It Is to be Mile and a Half lcng and the Cost Will be S15,oo0 900.

NEW YORK. Dec. 9.-Plans are now
 under way here to cut through the
 heart of the city at a cost of $l5.-
 G50.OO the most expensive street in
 the country. to connect New York'S
 two great travel centers. Though on
 ly a scant mile and a half in length
 as now laid out this curving avenue
 will probably be th, most expensive
 surface travel thorOughfare in the
 world and will connect two points in
 the city-that is the Grand Central
 station and the Pennsylvania Termin-
 al-where passenger traffic amounts
 to more than 20,OO0, 900 persons a yea.
 While the new boulevard will neceS-
 Sarily mean the d,molishing of a large
 number of buildings. the route has
 been so plotted as to involve the con
 ,iemning of only two modern struc- tures All the rest will be small tenn
 porary or old-time buildings. Already the tax on one of the thoroughfares
 connecting these two points causes
 such congestion as to render rapid progress impossible. and although the Eew Grand Central station is not vet completed. the figures covering the number of passengers handled in the Pennsylvania terminal which has been opened just a year this week indicate
 what may be expected. During the
 twelve months just ended the latter has been used by approximately 10,- GOO, 900 passengers travelin on the ll1,942 trains operated in and out of the station, or an average of about 30O00 passengers and 300 trains daily. For the operation of these trains and the accommodation of passengers a small army of 75O men is required. During the year about 2,000.000 tickets were sold, that is about 5000 daily, while approximately 1.50O.000 pieces of baggage were handled. The bureau of information at which telephone in quirieS only are received. answered 371,7l4 calls or more than a thousand a day As an illustration of the man ner in which the taxicab has put the old fashioned hanson out of business, ii is of interest to note that during the year there were 23O,197 calls for taxi cabs. With another terminal which will equal or exceed these figures ap- preaching completion. an avenue which will give direct connection between the two. even if the cost be $15,O00,- coo, is now regarded as a necessity.
 With the ending of New York's an- nual horse show, the last which will ever be held in the historic Madison Square Garden an event which has come to be considered the gala oc- casion of the year among the socially elect, many interesting "reminiscences have been current regarding manner; and customs when the National Hors Show association gave its first eX-l hibition in 1883. Its transition from a purely sporting function to an event . for the fashionable has taken place gradually but surely, until now it has come to rank first among society con claves. with the opera season second in the running. On the first occasion of the Horse Show. twenty-eight years ago, no list of the boXholders was kept, but among the one hundred { prominent patrons that were present, ! fifty were people of the theater and I twenty-five more were politicians and . SldleSlnen. fttnIN NdTu BceClltI rep ! resented the cloth The formal open ing was marked by a speech by Mayor | Edson. who eulogized the value and . necessity of the horse This was fol- lowed by a fire alarm" A fire en- zine ready for action and fully manned was rushed into the ring by gallopins horses. and a competition for a prize was held for quickness of hitch and general skill in the handling of the steeds. "A different company took part in this exhibition each morning ard afternoon of the show. At this time all the horses were quartered on the main floor of the garden. their present adequate and comfortable ac- being provided a num- per of years later. The statistics in with the initial exhibition ire interesting in the light of the tre- patronage which it now en- 1