The Washington herald., 1911-12-10
BOULEVARD TO COST
$tO,OOO,OOO A MILE

centers. Though only a scant mile and
a half in length as now laid out this
curving avenue will probably be the 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 Terminal
whose passenger traffic amounts to more
than 100000 persons a year.
! While the new boulevard will neces-
| sarily mean the demolishing of a large
number of buildings, the route has been
so plotted as to involve the condemnin=
| of only two modern structures. All the
! rest will be small, temporary. 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 new Grand Central Station
is not yet 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 10000, 900 pas
/ sengers travelling on the 111.942 trains
operated in and out of the station. or an
average of about 10000 passengers and
| 800 trains daily. For the operation of
| these trains and the accommodation Of
| passengers a small army of $50 men Is
| required. During the year about 100000
| tickets were sold. that is about 6,O0S
daily, while approximately 100000 pieces
| of baggage were handled. The bureau
of information at which telephone in
| quirles only are received, answered 37,-
| IA calls or more than a thousand a day.
| AS an Illustration of the manner 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
eSo,l97 calls for taXicabs. With another
terminal, which will equal or exceed these
figures approaching completion, an avenue
which will give direct connection be-
tween the two, even if the cost be $15,-
1900, is now regarded as a necessity.
With the ending of New York's annual
horse show, the last which will ever be
held in the historic Madison Square Gar
den. an event which has come to be con-
sidered the gala occasion of the year
among the socially elect, many interest
ing "reminiscences have been current re-
garding manners and customs when the
National Horse Show Association gave
its first exhibition in 1883 Its transition
from a purely sporting function to an
event for the fashionable has taken place |
gradually but surely, until now 1t has
come to rank first among society con- |
ClaYes, with the opera season second In |
horse show, twcnty-eight years ago, no
list of the bOX-holders was kept. but |
among the 100 hundred prominent patrons |
that were present. fifty We're people OF !
the theater and twenty-five more were |
politicians and statesmen. Henry Ward |
Beecher represented the cloth.
The formal opening was marked by a |
speech by Mayor Edison. who eulogized |
the value and necessity of the horse. |
This was followed by a fire alarm" A |
fire engine, ready for action and fully |
manned. was rushed into the ring by gal |
Looping horses, and a competition for |
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 and aft
ernoon of the show. At this time all
the horses were Quartered on the main
floor OF the Garden. their present ade-
quate and comfortable accommodations
being provided a number of years later.
The statistics in connection with the
initial exhibition are interesting the
light of the tremendous patronage which
II now enjoys. There were 49, exhibitors
and the horses by Implications made up
of 623 entries, the premiums awarded
amounted to $3.50 From financial
standpoint the affair was anything hut
a success. At the close. one OF the di-
rsctors, when asked if it had paid, re-
|
wise, yeigh.'
That the occupation of the aviator is
precarious in more ways than one is be-
ing strangely illustrated here by the
presence of a group of the cOuntry's best
known air men who find themselves win
ter bound in this city. 1t would naturally
be expected that these aviators would
fit to warmer Chimes. But il costs money
fS little chance |
of even paying expenses by giving ex-
hibltions after arrival. UnpleaS SAINT as 1t
is the birdmen are being forced to realize
that the day of the flying circus IS prac-
tically at an end. Two years ago Wilbur
Wright was quoted saying that folks
who hoped to make money tg giving
exhibition flights had better get busy,
because they would have only about two
seasons in which to do so and get away
with it financially. In 1909 Washington,
D. c., sent to New York a delegation
made up of Clamoring citizens and every
thing else the delegation thought was
needed to try to get the international
meet. later held at Belmont Park, for /
Chicago, Kansas City, st. {
Louis, Denver, Los Angeles. all the coun- (
try fought to get the meet. Cortlandt ,
Field Bishop argued with the Aero Club
at that time to let the meet go to some
inland city so that interest in aviation : :
a
Now another international meet looms
ahead for next summer and no city wants .
[, with the possible exception of Chicago.
Of all the long string of flyers recently I
N the Wrights' employ only one is now
retained. and there are a score of air
men in this city "at liberty" There re-
mains practically no part of the country ,
which has not seen an aeroplane going u
I'D into the sky or falling down out of it,
ind the novelty having worn of there
s no mad rush to pay to see flights. =
Hence it is that the aviators find them
selves here jobless.
ANY person having authoritative knowl
sdge as to just what turtle is will be
gladly welcomed by local judge who
S endeavorIng to administer justice in a
Iueer case here, involving a charge of
,rueIty to turtles against the captain of
vessel which arrived this week from ! ,
he South bringing part Of her cargo
ixty-five live green turtles. To prevent
heir escape during the voyage their fins
II flippeFs were pierced and tied to-
,ether on each side by means of rope
,assing through these holes, and as a
urther indignity they were made to en-
ure the entire passage reclining on their
acks As soon as this condition of af-
airs was discovered, a local magistrate
ruled that 1t was clearly a case
I cruelty to animals, whereupon the
awyer for the captain of the vessel
pointed out that the turtle is
ot an animal, being classed by natural
sts as a reptile. The prosecution then
abou fha of |