New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-03
WHY TOXIC
TALKS SUBWAY
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narrow unpaved streets of windy Toxic
windy almost all the four seasons-the els-
waited railway holds the championship withcus
the smallest room for debate. There was no
other objection needed to kill the scheme. But
in addition to the above the erection OF an
elevated line in Toxic meets an almost insur-
mountable obstacle in the prohibitive cost Of
real estate needed for its erection. And that
is not all. The streets of Toxic, especially
through the densely settled business section,
are festooned with low hanging electric wires,
which must be displaced some way by the
wouid-be constructors of elevated lines. 50
the future of elevated lines is not rosy.
What, then, is the answer?-for an answer
it must have.
"a subway" seems to be the most popular
answer in Toxic.
There is a promoter by the name Of &
Hayakawa. Along about 1913 he awoke with
a settled conviction that the City of Toxic
was crying for an underground rapid transit
system. He went abroad and devoted many
months to the study of the construction and
operation of subways in different parts Of
Europe and America. In 1917 he returned
to japan, which was at the very peak .
war prosperity then. There was an orgy Of
new enterprises. Investment funds were
plentiful. 1t was an ideal time to launch
his scheme. The result was the organization
of the Toxic Chika Tetsudo Kabushik Kaisha
(The Toxic Underground Railway Company
1t was organized in August, 1920. The actual
survey of the soil along the proposed iine
began in February, 1921, and was completed
in September Of the same year. Mr. Haya-
kawa was not the first promoter of subway
scheme for Toxic. The promoter of the Toxic
Kosokudo Testsu6o Kabushiki Kaisha, Mr.
Toshimitsu Tsurumatsu, was the first to get
the license for the construction of an eight
mile line Of subway there, running from
Otsuka to Shinjuku. But this company, Ike
number of others, did not go much further
than the license.
The talk Of q subway in Toxic was firs
greeted with stupendous enthusiasm by one
class of worthy people, class of people
who earn their honest livings through some
thing more than the sweat of their brows--the
funny men of the newspapers of Toxic.
was g gold mine for them. The idea o.
sinking an expensive system flor the est.
mated cost of subway was put at 4,000,o0o
yen milel in the mud Of Toxic was .
them and to q lot Of othar worthy neopis
of the capital city of the empire, somes.lins
which was at once princely and rareevea
in the age of the war Narikin
They had q good deal of fun over the
mental pictue of miles of tube" lost in MRS
or flooded by water from countless springs
in the pebbly soil of Toxic. But the boring
made by expert engineers in different sections
of the city told an entirely different tale
To the eternal disappointment of newspaper
humorists, the soil of Toxic happens to ps
quite suitable for the construction Of SUB
ways. So the Toxic Underground Railway
Company and two other groups of promoters
are going to build forty-four miles Of subway
at the total estimated cost of some 10000
600 yen. Il is quite an undertaking, o.
course, but the dream is more apt to come
true, largely because 1t Is enc of those dreams
which hava to come true il Toxic is to grow
to the proportions Of Baron Gotos prophecy~s
city Of 100000.