Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-08

4 Ill in the same week, recently.
~ with the following London an.
"A nouncement. Paris received n
a Chicago commission. come Ia
sac what IL might recommend
for new subway in Chicago. The
members Of the commission stared
muttered. laughed and all but wept at
what they saw.
They saw 30 miles Of raiiwa" lines
cut by single company in tunnels
through the soft stone under inhabited
Paris and given up To circulation. An
other company has cut dozens more
Of miles In trans,ersal lines. And
what circulation?
In 1901. it's third year. when the
Metro bad got we'll into the peoples
hnbits-"Meiro" il short for Metro.
politan Underground Raiiway~~it ear
ii~d IS. 41S, lfG passengers. hv number
Of tickets sold. In 1896 the Metro
alone had 5.sjoi.e6s passengers.
So. taking into account the entire
population of 1000. 900 Of Greater
Iaris~~~that II. the iuctossd city plus
suburbs linked M with il in unbroken
lines of strccts~~etery man. woman
and child would take one Metro ride
every third day and otiencr, or
course. II Is the reporters who really
II
and women. people going Ia business.
women to shop and children to school
But how did they all get about only
IA few years ago.
With all this. you see. the over,
ground lines have not suffered. On
the contrary, for one horse omnibus
before 1000 there are now ten auto
bisAes. For one horse car there are
20 motor tram cars and troileys on
rails on the open streets. And not
only that. tho Metro is no longer the
only underground railway. Az stated
IL has been helped out by transvcrsal
underground lines OF the "Nord stud
from Montmartre's hilly streets down
across the River Seine and over Ia
Montmorinssc. where American arr
lists and others pretending 10 lac artists
and writer's see their own dreams, lust
as tourists see Muntmartre
All told, Paris In close Ia the 100
miles permitted by thu FIRST Metro
| charter. and the trains iasa un,lef,
ground every three minutes In every
direction. The Metro cars alone dill
more than 100000 miles transit las,
year.
London IL bigger than Paris. hut
when the Chicago commission went
over To London TO get more hints n
sudden and unexpected announcement,
aas made To them
We are soing to completed over,
haul our own underground system.
said the londonets. I'm snit, of th,.
fact tina. the London system IN CON
sidered the best ana most up Ia dat,
In the world"
AZ for Paris, II IL amazing tina,
Paris did not have all this long before
| nnd equally amazing that Parts hus IL
now,
Chicago has taken only 100 years To
Jump from frontier town To one of
the worlds greatest cities, Hu, Paris
VAS already great business center
of trade and navigation in julius taa,
sars time, 1000 years agu. And in
| all tho time since II has grown until
| II has between two aud three militou
neopls inside It's city wa,is-~a city
| ni,e mliea hong AMI i've miles hroad
| a's,faddle The River Seinera~unu, the
| twentieth century found II student,
ttanprd In all tta communications
iiui ST ears and horse omnih,ses, tWo
street car lines each of comm eAss,
mir ahd electric tmWef. and n steam,
| belt railroad summed M all Il had.
40 suddenly this 1000 ,ear.old h,Iat,
| nuss center became like u growing
boy who bursts his buttons Autn, %,
bites ~ multiplied Ia fatis that New
workers. have not Yet learned To cross
the Paris streets without badly risk
And trolley ana meter car lines hesan
| crossing even the aacrA Champs ttv,
sres against all pr,kaests IN paris
was sacrificing her beatty Ia "Amefi,
can hurry"
The strai,, had heeame 80 great and
unaN pe,ied that for tho Natld's hair
at 1900 The underground af a great
thtrt uf PARTS Nan EtNeu aver Ia the
| company Ut tho Metropolitan ttail
way" IA da what II cauid
Yet underground tunnels were ~
Paris novelty Here In the auoe, pa,t
| ~ u All Paris knew quite we'll that
| a vast part al the aid elty's uenter
.snains r,lti tunnsled he the ancient
| chtaton,hs-@ uuarties put IN ca,tinu
Gus tunnels, exactly 1.-The subway
ana tuuning for mites IA The sntl
etnsum stane, ahhNB which. ttum
| which 'and with Mhiuh tho city has
always been butt
The uatavomt,s. IN truth, might
have hepn used undel The nrss undet