A home geography of New York city . in the business sections and made it still more difficult to settle the question of transportation. The horse cars and elevated railroads no longer met the demands made upon them. The electric surface roads were then built and were soon followed bythe underground rail-road. You know thatat the present time allcars on the railroadsof Manhattan areovercrowded at cer-tain hours in spite of Haklem Bridge C1861) ,, c , ,i , i ^ the lact that we have surface railroads, elevated railroads, and an underground is this so ? Let us inquire into this condit
A home geography of New York city . in the business sections and made it still more difficult to settle the question of transportation. The horse cars and elevated railroads no longer met the demands made upon them. The electric surface roads were then built and were soon followed bythe underground rail-road. You know thatat the present time allcars on the railroadsof Manhattan areovercrowded at cer-tain hours in spite of Haklem Bridge C1861) ,, c , ,i , i ^ the lact that we have surface railroads, elevated railroads, and an underground is this so ? Let us inquire into this condition more closely. Manhattan is long andnarrow. The distancesfrom avenue to avenue arelong, but from street tostreet they are at a map. Thissystem of planning streets,together with the narrow-ness of the island, gave veryfew streets runninar northand south. Those who iit%^. Ferky House, Fulton Street, Brooklyn(1746) planned the streets did not give Manhattan many north and southlines of travel. The armv of workers of Manhattan and The Bronx
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