Review of reviews and world's work . r cent, of the fare passengers carried byagreements between private financial interests, all the street and electric railways of therapid transit boards, and municipal authorities. United States, and 50 per cent, more than areFor nearly a generation this was a game of carried by all the steam roads of the entirestock-jugglers and financial pirates, whose country. depredations kept the American metropolis The half-decade beginning in 1905 saw the completion of the Subway,with its twenty-live mile -road, owned by the city butoperated by the [nterboroughid Tra
Review of reviews and world's work . r cent, of the fare passengers carried byagreements between private financial interests, all the street and electric railways of therapid transit boards, and municipal authorities. United States, and 50 per cent, more than areFor nearly a generation this was a game of carried by all the steam roads of the entirestock-jugglers and financial pirates, whose country. depredations kept the American metropolis The half-decade beginning in 1905 saw the completion of the Subway,with its twenty-live mile -road, owned by the city butoperated by the [nterboroughid Transit this line a person cantravel for a five cent fareeither from Brooklyn Bridgeor Van Cortlandt or BronxParks, through Manhattanand Bronx Boroughs, south-ward to the Battery in Man-hattan, or southward and itward under the 1Rivet to Brooklyn, makingconnection there with theI ong Island Railroad. period of live years>aw the beginning and par-tial completion of the Hud- BOSTON RAILROAD l un,u1 System, wm> h. .4 .V£TT* TRAXSPORTATTOX ERA FOR XEW YORK 44. has already brought NewJersey to within three min-utes of the New York CityHall. The construction ofseveral bridges across the EastRiver also properly belongsto this period, the Manhattan,Williamsburg, and Queens-borough spans, and also theimprovement in type and con-struction of the railroad ferry-boats, particularly those plyingacross the Hudson. Bri> _and tunnels have all but madethe fern- obsolete. Severalfern- lines have suspendedoperations because of finan-cial difficulties. Indeed, the-cnt tendency in ferriesis apparently toward munici-pal control. One line—thatfrom the Battery, Manhattan,to Staten Island (Borough ofRichmond)—has been operat-ed successfully by the city forthree years. A number of other rapid-transit routes, chiefly subways,were laid out at this time(1905). The history of allthese has been marked by1 and financial tangles overthe question of private ormunicipal constructio
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