. Review of reviews and world's work. peculiar to thatcity. The great office buildings, central mer-cantile establishments, and many-storied cloth-ing and other factories in the middle and lowerpart of Manhattan Island are constantly beingmultiplied, and are thus increasing the day pop-ulation of this district of concentration. At thesame time, the tenement-house capacity of theupper end of the island has l^een growing at acorresponding pace, while the number of peoplecoming across the East River from Brooklynand adjacent districts has been greater fromweek to week. The same thing is true of t
. Review of reviews and world's work. peculiar to thatcity. The great office buildings, central mer-cantile establishments, and many-storied cloth-ing and other factories in the middle and lowerpart of Manhattan Island are constantly beingmultiplied, and are thus increasing the day pop-ulation of this district of concentration. At thesame time, the tenement-house capacity of theupper end of the island has l^een growing at acorresponding pace, while the number of peoplecoming across the East River from Brooklynand adjacent districts has been greater fromweek to week. The same thing is true of theswarms of workers who cross each morning fromJersey City, Hoboken, and the various New Jer-sey suburbs ; while there is a moderate but con-stant growth in the number of people who cometo town from the northern suburbs by the sev-eral lines of the New York Central system andby the Now York, New Haven & Hartford trains,as well as by extensions of the elevated and streetrailway systems. 388 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF Photograph by the New York JVorld. AN ORDINARY NEW YORK STREET, LAST MONTH. (This is not one of the worst, and is comparatively passable.) February. To crown an al-most unbearable situation,there came, early in March,a strike on the new subwayrapid-transit lines, and. uponthe elevated railroad system,which is under the samemanagement as the although this strikeproved futile and did not lastlong, it succeeded in greatlyhampering and retarding thebusiness of taking people toand from their homes, anddemoralized the service forweeks. Never before hadthe people of New York sopainfully,—with such hard-ship and suffering,—discov-ered their dependence uponmeans of stieet transit as athing almost fundamental totheir existence. They willnot forget the object lesson. ,, ^ The result of all this has been, dur- The Transit . , , Problem in lug the months 01 JB ebruary andAcute Form, j^j^j-gij^ — when inclement weatherdrove everybody to the use of s
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