The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1911, Page 4

4 BILLIONS LINE UP IN FIGHT FOR HOME EXPANSION _—— Trunk Railroads and Suburban | Promoters Oppose Further Crowding of City. START BIG CAMPAIGN. Traction Interests and Owners | Wy of Flats Strive to Block Transit Deals. Great ratiroads are planning to battle home with each other for population. New York's Financial tnstitutions and many rent estate promoting syndicates are r to join in the fight. The rayed to foster a wide sion are opposed by traction interests and thelr financial backers, who want to keep’ the masses as close together aa powsible in order that their cars may earry the greatest numbers of people. Billions of dollars aro involved in the The ratiroads themselves rep- 10,0 of capitallza- tlon. The other interests control as much mote. All of these influences aro to be thrown into the fiwit to draw population along thelr own lines, Plan Huge Expansion Work has been hastened during the past weok by the springlike weather. The return of winter did not stop the faster operations, because the season is #0 fer advanced that favorable weather for suburban development is eure to arrive soon in permanent form. Realty operators are increasing their undertakings in all of the outlying sec- tions, Large promoting syndicates are adding big tracts to their holdings. Many are selling some of their more improved lands to builders, who will etart at once with dwellings of moderate cost, Large amounts of capital from other parts of the country arriving for such building operations. The outside investors have a long perspective of metropolitan growth, and they ‘con- vinced that suburban land ta very at- tractive just now, because they realize that New York fs on the verge of an- other great era of expansion as a re- sult of immense rapid transit conetruc- tion. Manhattan fiat dwellers are the main object of the campaigns to be inaugu- rated by the railroads. Big systems, which cover every! section of the met- ropolitan district, are enlisting all avall- able forces to promote their own terri- tory. Although they cannot finance improvement operations for private in- veastors or speculators out of their own corporate funds, they are Inducing thelr friends to support vast projects aburban expansion, Competition for homebuilders is so keen that every rall- road must do its utmost or fall behind in the rage for new Although the Pennsylvania Rallroad has got ahead of the others by running express trains over a large part of its suburban system in the Long Island and New Jersey districts, !t has not completed its new construction. It ts hastening the electrification ¢ Island lines, especially those al north shore. It 1s hurrying work New Jersey side service of the Mc hattan under the North River may; be extended to Newark. ‘The Erte ts using its increasing earn- ing to place its suburban lines in better condition for handling the growing army of commuters who live tn the wide territory covered by its service. Other New Jersey railroads are striving to keep up with the leaders in the compett tion, Northward, the New York Central Rallroad is spending scores of mit) for placing its service on @ higher pli Ite electric express trains will cover a radius of forty miles from the Grand Central ‘Terminal Eastward, the New Haven Raflroad !9 rushing work on its Westchester s urban system, which is {n in that section the Central suburban sys the northward line. road is expected to ha tion eventually with subway t private Central electri northern suburbs way 4 to connect with a and it ts believed be carried to completion a the general rapid transit » tion shall have bee The Leonia He reports much acti estate, A large a both in plots for sx has been sold by the for: a As traffic manager of the Long Is'an® Rallroad, he is planning for a reco breaking outflow of home bull: frem 014 city centres to all paris of | k the territory covered by e° i sar home expan- | mii. EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAROH 18, 1911. \Biggest Circus in the World “Come to Town;” Quits Winter Quarters to Open New York Season le, For HS TRIP, To BROAD J WANTA Way SLEEPING, AR! hati Oe | THE GIRAFPES WIL HAVE To WE Down DURING THE | TRIP Busy Day at Bridgeport When Barnum & Bailey’s Leaves | Cold Weather Home and} Heads for That Dear Madi-| son Square Garden. “Well, thank goodness, that's over,” remarked Babe, who ts ninety-six hun- dred pounds of India rubber elephant, as she shoved the last rea wagon up on the last red car at Bridgeport, Conn., this) morning and @blew caressingly through her trunk upon her poor sore feet. “Dad blame me if I ever move another circus again,” she eal. And jthen she went back to the shed where | the other bulls were waiting, and had | @ fight with Pilot, the tusker, Babe sald this in elephant talle—pachi- dermitautology as you might say—buy her meaning was perfectly plain to suc |as might be Istening, She had just | finished putting the Barnum & Balley Joutfit aboard train for New York and certainly was a*tired and peevish Maybe that was the reason she biffed P. put that part of the yarn comes later, When the biggest circus there ts comes | away from Lis winter quarters in @ lump | {v's a good deal Ike pulling all your | h at once—it leaves a perceptadle | \e place Where it was before. | works tramped away from} to-day and when they were | » Which 19 quite a size! wked sort of small and at, puny and deserted-like, Hi Two Very Busy Days. Fifty resolute Afro-Americans lit Into the Garden to furbish It against the ming of the show, but all their polish- vad scourlag Wasn't @ elreumstan: in the town up t the elrcus cut loose ation and in four Jong and | id south to open a season | the place yum ere an eleven mili y Melaugh. f wrans- the v a 4 i 1 a ) i pu ton 1 it-and Jawnny Mel r Ained Intact 1 to Be Aimle . ' Iry persons, Work > the ening 1 ur « | bleats and y i . Wa that a bundle of gra ree tr 1 been left beliind and dem why everybody didn’t drop thing @lge and pay some att MNS TRUNIE across the continent ) SLE ia Supr, MELAUGHLIN LOADING THE WA: her, Here came trotting the ted stock— dainty little scared oxen and sassy Zebras and @ slouching Mne of camels With profiles Ike the old Hebrew Prophets and underiips all working in unison. Yonder careened @ triple fila of ring stock, the curled and manicured darlings of the horse world, made impu- dent and cocky by a winter of full feed- ing and Uttle work. Mouths Full of Loud Words. In and out darted animal men, bull handler§, boss canvasmen, train load Wardrobe women, railroad hands, all With their arms full of strange things and their mouths full of loud words, And yet when you had watched this #0 long that reason seemed to totter on her throne, suddenly everything mado iteelf right, ‘Nhe trains pulled out after | @ fashion onluined woeks ago. The yanis cleared magically. ‘Me long, low, dingy winter quarters grew strangely quiet and empty, and on his word as a gentleman and a circus man Jawnny MeLavghlin promised that by 3 o'cloce this afternoon there wouldn't be « thing | left in Bridgeport except the smell and the ticket wagon, which last isn’t need- ed for the New York engagement. Ha» ing witnessed upward of two thousand | coming miracles that had been encom- | passed in the course of an hour, the present writer was prepared to believe him, | November in the ring barn, the paint | barn, the wood barn and thi they're all, ban other barns to circus people— showed for jtself when the hands began to empty the bulidings to-day, Every bit of rolling stook was shiny with var- nish and perfumy with the naw smell of new red paint. ‘The sunburst effects upo the wheels were all see of the c arlots below the canvas b Bleamed like minted gold. All th bright and clean, and a good x The wic ee fixings ng Were glorious weir Sp) 1 buntens Transferring the Animale. Was any busier than John bose of all the animals ex- the elephants, His ‘hour duveted of trans- the uamals from the barred quarters which they had ed during the winter to the newly 1 cages. First the bie and little were ferred. A sinall fron 1 the snarl biswest te spokes t you cou! eleventh ferring vomy trw permane Hing ove to change two oO ha nearl R R READY RELIEP BR. RADWAY'! RHEUMATISM Apply Kadway's Ready Relief externally to the part or parts affected, as briskly es will permit Benet o be derived from Radway's Pills ive action being peculiarly disease, Where the joint uumnstanc rt Ready Relief, with sweet oil, is an ad mirable lubricant — eects — iG al | BOSSING THE JOB OP GONS = Se 9 . shore the elephents were quartered. val eth VIER RS fa All elephants, irrespective of #ex, are € sateen |vults to circus people, execept very 5 | 5 |emall elephants, which are — punter Abt {There had been thirty-four of them MR. Mooney has unshackied her ankle irone, GLING but to<lay was a different atory. She “RIN set her ears back and fumed and fussed Busy AS and protested. ik was necessary to qenapped a log chain collar about her | ear | s into it. ‘Then the climbed up into | a paddel camp cheir and leaned back | ike an old tired man. At the last i ute Andy charged ls mind, and inst | of caging Patrick, brought ‘him to New York in his arng. For Patrick J., the smartest trained chimpanzee on thie continent, has a very bad cold, whieh is another way of saying that probably Patrick J. will not be with us much longer. “When @ chimpanzee gets a cough on his chest he goes even fast than an ordinary ring-tailed monke; |and that's very fast, Indeed, Elephants Become Stubborn. Awa matter of truth the only real rows of the day occurred in the bull barn, < this winter, ranging biggest lady ele- to Koko, one of the enailest and most mischievous, and they all behaved admirably until to- day, When BIll Mooney, the chief ole- phant ian, Clark and Dooley, his as- barn all Habe, the on earth, in the | from phant to lead the hord forth for entraining. Hattie marted the trouble first off. Hattie is a liver-colored mound of stub- bornness and stupidity. Always she objecta to starting on the year's travel Bhe has deen daing this for years. She senses somehow when moving dey comes. Any other morning ehe comes forth willingly enough into the open air for her datly constitutional on as hitch ropes to her and literally drag her eboard the car. Once there, Mooney fat neck and then seeing that she was | tn for it Hattle resigned herself to her fate and proceeded to husky elephant undertone all t' to New York. After this Babe etarted a rumpus. usually the most docile old | grumble in @ way | sistants, and their sixteen helpers came |’, prba dha ritiicta shoving there, anywhere. the tender pads of her fat feet shame- fully, and the cold wind made her @hiver through six solid inches of ele phant blubber, When she went back to the bull barn sie was mad all the way through, and that's quite a dis- tance. What made her madder was to find the other bulls playing at their favori¢ me, A little bantam rooster and # terrier have had the run of the barn all winter, and the elephants when freed of their hobbles love to chivvy these pets about the place, striking out with their trunks and kicking with their heavy fore feet at the terrier and the rooster, Once a flail-like trunk landed and the rooster would be feather dusters and the pup would be frankfurters, but the two are agile and quick and they have escaped. The other bulls were chuckling and rumbling down inside of themselves as they chased the excited about the barn at the precise moment when the peevish Babe re- turned from her stint. She contem- Plated gth® situation for a momen througit her email diamond shaped eyes, she uttered « naughty word eivt for Pilot, an eld- leman bull, whom she espe- ly dislikes, He has tusks and she has none, but she was licking him thoroughly when Mooney and Clarke ran in and separated them. Ordinarily during the stay at tho Garden Babe and Lena stand side by sklo at the extreme souttiern end of the long Hne with Pilot next, but this time !f you go Into the basement you will find Pilot at one end and Babe at er nee ee lending’ a handy trunk; The frozen ground bruised Ihim, and Patrick shrugged his tong| grounds to the other, pushing. here,! the other, with Albert, wnom she likes, right next to her. For, although Baba is a perfect Indy, she bears,a grudge and she wouldn't hesitate to step right around Wehind cow-like old Lena any time and give Pilot another good lam- basting. Anyhow, the last section will reach the Garden by way of the Mott Haven yards by 11 o'clock to-night. On Mon- day the performers will report from all over this country and other countries, Tuesday there will be dress rehearsals and Thursday the circus will open. But to those who saw It there was a better show at Bridgeport this morning. MAKE YOURSELF SAVE Would you like the mortgage om your house to grow a little less every year? Learn about our new ten year mortgage. | Yon save the expense and worry of renewing your mortgage every few years and fird yourself saving money almost without knowing it. No mortgage made for more than $10,000 on this play. | Send for circular. 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Incidentally she Is | the best work elephant in the busines: |Bhe is too cumbersome for the ris | although she knows more tricks tlian | Koko, but she particularly shines at | pushing a bandwagon out of the mud or snatching @ heavy cage up on a Classique Corset of exclusive materials, including Silk Broche, Figured and Plain Baiiste, Tricot and Coutil, perfect. fitting, graceful in con- tour and affording absolute comfort to the wearer, THE ELEPHANTS PEEL THEIR he work that had gone on grom dast | swelled, stiff or contracted, Radway's Ask for Radway's and Take No Substitutes CAUTIOUSLY WITH THER ture—equally comfortable whether dry or wet, just like a set of false teeth— climbed out of tke tank in which he had wallowed all winter and at the word of command heaved his shiny, slick bulk into a long red ‘well wagon,"' | with springs under Jt like a freight car. Must Lie Down to Travel. ‘The giraffea—four of them, inciwling the baby giraffe, who ts now in his} setond year—were the last of all to be| caged. When on the road they must le down because of their long necks, and the animal men don’t like to force them into the cragnped position until it is absolutely necessary. In the far end | of the grass-eaters’ house the Usrht was | dim and musty even in the broad day, | and the air was thick with weird, un- hallowed smells, In the middle af the floor a red-hot stove threw out heat | waves fit to smother one. In the back- ground a young tiger—the infant of 1911 in the Barnum & Bailey menagerie— whined restiessly, and beyond him, In turn, the long, angular frames of the four giraffes showed dimly between the wooden slats of their apartment. Presently two tall, square cages were TRUNKS, | made ready and the giraffes, protesting mutely—for giraffes he only totally deaf four-legged animal iive— were induced to climb 4 down on their bony knees in the straw. the little man who minds having put the sides up Family cage and thus its chattering, grimacing 1 silenced mates, went to @ big coop which wi ranged close up to the stove for the warmth and unbarred {ts door, Out stepped Patrick Johnson, a very large, very unwell chimpanzee. Patrick was plainly unhappy, He coughed gently and patted himself upon his low end eloping brow commiserat- ingly. rew held out an old coat for flat. ‘This was her busy day. <All morning sho was chased from one part of the ——————————<—<—<——<__—_ HEINGOLD Beer brings cooln and re. freshment. For the coolness thank the iceeman—for the taste thank S. Lieb- mann’s Sons. PALE RIPE RHEINCOLD Taste It Tonight Brewed by S.Liebmann’s Sens, Brooklyn. Visitors to brewery welcome. 24 bottles $1 everywhere. 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