Word: islande
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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According to the Street Railway Commission's report for 1904, 33 per cent. of the surface cars on Manhattan Island are horse cars. The service is not only antiquated, but it is absolutely unsanitary. In many cases, the cars are dirty, poorly lighted and heated, and greatly over-crowded. This is the essence of scores of complaints from associations of citizens representing all sections of New York City, which appear in the Street Railway Commission's reports year after year, but yet the condition has been little improved. Elder then cited several other evidences of popular dissatisfaction...
...speaker then took up the matter of poor service. He pointed out that the principal cry was against the overcrowding. He showed that much of this evil is due to the peculiar physical formation of the island which makes overcrowding inevitable. Furthermore reports of the New York State Railroad Commission show that cars are run as frequently as is practicable--a typical instance being the corner of Broadway and 23rd street, where cars pass at the rate of one every six seconds, while vehicles cross the tracks at the rate of 32 a minute. The speaker asked the affirmative...
...Charles H. Hawes, of Trinity college, Cambridge, England, will give an illustrated lecture this evening in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum at 8 o'clock on the results of his explorations in the island of Sakhalin, Eastern Siberia, which he visited to study the Russian convict settlements and the native tribes...
...lecture will present a general account of the island of Sakhalin, and a more special account of the ethnological peculiarities and relations of its primitive tribes, with illustrations from original photographs. It will be open to the public...
...LECTURE. "The Island of Sakhalin (Eastern Siberia) and its Primitive Tribes" (Illustrated by the Stereopticon), Professor C. H. Hawes, Trinity College, Cambridge, England, Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...