Word: subways
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...change of cars at Princeton Junction. The excursion fare between New York and Princeton on either regular or special trains is $2.15. Immediately after the close of the game, specials will return to New York at short intervals. The Pennsylvania Station in New York may be reached directly by subway from Grand Central Station. Schedule of Princeton Trains. Leave New York. Arrive Princeton. 7.30 A. M. 8.55 A. M. 8.28 A. M. (special) 10.30 A. M. 8.30 A. M. 10.08 A. M. 9.02 A. M. (special) 10.45 A. M. 9.28 A. M. (special...
...report of the Co-operative Society gives evidence of another year of successful business activity. In spite of the fact that the work upon the subway underneath the society's store interrupted the business to a certain degree, the total sales of the year were $12,921.91 greater than during the year preceding. In view of the fact that the profit is less than four cents on every dollar's worth of goods sold, the dividend of nine per cent. seems very generous, and is only possible because nearly half the sales were made to non-members...
...construction of the Cambridge subway is nearly completed, and although no date has been fixed for the opening, it will probably be within the next month. The entire tube is now finished and the subterranean landing stages are ready for use, but there is still some work to be done upon the sections above ground. When work was begun upon this remarkable engineering project it was estimated that it would be nearly four years before it was completed. The Hugh Nawn Construction Company, in spite of two or three unlooked for delays has managed to bring the work almost...
...purposes of proper ventilation in the summer time the subway is built in two independent tubes instead of in a single double-tracked tube. On account of this method of construction, which is the same as that employed in the sub-aqueous tunnels near New York, the air is kept passing through the tunnels, and being constantly renewed, each train sucking after it a supply of good air and pushing out the stale...
...line of the subway is through Brattle street to Murray street, where the "elevated trains," as the subway cars will be called, will ascend to the street. Surface cars from Newton and North Cambridge will enter the tubes at Cambridge common and Murray street respectively. Both tubes are so built that a platform two feet wide runs beside the tracks for the entire distance so that in case of accident or breakdown the passengers can walk to the nearest station without incurring any risk from electric wires...