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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e independentmovement will stand a good chance, espe-cially if its ticket should win the support ofthe Republicans and other anti-Tammany ele-ments. As respects many matters of munic-ipal progress, there has been great recent ad-vance in New York, and public opiniongrows more intelligent and exacting. Connecting ^f national as well as local in-Netv York tcrest and significance are the Terminals. ■ ■,■ i ^u i_ vi rapidity and thoroughness withwhich the city of New York is connectingall the transportation terminals within thelimits of its greater area. Despite thefact that for a generation virtually all thegreat land and water systems of the countryhave centered in or started from New York,the metropolis has never had any definitecoherent system of connections between these terminals. The ferry, the trolley, and thecab are fitted for local travel only. Theyhave never,—at any rate during recentyears,—properly been units in a continentalor even inter-State journey. The next jear
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MR. GUSTAV n. SCHWAB.(\ leader in the Citizens movement.) or two will undoubtedly witness the relega-tion of these forms of conveyance to theirproper work in short-haul traffic. Thesplendid system of bridges, subways, andsub-river tunnels, which is now fairlystarted in New York, is therefore of deepinterest and concern to the rest of the coun-try, which not only so often visits the me-tropolis, but, with increasing frequency,passes through the city on longer journeys. New Bridges Generally speaking, and consider-and ing ferry lines as having no fu- Tunnels. ^ ■» t i t i i i ture, Manhattan Island may besaid to be connected with New Jersey andthe West by tunnels, the Pennsylvaniaand Manhattan tubes promising to providefor the continental stream of travel for an In-definite future. It is true that some progresshas been made toward selecting a site for theproposed $17,000,000 bridge across the Hud-son, to terminate on the New York sidesomewhere above Fifty-seventh Street, but,in the m

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