HUMAN MOLES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1889, 25 October 1913, Page 13

HUMAN MOLES.

UNDERGROUND LIFE IN NEW YORK. According to the best obtainable statistics, about 20,000 persons in New York City spend their ,entire working hours beneath the surface of the earth. Theso figures include 3800 employees on tho two systems of subways now in operation. They include 4000 men, who are employed digging the new subways. This forco will bo more than doubled in the near futuro. Also included aro the 1200 men, most of whom aro working several huiiared feet below the streot surfaoo, driving that wonderful aqueduct which is to carry throughout the Island of Manhattan and over into Long Island tho waters that are being brought down by siphon frop the Oatskill Mountains. Than thero aro more than 10,000 men and women who are employed in more private enterprises that take them constantly below tho street surface.

In tho creat hotels of Nov York the mechanical departments are nil far beneath the streot These departments are well worth visiting, ana in roost caE.cs tho hotel _ proprietors are only too glad to permit their kitchens, bake-shops, furnaco rooms,_ engine rooms, and laundries to be. inspected. Theso places ordinarily are the cleanest ill the entire hotel. Many of New York's greatest depart* ment stores are connected directly with the subways, as are also some or its newer theatres. Last February a family of three from San Francisco, visiting in New York, lived for a fortnight in one of tho most fashionabla and most expensive hotels in the city, spent most of their time shopping, sight-seeing, and and only once duriiig the entire fourteen days passed into the open air of tho outside world. From their room's in the hotel they were dropped by elevator to tho lovel of tho subway. Through the subway thoy went to department stores, theatres, restaurants, museums, and even to cliurch. When thoy started for homo thoy went by subway from their hotel to tho Grand Central Station, and did not get out into sunlight until their train had well started on its long journey. And this wbb not on a bet, cither.

The annual concert in connection with tho Homo of Compassion at Island Bay is to bo held on December 9. Their Excellencies the Earl of Liverpool and Lady Liverpool have extended thoir patronage to the function. Mr. D. Kenny is musical director,

Tho New Zealand State Coal Department invito offers for tho purchase ol three Straker and Squire 6Team motor wagons.

Those who have picked on Maidstone Park as tho place to enjoy Labour Bay at will find the holiday train arrangements in this issuo.

Mr. M'Kenna, replying to a petition asking leniency for Mrs. Panklmrst, stated that it was impossible to prant a pardon or remission of sentence. "If her health 'has suffered in any way while in prison it is due solely tn her own voluntary refusal of food, and not. in any way to t.lio administration of the Prisoners "(Temporary Discharge for 111-Health) Act, which has ten used only io prevent her carrying the refusal of food to.tho point of suicide."