Subway Systems of New York City. THE existing subway systems consist of: 1-A four-track trunk line from City Hall Park, through Elm Street, Fourth Avenue, 42d Street, and Broadway, to 96th Street. 2-A two-track southern extension, from the City Hall loop, through Broadway to South Ferry, whence it is to connect with the tunnel under the East River to the Brooklyn subway system now under construction. 3-Three two-track northern extension, as follows: A-One on Broadway, to Van Cortlandt Park. It has been put in operation as far as 219th Street, at the Harlem Ship Canal B-One under Central Park and Lenox Avenue, to the Harlem River at 139th Street. C-One from 135th Street and Lenox Avenue, under the Harlem River, and through 149th Street, Westchester Avenue, and the Southern Boulevard to Bronx Park. 4-Brooklyn extension now under construction, consisting of tunnel under East River, from the Battery, and subway through Joralemon and Fulton Streets, and Flatbush Avenue to the Long Island Railroad at Atlantic Avenue. The Rapid Transit Commission has laid out 100 miles of new subways, to join the boroughs and expand present facilities as follows: Route 1-1st Avenue, from Claremont Park, through the lower east side to the Battery. Route 2-9th Avenue, from Kingsbridge, through West Street, on the lower west side, to the Battery. Route 3-3d Avenue, from Lincoln Avenue, in the Bronx, to the Battery, by way of Pearl Street, with a branch through Nassau and Broad Streets. Route 4-7th or 8th Avenue, from Macomb's Lane, through West Broadway and Greenwich Street, on the lower west side, to the Battery. Route 5-Lexington Avenue, from Jerome Park, to the Battery, by way of 3d and Morris Avenues, in the Bronx, and through lower Manhattan, by way of Broadway, below Union Square, • at Church or Greenwich Street. Route 6-Crosstown subway on 59th Street, to connect with Blackwell's Island Bridge. subway on 34th Street, with tunnel under East River, to Long Island City. Crosstown Route 7-Crosstown subway on 23d Street, with a branch over the Manhattan Bridge. Route 8-Crosstown subway on 14th Street. Loop on Liberty, Cedar and William Streets, to connect East and West Side lines. Route 9-Subway loops to connect the Manhattan ends of the East River bridges with a Brooklyn loop through Gates or Lexington Avenue and Broadway, in Brooklyn. Route 10-Williamsburgh loop to the 14th Street crosstown subway and tunnel. Route 11-4th Avenue, Brooklyn, from Fort Hamilton to Flatbush Avenue, or to the Hamilton Avenue Ferry. Route 12-Eastern Parkway, from Flatbush Avenue to Woodhaven. Route 13-Jamaica Avenue, East New York, to Jamaica. Route 14-Extension of the present Broadway subway to Van Cortlandt Park. Route 15-West side extension, from 155th Street and 8th Avenue to Woodlawn. Route 16-Jerome Avenue line to Woodlawn, connecting at Clark Place with Route 14. The McAdoo syndicate is also building a subway from West and Morton Streets, through 9th Street to 4th Avenue, and up 6th Avenue to the Pennsylvania Railroad terminal at 33d Street. The McAdoo syndicate is building two tunnel routes under the Hudson, one from Jersey City to Cortlandt Street, the other from Hoboken to Morton Street. This tunnel is bored, and the land extension has been pushed as far as 6th Avenue. The Pennsylvania Railroad is also tunneling the Hudson from Hoboken to West 32d Street. One of its tubes is completely bored. The Pennsylvania is tunneling the East River at 31st Street, the Belmonts are tunneling it at 42d Street. One of the Pennsylvania tubes is 900 feet under the East River. The idea of William Barclay Parsons is to extend the Brooklyn 4th Avenue subway from Fort Hamilton under the Narrows to Staten Island. All of these routes are to have cross connections at many points. The extension of the Interborough system to Brooklyn has been delayed by the partial collapse, under pressure, of the roof of the tube under the East River. The Brooklyn part of the system, which lies under Joralemon and Fulton Streets and Flatbush Avenue, is practically dug, and could be made ready for operation in six months. It is promised that the East River tube and Brooklyn subway will be ready in a year; the Belmont tunnel under the East River in a year; the McAdoo and Pennsylvania tubes under the Hudson in two to three years. Hook and Ladder Companies, Manhattan and Bronx. (Headquarters, First Division, 185 Lafayette Street; Eighth Batallion, 160 East Thirty-third Street.) 1-104 Duane St. 2-126 E. 50th St. 3-108 E. 13th St. (Water Tower No.2). 4-788 8th Ave. 9-209 Elizabeth St. 10-191 Fulton St. 11-742 5th St. 12-243 W. 20th St. [17-589 E. 143d St. 19-886 Forest Ave. 20-157 Mercer St. 15-Old Slip, bet. Water 23-504 W.140th St. 13-159 E. 87th St. 5-96 Charles St. 14-120 E. 125th St. 6-77 Canal St. 7-217 E. 28th St. and Front Sts. 8-N. Moore St.,c.Varick 16-159 E. 67th St. 124-113 W. 33d St. (Water 27-717 E. 176th St. 28-250 W. 143d St. 29-896 E. 138th St. The Stage in New York City, 1906. A RECORD OF IMPORTANT NEW PLAYS AND REVIVALS FROM JANUARY 1, 1906, TO NOVEMBER 28, 1906. THERE are, in New York City, sixty-eight theatres devoted to drama, opera, spectacles, concerts, vaudeville, and other forms of stage entertainment (see WORLD ALMANAC, 1907, p. 519). The total number of events, changes of bill, etc., in all these theatres during the regular dramatic season of forty weeks exceeds 600. Of the above number of theatres, twenty-eight are producing houses devoted to productions and runs of their own plays or those of producing managers who are not theatre managers, and also revivals of standard plays. The following summary of dramatic events for the season of 1905-1906 includes aП the productions and revivals in these twenty-eight producing theatres, but excludes plays in foreign languages. The following list does not aim to contain all the events at the leading theatres of New York City, but those which, in their success or failure, were conspicuous during the year in the theatrical affairs of New York: Of the runs of important plays that continued from 1905 into 1906 "The Music Master" lasted two years at the Belasco and Bijou; "The Girl of the Golden West," one year at the Belasco; "The Lion and the Mouse," 60 weeks at the Lyceum (still running); "Peter Pan," 28 weeks at the Empire; "The Squawman," 27 weeks at Wallack's; "M'lle Modiste," 25 weeks at the Knickerbocker; "Man and Superman," 23 weeks at the Hudson; "Zira," 20 weeks at the Princess and Majestic; "The Walls of Jericho," 18 weeks at the Savoy; "A Society Circus," 24 weeks at the Hippodrome; "Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire" and "Pantaloon," 10 weeks at the Criterion; "The Prince Chap," 17 weeks at the Madison Square and Weber's; "Before and After," 10 weeks at the Manhattan; and "The Babes and the Baron," 5 weeks at the Lyric. Jan. 18-Princess: "Grierson's Way," 3 weeks. Sept. Sept. Sept. Jan. Sept. Feb. Feb. Jan. 22-Daly's: "The Fascinating Mr. Vandervelt," 6 Sept. weeks. 22-Garrick: "The Little Gray Lady," 4 weeks. Feb. 12-Hudson: "The Duel," 9 weeks. still running. 3-Empire: "The House in Order," 16 weeks. 3-New Amsterdam: "The Man From Now," 4 weeks. 1-New Amsterdam: H. B. Irving and Dorothea Baird 3-Princess: "The Great Divide," still running. Oct. Oct. Oct. 3-Liberty: "Nurse Marjorie," 7 weeks. March 5-Daly's: "The Embassy Ball," 7 weeks. March 6-Criterion: "The Mountain Climbers," 11 weeks. March 19-New Amsterdam: Richard Mansfield in repertoire, Oct. including "Don Carlos." Oct. March 19---Manhattan: "Charley's Aunt," 9 weeks. Oct. Oct. Oct. April 2-Savoy: "It's All Your Fault," 4 weeks. Oct. April 7-Casino: "The Social Whirl," 24 weeks. running. April 9-Lyric: "Mexicana," 10 weeks. Oct. 29-Lyric: "The Shulamite," 3 weeks. 17-Madison Square: "The Three of Us," still running. 22-New York: "Eileen Asthore," 4 weeks. 22-Astor: "Cymbeline," 5 weeks. 22-Wallack's: "The Rich Mr. Hoggenheimer," still 5-Bijou: "Mrs. Wilson-Andrews," still running. 20-Liberty: A Tenement Tragedy," still running. 27-Belasco: "The Rose of the Rancho," still running. 27-Broadway: "The Parisian Model," still running. 28-Hippodrome: "Neptune's Daughter," still running. Nov. 28-Hippodrome: "Pioneer Days," still running. Ass'y Dist. 1-D. E. Finn. DEMOCRATIC LEADERS AND EXECUTIVE MEMBERS. 2-Thomas F. Foley. 3-Timothy P. Sullivan, 4-John F. Ahearn. 6-Benjamin Hoffman William Dalton. Ass'y Dist. Ass'y Dist. 18-John V. Coggey. Bart Dunn. Joseph F. Prendergast, T. H. O'Neill. |33-Michael J. Garvin. REPUBLICAN LEADERS AND EXECUTIVE MEMBERS. 1-Francis N. Orlando. 11-George W. Wanmaker, Ass'y'Dist. 14-John S. Shea. Ass'y Dist. 27-William C. Wilson. 28-Frank Raymond. 29-Frederic DeW. Wells. 30-Frank K. Bowers. 32 Upper-William S. Germain. 34-Headley M. Greene. President-Herbert Parsons. Sec'y-Thomas W. Whittle. The Alfred B. Nobel Prizes. THE Swedish scientist, Alfred B. Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, died in 1896, bequeathing his fortune, estimated at $9,000,000, to the founding of a fund, the interest of which should yearly be distributed to those who had mostly contributed to the good of humanity." The interest is divided in five equal shares, given away, One to the person who in the domain of physics has made the most important discovery or invention, one to the person who has made the most important chemical discovery or invention, one to the person who has made the most important discovery in the domain of medicine or physiology, one to the person who in literature has provided the most excellent work of anidealistic tendency, and one to the person who has worked most or best for the fraternization of nations, and the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the calling in and propag⚫ting of peace congresses. The prizes for physics and chemistry are awarded by the Swedish Academy of Science, that for physiological or medical work by the Caroline Institute (the faculty of medicine in Stockholm), that for literature by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, and the peace prize is awarded by a committee of five persons, elected by the Norwegian Storthing. The statutes of the Nobel Institute were confirmed by the Swedish government on June 29, 1900, and in this same year the institution began its work. In accordance with these statutes the awarders of the prizes (the four above named institutions) elect fifteen deputies for two consecutive years, the Academy of Science electing six, and the other prize awarders three each. These deputies elect for two consecutive years four members of the Board of Directors of the Nobel Institute, which Board, exclusively consisting of Swedes, must reside in Stockholm. A fifth member, the President of the Board, is nominated by the Government. The Board of Directors has in its care the funds of the nstitution, and hands yearly over to the awarders of the prizes the amount to be given away. The value of each prize is on an average $40,000. The distribution of the prizes take place every year on December 10, the anniversary of Mr. Nobel's death. In addition to the prizes provision is made for the establishing of Nobel institutes, where scientific researches may be made, and of special funds from which grants may be made to promote the objects which the founder had at heart. The benefits of the foundation are open to all nations and sexes. Full information can be obtained from Nobelstiftelsens Styrelse," Stockholm, Sweden. (The Board of Directors of the Nobel Institute.) The awards made until now have been: Physics, 1901, W. C. Rönten, German; 1902, H. A. Lorentz and P. Zeeman, Hollanders; 1903, H. A. Becquerel, P. Curie, and Marie Curie, all French, 1904, Lord Rayleigh, English; 1905. Prof. Philipp Leonard, of Kiel University, German: 1906, Prof. J. J. Thomson, of the University of Cambridge, English, Chemistry: 1901, J. H. van Hoff, Professor of the Berlin University, Hollander: 1902, E. Fisher, German; 1903. S. A. Arrhenius, Swede; 1904, Sir William Ramsay, English: 1905, Adolph von Boeyer, German; 1906, Prof. Henri Moissan, French. Medicine: 1901, E. A. von Behring, German; 1902, R. Ross. English: 1903, N. R. Finsen, Dane; 1904, Pavloff, Russian; 1905, Prof. Robert Koch, German 1906, Prof. Ramon y. Cajal, Spanish; Professor Golgi, French Literature: 1901, R. F. A. Sully-Prudhomme, French; 1902, Th. Mommsen, German: 1903, Björnstierne Björnson, Norwegian: 1904, Frederic Mistral, French, and José Echagray, Spaniard; 1905, Henry Stenkiewicz, Pole; 1906, Professor Carducci, Italian. Peace: 1901, Henri Dunant, Swiss, and Fr. Passy, French; 1902, E. Ducommun and A. Gobat, both Swiss; 1903, W. R. Cremer, English; 1904, The Institution of International Law, the first award to an institution; 1905, Baroness ron Suttner, Austrian; 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt, American. Mayors of the City of New York. BEFORE the Revolution the Mayor was appointed by the Governor of the Province; and from 1784 to 1820 by the Appointing Board of the State of New York, of which the Governor was the chief member. From 1820 to the amendment of the Charter, in 1830, the Mayor was appointed by the Common Council. In 1898 the term of the first Mayor of Greater New York (Van Wyck) began, 9 Nicholas de Meyer 1676 10 S. van Cortlandt.. 1677 1678 11 Thomas Delavall.. 25 Thomas Noell.... 26 Philip French.. 27 William Peartree.. 28 Ebenezer Wilson.. 42 David Matthews,Tory. 1684 47 Marinus Willett... 1691 51 John Ferguson. 1707-1710 60 Cornelius W Lawrence 29 Jacobus van Cortlandt 1710-1711 61 Aaron Clark... 32 Jacobus van Cortlandt. 1719-1720 MAYORS. 1 Geor e Hall. 2 Jonathan Trotter.. 6 Joseph Sprague. 7 Thomas G. Talmage. 1801-1803 76 C. Godfrey Gunther... 1864-1866 1803-1807 77 John T. Hoffman.. 1866-1868 1807-1808 78 T. Coman(act'g Mayor) 1868 1808-1810 79 A. Oakey Hall.. 1869-1872 1810-1811 80 Wm. F. Havemeyer... 1873-1874 1811-1815 81S. B. H. Vance(Acting) 1874 1815 82 William H. Wickham. 1875-1876 1815-1818 83 Smith Ely.. 1818-1821 84 Edward Cooper. 1821-1824 85 William R. Grace. 1825-1826 86 Franklin Edson... 1826-1827 87 William R. Grace. 1827-1829 88 Abram S. Hewitt. 1829-1833 89 Hugh J. Grant.... 1833-1834 90 Thomas F. Gilroy. 1834-1837 91 William L. Strong. 1837-1839 92 Robert A. Van Wyck.. 1898-1901 1839-1841 93 Seth Low. 1902-1903 1877-1878 1879-1880 1881-1882 1883-1884 1885-1886 1887-1888 1889-1892 1893 1894 1895-1897 1841-1844 94 George B. McClellan. 1904-1909 Mayors of Brooklyn. Terms. MAYORS. 1834 11 Conklin Brush 1835-1836 12 Edward A. Lambert.. 1837-1838 13 George Hall... 1839-1841 14 Samuel S. Powell. 1842 15 Martin Kalbfleisch..... 1843-1844 16 Alfred M. Wood..... 1845 117 Samuel Booth... 8 Francis B. Stryker....1846-1848 18 Martin Kalbfleisch... 9 Edward Copeland.. 10 Samuel Smith.... 1849 19 Samuel S. Powell. National Grange, Patrous of husbandry. L. A. Master-N. J. Bachelder, Concord, N. H. Overseer-T. C. Atkeson, Morgantown, W. Va. Lecturer -George W. F. Gaunt, Mullica Hill, N. J. Steward-J. A. Newcomb, Golden, Col. Assistant Steward-F. E. Marchant, West Kingston, R. I. Chaplain-W. K. Thompson, Liberty Hill, S. C. Treasurer-Mrs. Eva S. McDowell, Rome, N. Y. Secretary-C. M. Freeman, Tippecanoe City, Ohio. Gate Keeper-A. C. Powers, Beloit, Wis. Ceres-Mrs. C. R. F. Ladd, Sturbridge, Mass. Flora-Mrs. Amanda M. Horton, Fruit Ridge, Mich. Pomona-Mrs. Sarah G. Baird, Edina Mills, Minn. Steward-Mrs. Joanna Walker, Marshallton, Del. High Priest-George B. Horton, Fruit Ridge, Mich. Priest Archon-N. J. Bachelder, Concord, N. H. Priest Annalist-E. W. Westgate, Manhattan, Kan. The following proposed legislation is favored by the National Grange, representing the farmers of the United States: 1. Free delivery of mails in the rural districts be placed upon the same permanent footing as the delivery of mails in the cities and the appropriations to be commensurate with the demands and the benefits of the service. 2. Postal saving banks. 3. Election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. 4. An amendment to the Constitution granting the power to Congress to regulate and control all corporations and combinations. 5. Enlargement of the powers and duties of the InterState Commerce Commission, giving it authority to determine what changes shall be made or what practices are.discriminative or unreasonable, and their findings to be immediately operative and so to continue until overruled by the courts. 6. Regulation of the use of shoddy. 7. Pure food laws. 3. Extension of the markets for farm products equally with manufactured articles. 9. An anti-trust law, clearly defining what acts on the part of any corporation would be detrimental to public welfare. 10. The speedy construction of a ship canal connecting the Mississippi River with the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. 11. Revision of the fees and salaries of all Federal officers, and placing them on a basis of similar service in private business. 12. Parcels post, telephone and telegraph in the mail service. 13. National and State aid to improve the public highways. The National Grange has established over 30,000 subordinate granges in forty-four States and Territories. United States Geographic Board. Chairman, Henry Gannett, Geological Survey, Department of the Interior; Secretary, Charles S. Sloan, Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce and Labor; Frank Bond, General Land Office, Department of the Interior; Andrew Brain, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Department of Commerce and Labor; Charles Denby, Department of State; Major Adolph von Haake, Post-Office Department; Arnold B. Johnson, Light House Board, Department of Commerce and Labor; George W. Littlehales, Hydrographic Office, Department of the Navy; Prof. Otis T. Mason, National Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Dr. C. Hart Morriss, Bureau of Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture; John S. Mills, Department of the Treasury; Col. Ramsay D. Potts, General Staff, Department of War; Overton W. Price, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; C. M. Robinson, Government Printing Office; Com. Charles C. Rogers, Hydrographic Office, Department of the Navy. By Executive Order of August 10, 1906, the official title of the United States Board on Geographic Names was changed to United States Geographic Board, and its duties enlarged. The Board passes on all unsettled questions concerning geographic names which arise in the departments, as well as determining, changing, and fixing place names within the United States and its insular possessions, and all names hereafter suggested by any officer of the Government shall be referred to the Board before publication. The decisions of the Board are to be accepted by all the departments of the Government as standard authority. Advisory powers were granted the Board concerning the preparation of maps compiled, or to be compiled, in the various offices and bureaus of the Government, with a special view to the avoidance of unnecessary duplication of work; and for the unification and improvement of the scales of maps, of the symbols and couventions used upon them, and of the methods of representing relief. Hereafter, all such projects as are of importance shall be submitted to this Board for advice before being undertaken. The Carnegie Hero Fund. IN April, 1904, Andrew Carnegie created a fund of $5,000,000 for the benefit of the dependents of those losing their lives in heroic effort to save their fellow men, or for the heroes themselves if injured only. Provision was also made for medals to be given in commemoration of heroic acts. The endowment known as "The Hero Fund" was placed in the hands of a commission composed of twenty-one persons, residents of Pittsburgh, Pa., of which Charles L. Taylor is President, and F. M. Wilmot, Secretary, and Manager of the fund. In his letter to the Hero Fund Commission Mr. Carnegie outlined the general scheme of the fund thus: To place those following peaceful vocations who have been injured in heroic effort to save human life, in somewhat better positions pecuniarily than before, until able to work again. In case of death, the widow and children or other dependents are to be provided for until she remarries, and the children until they reach a self-supporting age. For exceptional children, exceptional grants may be made for exceptional education. Grants of sums of money may also be made to heroes or heroines as the commission thinks advisable-each case to be judged on its merits." The fund applies only to acts performed within the United States of America, the Dominion of Canada, the Colony of Newfoundland, and the waters thereof, and such acts must have been performed on or after April 15, 1904. The Commission has awarded sixty-three medals. thirty-six bronze, twenty-three silver, and four gold. In addition to the medal, money has been given for disablement benefits and special purposes, in twenty-eight cases, amounting to $33, 750, and for the dependents of heroes who lost their lives, in nine cases, amounting to $8,000. The Commission has also awarded $64,462 for relief of sufferers from disasters; at Brockton, Mass., $10,000, and the California earthquake, $54, 462. Alaska-Xukon-Pacific Exposition. THERE will be held during the Summer of 1909, at the City of Seattle, in the State of Washington, on Puget Sound, an International Exposition, to be known as the Alaska-Yukon- Pacific Exposition. The primary purpose is to exploit the resources and potentialities of the Alaska and Yukon Territories in the United States and the Dominion of Canada, and to make known and foster the vast importance of the trade of the Pacifi, Ocean, and of the countries bordering upon it. In addition, it will demonstrate the marvellous progress of Western America. It is estimated that 7,500,000 live in the section of country in the United States and Canada within a radius of 1,000 miles of Seattle, who are directly interested in making the Exposition the true exponent of their material wealth and development. The Exposition will represent an expenditure of approximately $10,000,000 when the gates are officially opened on June 1, 1909. It will occupy 250 acres of the campus of the University of Washington. The grounds are twenty minutes' ride by electric car from the centre of the city, and have been pronounced by competent authority as, scenically, the finest exposition site ever laid out. The Olympic and Cascade ranges of mountains are in plain view from all points of the grounds. Mt. Rainier, the most famous peak of the Cascades, rises to a height of 14.526 feet. Eleven large exhibit palaces will form the nucleus of the Exposition. Around these will cluster the State, Territorial, and concessions buildings, foreign pavilions, the administration group, and numerous smaller pseudo-exhibit structures. The main exhibit palaces will be: 1, United States Government building; 2, Alaska-Yukon building; 3, Agriculture and Horticulture; 4, Liberal Arts; 5, Education; 6, Fine Arts; 7, Mines and Mining; 8, Fisheries; 9, Forestry and Irrigation: 10, Machinery and Transportation; 11, Canadian. The Forestry building will be in every way represen tative of the lumber industry of the Pacific Coast, and will be the most striking architectural creation ever seen at an exposition. The United States Government will be invited to make an exhibit and erect an Alaska building. The Exposition management has received assurances from twenty-three States already that they will participate and erect State buildings. The State of Washington will authorize the Exposition: The foreign exhibits will be confined strictly to countries bordering on the Pacific Ocean. The officers of the Exposition are: President-J. E. Chilberg. Director-General-I. A. Nadean. Secretary-W. M Sheffield. Director of Exploitation-Henry E. Reed. Chief of Publicity-Frank L. Merrick. Headquarters: Seattle, Wash. |