12,000 BUSES WILL BE NEEDED IF RAIL'S STOP MTllton Persons tTfre Surface Cars on New York Lines Kb* YVwfc, Oct it, '— A hiUtlrm NUw teeters may tide in buses. this hi * ponvlbhs outcome of the eUy"S eom pltoated transportation situation. Jbb Ft Hedges, receiver 1W the Iftv Tbrk R*ltw*y Company, says that unlees financial assistance In the form of In creased fhreo Is granted In the Immedi ate future he will nek the court to Btop the operation of surface cars. The first of January Is lsuggested as the time for the new order of things to become effective. If the receiver's petition la granted no cars will be run on the following trolley lines i Lextns ton avenue. Fourth and Mntlison ave nues, Blxth avenue from Fifty-ninth street to South Ferry, Seventh avenue and Brooklyn from Fifty-ninth to Williamsburg bridges, Columbus and Lenox avenues between Blxty-flfth and 144 th streets, and the cross town lines on 145 th, 116 th. Eighty-sixth, Thirty fourth, Twenty-third. Fourteenth, Eighth and Canst streets. It la estimated at the office of Frank Hedley, general manager for the Inter borough system, that front 800 to 800 cars are operated on these ltnee dally, carrying about a mil Ben persona These Include all the green surface cars which run In Manhattan, with the exception of the Second, Third, Eighth and Ninth avenue lines. Some of Lines May Continue It Is possible that certain of these lines which are now leased to the New York Railways Company would ask the courts for an abrogation of their leases and continue operation separately. In this way service might be continued on Fourth and Madison avenues, Sixth and Lenox avenues north of 116 th, Broad way from Fifteenth to Forty-fifth, Seventh avenue from Fifty-ninth to Greenwich, Twenty-third crosstown, the Eighth and Fourteenth street lines. Whether this action could be taken by the leaser companies immediately upon suspension of operations by the con trolling company only time will tell. In any event New York Is confronted with serious crippling of Its transporta tion facilities. From the Mayor's office comes the reports that this threatened emergency can and will be met by es tablishing bus lines, such as hsve al ready been established to take the place of suspended storage battery car serv ice on Delancy and Spring streets. Ave nue C, Chambers street, and on the Brooklyn-North River line. Figures obtained from the Public Service Commission, James A. Walker, show that In the rush hours from 4 to 7 P. M. on Oct 1 and from 7 to 10 A. M. on Oct 2 the bus lines on Chambers Spring and Avenue C carried 6,600 pas sengers. This number is 8,205 less than the number carried by the storage bat tery cars during the same hours on Sept 16 and 17. A part of this dis crepancy may be due to the fact that the buses did not give transfers to other lines. Busts Required Many persons who had been In the habit of taking the surface cars may have preferred to walk a few blocks, rather than pay an extra fare. At this rate, estimating roughly without tak- . lng into account length of runs, capactt j of buses, or Intervals of running, It J would take 12,000 buses to handle the million surface car passengers. In I view of these figures Mr. Walker says | he Is Justified In his opinion that It will : he extremely difficult to handle the , situation unless ample time !s given to obtain sufficient buses. Much is being said on both sides 1 regarding the advisability of perma- ' nently substituting a bus system of sur- I face transportation for the present elec tric railway system. Those who advo cate the bus system would let the pro cess of disintegration, which has al ready begun in the electric ralway sys tem, continue uninterfered with. It Is maintained that a bus system Is much more elastic, flexible and adaptable; that It admits of rerouting to meet changing traffic demands; that, were the present surface car tracks torn up. j the congestion and blockading of the streets would thereby be done away with. The well regulated bus system of London, which takes care of the entire traffic In the heart of the city. Is pointed to as a proof of its value. Scientific Discussions by Garrett P. Serviss There Is again much talk about the adoption, or creation, of an 'ln ternational language," and we are told by the advocates of such schemes that never before has the civilized world been so greatly In need of a common language, to be read, spoken and written with equal ease on every side of the globe. It surely would be a great con venience to have such a language In ' universal use. After It had once spread all over the earth It would be as easy to acquire as is what we now call one's "native tongue," for then It would Itself be a native tongue for everybody, and In some cases It would probably drive the local language Into the background, if not into a state of virtual ex tinction. like that of the present 1 "dead languages," of whose dis- j Jecta membra the colleges and uni- j versitles seem so anxious to dis embarrass themselves. To be of the greatest possible use the International language would I need to be learned, as indigenous ' languages always are, during child- I hood, and, that being the case, there ; would be instances in which the for mer. or Indigenous, language would, j to a large extent, fall out of use. I the acquirement of two languages at I the same time demanding too much j mental efTort and too great an ox- I penditure of time. There would thus come to be, in ! various lands, a literary language ' treasured by the native Inhabitants, ! and also a world tongue, a more j llng-uistic machine., without artistic J value, in use by everybody. This 1 would be the inevitable result If the ' international language were a manu- I factured article, such as, for instance, j "volapuk," having no literary past.' I Of the three rival plans that have been proposed, it seems to me that the third Is the only one that is likely ever to be carried out Here are the three: (1) Make a new language, either out of whole cloth or by stitching together fragments of old ones. This Is the "volapuk" plan, a typi caJly German product (2) Select one of the old "dead" languages, such as Latin, and give it some modernizing touches. This plan appears to be favored in Italy. (3) Take one of the modern "liv ing" languages, and make no changes in it that are not really necessary. There was a time when French virtually held the rank of an inter- FRIDAY EVENING, national language, though of limited scope, being used ever* where for diplomatic purposes. At present English seems to be taking Its place. It It were not for the Interna tional and Interracial Jealousies, and the pride that great literary achieve ment imparts, the third plan hronld. I believe, be Universally chosen, and JET 1 I "The Live Store" "Always Reliable" "BeSure of Your " / Who is actually trying to make your clothes money / stretch out over extra months of wear? That's a good idea and accord / ingly you save that part of your income to provide other home needs. Economy to j v * day among the most important studies in the Curriculum of human needs. 1 W MsSmMliipik The art of dressing well is We'd like to get you close as much a part of education as twice two enough to focus your eyes on the clothes are our * Good clothes open up as many avenues have provided for you this Fall. It's impos- SglaW of opportunity as good language. Just as it takes F y ° U i * d 866 beautiful fabrics, the I '' " t ** " ~r.- SSss Saws "r, ?sr.j£ T g °° .. 8 com P lete a man 8 make - on them. If you are going to buy clothes this f UP ' PUt mC succesB, ku y g°°d ones. I jf Mart Schaffner & Marx, I Kuppenheimer & I Society Brand Clothes I i| § ll||j| B| Knowledge Is Power—There's a whole book full of 9 118811 I facts contained in these three words. The daily newspapers are a sort of 5 v j;,ti£gK {§Epl|K ' power plant out of which you draw knowledge of lots of things—clothes for instance. I!! knowledge you gather about clothes, the better you are qualified to buy pru- M I Ci-That's why we spend so much money telling you about the / "good clothes" we handle. We believe that if all men studied the clothes question in stead of buying haphazard on price alone, "as many do," they would be doing themselves a service and Coovnsht 1919. Hart Schaffner ft Mac* > show how they could save money in the end—just follow Doutrichs truthful statements —read them daily, they'll convey an impression regarding clothes that will be very helpful to you. 1 * I Try the Dependable Doutrich Service That Everybody Is Talking About I | Wearpledge and Dubblebilt Clothes For Boys j I These two nationally advertised brand of boys' clothing are to be i I / had in this "Live Store" we pick the winners, and the manufacturers are eager to have their I j ] c # lines represented by an "Always Reliable" Store like Doutrichs. If you want the boys to have plenty of exercise W £jjjf I } 1 need clothes that are substantially made. We have "insured," "guaranteed" clothes at $12.75, $14.75 and ■ 5 Ii " Kaynee Shirts" "Black Cat Hosiery" "Wear" | I have no doubt either, that. In that case, English would be selected by a large majority of Votes; Its struc ture Is simple. Its vocabulary la rich and varied, containing elements de veloped fro in the roots of many other languages, and It has had such a worldwide experience that it has caught the cosmopolitan atmosphere. teBUIWHWRO .mwiwi and may he said, to be "at home" In every quarter of the globe. To avoid arusing any prejudice, or sense of Jealousy, It could be ar ranged. without too much formality, but by a general understanding of the directors of education in all coun tries, that for the common advant age of mankind. English should be taught everywhere In the primary schools, as a universal medium of mental exchange, Just as tho meridian of Greenwich Is by general agree ment. and for tho common advant age of all navigators, the Interna tional origin of longitudes and of world time reckoning. The adoption, for world purposes, of an already long-existing lan guage would have a great advantage in the fact that those who, for lack of lime, or other reasons, failed to acquire the native language of their country along with the International language would still be In possession of a wtdo and rich literature, while those who acquired both would have OCTOBER 17, 1919. two great fields of literature thrown open to them', whereas a machine made language would be sterile as far as general culture was concerned. Of course such a language as Latin would be a treasury of literature well worth acquiring, but, all things considered. It would not serve the purpose of an International tongue 15 FUNERAL TRIBUTES Handsome Wreath $2.50 Beautiful Spray $125 Keeney's, 814 N. 3rd St.
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