the "Beach Pneumatic Tunnel." A small
section, several hundred yards in length, has been constructed under
Broadway, and the company owning it claim that they have thus
demonstrated their ability to construct and work successfully a road
extending from the Battery to the upper end of the island.

The tunnel is eight feet in diameter. It commences in the cellar of the
marble building of Messrs. Develin & Co., at the southwest corner of
Broadway and Warren street, and extends under the great thoroughfare to a
point a little below Murray street. It is dry and clean, is painted
white, and is lighted with gas. It passes under all the gas and water
pipes and sewers. The cars are made to fit the tunnel, and are propelled
by means of atmospheric pressure. A strong blast of air, thrown out by
means of an immense blowing machine, is forced against the rear end of a
car, and sends it along the track like a sail-boat before the wind. This
current of course secures perfect ventilation within the car. The
company claim that they will be able, when their road is completed, to
transport more than 20,000 passengers per hour, each way.

XII. HORACE GREELEY.

The best known man in New York, in one sense, and the least known in
others, is Horace Greeley. If there is a man, woman, or child in all
this broad land who has not heard of him, let that person apply to Barnum
for an engagement as a natural curiosity. And yet how few know the man
as he really is. The most absurd stories are told of him, and the
likeness most familiar to the public is a ridiculous caricature.

He was born in Amherst, New Hampshire, on the 3d of February, 1811, and
is consequently 61 years old. His parents were poor, and Horace received
but a very plain education at the common schools of the vicinity. The
natural talent of the boy made up for this, however, for he read
everything he could lay his hands on. He was a rapid reader, too, and
had the faculty of retaining the information thus acquired. He was kept
too busy at work on his father's sterile farm to be able to read during
the day, and he was too poor to afford to use candles at night, and so
his early studies were carried on by the light of pine knots. He served
a severe apprenticeship at the printing business, commencing it at a very
early age, and finding employment first on one country paper, and then on
another, working at his trade, and occasionally writing for the journals
he