HUDSON RIVER TUNNELS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 565, 21 July 1909, Page 7

HUDSON RIVER TUNNELS.

A BIG SCHEME. ' • (By Telegraph.—Fresa Association.—OoprrlehU . , (Reo. July 20, 11.30 p.m.) New York, July 20. New- jYork . and ■ New Jersey weVo united yesterday by means of a tunnel under the Hudson River,; to carry electrio trains. , The cost of the. whole scheme of? tunnelling will be £14,000,000. WORKS INVOLVING SIXTY MILLIONS;

. The, first pair of tunnels under the; Hudson Eiver. were opened for pnbho service on February. 25, 1908. - ■ 'I'ha 'tunnelling of .this. jiver i had ibeen previously abandoned tinea owmgn ito capital;and -engineering, difficulties.---; The | work was, completed by an Englishman, Mr. Charles M. Jacobs, chief engineer, of tho Hudson and, Manhattan railroad, and is part of a jcheme which will give to iNew Xork and New 'jersey an . entirely now underground ■ system. : The 6Chome, on wluch iH,000,000 is being spent, embraces?eighteen miles of line,-under river And underground,;composed of the above-', named twin tunnels, which' run from Hoboken to the ' central part of Hinhattan another pair.' of ri.ver' tubes 1 extending'from tho Pennsylvliua termiHilslfl'l)Vrs6y.'Gityit<i. Kortlaudi'i St/ji ';tunheh';. running, parallel 'Trith , tho;river: : .bank;'on the;-Jersey: Side; 'which' connects, the Lackawanna, Erie, ■"Aiid-iJi:h^/49 m P^®^?'M'^ ,l,r ? ,t -nt*'?ri ,l .^ ul ls b.thete i-.v'a; braiich line from Jersey City to' Newark; .and, on the Manhattan side, a snort spur that will join ' the. system with the ' present subway. When: the. Pennsylvania .Railroad Co.'s mainline .tubes aro completed there will • bo. , six tunnels under the Hudson.

■ regard to the' great works. and development in progress to deal with traffic requirements m Now York, the New York correspondent of "The. Times" said m that journal of April 15, .1908: "When nil the. undertakings are complete, the new facilities will compriso fourteen."river : tunnels "(eight-under the..East Elver and six under the . Hudson), two new. brldgos' ! (o'ver' the. East River), and threenew, railways terminiv on, . Manhattan; • whilst: the Pennsylvania's tunnels across the width -of the island, : the Hudson Co.V tube connecting its ! river ;service with, the central district of Manhattan* to be.joined to the present subway, the' subway loop- linking the, Manhattan approaches '. of. the 'Brooklyn,. Williamsburg, and Manhattan : bridges, and (the 1 transverse tunnel, on the New Jersey side connecting the. Hudson Co-'s Hobokeij and Jersey City rivir tubes may also be named; as integral portions »f these new communications." ' The total estimated' cost of • the various undertakings was given at ■ •