The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-06-02
Some of the Works Of the Day.

w 0l!e business anG enterprise, LOOKING
to the future interest of the city, are pro
Ijecting important improvements in this
quarter, it may not be amiss to look a
round and see what our neighbors are do
ing to the same end. The great connec
ting railroads are the feeders of the city
prosperity, and upon their perfection and
their superior facilities depends success
in the competition between existing cen
tres of trade aud business Philadelphia
has been expendiug literally of late years,
to perfect her business connections, aud
provide facilities for the increased trade
which this foresight warrants US in expec.
ting. But though she has been busy 9th
er cities have been equally as active, and
some of the works they have projected
are magnificent in their proportions
The N. Y. Central Railroad, the most
formidable rival to the Pennsylvania
Railroad, is preparing to build an exten-
sive freight and passenger depot at Alba
ny, with beautiful and costly iron brid ge
over the Hudson River at that point, with
a view Of connecting the Boston & Alba
ny Railroad, the Newly York & Hudson
River Railroad. and the New ork and
Harlem Railroad A spot has been SO
lected on the river in the centre of the
business of the city, reaching from the
Hudson Biver to the Delevan House, and
coHerins an area about 800 feet long By
800 wide. Upon this is to be built the
freight and passenger depots, SO as to
centralize all the business of the road,
and promote economy by having all the
conveniences to be centred at one spot.
Wharves by the side of the depot to ac-
com odate the largest river steam mboats.
and the whole business of receiving and
discharging freight and passengers is pro-
vided with the best facilities for doing il
expeditiously and with the least cost
The iron bridge is opposite the depot, and
is on the same scale of agnGcence,-
These works when completed, will cost, it
is said, So ,800.0 900.
The New York and Erie Railroad is
carrying out work which in magnitude
and extent, will exceed anything Of the
kind in this country. They are prepar-
ing to build depot, storebouse and
wtarves at jersey City, on the Long
Dock property. This, it is said, will in
eolve an expense of four or five millions
of dollars, for the purchase of wharves,
building of passenger and freight depots,
storehouses, and the construction of tun-
nel through solid rock mile and quar-
ter long, for double track. When this
work is completed, it will be one of the
most complete arrangements for railroad
business in the country.
Another work, closely connected with
the business interests of New York, is
the ship channel which is to be opened
from the Hudson to the East river oppo-
site Hurgate. New York, though now
possessing dock room for her ships TWEEN
ty miles in circuit, still feels the want of
additional space for the accommodation
of her commerce, and hence this new en-
terprise of opening a channel to the north
for the accom- 10 odation of the largest
steamers, and along which channel docks
will be built its whole extent. The esti-
mated cost of this great undertaking is
not given, but Sit 1000, 600 it is believed,
will be the outlay to effect it. These are
some of the works which arc projected
for the benefit of the trade and commerce
of New York city. They are conceived
in spirit of true metropolitan liberality
and foresight. which looks to the future
as we'll as to the present. and takes the
proper steps now to secure the means
which are to mako the benefits enjoyed
lasting-PhiIa1elpbiG Ledger.