The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01
The One-Mile Fore Beneath the Hudson.

The Chenille Rore Beneath the Hudson.
The work of tunneling the Hudson,
| says the New York Express, between
Jersey City and New York is proceed
ing slowly, |the company not caring to,
put on full force of men until the
right Of way question has been settled.
All difficulties of legal character will
be adjusted within few weeks, and
then it is the intention of the company
to begin work on the New York side,
bore under the river and meet the
workmen from Jersey. The work on
this side will be begun at the foot of
Morton street, the tunnel running near
ly straight across the river to the
foot of Fifteenth street, Jersey City.
The entire length of the tunnel and
its approaches will be $4,000 feet
with depot track to be added-being
about one mile under the river and
nearly three-fourths of a mile on each
side.
The engineer of the road, ". H.
Paine, says the company purposes to
| employ as many men as can be sue
cesstully engaged in eXcavating and
laying brick, changing the men each
stretch of eight hours. Thus, by con-
slant work, it is believed the tunnel
! can be advanced five feet from each
and every day, and the whole work
completed in two years.
The work was COMMENCED in Noyem-
Der, 1874, after extensive experiment
tai borings down to the depth to be
occupied by the tunnel.
The depth of the shaft is a little
over seventy feet, and the greatest
depth of water under which the tunnel
will pass is sixty feet The extreme
grade is two in a hundred feet descen-
ding from Jersey City, and then. as
cending on the New York side, three
in hundred for fifteen hundred feet,
then two in a hundred TO the New York
end. The behring's already made show
that the soil through which the tun-
mel will pass is for the most part of a
tenacious silt, underlaid by sandstone.
Near the New York shore rocks are
encountered and gravel, which is con-
| sidered favorable for tunnel construc-
ton, not offering any serions difficult
ties to the builder, as would bare sand
and mud. The tunnel walls will be
constructed OF brick and cement three
feet in thickness and circular in form.
The height of the tunnel will be twen-
ty-fou: and the width twenty-six feet.
A double track will run through it,
testing upon a stone ballast five feet
from the bottom. The walls will be
painted white and lighted with gas.
Heavy steel rails will be used, which
the company has all ready prepared.
Penumatic tubes, gas and waite: mains
can run through the tunnel beneath
the track if desired, 50 that New
York gas and water Inay be sent to
Jersey.
| When the tunnel is complicated
passengers can be carried, without
change of cars, from the South and
West, as we'll as from Newark, Pater-
son and Elizabeth. Freight trains
will have transit at night and milk
trains in the early morning. The COM
pany proposes to use it's own locomo-
lives to convey the cars through the
tunnel. Those will be very powerful,
and will be run without bells or whis-
ties, but by signals, aud will consume
their own steam and smoke. All the
connecting railroads are to have all
equal right to have their passengers
and freight transported on equitable
| terms.
The company contemplated a tunnel
beneath the East River. which will
make the link complete and do away
with the ferryboats as conveyers of
! freight, and obviate all the difficulties
of fog and ice which now trouble the
companies with railroad depots in this
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