New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-12
THE HUDSON RIEER TUNNEL
nnw rnE WORK Is ADVANCING.

HOW THE WORK IS ADVANCING.
p1FPrcuITIKs ALREADY OYERCOME-THE WORK on
THE NEW-JERsEY sHORE-WHAT THE COMPANY
HOPES TO ACCOMPLIsH'
Although the project Of tunnelling the North
River often proposed and It's importance In pro-
noting the prosperity OF both jersey City and FewYork
had been discussed often. definite move was maoe
toward realization Of the scheme until company cO
posed principally OF Cahfornians and called tho Hudson
Tunnel Company was started, with capital OF ten
millions The company was incorporated under the
general laws OF the States OF EevYork and NewJersey
The president Of the corporation Is Dewitt C. Haskn
In November 1873 the work OF boring the bottom OF
the North River to depth be reached by the tun
mel was begun, and In year was complete.
A crenlar working shaft thirty feet In diameter an"
ky five feet IL Gcpih then begun 100 feet hack IN
Fiuecnth-sI. III Jersey City After il bad been sunk
twenty feet the work stopped by Injunction on the
suit OF the Delaware, LackaWanna ana western h'i
road Company. The litigation, which DELAYED the pro-
jret over two wears being ngy tetunaicu IN laVOr OF
The Tunnel Company all its charter rights were e-IaO
lished and the necessary LEGISLATION wac secured from
the New York Legislature. The work was Immediately
resumed and - pushing forward rapidly ~ pos
slble By tho did OF a Number OF machines Iaenleu ny
Mr. Hasln tho president OF the company who hopes
To be abe to complete this tunnel at much es expense
than any similar undertaking IL Is believed me capital
Of $1OOOOOOO will he ali uliuent, as no expensive
The introduction Of conpro dir into the face OF Tie
;unucl which was declared ~ tCyeml scientific men 70
be impossible with sufficient Trts 10 hold IN place
caY or water, was great assistance The ar pressure
viii also De uscd TO carry back through pipes 10 the
working shalt any clay mud water That may 0e ae
cunulatcd in the heading during the course OF The eN'a
yation The managers iecl much pleased VIII the sac
cess o. this system. II does tic work admirably. they
saw eud the men on issuing from the tunno Tel 40 bad
effect from their confinement We have not bad one
case snll the foreman " " any siekness arising from
the underground confinement There haa been only 'De
compliant. and that has cone from the woman with
whom some Of the board. she said. Their appe
tes have been increa ed en.lOG suce they have been
down IN tho hole"
Amoeline for the introduction Of electric light WIS
received last Saturday, and will be immediately got
ready This will assist the work considerably ~ the
wax candles which ART used 1t cost OF 81 day
afford very poor li2ht.
There will near BY yard In which bricks will he
manufactured from the taken from the tunnoL
The COMPANY will Save By this means IA asserted
SO % on every thousand bricks used. When one
takes into consideration tho lIct that there will be 2013
bricks Ia each running foot of wall viii he seen that
tho sayin- viii be consGerale The shell Cf the tunnel
with wall, OF the best o. iilv OF brick aud cement,
tnrcc tbics. Tie interior wi he painted White ma
w. lena ,Scocc To- ungsnn-sf and the river ai,nut
34gO feet; thence under The river. rurTing i've dc-
grcsa northWard, 20 the NcHfors On ahead me NJ OF
rear the foot OF MOUOn,t., about 5.4Oo c"t thcice
curyiug slighlly souhward IN NeN-lugf. about 5000
feet 10 a point 10 collected bV The cy autnOilucs.
T- extension grade " tho tunnr ~ two Ia 100 feet tie
ascending from jersey CITY then ascending Oh the Now
YORK sid three In 100 eei Tor 1000 feet From That
point will bc on tEo grade 81 wo IN 100 feet
80 the SevYork end; The greatest deptn 81 The wnier
In the nv aboat 90 feet MO-i Of the hot ON Of tue
riVcr-brd Is composed Of te1ncous si un1erlaid ny
hard sand The entire length VIII he ah"ut 1900 feet
that milo under ibc river anu nearly three
quarters ~ mite upon each side. The work VIII shortly
m Doer from tnc New York side ara VIII h. prosecuted
from both BANKS ~ the snu1e time ~ many uen VIII
be Kept constantly engaged ~ can be successfully
ulnv,d M once N pygaVa:lng aud laying bricks Tie
eai rs will De changed every eight AOir- lhns ny
doing f.ra. caYs' labor every twrnty-iG':r
hours the work. 20 be, we'd. cdl bc advanced
from ar rud five SIX icct each ry ard In that c1s"
IT can rnsIy cUmprtri ia two be- miners have
reiterated under che river ~ distance ~ sixyiVc
lret.
Al the completion of th- Work the Hudson Tunnel
Company Will Do able 10 lake pIshruE.fS nril'ine 81
Jersey Cy, without change u cars AMI ~ diz ninnrs
late land tenn ia Broadway. Tie company sBs iihi
thal 400 trains oT cars c"ulo be pas ed hous ~
INVENT y-ioJr lie double trncs. Fr Igt trains
viii uer the tunual exclusively ~ night, ar' mnkct
trans ~ Inc carly morning.. All VII Dr GrINn hy rl
pines mgdc especially the purpose. TEese VII con
sumo their own ste an ana smoke powerful engine
win always work forcing ar INTO tie irincl Toe
COMPANY cx prcta Ia have the NcwAGrk Station some
the ucigurorhuud 81 ir Metropolitan Hotel.