Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-18
TROY HILLS TUNNEL.
The 0ft-Projected Enterprise Once
More Said to Be a Certainty.
ALLEGHENY TO BE ASKED TO HELP,
And Substantial Capitalists Will Push the
improvement.
SOME OF THE ADVANTAGES DISCUSSED

At meeting on Monday night of those
interested in the oft-projected tunnel be-
| tween Herr's Island on the Allegheny river
and Spring Garden avenue, Allegheny, it
was decided to construct the tunnel at the
| earliest possible time. The proposed tun-
mel will be about one-half mile long and
will be built under Mount Troy. 1t will be
wide enough to contain tracks for an cleo
trio road and drive way and foot walks.
This tunnel has been talked of for years.
Several surveys have been made. Another
survey has been made recently, however,
and the project Is again being discussed
with more enthusiasm than ever before.
The proposed tunnel will begin near
the Island bridge and will end
near Hippley & Sons brewery on
Spring Garden avenue. Hippley &
Sons, Louis Zoller, Philip Peifer and
others of wealth and extensive interests are
interested in the enterprise and they say
will they not now stop until their
mammoth undertaking is accomplished. 1t
is argued by many of those
directly interested in the project that the
city of Allegheny should help materially in
the enterprise, and an effort is being made
by the property owners interested to have
the subject called up in Allegheny Councils
at their next regular meeting after this
week.
The City Hesitates to Invest.
On different occasions efforts have been
made to have the city build the proposed
tunnel, but Councils have always refused
to act in the matter on the ground that the
improvement would benefit only those
people Who live on Spring Garden avenue
and on Herr's Island.
'It will be great public benefit" one
of the Hippelys said last night. "The city
should have built this tunnel long ago, but
now all we ask is to get some help We
finish it. Our taxes 90 to make improve
ments in other parts of Allegheny, and
there can be no good reason assigned why
the general public should not contribute
toward an improvement that is general in
its character. OF course, the tunnel would
be great advantage to property owners
and business people in this end of ALE
gheny. 1t would not only materially increase
the value of property in this neighborhood,
but it would be open to the world and if
there is any sense in the talk of free bridges
made free by general taxation, then GER
tainly our people are entitled to free tun-
mel made free in the same way.
Great Necessity for This Tunnel.
'There is no doubt that our people are at
present much inconvenienced through want
of tunnel. We have, for instance, most of
the butchers of the two cities out here
They 60 to Herr's Island or elsewhere for
their cattle and to get them home they must
either drive them roundabout
way of nearly four miles or drive there MP
the steep incline to Mt. Troy, then down
again Just as steep an incline. This is Just
a sample of the inconvenience to which
our residents are put. We claim as our
right that the city should help us out of the
difficulty"
1t is emphatically declared that as the
city does not help the project financially it
will be pushed forward as private enter
prise. It is probable that an organization
will be formed.
An Allegheny Councilman stated last
night that the proposed tunnel was to be
built to open up tract of unoccupied
property back of Spring Garden avenue,
and to enlarge that part of the city. at is
a grave question whether the city should
take any pant in building the tunnel, but
there is no doubt it would be great i'm
provement and great convenience"