New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-12
RAILROAD INTERESTS.
WHO IS BI-ILDING THIS TUNNEL?
FIFE PIC BORE UNDER THE rALIADEo AN
OBJECT OF MUCH INTEREST,"

TIE ZIG BORE UNDER INF i"A'
OBJECT OF MUCH INTEREST.
Renewed intcrc, has been awakened In the turner
now being dug under the Palisades oppos''c Wv
hundredthst.. by the appointments by 'uu'e N'"rp'
., dorsey CITY. OF commissioners to condemn the
right OF way for the new railroad whch IL o'.,7
built from Little Ferry through the tunnel 70 uie
Hudson River. The work Is being done os'ehsio's
by the New York. Susquehanna ara WESTERN ""v'
tracks the new road taps at Little Ferry. thouS" .'
STYLE of the corporation which Is cohu"c''"s wv
operations Is the Hudson River Railway ana i'
minal Company. The application lot the ,o'"'r''9
s,onors ,ras mode TO Judge Knapp by the Sus'
auehanna road. But the great cost Oh 'i' "'
taking intending a tunnel 5000 feet long, ana docHs'
whorves and terminal facilities on n gigantic scale
nj ,inttenburg would make II seem certain th'' So"i
greater and richer cooperation than the S"sq"'''"'"
Is doing the work.
"Tbe fine has not come yet" said Nice-Pr''heh'
Rafferty, OF the Susquehanna. yesterday 10 ii'"""
reporter "to let the rays Of publl'i'y Snhe 'i '"r"
the clouds of mystery on the question Oh ""' ''
back o, the new tunnel at Gutenberg further 'nah
to say that the Susquehnnna road X net p.'i'i's w.
After while. when it gets nearer compiruon. '''"
and seq mo and will talk all about IT, nave
heard all the rumors In regard to H. ana Hi"''
decline either {, affirm or deny thehi'
The surmscs as to the purposes Of the new runner
have taken many shapes. On" was thl 1t vas "
afford nm to this CITY lor 'H' t'"''"'
raciGcs talked of line from Niagara Falls, but thiS
WAS denied IS President Van Horne. Of tho Dohh"io"
corporatlon Another theory was that it was 10 DC
the eastern terminus Of projected sh 1T line De"ech
This city and Chicago. Of which the ous1Iehahha r"'u
wos TO be a link This theory has not iOuhd ni'"S
supporters Yet another suppOsition. ana one that y
widely accepted IS tina; back Of the ouSquehahna -
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad. the real builder Oh 'ic
road which II intends 20 use rs an OntIet for IL
direct and shorter route from the coal hclds OK
Pennsylvania.
Those who accept this as the true Theory pol't ="
,hc fact that road l. being built In P"nnsyNahi'
called the Wllkcsbarre and Easton which Is lh'hiei
70 connect at sroudsburg. Penn. with the sn'qn'
bonno's western terminus. This road also cOhhec's
with the Pennsylvania ard will tap the 'ohiercs
OF the wyoming Coal Company, majority oil "hose
stock Is held by men of the Pennsylvania r"'n'
The eame activity which Is being displayed OIL ,'e
ro,d from Little Ferry 70 GuttcnbirS Is Delh5 us
plovcd On the western connection. An army CT men
+ ot work and II is predicted that coil VIII De
moving the seaboard over ihlS "e" 9'''i' W
Vet another theory Of the construction 3 tn, ,ie
rc, tunnel /, that despite the dcnia' OF the ON i
thc work /, being done by the Su'fu"hamha W' a.,
desires 10 be In n position to free nSeii run Us
,,r...nt contract with the Lackawanna. ana Inhh'
that the new outlet to the river ana the Ne" eon
ucc,Ions M lis StrUldsburg end VIII enable 10
nt,toin highly satisfactory terms from one or the
other Of the two greater corporations