New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-19
NJ USHROOMS IN BROOKLYN.
4 PROJECTED FARM IN AN ABANDONED
TUNNEL.
THE PLAN OF USING THE OLD ATLANTIc-AVE'
RAILROADS. CAVERN FOR GROWING EDIBLE
FuNGorDs IS REvIvED-A QUESTION

FrrNGOIDs Is REVIVED-A QUESTION
AS TO WHO OWNS THE TUNNEL"
7, ,s ul.elv that mushrooms may soon be grown IN
rroollvn The market exists for them. but no one
knew of a place where they could be grown sue
cessfully But the place exists. Tribune reporter
asked Secretary r. NJ Whiting OF the CITY "otAs
Department yesterday. to whom the ana suo''e'
Atlantic-ave. railroad tunnel belongs ne rep'0'
~ am sure don't know who owns II. You are
,h second man who was here lately asking the same
question The first one wanted 10 know because
no wants to buy 1t or lease it for the purpose Oh
craving mushrooms in It, don't Know "he'"er
the city owns it not
This exnlains n report that has been current Tor
some time that a company has been formed 10 ieaSe
the old tunnel to cultivate edible mushrooms 81 80
recesses. -, F..
r,.,hor irop,rIes developed the remarkable fact
thu, a vaIuob bile property has been lying absolutely
iil for score of years, and none of the apparent
l.. interested persons seemed to know to Whom the
tunnel now belongs =, ~
a, tho office ~ the Long Island Railroad Company
rho superlntendent said 1t did not belong 10 ms
company; he thought 1t probably Deionseu ~ w
Atlantics Avenue Railroad Company or to the Mas
, ,,hIcb had lea sed the roads OF the former cor
,or,tion Mr. Ham, at the offices OF the Nassau
road NJ Greenwood VINO Is from Pennsylvania h"u
never heard of tunnel in Atlanuc-aNe' -
FLYNN was not aware that the Nassau ro"u -
covered the tunnel. but he was inciiheu ~ ', -
did not and advised the reporter TO can up me
IantIc Avenue Railroad Company which sum ia"
an existence Secretary Frick OF the last coi''p"'
said no did not think the company had any o'''
an the tunnel and ne DID not know who had.
But p H. Flynn's understudy, Mt 9tud"ei' "'r
an idea his company owned It under the TERMS va
tbo,r lease II think there tracks there SUM-
he said "and II We will come H. as We ia :,
leased all the tracks OF the Atlantic-aVe coihpaS
Mr. Studwen said there had been tsik Oh e ,hinL
fishing a brewery storage IN IL. Dut ne uiu "'' '
there was anything IN the rumor; a., ~. columbia
This tunnel runs from about the inc Oh t,
pIa~s almost 10 Boerum Place about elght nun. nun.
drcl wards and s wide enough 70 accoiiiIii -
Two trains All Of this space cou;d De uI1'.| go IN
growing mushrooms when Gan De uo .no az ca, ha
darkness and where an eqiaD!e '''"P''"'"' ~
The greatest country ia the world for produe,rSS
this delicious vegetable is France IN anu H,on'r s
paris the yorked-out Quarrics beneath the Guy ~
entirely DEVOTED 10 this purpose ana even the Ce-
lars of thousands Of houses are utllIen al tlc IN
WAY There Is only one place near wv " ~
where mushrooms can be grown an" ''''' '''' VI
The fact remains that the prices paid Tor mush-
rooms are 80 high that the only wohucr IL Va. ~
one put this scheme IN active VPch'.VI. $500
An EXPERT mushroom grower can be easily loui'G,
and th. main and most costly part OF the pant -
built ready TO hand \ canned mushroom ~ a apoHr
as comparable with freshly grown pm ~, vi n r.,
"a n Wild goose Is with a canNaS-Dach uuVk' y
b. properly appreciated a mushroom must DE "a cl
fresh from the soil. and there - no redson "
mushrooms cannot be grown In immense qua'''''VS
in the Atlantic-av". tunnel . -, .
There does not appear TO be any entrance 10 tie
old tunnel now II used 20 be said that Il coud De
entered from the vaults Of the FougIerd MATS, at
Ailantic-ave and Cliuton-st, bat inquiries there
showed that there is no such entrance. All sorts
OF stories have beer told about the Oii place espe-
ciay that ii used be storage FOR Illicit whiskey