New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-30
TT-NNEL UNDER THE EAST RIVER
THE ALDERMEN HEAR ARGUMENTS FOR
THE INTERPRETATION BROADWAY
TO CITY HALL, BROOKLYN, IN
FOUR MINUTES-TO THE SUB
URBS IN TWENTY


rhe Aldermen's Committee on Bridges ana Iun-
nes held a hearing yesterday afternoon in the AL
dermen's Chamber on the petition or the BROOK
lvn New-York and Jersey City Terminal Con'p"n'
10 be allowed to construct a tunhei uiiue'
lower part of Manhattan Island TO cohhec' 'ne
Long Island Railroad Company's tunhei pfopo..u
along the Atlantic ave- in Brooklyn ana uhuer ''e
rast River with proposed tunnel under the
North River 10 Jersey City. The proposed tunnel
the company wishes TO build under Maiden haie'
Broadway and Cortlandt-st The members VI 'ne
committee Aldermen Wines, Hall. Randall YAK
ley and TAFT. were present ,
Alderman Wines asked those opposed 10 inc pe''-
ton of the company state their objections hrs''
and no one appeared in opposition
William j. Kelly. attorney for the company Sau
that the tunnel was to begin at t1atbush anu Az
lantic AYES in Brooklyn, and be continued uIuer
Flatbush. Fulton and Pineapple SIS. 10 'he FHei'
II was needed as q public Improvement IN brooN-
10, Thu New-York tunnel was necessary. II any
tunnel should be built.
William II. Baldwin, jr.. president OF the Ter
minal Company and Of the Long Island faii'oao
Company told the history of the effort to improve
Atlant.c-ave. in Brooklyn. The Long Island Railway
he said. at present ran three hundred steam trains
along the surface Of Atlantic-ave. in Brooklyn
Agitation for twenty years by the people OF Brook,
lyn had brought about an arranseneh' o Se;i
Improvement Commission 10 build tunnel 10
NeWcYorE It was not a proposition of the Long
Island Railroad but Of the people Of Brooklyn. The
tsnnel. he said. was TO De aeep one. never Iess
many places ninety feet. 1t would be built under
buildings without endanSer!ng their sohdIty ana
without disturbing anybody; The citizens of New
York would hardly know that II was being done;
A committee of well-kIown engineers had passed
dn al onF the Re s SHOWN
tunnel would be below the surface OF underlying
rock would be entirely through solid rock. and
buildings abutting in the streets under which the
tunnel would be built
the tunnel would be 10 feet below Broadway, and
would not interfere In any way with the municipal
rapid transit tunnel ,,....uu. ..,.
ton Of Kings and Queens Counties. read an address
10 the committee. He said that. Kings and
Queens counties would be a part Of New
York end Of the proposed tunnel. He declared that
the building Of the tunnel would divert the rush OF
JERSEY 10 the new part Of New-York on Long
Island. The company would guarantee that the
tunnel would be built in TWO years The bill au-
thorzing the tunnel made the consent OF the mu-
nicipality Of the present city OF New-York TO the
building Of the proposed tunnel necessary to the
Eugene " Biackford. president Of the Atlantic
Avenue improvement Commission. spoke of the
present condition Of commerce between Brooklyn
OF the proposed tunnel road. which would be OPP
Grated By electricity passenger niger. would ID be Be
dropped down she v BY s al n a2 nG
and be carried to the limit OF Brooklyn in twenty
minutes. /, would be rapid transit system
EE F. Linton former member of the Advisory
Consolidation Committee ard at present a member
called attention 10 the fact that no expenditure ~
city money called for. He spoke Of the advan
urbs o Of Brooklyn to New-Yorkers Of moderat,