New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-18
EAST RIVER TUNNEL NEAR.
TEST BORINGs HAVE BEEN MADE AND
DIGGING MAY BEGIN IN THE FALL.
THE COMPANY HAS s75ooOoO CAPITAL
ANOTHER CONCERN CHARTERED
THREE NORTH RIVER TUN-
NELS TALKED ABOUT

NElS IAIkED ABOUT
Another stride forward has been made toward
,he fulflment of that long-standing promise
underground rapid transit connection between
,be boroughs OF Manhattan and Brooklyn; and
q is asserted that in the coming fall several
thousand men will be at work upon the tunnel.
This hope is held out by the corporators Of a
new concern. the Long Island and New-York
Terminal Railroad Company. with capital Of
sI500000 and body OF influential directors
including August Belmont. Levi p Morton. Eu-
gene G. Blackford, L. c. Ledyard Richard H.
McCurdy and Charles NJ. Pratt. among others
william II. Baldwin jr president of the Long
Island Railroad. whose interests are represent
cd in the Board. is authority for the statement
that considerable OF the necessary preliminary
work has been completed. including especially
the test borngs under the bed OF the East River
and under the streets by means OF which the
company's engineers now familiar with the
route 10 be followed. and the nature Of the ma
terals which the tunnelling machinery Will en-
counter.
TWO PARALLEL TUNNELS.
II is proposed to have two parallel tunnels,
extending from Brookyns City Hall to the in
tersection Of Church and Cortlandt SITS. in Man
haitian Borough. There will be passenger sta
tons at these terminals. reached by elevators
and there will also be another station, immed-
ately underneath the junction of Pearl-st. and
Maiden Lane. Electricity will light the tunnels
and propel the cars The running time between
terminals Will be three minutes.
This undertaking will be finished, It is calcu-
lated. at about the time when the Atlantic-ave.
subway in Brooklyn is ready for the railroad
tracks which now cumber the surface of that
thoroughfare. A direc. connection between the
subway and the tunnel will be made and 1t is
then expected that the running time from Cort-
five minutes. At Flatbush-ave. there will be a
connection with the Long Island Railway sys-
TEN.
The first step which the newly incorporated
company will now take is to make application
10 the Municipal Assembly for franchise.
FOUR OTHER TUNNEL PROJECTS.
As NAV he remembered several tunnel prof.
ects are under way In addition TO the one de-
scribed One of them is that of the New-York
and Brooklyn Railway Company. Of which
Emerson McMilln is president, and which de-
sires TO construct tunnel under the East River
with terminals near the City Hall in this Dor
ough and the Borough Hall in Brooklyn. re-
spectively This company obtained state
charter at Albany in 1895 and is now seeking
10 secure from the Municipal Assembly certain
consents which II deems II desirable 10 nave.
although in 1896 II obtained from the Mayor and
Aldermen Of the then city Of New-fork the
consents necessary at that time.
Three North River tunnels are In contempla-
tion one is the so-called North River tunnel, :
which was partly built several years ago, ana
which was sold under foreclosure day or two
ego. The second project is that OF the Man
haitian Tunnel Railway Company. which was
Incorporated at Albany on May II, with nomi-
nal capital OF $4,000. The tunnel line or this
company is to be about one mile in length. ana
its terminus in this city is to be below
Canal-st on the west side Of the borough
The identity OF the interests back OF the scheme
has not yet been disclosed. Two days ago the
latest of the North River tunnel companies was
INCORPORATED at Albany the Manhattan ana
New-Jcrsey Railway Company, which accoru.
ing TO one Of its corporators, is TO CONSTRUCT
two circular tunnels at a total cost OF about
s. 600 600 these tunnels to be operated by GER
tain railway companies. not named.