Connecticut western news., 1900-05-10
A RAILROAD SCHEME.
PENNSYLVANIA HAS GREAT PLAN IN
 PROGRESS.
Aco ufsition of the Long I.isnd Road Means That Ferry Service In New York h to He Absndened-Tu..si Under Narrows.

AcQ Qutsttfon Of the Long tsIand Road
 Mean. That Ferry Service In New
 York Is to He Absnaened-Tu..si
 Under Nsrrows.
 The acquisition of the Long Island rail- road by the Pennsylvania means an en- tire arrangement of the present traffic and transportation facilities of New York and Brooklyn and forecasts direct rail way communication between New Eng land and the south and west.
 When all the changes have been made, the New Yorker bound for Washington or the south will no longer take a ferry boat and cross the North river to catch a train at Jersey City. He will go to A grand union depot in this city and will take a Pennsylvania train there and will not leave his Pullman car until he reach es his destination.
 His train will whisk him over the New York, New Haven and Hartford tracks. over Hell Gate, across a bridge at Wards island to Long Island, down the Long Island tracks to Bay Ridge, under the Narrows to Staten Island and across the Baltimore and Ohio railroad bridge to New Jersey and thence southward to Washington or to Florida if going that far.
 The vital link in all this chain of change is the tunnel under the Narrows. In an official statement given out by the Pennsylvania road the announcement is made that this tunnel will be dug. Untn it is completed a short car ferry from Greenville to Bay Ridge will be used
 This will also do away with the long ferry section of the only direct train from Boston and Washington. This train-on- ly one a day-is ferried from Mott Haven down the East river to Jersey City. Un- der the new arrangement the train will cross the Wards island bridge, run across Brooklyn and go under the Narrows at Bay Ridge. This will make the journey from Boston to Washington three hours shorter.
 Ultimately the long dreamed of plan of having the American and probably other lines of steamers land at Montaak Point and bringing the passengers and transat- lantic freight in over the Long Island railroad tracks will be realized as . con- sequence of the little tunnel under the Narrows.
 Then the man from San Francisco or Texas or Chicago returning from abroad will step aboard his train at the end of Long Island and go home without the ne eessity of stopping in New Ysrk. The great transatlantic freights win so the same way, and all this means that a new and busy city will grow up on the site of Camp Wykof. The Pennsylvania rail- road denies ownership In the Information. al Navigation company. but II Is obvious that the steamers cannot Ignore the op. portunity to save half a day on every voyage.
 The new connection will give the Penn. sylvania tremendous advantage over the other lines, such as the Delaware and Lackawanna and Erie, whose present termini are in Jersey City, and the sf fort of these companies to protect theiI business may produce even more and greater changes. A possibility is that they will acquire the half completed tun nel under the North river between Jersey City and New York and do away witl the ferry service except for local traffic.