The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-12-16

TUNNEL SCHEME
EngIi i Capitalists Are In
t6resfed ID Completing
the Work Under
the River.
BIG MEN 70 FINANCE PROJECT
North Jersey Street Railway
Go. Will Operate IT,
Plans Unfinished.
Big MEN 10 FINANCE PROJECT

President q. +. G. Young of the North
Jersey Street Railway Company made
the announcement this morning that
should the present arrangement be per-
fected an English syndicate with New
York capitalists in it would finance the
project to finish the Old Hudson River
tunnel. He added that the company's
plans were still in crude shape. To
carry out the scheme nearly $1,000, 900 will
be needed and already that sum has been
subscribed.
Sir Benjamin Baker, the eminent Eng
lish civil engineer, had made on his last
Wis to this country a very careful in
spection of the work done and to be done
and it Is on his report that the company
are now proceeding. He was retained by
the English capitalists, one of whom it. is
eaid is Sir Thomas ]. Upton, the gallant
gentleman who failed to lift the cup.
Another name mentioned is Mr. William
Waldorf Astor and third Mr.. George
Gould The company will complete the
tunnel and so far as the trolley company
is concerned it will operate it when
finished.
The tunnel extends a considerable dis
tance from the Jersey City shore, and it
is said that operations to complete it will
be begun as soon after the filing of the
contract papers as possible. a tract of
land for a terminal has been secured at
the Jersey mouth of the conduit.
The North Jersey lines, the White Line
and connecting branches, which il is de-
sired to put into direct communication
with the tunnel cars, will be 60 changed
in their routes or by extensions SO as 10
lead to the new terminal.
Passengers from this city, the Oranges
and other townships will connect with
either OF the New York line of cars now
being operated by the North Jersey, and
will be carried to the mouth of the tunnel
without change, from the New York lines.
At the Jersey City terminal these cars
will connect directly with the tunnel cars
which, as has been told, will be built ex-
pressly for the fiume.
In time, though. when there shall be
two tunnels, as planned, instead OF one,
the North Jersey cars and those of con-
Meeting lines will pass directly through
the new tunnel
Elaborate arrangements are projected
for the New York side. There will be four
termini there. One will be at the New
York mouth of the tunnel, SO that pas
sengers who desire may ascend to the
street surface at point near Christopher
and West streets. They will not have to
climb stairs, for electric elevators will be
provided at what will practically be an
underground station.
! Another terminus will be below the
present Christopher street station of the
Ninth avenue elevated road. There pas
senger lift will land people right on the
platform of the elevated, whence they
may take uptown or downtown cars.
The underground road is contemplated
in New York, for when the Ninth avenue
passengers have left the tunnel cars the
vehicles will continue to the Sixth ave-
nue. elevated, where they will be lifted in
cages to the depot platform. Then the
projectors have planned to run their un-
derground road to a point beneath the
neighborhood of Twenty-third street and
Sixth avenue, where it will end. Eleva-
tors there will life passengers to the
street where surface cars going in al
most every direction may be taken, so
that the railways in New York City will
be pretty well connected with.
Passengers from the metropolis to go
through the tunnel may start at any of
the New York termini and LAND in Jersey
City. there to change cars and be trans
ported to Newark the Oranges or wher-
ever the North Jersey or White Line
branches run to-
A trolley freight business through the
tunnel between New Jersey and New
York is not contemplated, at least for
some years to come. according to the
! statement of a North Jersey Company
official.
There are several points which have
not yet been made public but which prob
ably will be within week or So when,
LIT is expected, papers containing the
terms of the agreement will be placed on
file