Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-12-19

New York, Dec. II. President A, J.
Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Co., today made public his plan for
securing New York terminus for his
railroad. His statement is as follows
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is
now prepared to carry out its policy,
long since adopted. OF extending its
railroad into New York City, therein
establishing q suitable passenger ter
minus for the accommodation OF the
public. To accomplish this on com
prehensiye plan the Long Island Exten-
sion Railroad 20. will Withdraw ita
application for power to construct its
terminal railioad, and 10 lieu OF such
independent construction it is now pro-
posed to build, under the charter of
the Pennsylvania. New York Exten-
sion Railroad Co, just organized, and
the New Jersey Railroad Co., about 10
be organized, through underground
connection between the Long leland
railroad and the Pennsylvania lines in
New Jersey, and to construct proper
and comInodious joint underground
terminal station in New York City for
the Pennsylvania and Long Island
roads.
After years of exhaustive study the
conclusion has been reached that a
tunnel line, operated by electricity,
IL in every way the most practical,
economical and the hest both for the
interest of the railroad company and of
the city. The line as adopted will
traverse the city Of New York from the
Hudson River to the East River, and
be under ground throughout aud at such
depth as not to interfere with future
construction of subways by the city on
all its avenues similar to the one now
building along Fourth avenue.
As the railroad will be wholly
underground and operated electrically,
IN the same manner as the recently con :.
strueted Orleans railway extension in
Paris, it will not be Questionable in
any way. There will not be any nnloke.
dirt or noise, and as the surface property
may be built upon after being utilized
underneath for railroad purposes the
neigh borhood OF the station will be i'm
proved instead OF marred, as lie so often
the case when railroad lines are con-
struoted on the surface or elevated,
The compsny has acquired the bulk
OF it's property for its principal station
and means to go forward in the acouisi-
will be required, either by purchase or
condemnation, 10 the belief tnst the
city authorities will meet it's applioa
tion in a spirit of fairness and expedite
as much as possible this much needed
Improvement and great public CON
Venience
Immediately upon the necessary
authority being granted the work OF
construction will proceed and the whole
line will be completed and pus in opera-
tion as soon as possible"
WILL JEWS RETURN TO PALEsTISE9
In a remarkshla article in Frank
Leslie's Popular Monthly zangwill dis.
cusses the famous project of the re
colonization of the jews.
This task, he says, TO which Israel is
thus called ia OF an originality con .
gruous with his unique history
netherlands have always created colo.
mics. Here colonies are to create
motherland, or rather recreate her. 1t
| is not essential that ali her daughters
shall return to her skirts. Long before
| Titus conquered Jerusalem, Jewish set
tiers had followed III the wake Of Tyrsn
and Phenician commerce. The problem
10 simply to set up centre of Jewish
life aud concentrate all one's laburs on
it. Gradually it would become the
magnet of the race.
The task il difficult--mo difficult,
| perhaps, than any in human history,
beset with more theological and po.iti-
cal man tisps-u unique in it's problem Of
migration. But the very greatness of
the task should stimulate the most
maligued of races to break the desolate
monotony OF this brutal world by the
sp!endor of an antique idealism.
PALESTINE is country without a
people, the Jews are people without
a country. The regeneration OF the soil
would bring the regeneration OF the
people. lt is marvellous that the
country should have remained compare
lively empty for 1900 years, but il
cannot remain unexploited much longer.
The age of electricity is upon US, and
| tho problem Of Asia. Now or never Ia
lsrael's opportunity. Another genera
tion and Palestine will be populated by
Uitlenders and dominated by Germany.
Another generation and the Western
jew will have lost the warmth Of Jewish
sentiment. In the Jews. as in Palestine
there have been mora changes during
the last generation than during all the
centuries of the Christian sra. Neither
the Jew nor Palestine can wait longer.
The Red Sea was divided for Israel's
fret exodus; it is united to the Mediter-
ranean for the second. The Suez Canal
has brought the world to the dcor sten
| OF Palestine. And Palestine is the
! centre CT the world