The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-23
PENNSYLVANIA'S SCHEME
is 10 Tunnel :. Under the City of New
York and Both Rivers.
TRAIN TO BE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Station and All Of the Tract, A.
BE Located underground-DetaiIs
OF the Plan.

/ 80 'ue greatest undertakings Of tbi.
Ise OF maryels In the railroad buildIpg naa
II Is TO enter New York city nv an -, ',5'.
slound road. operate road pndor ~.
ti'E ana leave 1t by another +nnns,
| lpnhel is TO be built from the Nan -.
nnes OF the Pennsylvania under ,bo ~
| lNef' across Manhattan island and So
unuer East river to Long Island and ~ an
PROBABILITY the tide Of travel viii 49,
changed and Montauk Point be made tho
starting point for European travel
IN the blocks bounded BY Seventh mud
Ninth avenues. Thirty.Arst and ThlItv'
fourth streets an immense unae,gro,n 4
central station will be built. tonrs5 Mn,
modern structures. The facts NV bs.n
gwen out by President Cussatt NJ tnn
dephsAlNanla and almost Simultaneous IN
u uue ienhsylYania.New York Extension Xiii
iuau company was chartered al Abanv
WIN capital Of S1,OUO,u,O This CON,
pany Is tue one which viii build The I'm
nGls and operate the railroad. va"
,ot ntest .eeit ISassatts statement as as fol
lows The Pennsylvania Railroad comnar,
IS now prepared TO carry ont ia pd,i,'
long since adopted, Of exten1lng ts r6{i
way INTO New York city, therein estabiis9.
dns suitable passenger terminus Tor III.
accommodation of the public 10 accom-
pllsh this on a comprehensive MAN tUa
Long Island Extension Railroad company
VIII withdraw its application for
lowers 10 construct It's terminal rail
road and In lieu Of such indepenJ.
eht construction 1t IS now proposed to
build. under the charter Of the prunsyI-
Vania-New York Extension Railroad com
pany, Just organized, a thorough under
ground connection between the Long Island
railroad and the Pennsylvania lines In New
Jersey, and to construct a proper and com.
modlous Joint underground terminal station
Va New YORK City for the Pennsylvania and
Long Island roads.
After years of exhaustive study the
conclusion has been reached that ; tuu-
nel line, operated by electricity, is in every
way the most practicable, economical and
the pest, both for the interests Of the rail-
ROAD company and Of the city. The line
as ADOPTED will traverse the city of New
York from the Hudson river to the East
river, ana be underground throughout and
at such depth as not to interfere with fu.
lure 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 under
ground ana operated electrically, in the
same manner as the recently constructed
Orleans railway extension in Paris It will
not be Objectionable in any way. There
VIII not be any smoke, dirt or noise, and
as all the surface property may be built
upon after being utilized underneath for
railroad purposes the nelehborhood Of the
station will he improved instead Of marat,
ms Is so often the case when railroad lines
are constructed on the surface or elevated.
"The company has acquired the bulk Of
Its property for ITS principal station I'd
means to 20 forward in the aCQuisiti
such additional properties as will hr
quired, either by purchase or condemua
ton, in the belief that the city authon
ties will meet their application In a spirit
Of fairness and expedite as much as pos,
sihle this much needed improvement and
great public convenience Immediately
upon the necessary authority being granted,
- a - t.. y,-t1t and
the whole line be completed and put in
operation as soon as possible"
This means that Austin Corhin's life
dream Of ocean steamships arriving at and
departing from Montauk Point will he real
lzed in the life Of his successor In all prob
ability: if also means that the PENNSYLVANIA
railroad will get into New England by
connection between Huntington, l. l.. and
South Norwalk Conn. by Sound Ferry.
and that a biz Aght for supremacy IN the
noetronoiis must he wgped between the van
derbllts and the PENNSYLVANIA railroad
At the same time the recent purchases
nv the sfuvvesant Real Estate company
rerresented nv DoneIas Robinson brother
inGG.w ~ prosident RnosaveIr becomes nm
narant This comnonv mas made Immense
nnrchases in the section chosen by the
PannsrIysrin roiirood FOR ,ts motronolitas
stotjonS Tbe piop for a subway in M0nhat-
fen Island roret he srSmitted 70 the rand
M inl"l'u ana nassed Upon NV
tEansiu GTihiilss!oneIs "tu ~ w rosa
L. nat n AnFh
VIII ne AT sucm ugPsu az nU' eira l,1Iit
win the present suoWaS now neips sobsbIy
OF win huCcttuius iodus, WI P''"N"''
cause IL 10 oe IaNoEapil conslusIsu. .. ~
II was sun lohBuL ny men ~ 49, t,,a
the deyelopment OF me Guy La anal . ds'
eenhsylvanla roau iuusL ndge 49, neu NJ NJ
surances thar US pan Wop!o re laE9Ia9 ~,
passed upon before 1t bought real estate LOT
US central sthtion' ,i, Inc ap Ptm,I,oI frnna
the Long Island railroad tunnei IRON on
Thlrty-third street and Broadway 10 me
Long Island CITY statlon' a part oI tn i.
present plan Is still before the RAPID transit
board The present application VIII Ne
the first great enterprise TO cSsne before
Mayor Low in the early days Of his admin
The abandonment Of the North river
bridge plan by the Pennsylvania railroad
will be a crushing blow 10 the hopes or
the large colony which has been estab-
lished near its proposed terminus in New
Jersey The bridge plan contemplated a
union with the other railroads having taelr
termint in Jersey CITY, hoo0hen anu We
and entering the city alone the Pennsyl-
yania has made a gigantic step away from
all its competitors and enters the New
York Central's territory
The tunnel plan was chosen because the
cost will be very much less than the So,
100000 which the Pennsylyanla would
have 10 spend for a bridge, as the dhler
looked TO the big concern to
take the entire financial responsibility,
they 10 paw for the rights OF its use.
II is estimated that the tunnel from
Uubter's Point 10 Thlrty-thir street Will
cost only 5000 900 The tunnel under the
Nulth river will he a much harder proposl'
ton. but even at double the cost OF the
East river section the investment, cal
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