The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-18
UNDER NORTH RIVER BY 1904.
n. Y. AND JERSEY CARS MAY
RUN IN IS MONTHS.
Franchise the Aldermen Passed Gives Erie
and D., l.. 4 ". Passengers Car Route
Into Manhattan-The Two Railroads
do Not Control the Tunnel Company.

New 1ork ana Jersey railroad company,
for which franchise was granted on Tues
day in ten m. lutes by the Board Of Alder
men, will be completed and in operation
carrying passengers in and out Of Man
haitian, according to the confident state
ments made yesterday by the officers OF
the company.
Electric cars will be used. running at
half-minute Roadway and bringing pas
senger In six minutes from the Jersey City
terminal to station at Greenwich and
Christopher streets where they may connect
with both surface and elevated lines.
Comptroller Grout, when he learned
that the Aldermen had passed this grant
said:
regard th,s contract as Amos, IL not
quite as 'aIuaDle ana Important 10 inc c''
AS the one with the pennsylvania nave
information. which oeheve 10 reiiaDie, that
the company that obtained the franchise IL
owned and controlled by the Erie and the
Delaware, Laokawann m Il Western railroads.
l understand that 1t is the purpose of those
COMPANIES to tunnel into the city at the "a me
time that the Pennsylvania road does. The
result will he the entrance into the city of
tbres of the bio Western railroads in stead
-, on.
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PRESIDENT W. ", MoAooo OF the New
YORK and Jersey railroad Company said
later that the statement that the Erie or
the Iackawanna railroads owned or con.
.nv Ia an" 'ai'oaus o"neu y, on
troiled the franchise was Incorrect. He
said.
eaIa,
we expect TO carry the passengers VINO
travel to and fro by these roads as We ex-
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pec' 10 carry o'he, paesehsers' Out our
purpose Is to run electric cars, not trains.
We cannot under the grant Use any medium
'a'ino' unue' VIC e.ai' "'e any 'ieu,u''
of propulsion that produces combustion
In the tunnel While we could run electric
,rains 4, l., NO, ,,,r ;,,,an,;o, -, 49, NJ
trains IL Is not oh Intention 70 90 So Nor
of this tunnel win be exhausted nv IN.
demands on it for passenger traffic, At
present a ferryboat makes the trip from
river bank to bank In ten minutes il nothing
Ion or fif,asn min,,tes We viii rim Gov,
..n VI .;u,, ti W." vi .aIe
every ennrty Sc, sIoonus ~ ,nu rush nouns
New York to the elevated or surface lines
in six minutes. We have acquired all the
,or,r;nai fac;l;,ias A. sonn a. ,ba Ma
-" ~ so ', 90 ,,i ,'io
has signed the franchise we VIII be ready
eighteen months we shall be in full opera
''I President McAdoo gave ON, the following
statement about the company:
The New York and Jersey Railroad Com
pany Vas W under the LAYS Of ihs
Railway Company. Al, the present time
more shan 200 s iest OF tnis tunnel nay nave been
on ~ onIv annro xmetelv 40 foe,
ha,uesn O'b pcpmnietad end of H. ,,,,na
and the New York shore Active work on
the tunnel has been in progress for some
months under the supervision OF Chief Engi-
nerr Charles n, Jacobs 9Th
h,dnr hounded Nv thris,nnber en- .n ~, il,t
and Vest Tenth streets Where suricent
real estate was purchased some months ago
Now that the franchise has been granted
by the Board OF Aldsrmen. active work will
be begun from the NeT lork end as well.
t roV,r eu; node hy ;be hoard oS hhprooes
This Is a great public work, but has Attracted
little notice because of the intense public
interest in the larger undertaking which the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company has under
way. ~ Is ehpscteo Una. OH tunnel VIII
ue col p'S INV ,,hi, eigb t.ap ~ Upeii
is DESIGNED 10 operate his line Tor trolley
purposes only
Neither the D. y" 4 W nor the Erie Railroad
has any interest In the enterprise.
~. The Officers OF the company are as follows:
w; e. McWAa2}o; pres,dcn.; EDMUND Con-
W.nry any "Wurrav treasIir.r CGarlss "
King, secretary; directors E H Gary,
Walter g. Oakman. Z, c; Converse, Frederic
ID. JtuiIHss, a ~ Dnaiy coHn ~. McIul-
iougn, John okeIton " amdV1,. ", rogers
ana W. ~. MSh 'S C1 a." ~ J.n. nnd r. r. l.
io Ths a,ru ale 4, Ierscy civ aro w ,
finally determine upon. but connections viii
be made with the railroad and trolley lines
The tunnel will reach Manhattan at n
point near the foot of Morton street and
between the docks of the French line and
the Anchor Line. II will run under Morton
street two blocks, then north two blocks
10 the station at Christopher and Green
wicb streets where il viii lie beside tho
Christopher street station OF the Ninth
avenue elevated and beside surface line
that run in all directions.
The completed section of the tunnel
begins in the general wards of the Della
ware. Iackawanna and Western and runs
600 feet across the river. Work has been
done from the New York side. too 200 feet
having been constructed west from the
foot Of West street
The Jersey end of the tunnel ia close ia
the Erie railroads terminus. II is pro-
posed to build a spur to the Hoboken pas
sepger station of the Iackawanna. Thus
il will he to the convenience of passengers
arriving on either of these railroads to
enter New York by the tunnel line,
When foreclosure proceedings were
brought against the old Hudson Tunnel
COMPANY, which began this tunnel
Judgment was entered for little over
"a OOO, 600 which represented practically
the whole cost of the work to that point
nj ,,.r,o,, ,,,,,,,,,, xro,,o /, . ~ 90 900