The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-12-17
Mr.. YOUNG CLAD
Work on Hudson River Tun-
mel Will Be Pushed
Cheap Fares to
Come.

President E. F. G. Young of the North
Jersey Street Railway Company, who is
also one of the directors of the company
formed to continue the old Hudson River
tunnel ap5 run trolley cars through it
from Jersey City to Manhattan, is natur-
ally pleased that the company's franchise
to enter New York City and its terminal
there was granted by the New York
Aldermen last night.
Although in many respects the PROPOSE
tions of the Pennsylvania Railroad and
the New York and New Jersey Tunnel
Company were dissimilar, both We're on
the same footing so far as the labor
clauses were concerned, since the New
York and New Jersey Company's tun-
mel work comes under the jurisdiction of
the New York authorities, to use the. ex-
preston of one of its officials, 'ssome
where under the middle of the Hudson
River
''Yes," remarked Mr.. Young, Il am
glad this matter has been adjusted sat
provements can be pushed to compile
tion.''
''Your company" it was remarked to
Mr.. Young, ..did not have as much trou-
BILE as the P. R. R. had in getting
through the project"
1--WE were in the same boat, though, :"
replied Mr.. Young, "but our franchise
was rider as it were to the larger
scheme" =
WORK TO BE PUSHED.
When asked as to the company's plans
for completing the work, Mr.. Young re-
plied:-
"sThe company will make every pre-
paration to carry put the scheme as fast
as possible. There's great deal of work
to be done and it will be some time be-
fore we get through into Manhattan"
Pending the great delay entailed in the
opposition to the franchises by certain
bodies in New York, the work in the
Hudson River tunnel has not been de-
layed. From time to time there has been
a cessation of the work but only for
physical causes.
An official of the New York and New
Jersey Cimpany, in discussing the pro-
gress of the work with News re-
porter, said that the boring work will
be carried along at once and only about
one-third of the entire distance remains
to be pierced through. All the property
necessary for the terminal in, New York.
between Christopher, Church and Tenth
and Eleventh streets, has been secured,
and the clearing away of buildings on the
ground will be begun at once. The titles
of the property were passed some time
since.
WHAT WILL RESULT.
At the foot of Fifteenth street in this
city, wher the tunnel enters on the New
Jersey side, the required ground fer the
station there has been obtained and plans
for both New Jersey and New York
depots are well under way.
When the tunnel-is finished--and had
it not been for the persistent obstacles
placed in it's path it would have been
ready in January, 19e4-it vol be pos
sible for passengers to ride from almost
every city in the northern part of the
State directly into the shopping centre of
New York City, and when the project
tions of express trolley cars from Pater-
son, the Oranges and Elizabeth to New
York City for ten cents
That's no dream, either" said Mr.
David Young, vice president of the North
Jersey Street Railway Company, some
time ago. 80 rapidly are places being
built up and the population increasing
that cheap rates for long distances must
eventually Gomez