Bisbee daily review., 1902-01-18

Tenth avenues ana IDlrty-tnlrO anu Thirty-frst streets. The depot will be erected above an underground terminal of equal size. From here tunnels are to run to Jersey City and Long Island City, making two big railroad systems practically one.
 Tbe big terminal station in New York will be 500 feet long and 300 feet wide. There will be dozens of entran- ces for foot passengers and vehicles, and graded passageways will lead down to great bridge which will cir cle the station over the platforms and trains. A Furious feature will be- an underground railroad yard where trains will be made up to meet the ex- agencies of traffic. There will be total of twenty-five tracks in use in the sta ton. Electric elevators extending in a row clear across the building will be provided for taking baggage to and from the trains. The building will be an imposing structure and will be built of masonry. steel and glass. The inte- rior will be elegant beyond anything of its kind now in existence.
 NtSI us dIC tHt which will be accomplished by the en- try of the Pennsylvania railroad into New York over its own rails and with its own rolling stock, the commercial advantages will mark an epoch in rail road history. 4 double steel band will extend from the far west to the far east passing over mountain and tun- ,.fx- a
 The plan as outlined will do away en- tiroly with the construction of rail- road bridge over the North rive. That project has been in contemplation for a dozen years. but has been opposed as Tot only too expensive, but as made quate for the purposes which the in- creasing traffic of future years will de- mand Ii is cOncrded that a tunnel un- der each rive. will serve every need and can be constructed at a small frac- ton of the cost of bridge.
 It is statG.1. in speaking of the ensi- neering difficulties 10 be encountered [ in sounding both the East and North rivers. that experiments have taught engineers the bed of the former is had rock. and in consequence the tunneling will be comparatively easy. The bed of the North river, however. offers ! much greater difficulties, so great, in fact, as to make the construction of a tunnel nothing less than the building of submerged bridge. For more than 125 feet below the bed of the North river there is nothing but mud. which, of course. hardens as it deepens. but not sufficiently for q foundation for a tunnel in which there is to be such i heavy traffic.
 This underground passageway mus! either rest on a pile support with steel construction or. if a rock bottom is wanted, the engineers must go to such a depth as will present great difficult. ties in the way of grade and alignment. It Is estimated the East river tunnel will cost about SS,000 900 and the one under the North river S16000, GOO, but it will be an investment which will railroad because it will have the ad- vantage over all rivals of exclusive use. It is planned to have the tunnel cross so as to touch New York at Thirty third street and continue in an easterly direction so as to enter large under ground station that is to be constructed under the big terminal station. From there the tunnel is to proceed east near ly along the line of Thirty-second street i and under the East river to Queens connecting with the Long Island rail road. Under the North river the tun nel will have room for two railway in the East river tunnel. The Long Island railroad will have the use of two of the tracks and also joint use of the large underground station.
 The removal of the landing place from New York to Montauk Point, the extreme easterly end of Long Island would effect a saving of from six to eight hours in the actual time of Flu. ropean voyage. The distance from New York to this point by rail is IF miles A steamer train could make the run in about the time it takes a liner ordina rly to reach her berth in the North river from Sandy Hook. The distance by water from Montauk Point to the Sandy Hook lightship is 143 knots which is a run of about seven hours fol the big liners.
 It was the dream of the late Austin Corbin, president of the Long Island railroad, to make Montauk Point the place of departure for Europe and the port of entry from the other side, and this dream is likely to be realized. Mir. Corbin projected line of American ships to run from Montauk to Milford Haven, on the coast of Wales. His in- tention was to urge upon congress the desirability of making Montauk port of free entry, where foreign goods could be stored in bond for reshipment with out the payment of customs duty.
 The trains in all parts of the tunnel will be operated by electricity in the same manner as the recently construct ed Orleans railway extension in Paris This will make the ventilation of the great underground passage a compara lively easy matter, and there will be nc smoke or dirt. The subways under the streets of New York will be at such q depth that they will not interfere witl the construction of any other subways projected by the city.
 The undertaking Is the most stupen dous in the history of railroading IT America, and 1t is estimated the work will cost close on to S50,000.000. The ureliminaries are already under way