Arizona republican., 1902-01-04
THE NORTH RIVER TUNNEL
Marconi's Achievements-A Popul ar
 Vanderbilt an Old Man.

lens of rapid transit in New York city
 have resolved themselves into the ques-
 tions of tunneling under the streets and rivers. Elevated railroads and surface electric lines are regarded nowadays as
 having reached about the limit Of their
 development, and the universal opin- ion among engineers is that all future
 advance in the facilities of passenger
 traffic through the city and into the suburbs must be in the line of under ground roads.
 The project or t:e Pennsylvania to tunnel under the North river from New Jersey is the latest topic of interest in engineering circles, as well as to the
 travelling public in general. The bridge scheme has been abandoned, probably for ail time. At cost of between Sl5,- 900, eco and S2O,000.0 GOO the tunnel is to be built within three years, if present 1 plans are carried out, and the company proposes to burrow so deep under the surface of both the city streets and the river bottom that no subway ever 1 planned for urban traffic iu future l will be interfered with, though the city decide to have underground roads on every avenue from one side to the
 other. These subways. which will un- i doubtc1Iy be built some day, can be ex- cavared to run over the top of the | PcnnsyIvania's line, which will be 9 about 100 feet below the street level. { No station existing at present is as , large as the subterranean terminal stopping place of the Pennsylvania is 1 to be. The site is the block belween l Thirty and Thirty-third streets, l at Seventh avenue. The size of the station will be 1900 by 52o feet, and there will be twenty tracks. Ba6Gase rooms and passenger waiting rooms are i to be equipped with the most modern 1 conveniences. and enormous elevators, I capable of holding several scores Of persons, will take patrons of the road | down from the streets.
 | While the Pennsylvania s tunnel | from Jersey will end at the great sta | tion. the Long Island railroads tunnel 1 from the other side or the East river will also have it's terminal there, after I traversing Thirty third street at depth sufficient to dodge the existing subway and the line or all similar roads i that may be projected in time U come. ! Fhe Long Island, as is well known. is 1 prac tically an adjunct of the Peansyl- Vauia. So to all inteats and purposes ! there will be a single company that can offer is patrons passage from the far corners Of the Pennsylvania and the ! west To the extreme end of Long leland on the east. without the inconvenience 1 Of the old ferries across the North, or | Hudson, river between Jersey Ciiy 2.d ! New York.
 : So numerous will be the practical Te- 1 sUIts of the new tunnel that il WoIld
 take a volume to catalogue them and a prophetic mind even to guess at them. i One thing that is certain is the short ! eEiDs of the voyage across the Atlantic i to Europe by one whole days time. ] This seems tar fetched, but it can be 1 easily understood. Hitherto the steam ship companies have had their tcTrli- ! nals in and about New York which i7 ! now reached by all the great eastern | railroads, either by ferries or directly. l :t has been pointed out that. II these ! companies should establish their docks at Montauk Point. the easterly end os | Long Island, they could shorten the 1 tIip to Europe and diminish their own | clpcnses accordingly. That this has not been done before is largely due to
 the fact that Montauk Point Is a hard place to get at. It is reached by the i Long Island railroad. bGt to reach that ! roads nearest terminal the most di- l lariIated and dirtiest of ferries must ! be patronized. With the chain of tun- nels, completing fast connections with | the Long Island, the Pennsylvania can i send it's passengers to Montauk as . easily esf ID -NtNs T ta h.
 | Prof. Nj. I. Pupin. the famous cleo tri- clan of Columbia university. and i Thomas A. Edison, as well as all the i rest of the electricians of New York.
 are enthusiastic in the comments on | the great achievements of GuSlicluo ! Aarconi in establishing between the
 coasts of Newfoundland and those of | England by wireless teleEraphy, re- ceiving messages without the aid O. any visible conductor through 1.S0O
 miles of space.
 | Prof. Pupin says :'One point that is ] of the grea test value to the scientific world is that Marconi has proved con Clusivcly that the curvature O. the earth is no obstacle to the system of wireless telegra phy. The various other people that are claiming to have de vcloped newer systems of wireless tel ! egraphy have been simply modifying Marconi's deductions and cEadins his prior right to tine invention on technI- calities. He deserves the whole credit" The statement that a cable company having the rights of communication between Newfoundland and England will sue the Italian inventor is now made. Whether or not the company nas any case IS d matter for the future to decide, but public opinion seems to differeutiate between cable rights and
 the rights to manipulate this new Sys-
 tenn that appears so much like pagic
 to the uuski!led mind.
 Mir. Marconi has been in New Yur;,
 often and is especially well known tc the local newspaper men. wno have had
 occasion to pursue him reie1tleSsly for
 the news that he is always qualified to
 impart. lie is only 2 years old. Light
 of stature. with blond hair and nous
 tacEe, very large blue eyes he looks the
 typical thcorist, ard until he talks his
 dreamy. wandering look might lead
 you 10 believe that you had found q
 student of alchemy or ot:lc- sort of