The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03
PENNSYLVANIA TUNNEL TALK.
PHILADELPHIA WILL BE OUR
sUBURB, SAYS MIR. BALDWIN,
my Not Boston. Too:-Long Island WIN
he Built Up Solid for Thirty Miies
From New York-Straight Route From
the south 10 New England, says Rea.


the south 10 New England. says Rea
President William II. Baldwin, Jr.. OF tn
Long Island Railroad was the principa
witness yesterday before the commission
appointed by the Appellate Division OF tn,
supreme Court to pass upon the tunne
MIR. Of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Tn,
boarp~ was in the Office OIL John j. Delany
at n william street.
Mr.. Baldwin predicted that the Penn
.ylvania in time will outgrow It's new ter
mnal, that Philadelphia will become a
suburb of this city and that in five years oil
80 Long Island will be continuously built
I'D within thirty miles Of New York
Mr.. Baldwin was called to show wha,
benefits the public would gain by the con.
struction OF the tunnel .When the tunnel
il built to Long Island.' he said, people
will follow the path Of least resistance
and Long Island and Brooklyn will grow
very rapidly. 1t needs no prophetic eye
to see that within tho next five years Long
Island will be built into a continuous town
for thirty miles from Manhattan. People
Who want to take a train for Long Island
now have TO spend forty minutes be-
fore they get on the cars. We expect to
get them thirty miles out Of the city In
forty-fve minutes after the tunnel Us COM
pleted-to take them out into the country
In the time that Is now spent in going from
downtown 10 Harlem.
Long Island has $50 miles OF shorefront
the only shorefront In the State. practi-
caly. People, want to live there. but at
present Il Is almost impossible for them to
do so. The curse OF our travel to-day il
tho continual walking. getting. up. sitting
down and changing cars. My personal
opinion Is that with the tunnel In operation
people will be able to come from Phila-
and that Philadelphia will then be only a
suburb Of New York. Then 1t will be pos
sible for Philadelphians to come to New York
70 the theatre and return the same night.
my only criticism OF the terminal station
Is that we may wish that it was made
enoe has taught me that railroads always
outgrow their terminals
Samuel Rea, fourth vice-president of
the Pennsylvania road, said that big city
needed trunk-line terminals for the accom-
was look ding ahead while pressing the present
plan. 1t will accommodate not only the
Pennsylvania trains for the West said
he. but will also connect with the Southern
Railway, the Seaboard Line and the Chesa-
peake and Ohio toward the South. and
through the Long Island road will give
a straight route from New England, doing
away with the ferryins of trains around
the harbor."
He was asked IL the construction Of the
tunnel across town would Inconvenience
owners and make their buildings
unsafe, as the rapid-transit tunnel did, and
he replied that It would not on account
Of the greater depth.
Lawyer Kingsley Of Mr.. Boardman's |
,fice said that every property owner along |
he line OF the tunnel in the city had been |
isked to give consent to the construction |
md that the consents Of owners of property |
assessed at S7,OO8 500 had been secured. |
Owners OF 331, Al 900 worth had not re-
olied he said, and those controlling 1928 500 |
n real estate had shown opposition. Cross
Examination showed that the Stuyvesant
Teal Estate Company, which bought prop
rty for the railroad, controlled much OF
he property which is in favor of the scheme.
Or. Boardman said that property owners
Fere opposed to giving the permission
'ecause they feared that they might in
ure their chances IL the land is condemned
nd that many of them were opposed TO
wing their consentwithout consideration.
Mr.. Boardman then rested the roads
ase, and the lawyers representing thoee
pposing the scheme produced no wit
eases. They said that they would sub
ait briefs next Tuesday morning. 1t Ia
robable that the commission will hold
o more hearings