New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-05
HERE A DAY SOONER
MONT4UK FOR LANDING.
Story of Variation of Corbin Plan
Sent to Tribune Office.

According to a typewriter document exhaus-
tive in detail, which sent to The Tribune
office last night. with no means of Identifying
its author attached, plans are under considera-
ton which will give to this city foreign mall
service some ten hours faster than the present
system. All this. according to the document
depends on the purchase of controlling inter-
est in the New-York and Brooklyn Tunnel Rail
road Company by the Manhattan Transit Com
pany and the building CT a subway under the
East River and an electric railroad to Montauk
Point by the transit company. The mails
would be transported over this system. being
taken aboard the steamships from SWIFT
lighters
The Manhattan Transit Company, which re-
Gently came into public notice because Of its
taking line of automobiles operated for
tourists. and subsequent plan to run auto
mobile stages all over the city for a small fare.
was taken over by new interests at the time OF
the absorption OF the sightseeing automobile
concern. What these new people intend to do
with 1t. its present president, Joseph III. Hoadley,
says he does not know, but he is certain. he
says, that their plans not ready for publ-
cation, and any forecasting of them is great
piece OF of1ciousness on the part of somebody.
Another director said the story was substan-
TALLY correct In Washington nothing was
known of the plan.
The document received was in part as fol-
lows:
Through the medium Of tunnel under the East
River. the franchise for which has already been
the NewtYork T and BrooklVn Tunnel Railroad Com
pany. it proposed establish new fast service
New-York City and Montauk Point Long Island.
Trains are to be equipped with tne new internal ie
speed of not less than ninety miles an hour These
70 whence
shipped TO fast lighters which in turn will run
aSnE5d' aboaFd the outward vessels and deposit 'He
incoming vessels carrying foreign mails will be
met by the lighters, the foreign mails Will be taken
off, sent ashore to the waiting special train
ten hours ahead Of the ocean liners arrival at
Quarantine where the mail boats go TO get In
Arrangements will be made for a wireless tee-
graph station and general Postofice station at
scheme for motive power, using electricity and the
third rail for moving the mail trans ShTousn Ign h the
to Montauk Point. This does not involve a
engne sconneeted ae e only While the from
the third rail is propeng The cars through the the
electric current is automatically turned off and the
Congress will be asked at the coming session to
feet under the site Of the New-York Postofice This
Loop Will connect the he P0stoffce building directy
structed under the East River from Fulton and
T sfe p6sab to the the caEhg a IN Out Of h
plan to give New-York faster foreign mail ser
nearer TondoR Paris Berlin and all the
cia! centres Of the old World VII ,,.-.os,o.
handles about four tons of miscellaneous foreign
a An am % oe 5or a d9fesa
crossing the Atlantic. An average number OF
mail in bags and the bags of papers handled on in
coming and outgoing steamers aggregate daily
Last year 2.56s $40 letters of the first class were
sent from New-York TO foreign countries. while
ing and ortgoing foreign mail will break all rec
6d S the e S g R4ooktR OF the
RaiIroad to the Manhattan Transit Company and
the capitalists connected with It the speedy con,
the adoption Of the new system are assured. The
new project needs no financing 1t has the n neGes &
treasury ready be drawn
m Grk ha a' ahSrt under the State laws to
s4f oR 2r " the
Company on its part. has acquired all the neces-
sary terminals at Broadway and Ann-sL, Fulton
and Water SITS. and around the City Hall in Brook
TO secure property adjacent 70 Fulton Market
project for transporting passengers between Brook
yn and New York on shuttle trains. in connection
Among those who are Interested in the enterprise
are A. D. Proctor Smith. New-YoTk; w NJ g Hoagg-
dence r. l.; ]. ". Allison. J. H. Hoadley. W; H.
Of Bridgeport: George H. Hoadey of Providence,
r. l.: Robert McKinstry of Camden. y. j.. and
Mr.. Hoadey. when asked about the authen-
ticity OF the document. wroth.
1T is true" said he. that the Manhattan
Transit Company has purchased II per cent of
the stock Of the New-York and Brooklyn Tun-
mel Railroad Company. and II is also true that
that concern. which has terminus at the New
York Postoffice. has the right under its charter
10 build a tunnel under the East River and
operate a railroad in connection with it, The
Manhattan Transit Company has recently
passed into the hands of interests. Who
these people I not at liberty to say.
l do not know that these their plans; 1 do
not know that they have completed any plans
but l am quite certain that whatever plans they
may have are not ready for publication. I do
not know where this story came from. but will
know tomorrow, you may be sure"
Another director of the Manhattan Transit
Company knew little of the story did Mr.
Hoadley and unwilling 10 talk about it,
He believed. however. that the substance of the
plans outlined was correct.
This scheme recalls the plans of Austin Corbin
for a steamship terminal at Montauk Point He
planned to have lines of steamships from
Montauk Point, which was to be provided with
excellent harbor facilities. the steamships TO
connect with fast trains, which would transport
the mails TO this city. There reports of
plan similar to Mr.. Corbns. afterward denied,
on the part of the Pennsylvania Railroad when
it secured control of the Long Island.