The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-12
THE TWO TUBES MEET
NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY
 JOIN UNDER HUDSON.
Workmen in New Jersey Section Strike Dead End of New York opening-If Subway Franchise
 is Granted, Will Bring
 Millions into City.

New York Herald.
 Workmen delving in the silt that forms large portion of the bed of the Hudsoh River brought the two ends of the New York and New Jersey tunnel together yesterday There was no glint of day light through the opening and no hand sh1ke or shout of greeting to mark an C! Cheering achievement that will have place in history.
 In the most prosaic fashion the end of the tunnel which has been advancing from New Jersey was pushed until 1t net the dead end of the New York tun- mel. As the latter is flooded for dis tance of forty feet beyond the first air lcck. tfere could be no greetings when the bore from New Jersey got in touch with the opeTing tFat extends from the foot of Morton Street. Difficulties which at one time seemed insurmountable lave been overcome, and a work which was planned thirty years ago, and ac- tually begun in 1S79 has been practi- c&lly accomplished.
 There will be no hoisting of flags or footing of steamboat whistles to mark the event until some day next week when the earth and rock have been re- moved from the heading. the steel tubes joined. the wooden barricade at the er l Of the New York tunnel demolished and the water pumped out of the forty foot section. Then the door In the New York air lock will be opened, and 1t will be possible to walk from this city tO New jersey.
 First Who Will Step Through.
 William G. McAdoo. president of the Akew York and New Jersey Railroad
 mpany and Charles Nj Jacobs, chief engineer. will be the first to step through the opening. There will be no the tunnel flags will be raised as a sig nal that the tunnel is open.
 1t IS the north tube of the tunnel which was joined yesterday The south tube will require nearly year to com piete. The tunnel Is $500 feet long.
 When the present company took up the work. two years ago, 1850 feet had been bored from the New Jersey shore. A series of accidents and financial disas- ters marked the early years of the en- terprise, and twenty men lost their lives before the secret of tunnelling with compressed air was mastered. Bot single life has been lost under the pres cnt management
 More than three hundred thousand per sons cross the North River daily in fer ryboats, 8 traffic greater than 10O.0O0,0O0 year The tunnel to Morton Street. which will have it's terminal at Herald extension up Sixth Avenue is granted. IS expected to relieve the ferries to some extent and to provide for a portion of the increase in traffic.
 Through Trolley Service to Jersey. Within a radius of twenty-five miles from the WeSleTn DOTldI Ol lHG Iunnel there is resident population of mora than fifteen hundred thousand. Through trolley service from Newark, Montclair inc oranges. TIackensack. Englewood, Paterson Passaic. Bayonne. Jersey City and Hohoken Is promised. and arrange mcnts by which passengers from the | Erie and Lackawanna railroads can be carried through the tunnel are being made
 | 'NbV fhis f1unaI ond one we are building to CortIandt street should not develop the west bank | of the Hudson as the bridges and pro | itcted tunnels are developing the city tcy9nd ,nc turne! r-1st to % thc bHar+ nope to sbonninr and business section of Mar pattan island and by giving better traf- ac faciuties the tunnel should be of benc-
 fiji to New York city as well as to subur- ! ban towns