New-York tribune., 1904-10-25
A LACKAWANNA TUNNEL.
UNDER HUDSON RIVER.
d., L and ". Plans to Ran Trains
Into This City.
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Albany Oct 24.-FoIlowng the action Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company the Lacka-
wanna system will dig tunnel under the Hud-
son River at New-YOrk and run it's trains into
the city. The Lackawanra Tunnel Railroad
Company was Incorporated to-day under the
railroad law. and its certificates show that it in
tends to construct and operate u standard gauge
railroad under the Hudson from point "south
of West Twenty-third-st >" New-Yorh, to Ho-
ooken. 9ne line to be operated I'm this State
will he less than five miles long. 1t may be
either single or double track, standard gauge
and may be operated by steam, electricity or
other power.
The Lackawanna Tunnel Railroad Company's
capital is S3O0OOO and it's corporators are w
H. Truesdaie +. Z. Loomis, 0. c. Post Thomas
w. Lee. George F. Wilson, A D. Chambers
Fred F. Chambers, William S. Mcclure and
Walter W. Ross, all Of New-York Most Of the
stock is held by Fred F. Chambers. who owns
four hundred shares. and holds one thousand
shares trustee.
President w. II. Truesdale, OF the Delaware
Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company
yesterday afternoon declined to make any state
ment concerning the Lackawanna Tunnel Com
pany, most of the corporators OF which are Of
fcials of the Lackawanna Railroad. ana referred
all inquirers to W W. Ross. general attorney of
the railroad Mr.. Ross said:
Az the last meeting of the board of directors
| OF the Lackawanna Railroad a resolution was
passed authorizing the formation Of u company
10 pe known as the Lackawann Tunnel Com
pry, for the purpose of building a tunnel from
the LackaWanna terminal at Hoboken to some
point IN NeW-1 York between Twenty -third-st.
and the Battery. We have Just received our
charter to-day. The tunnel company will be
purely and simply subsidiary company of the
Lackawa Railroad Company and will be
financed entirely by the railroad cOmpanv
| Nothing definite in the way of plans have Vet
In niacfG GOffI p liz
first thing to do IS TO have your company incor-
pOrated and work the details out afterward
According 20 present intentions, the tunnel viii
be mainly passenger tunnel, though it is not
determined that il will be so entirely The
plans are in very indefinite shape at present and
they will have TO be worked out gradually. I
can say nothing as to the probable location of
the Manhattan terminal. The proposition has
been discussed by the officers of the I.aCka-
porate the company. and that is the most def.
mite thing that has been done.
The Lackawanna road now operates two fer
ries from its HoboSen terminal, one to Barclay
ST. ana the other TO Christopher-st. and is pre
pairing 10 establish Il third line. running To TWen-
ty-third-st.. where the PENNSYLVANIA and the
Erie already have ferries II is thought thar it's
tunnel if built, would extend from the Ho-
bokcn station To a point near Fourteanth-st I'm
this city. With the New-YOrk terminal of the
tunnel at Nnth-ave, like that Of the Penn
sylvanias tuTnel, facilities for distributing the
Lackawanna's enormous suburban passenger
traffic, well as its through traffic would he
PROVIDED bN Ine surface ana elevated roads:
bur no close connection with the subway would
be possible, as the Interborough's subway line
crosses Fourteenth-st. as well Twenty-third-
ST. at FOuTth-aVe.
The Lackawanna some time ago began pro-
ceeiings in the New-Jersey courts to restrain
the New York and NeNy-Iarsev Tunnel Cyor,nanv
from bringing condemnation proceedings to ac-
quire a right Of way in Jersey City northward
under the Lackawanna's terminal property In
Hoboken but its application for a restraining
order denied by Vce-C Chancellor Stevenson.
one of the grounds OH which the I4ackawanna
opposed the projected building of spur tunnel
by the Newly Ork and \eNV-J Jersey Tunnel Com
pany in jersey City was that the construction
would he an obstruction To improvements which
The Lackawanna Itself might desire TO carry out
at any time.