New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-21
A NEW HUDSON TUNNEL
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indefinitely, and actual work on the new sub
! ways cannot begin until thIz question is settled
/ Though it is purposed to begin work on the
new tunnel necessary rights are
! granted by the Rapid Transit Commission, it
may be found that work on it also will have to
await the court decision on the rights Of the
aldermen. The contract will not be publicly let.
S. L F. Deyo will be the chief engineer and Mr..
Mcdonald will have general charge of the work
He does not believe in letting work like this to
the lowest bidder. In such work" he says
find the man who can do the job and turn it
over TO him
So far, no actual work has been done on the
tunnel. This cannot be begun until the fran
chises are granted But the projectors have be-
fore them the detailed information supplied by
the United States Coast Survey as to the bed
Of the North River, and they are thoroughly ia
niliar with the character of Manhattan Island.
AS soon as rights are granted the engineers will
be put to work and the construction pushed
with all possible speed.
The financing Of the enterprise, it is under
stood will be in the hands of the two railway
corporations According to the brief statement
issued yesterday afternoon by the Metropolitan
company, 1.-The Interstate Tunnel Railway Com
pany will be controlled and financed Jointly by
the Metropolitan interests. by the Public Ser
vice Corporation and the other interests which
will furnish the traffic at the New-Jersey end
Considering the close physical connection be-
tween the tunnel and the Erie Railroad, the nat
uraI conclusion was that the Erie was the
other interests" and would take a large part in
financing the enterprise 1t was announced yes
terday, however that the Erie had bought the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, for
a sum not mentioned, but it is conceded that
this is a large financial operation and the Eric
has already undertaken improvements in and
around Jersey City requiring the expenditure OF
many millions. Among these may be mentioned
q new terminal station and yards, and new
tunnels and cutoff
A high official Of the Erie said yesterday:
The Erie Will have a physical connection
with the tunnel, and that is all that concerns
the publl1 AS TO who will finance the scheme
it is none OF the publics business All they
are concerned with is that the tunnel is to be
built and have the necessary connections.
FOUR NORTH RIVER TUNNELS.
The Erie will have a physical connection
nection with New-York, and this other tunnel
is one that the Metropolitan, at time, was
believed to control With the present projected
tube and one other yet to be built, there will
be four under the river between New-York and
Jersey City. The first is the Pennsylvania tun-
neI now in course of construction, and two Of
the others are owned by the Hudson Companies
of New York. One Of these. now well toward
completion is the old Morton-st tunnel, which
was taken up some years ago by William G.
McAdoo. AS first planned ii was 10 extend from
15th-st., Jersey City. TO Christopher and Green
wich sts this city. When the project was re-
viVed early in 1902 II was understood, and cor
roboration of the report was practically OBJ
tanned, that the Metropolitan was behind the
plan.
Subsequently the plans for the tunnel were
extended so that it was TO so down TO the Jer-
sey Central station at COnmUnIpaw, pass under
the Pennsylvania terminal IN Jersey CITY ana
have a connection with the Pennsylvania sta
ton 90 en- UP the Erie, where connection
would be established take in The Lackawanna
and then cross over TO York. The Lacka-
wanna part of the plan fell through, and the
railroad secured the tunnel company Tor SZOOOOO
damages for carrying the bore under the rail-
road Yards 1t explained, when all these
plans were made known. that IN ADDITION TO
the connections with the various steam ran
roads the tunnel would connect with the Ines
of the Public Service Corporation IN Jersey CITY
IN New YORK the company bought a block at
Greenwich and Christopher SITS, which was sup (
posed to be for a terminal station, but IL soon /
developed that the tunnel was TO be EXTENDED 10 (
6rh-ave and }.}d-st. and from Sth-St- and 9TH /
ave across to 4th-aYe. In the meantime the /
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company mad
begun work on a tunnel cohh@ctIns me rem
syIvania Railroad terminal in Jersey City with /
at Church-st The Pennsylvania .
Railroad Company bought site in Jersey City .
for the terminal OF the Hudson and Manhattan I
tunnel The interests of this company were sub /
stantiaTIv the same as those of the tunnel to /
Greenwch-st. and Charles VI. Jacobs chief en- .
gineer for the Pennsylvania tunnel, was also .
chief engineer for this tunnel
In January last the Hudson Companies were {
formed to take over both Of these tunnel conpa- (
MES The officers of the Hudson Companies are {
Walter G. Oaknan, president; Charles NJ. /
Jacobs chief engineer; William Barclay Parsons. /
consulting engineer; Henry A Marray, treas I
1rer and K 3. COnger, secretary The dtrec- .
tors are Walter G. Oakman, William q. McAdoo. /
William Barclay Parsons John W Simpson, /
William c. Lane Frederick 3. Jennings. An
.hony N Brady Andrew Freedman. Gardiner
N Lane Cornelius Vanderbilt. Pliny Fisk and /
William NJ Barnun. OF these Walter Q. Oak
nan Andrew Freedman, Gardiner NJ Lane and .
Cornelius Vanderbilt are directors in the Inter-
borough Rapid Transit Company
MDONAID SOLVES PROBLEM
It was Immediately evident that the connec-
ton Of the Metropolitan with the McAdoo tun-
1eIg had been lost. The Belmont interests had
shouldered out the Ryan people and secured q
connection with the majority Of the railroads on
he Jersey CITY water front. Mr. Mcdonald be-
ran his search for a way to regain the lost
ground and the new tunnel is the result
Primarily it untes the lines OF the Public ser
vice CORPORATION operating about $50 miles OF
railroad in Hudson, Essex, Passaic. Union ana
Niddlesex counties, New-Jersey, with the 90
niles OF the Metropoiitan's system and WITH tne
makes large part of the Erie business directly
tributary TO the Metropolitan
Alexander E. Orr, president or the RAPID
Transit Commission, said last night that II hao
1een brought 10 his notice indirectly that a new
-unueI was planned under the North River Inc
,rofect had his approval as a general PROPOSE
-ton hut he had not been informed as TO the
"details and the route he woula i, hoL pe ao'e 70
,roI,ght before him officially and he had al the
sstailz IN hia possession