New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-21
A NEW HUDSON TUNNEL
YTCTORY FOR T. f. RYAN.
y. J. Public Service Corporation
His ALZa,-Transfers to Sub1eay.

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+orv through which it sends its dragnet every
s.v Was at least a passive supporter Of the Bel
on+ Penn nsylvania combination. by means Of
-. AIcAdoo tunnel. Now it appears as an active
o1,r Of the Metropolitan interests in the plans
o. new tunnel under the North River. The
.or,psnies TO build this tunnel were incor-
orafed yesterday in Albany and Trenton, with
fscers and directors of the METROPOLITAN and
-. prblic Service Corporation their officers
and directors.
The Trenton company is called the Interstate
7-,n,,a; Railway Company Of New-Jersey, and
tha Albany company is the Interstate Tunnel
RaiIwav Company of New-York. The capitah-
,etion in each case is S7.5o0O00 and the incor-
oors-ors are the same. being Thomas n Nc
carter OF Runson. N J.. president OF the PUP
liz Service Corporation: Charles A Sterhhs OF
East Orange. y. J., secretary Of that company
Albert B. Carlton. vice president. and Mark L
fox Of East Grange, director of the same
comnanv: Herbert H. vreeland. president OF the
Netropolitan Securities Company; John B. NC
Donald vice-president OF the Metropolitan;
Tohn D. C,rinlrnins and r. A c., Smith, directors
of that company. and Henry D. Macdona' OF
counsel for the Metropolitan
7 Is proposed TO run the new tunnel from
r-ie ard 18th SITS. Jersey City, to the new gen
eral terminal station planned Tor the Sroch'H"
Fridge. An application for the necessary rights
r-,,--,issio7 and construction will begin as soc7
,s -he proper permission IS given. II is estl-
r,.+ad that the tunnel will take about three
..-s n build and that it will cost in the neigh
borhood of s12.O0ooOo. with the terminal
IN connection with the tunnel the Public Ser
sire Corporation will build a new high speed
line from Newark TO Jersey City. and II Is pe-
,,e,-ed that passengers from Newark Viii De
landed at the City Hall in twenty minutes the
ride from Newark TO Jersey City taking hI'eeh
,oi,utes and FIVE minutes more to go under the
city. -
.-.ree1nents have been made also for a joint
-.sse,qer station at Jersey City, which will
,,.hA 1he Erie Railroad to transfer It's pas
zars directly 10 the new tunnel. Ihe Enc
has not vet decided the location Tor 1ts ne"
.sr,oiral hut it has conferred with the ProJec'
ovs of the new tunnel, and it has been declded
,ba+ there shall be joint station.
The new tunnel is the contribution OF 'on1
2 1,ononsld to the traction fight Since his
connection with the Belmont syndicate eeaseu'
a. the beginning Of last December, ne mas peeh
...,ing vav to prove his value TO his new
.11ies It was understood. at the time that ne
p-ss taken into the Metropolitan. that that COM
psnv might be in 2 better position 10 ask loI
a shsre Of the new subway contracts pro1ec'eu
Nv the Rapid Transit Commission 1t vas sup
,zaa that With such a tunnel builder as MI
Mcdonald among us lci'-oS t1~ AN0S-N
commission would readily see the advisaniiity
Of giving the principal contracts to the Metro
,7oIitan But Nr Mcdonald was unwilling 70
occupv this position of show figure, and at
once set to work 10 prove himself Of more
practical value TO the company. As ne himself
EXPRESSED it he thought the best thing he could
do would be to help the company get back
some of the business that slipping away
from it
GREAT FIELD IN NEW-JERsEY.
AT earnest study of the situation led him to
h.Iieve that great and undeveloped field for
4he Metropolitan lay m New-Jersey. and the
tunnel scheme naturally followed. He laid it
before the Metropolitan officials. and they. in
turn. took up negotiations with the Public Ser
xice CORPORATION. and the tunnel becomes an as
sured thing.
Special interest attaches to the connection Of
the new tunnel with the subway routes
anrroved by the Rapid Transit Commission.
high official of the Metropolitan company. in
Speaking of the tunnel yesterday, said:
while the new tunnel will run under all the
rrorosed subway routes. and will have phys
tcsl connection with them, there will be
transfer system by which passengers from New
Jersey can change to any of the Manhattan
lines
IT is fair presumption. then" was re-
marked that you have pretty good idea
where a. least part os the new contracts
going"
well" was the reply. we expect to get our
snere"
That is not the idea though" the official
hss..ned 70 add "our belief is that transfer
sys;enc IS ueeded and demanded by the public
and 3 transfer system IS the best thing for the
railroad company also. The public demands
trsnEze.s and no matter who builds the tunnels
46a raj; the transfers
viii bs na6-
"HoH about a connection with the present
subway systen7?"
We viii run into the general terminal at the
Brooklyn Bridge but that will be all the con-
nsction that there will be-
y transfer Connection"
"Oh, we don't care whether there is any trans
fer connection or not. That is for them to say.
If they want it, all well and good. But we do
not care and we shall not seek it There will be
the 8d-ave. :hs Broadway the 9th-ave. and the
2st-aye. subvays: they should give the public
enough transfers
This indicates plainly that there is no truce
n the Belmont Ryan war. and that there is still
hard fight in prospect for the contracts for the
subway routes. Much in regard to the new
tunnel viii depend on who gets them, and this,
II is believed, cannot be settled much before
the first of the year. The engineers of the Rapid
Transit Commission are working on the
plans and specifications. and it is not thought
that bids be called for under three months
COURTS MAY CAUSE DELAY
Even after this is done there sill remains the
litigation over the right of the Board of Alder
men 10 pass upon the commissions awards AS
yet it has only been settled that the commission
can go ahead preparing it's plans. and advertise