The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-09-27
TO TUNNEL NORTH RIVER
Another Big Project is Put Under
WAY.
COMPANY INCORPORATED INNEw YORK.
Capital Of Seven aud a Half MlIIionS--cou'
neciion TO De Made With All the North
ern New Jersey Trolley Lines.-From Jersey
City 10 New York in Minutes; From
Newark Ia is Minutes

New York (SpeciaD The Interstate
Tunnel Railway Company OF New Jer-
sey was Incorporated both at Albany, N.
Y, and Trenton, N. J with an author
Ized capital of S7,5oo,ooo. The object of
the company is to construct tunnel rail-
road for public use between New York
and Jersey City, the terminal point being
Chambers street. New York, abe Pa
vonia avenue, Jersey City. The incor-
porators are Thomas ~ McCarter, of
Rumson, NJ j. Albert B. Carlton. Eliz-
abeth Charles A. Sterling, Mark I. Cox,
both of Orange, N J.; John B. McDon-
ald Herbert il. Vreeland. John d. Grim
Minis, Robert A. c. Smith, Henry D.
McCartor, who heads the list OF incor-
porators. is president OF the Public Serv-
ice Corporation Of New Jersey, which
controls practically all Of the trolley
lines of North Jersey.
John B. Mcdonald and Thomas II.
McCarter. president OF the Public Serv-
ice Corporation OF New Jersey, made
the following statement concerning the
purposes of the company:
These companies have been organ
lied to construct tunnel under the
North River from terminus in Jersey
City at Erie and Twelfth streets TO a
terminus under Chambers street between
the Broadway and Brooklyn Bridge term
inal. in the Borough Of Manhattan. and
to provide thereby better means Of COM
municatiun between the business parts
of the city of New York and the terri
tory served by the Public Service Cor
poration. which operates all the surface
lines in the counties of Hudson, Essex,
Passaic, Union and Middlcsex in New
Jersey. or about $50 miles of line.
"The Public Service Corporation pro-
poses to supplement its existing facili-
lies in New Jersey by new, direct,
high-speed line from Newark with COM
munication without changes to the pro-
posed tunnel in Jersey City, thus afford
ing direct transportation from its tcrmi-
nus in Newark to the City Hall in New
York in IS minutes. Arrangements have
been made for Joint passenger station
at Jersey City which will enable the Erie
Railroad Company to transfer It's sub
urban passengers to the proposed tunnel
line.
The location of the proposed tunnel
at the Manhattan end has been made with
special view to furnishing the best pos
sibe facilities for the distribution of the
traffic, not only by means OF the Metro
politan surface lines, but also by the
proposed new rapid transit subways re-
rently laid out by the Board OF Rapid
Transit Commissioners.
The engineers estimate that the time
between Jersey City and the Manhattan
terminal of the tunnel will not exceed
ive minutes on the trains.
The Interstate Tunnel Railway Com
pany will be controlled and financed
Jointly by the Metropolitan interests, by
the Public Service Corporation and the
other interests which will furnish the
traffic at the New Jersey end.
1t is proposed that the construction of
the tunnel shall begin as soon as the
necessary rights have been granted by
the public authorities. An application
Tor the necessary rights will be made inn
mediately to the Rapid Transit Com
mission