Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-27
mond county.

the Hudson river are as follows h
New York & Jersey Railroad, rum
ming from Hudson Place, Hoboken,
near the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western terminal, to Morton st. near
Christopher in Manhattan; the Hud-
son & Manhattan railroad, extending
from the present Pennsylvania sta
ton in Jersey City to a new terminal
to be built at Cortlandt and Church
streets, Manhattan, and the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, from Weehawken to
SID street, Manhattan"
The McAd0O Tunnels.
The construction of the Pennsylva-
MIA tunnels and terminals was de-
scribed by Mr.. Cockrane, in the Octo-
Der number of the Broadway Maya
zine.
The present article is devoted more
especially to the McAdoo tunnels, so
called after William G. McAdoo, pres
ident of the two railroad companies
engaged in building them, and
through whose untiring and energetic
efforts the enterprises are being car
ried to a successful fulfllment. In
speaking of the tunnels, Mr.. Cock
rane says:
1.-THE northern tunnels, which with
their connections, constitute the New
York and Jersey Railroad, will con
meet by subway under christopher
street with Ninth street and thence
east to Broadway, and north via Sixth
avenue to a new terminal fronting on
Broadway between Thirty-second and
Thirty-ninth streets. The southern
tunnels will connect by an under
ground way with the Broadway sub
way. at Dey street, and through this
with all subways.
"On the Jersey side. a double-track
subway is laid out, running from the
Pennsylvania's Jersey City terminal
on the south, through the station of
the Erie, to a terminal adjoining the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
road, on the north end. This Jersey
subway will connect all these railway
lines, with both the Cortlandt street
and Morton street tunnels, and will
afford transportation for electric
trains, that can be run alike through
the subways on either shore or
through the tunnels, so that there
will be intercommunication by under
ground rail between all the points
that have been mentioned. The tun-
mel system will also he extended to
Newark and the Church street termi-
nal in New York.
Grand Central Connections.
Passengers coming in at the
Grand Central Station and going di-
rect to Jersey a take the New York
subway to Aston Place, and there
transfer to the McAdoo subway, going
through the New York and Jersey
Onorthern McAdoo) tunnel to Ho-
There, without changing
cars, they can go either to the Erie,
Lackawanna and Western
or the Pennsylvania stations, on con-
tinue on a surface line to Newark.
Passengers on the New York sub
way can reach the McAdoo tunnels
from either Astor Place or Wall
street. In the shopping districts
there will be stations on Sixth avenue
at Thirty-third, Twenty-eighth,
Twenty-third, Fourteenth and Ninth
streets, and also at Eight avenue and
Christopher street.
''The upper or northern part of
McAdoo tubes crosses the Hudson At
the location of the old tunnel, coming
into New York at Morton street, to a
station al Greenwich and Christopher
streets, the other terminal being at
Hoboken, n. j. These tubes are each
about a mile in length and fifteen
feet in diameter, and they were con
pleted under the river some time ago,
the work now being confined mainly
to the shore approaches. The tubes
are built up of sectional iron rings
bolted together and lined with con
crete. The metal shell is a little W
inch in thickness.
Sixth Avenue Subway.
1.-The New York and Jersey Rail
subway will continue up Sixth
as far as Thirty-third street,
at the junction with Broadway. The
cost of this subway will be ABOUT ST.
500, 900 a mile or th~ree-fourths of
the cost of the Broadway subway.
Here a terminal station is to be built,
200 by 400 feet; this will be a fine
structure, with two stories above the
street and two below. Though it will
not compare with the new Pennsyl-
vania's $25, 900, 900 terminal a block
west, or even with the Hudson ter
minal buildings, yet it will be a COM
plete and commodious station, with
appointments sufficient to accommo-
date the entrance and exit of 100000
persons who are expected to make
use of it daily.
In May last the contract was
awarded for constructing the Hud-
terminal buildings, which + to
contain the Cortlandt street station
which has been referred to. These
are ~2O-story Twin buildings with tow
in the facing the river,
IND With trcades on Dey street.
NortaEdt Street Station.
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