The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-09

with its immense downtown terininal
buildings at Cortlandt street, consti-
tutes the most remarkable rapid tran
sit system in the world. As a piece
OF engineering it has no rival. II was
the pioneer Of all the tunne1ing on
Manhattan Island. II surpasses the
subway in daring and magnitude, and
is more comprehensive than even the
great system which the Pennsylvania
Railroad is driving under Manhattan
from New Jersey to Long Island.
We not only Lave four tunnels un-
der the Hudson. but both New York
and Jersey City are being extensively
pierced with tunnels and subway con-
struction.
From our main station, at Dey and
Church streets, there will be a subway
foot passage extending TO Broadway.
opening into the Fulton-street station
OF the subway The uptown tunnels.
which reach the New York shore at
Morton street, will continue on under
Greenwich and Christopher streets to
Sixteenth avenue and Ninth street.
AT the junction OF these thorough
fares branch will extend on eastward
there connecting with the subway.
while the main line will continue
uptown under Sixth avenue to the new
Pennsylvania Railroad at Thirty-third
street. Entrances to our subway in
Sixth avenue will be at Ninth, Four
teenth. Eighteenth, Twenty third.
Twenty eighth and Thirty-third
streets.
"In Jersey City the terminals of the
uptown and downtown tunnels will be
connected by transverse tunnels ex-
tending mile and quarter along the
Jersey shore beneath the tracks OF the
ppnO cVfvnria fha Eric
wanna railroads. with entrances to the
stations OF each, so that passengers
arriving at these stations may enter
the cars OF our tunnels and find them
selves in New York in three or four
minutes. There will be further ex-
tension westward for quarters
OF mile under the tracks OF the Penn
sylvania road as far as Brunswick
street. in Jersey City, where our trains
will reach the surface and continue on
the Pennsylvania tracks 10 Newark.
This REORGANIZATION system of
tunnels and subways will probably do
more for the extension of the Metro
politan district than any other i'm
provement yet undertaken in Greater
New York. 1t will be of inestimable
advantage to the people OF New Jersey
and enable those living within fifty
miles Of New York TO reach their BUSH
ness offices in the city much easier and
quicker than If they lived in Brooklyn
or Long Island with the present ia
cilities.
1T will also greatly add to the con-
venience, health and comfort of pas
sengers travelling in the winter
months Instead OF bleak ride across
the river on slow ferry-boats, with fog
and ice frequently delaying them, it
Will be possible to travel between New
YORK and the country districts in a
third OF the time now required Pas
sengers leaving their ofices in the city
enter our terminal station. take a train
and reach their destination, whether
uptown. downtown, out on Long Island.
IN the Bronx or over in New Jersey. at
press speed. without being exposed
to the elements. 1t requires no rhetoric
or elucidation to show the great ad-
vantage of such system, landing New
York business men in any of the great
stations without leaving their seats
after entering the cars in New york.
Our equipment Will be firenroof
throughout. with all the latest I'm
provements. Spacious steel cars. with
comfortable seats. and with eight car
trains during the rush hours. trains
will be run every minute and a hair.
The trip under the Hudson River will
probably average three ninutes, SO