Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-09
WELD JERSEY
TO NEW YORK
Are Spending 100000 900
Along Hudson River to Make
1t Convenient for JerSeymen.

NEW YORK, July 9:-Over $780,
0O0,0 is being spent or laid out in
plans along the Hudson river to
bring New Jersey nearer to the me-
tropolis, and when improvements now
in plan or under way are completed,
Jerseymen will have better facilities
for getting into the big city than
have the jewellers in any other sec
ton. Even citizens in counties in
New York contiguous to the city will
not find the trip into town as easy
as persons living in New Jersey, and
in fact the heart of the city will be
| ore easily reached by residents of the
nearby counties of North Jersey than
by those who live in the outlying
! boroughs of the city itself.
The tunnels under the Hudson
river are all well under way, and the
recent announcement by McDougall
Hawkes., chairman of the Interstate
| Bridge Commission, that plans for
the proposed great span across the
| river would be pushed with all speed,
| completes the chain of improvements.
The tunnels and the bridge will rep
resent the greatest engineering feats
of their kind in the world.
One of the tunnels, the ~so-called
McAdoo or Hudson Companies tun-
mel, from Hoboken to Morton street,
has actually been completed so far as
boring through the rock and loose
salt under the river is concerned.
The tunnel consists of twin tubes, the
first of which was Joined in March,
1904, and the second one year later.
This tunnel, as well as the other Nc
Adoo tunnel now under construction,
from the Pennsylvania terminal at
Jersey City to Cortlandt street, will
be used for cars similar to the steel
cars in the subway. 1t is planned to
give both tunnels direct underground
connection with the New York sub
] way.
The Pennsylvania tunnels are PROV
ing a very difficult engineering task,
owning to the fact that heavy pas
seHger trains must be run through
them. Though solid rock is a hun
dred feet below the line of the tun-
mel, the engineers have come to the
conclusion that it is necessary to seek
a solid foundation. Accordingly the
great tubes will rest on long steel
stills every fifteen feet along the way.
The tunnel is expected to be complet-
ed about the middle of 1907.
Thus trains of at least one rail
road will whirl through Jersey and
into the center of Manhattan. 1t is
announced that two other roads, the
Erie and the Jersey Central, have
opened negotiations for the use OF
the proposed new bridge. This viii
mean a tremendous saving in time
and bother for ~Jerseyites who have
business in New York every day and
will eliminate the only unpleasant
part of the journey,-the change tC
the slow-moving and uncertain fer.
ries. A great benefit will result from
the arrangement, announcement Of
which has just been made, whereby
the trolleys of the Public Service
Corporation will make direct connec
ton to Manhattan. Over 100000
Jerseyites go to- Manhattan daily, o.
whom over 100000, or about half
are carried to the Hudson river by
trolley. The extent to which, in this
one respect alone, the bridge woult
benefit New Jersey is shown by the
fact that during the rush hours OF
the Brooklyn bridge about $4,000
persons an, hour are carried over the
bridge in the trolley cars, and as an.
as 327 of the cars are sent over in al
hour.