The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-23
HUDSON TUBE
READY NEXT
WEEK
20Q,O 700 Increase for Jersey
Within Few Months
Is Predicted.

= 1t is promised hat within the next
IN days passenger trains will be run
through two tunnels connecting New
Jersey with the Island of Manhattan
~ nd the city of New York. The bores
Sshich will be opened are those extend
lag from the terminal of the Delaware,
J4ackawanna and Western Railroad in
AIoboken to Morton street, in Manhat-
( In. n Of the bores will be for
4 rains running from Jersey to New
FORK, the other for those coming to
Jersey.
Workmen are now engaged night and
ay putting the electrical equipment to
run the trains in the bores, and, un-
less all present plans miscarry, the
passenger service will be in full swing
by the first day of the new year.
The opening of the tunnel system
Nvill mean much to the State of New
Jersey. 1t will mean much to Newark
n its surrounding towns and cities.
Tt Is expected that the six months fol=
loving the opening of the tunnel will
see thousands of New Workers turning
toward Jersey in search of homes.
Within the next year it is thought that
n rush will be tremendous. Promi-
.ent real estate men of this city share
.1fle belief that the population Sof the
Dtate viii be increased by 100000 with
.il the next few months.
The new tunnel project brings New
Jersey. more thar Ave minutes nearer
10 New York. The trip across the Ho-
iJoken ferry now takes from ten to
,ifteen minutes. The trains will make
he trip IN less than five minutes, and
when things are running well the time
will probably be reduced to three min
,utes.
y The opening of these two bores of
the colossal tunnel project carried
through by the Hudson and Manhattan
Railroad Company is the realization
of years of thought and activity. The
first definite steps toward the extension
OF the underground passage beneath
Ahe Hudson River were taken in 1873,
ssut only partial progress was made,
when the scheme was abandoned.
Another effort to push the work
through was made in 1892, but it failed.
und for a long period nothing further
was done. William G. McAdoo, a young
1awyer from Tennessee, who had
Formed a law partnership with former
Police Commissioner William McAdoo.
Of New YORK. then became impressed
with the possibilities of the enterprise,
sNsd in 1892 organized the Hudson and
Manhattan Company. Capitalists were
interested in the scheme. and in a short
time work was resumed. Since then
there has been hardly a letup. Five
thousand workmen have been kept on
the contract. and they have been
rushed 20 the limit of physical endur-
ance to finish the tunnel in the short
est possible time.
The south bores of the new tunnel
system, running from Jersey City to
Cortlandt street. will not be finished
until next fan. Trains running through
these tubes viii have their terminus at
the great Office building now being
erected by the company at Church and
Cortlandt streets. New York. The tun-
iiel from Hoboken extends from Morton
street to Christopher, over TO Sixth G
nue. and north to Nineteenth street
Later it viii extend to a terminal the
will erect at Thirty-third
street and Sixth avenue,
There will be a connecting subway
Betyyeen the Hoboken and Jersey City
terminals Of the combined system. This
subway has been carefully set out 50