The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-25
PUBLIC MAY TRAVEL
TONEWYORKUNDER
WATERATM MIDNIGHT
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by at least ten minutes more with tht
completion of the New Jersey and New
ark section, now building. No longea
| subject to the vexatious delays OF
ferry traffic, impeded by fog and thu
teeming commerce of the North River
the hurrying business man and woman
shopper may enter, comfortable, abso'
lutely fireproof. steel cars and be
whirled through a steel and concrete
passageway to the very heart of New
York.
To the committing hosts the cutting
of the time of transit to New York IN
half means less of worry, haste and
fag, more of time for breakfast, din
ner and to catch ones train.
North Jersey Feels New Vitality.
Tremendous benefits are certain tc
accrue from the tunnel system. Realty
in this vicinity and throughout al
North Jersey has already felt the pull
sation of this vital new factor in the
economic and social life of the COM
munities of which Newark is the
centre. With the greatly shortened
time between New Jersey and New
York, tens of thousands will take adj
NdIld5e VI tie COINGIliGIlC6O VI idplu
transit to build their homes in the
North Jersey residential sections.
Five minutes is the minimum time
that will be consumed in crossing the
river in the trains that open to the
public at midnight. 2
The fascinating possibilities of tunnel
rapid transit to Newarkers is shown
by the fact that a resident of this city,
whose business Office is located in
lower Manhattan, ma never be COM
PEELED to enter the streets on a stormy
day. Secure in tunnels, subways and
his Office building, he may transact his
business, eat, drink, smoke and shave,
and do a hundred other things with
out the necessity of going out of doors.
Laid out by Euclid, built by Titans,
furnished by Edison is the apt phrase
used by an expert in describing the
mighty work that has gone on for years
beneath the waters of the North River,
and in the rock-bound depths of Man
haitian Island. Engineers pronounce
the tunnel system one of the greatest
engineering feats> of history, a true
tenth wonder of the world.
Goes New York Subway One Better.
Combining both strength and beauty,
the new tubes are far more impressive
in appearance than the New York SUBJ
way. Vaulted arches in the stations,
with odd effects of light and shadow
produced by the glow of incandescent
globes. dend the appearance of some
wonderful old wine cellar or the sombre
shadows of a cloister. Rose-colored the
light is, never day and never night, yet
with a quiet substance of reality that
Gains the hurries of the morning rush
hours or the wearied stress of the even-
tide of the days work. Standing at the
edge of a platform, one looks far away
into the dim pink-misted distances of
the lighted tubes, to a vanishing point
as clearly defined as the point of .a>pol-
shed needle. 1t is never hot and never
cold in the long bores beneath the
waters of the Hudson. A breath of cool
air moves gently through the station,
but overhead. up in the groined arches,
there is always the same mellow glow,
suggestive of twilight. Storms may
rage and tempests blow far above oil
land and water, but here it is always
still, save for the quiet rush of the
trains bearing their daily loads Of hun
dreds of thousands.
stations in Manhattan.
The Manhattan stations open to the
lpublic beginning at midnight on the
completed section are located as fol-
lows: Christopher and Greenwich
streets, where connection will be made
with the Ninth avenue elevated line;
Christopher street and Sixth avenue,
where connection will be madepwith
thesSixth avenue elevated, and in Sixth
avenue, at Fourteenth, Nineteenth,
Twenty-third, Twenty-eighth and Thir-
ty-third streets. For the present trains
will run only to Nineteenth street and
Sixth avenue
At the Hoboken terminal direct con-
nection is made with the Delaware,
L~ackawanna and Western Railroad,
where all through and local passengers
coming in from the West nay get out
of the trains and descend directly to
the tunnel ears without leaving the
station.
No CrOvvding at Stations.
The tunnel cars are made entirely Of
steel. with side doors. The old-fash-
toned straps are in evidence. A new
scheme has been devised to prevent
crowding and pushing by having pas.
sengers enter and leave on either sid
of the cars. All station platforms arr
built on a tangent. The car doors ar
operated by compressed air. Cars hav'
only side seats.
The McAdoo tunnels system comprise
eighteen miles of under-river ant
underground railroad. The station
have been built to insure comfort TO
future as well as present traffic
Throughout the system the ventilation
will be perfect. as each train goinI
through one of the bores acts as
piston, forcing the air ahead and draw
ing fresh air after it from the stations
The company has also supplied APP
paratus for artificial ventilation if re
quired.
The tunnels vary in depth beneatl
the Hudson from sixty to ninety feeI
The depth of earth and rock betwee
the roof of the tunnel and the waite
is between fifteen and forty feet. TIL
two tubes of the completed section al
about thirty feet apart.
At present the fare will be five cents
with no transfers. The railroads wi
soon, however. issue coupons on ticket
for a continuous trip through the tun
nels, it is promised.
The actual time of crossing under til
river bed is three minutes. The wor
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