Arizona republican., 1909-08-02
THE NEW TUNNELS
 ARE REALLY OLD
Little Known History of New York's
 Hudson River Tubes.

| Lllllc NnOWn F1lSIOTY OI lNtW IOIh , Hudson River Tubes.
 New York, July 27.-(SpeciaI Cor respondence of The Republican, While the opening of the McAdoo tunnels under the Hudson river, prac- tically connecting New York to New Jersey, has been generally noticed throughout the country. few persons realize that this project was begun more than forty years ago. Like the Panama canal, two failures pre- ceded it's successful completion. The man in whose brain the plan of the Hudson tunnels was born was named Haskins. Away back in the sixties he came to this city with the pur- pose of building a tunnel to connect New York with the great trunk line railway terminals in New Jersey Hasllins had only $500, ,0G0. and the Wall street interests, to which he applied for backing, accepted the re- ports of engineers that the project was not feasible and refused their support. Haskins, however, was so enthusiastic for his plan that he started ahead on his own resources. Using the crude engineering devices of that day, he tunneled as long as his money held out. No more funds being forthcoming, he bricked up the end of his tunnel and quit. At that time the tubes extended about 2OO0 feet from the Jersey shore and 200 feet from the New York shore. They soon filled with water and remained unused until 1888, when an English company took up the plan. Engineer ing methods had been greatly i'm proved. but in spite of this. lack of funds forced another halt after 20OO feet had been added to the earlier work. It was only after these at tempts, corresponding to the two at tempts on the part of the French to dig the Panama canal, that Mir. Me Adoo, a practicing lawyer. then took hold of the matter successfully just as the United States has taken hold at Panama In these new tunnels, how ever, which have brought New Jersey within three minutes of New York, is the work of no less than three inter- ests since the completed tubes have { utilized all the earlier work.
 With the 18th of December still nearly five months away, it is never thcless certain that New York will then indulge in its first aerial Christ
 mas. The old-fashioned Santa Claus with ihs reindeer is passing. and to be up to date he will have to come this year in an aeroplane or a dirigi- bic balloon. The toys for the com ing Christmas have already been planned and almost without exception they express the great popular inter est in air navigation. The old fash toned toys are going. and the young ster who peeps in his stocking next December will find there playthings undreamed of a decade ago. One of the novelties is an aerial policeman seated in an aeroplane which really flies, while a still more ambitious toy is the miniature aeroplane capable of carrying a lay figure in flights of considerable length. One enterprising manufacturer has produced a small dirigible capable of carrying "a child and nurse." and it is not impossible that juvenile aviation may soon be- come fad here. Santa Claus work shop also boasts many other strange toys which are already being pre- pared. The Roosevelt hunt in Africa Is responsible for q pretentiOus toy depicting his adventures, in which the shooting of lions is the only fea- ture. HydrOplanes and submarine boats will also play an important part in the passing of the old-fash- toned Santa Claus. Altogether it looks as though next Christmas would reflect to a remarkable degree the scientific advances of the country
 Even miniature wireless outfits may be found, and while all these so- called toys are diminutive inside, they are nevertheless practical machines which indicate the scientific tendency of Young America.
 
 New York now has lost gold mine not in the shape of a body of ore in the earth, but one which goes on four legs-that is, a horse No more remarkable illustration of the vagaries of horse racing and horse breeding could be instanced than that which has set thousands of people searching for a horse which two years ago sold for the price of a suit of clothes. The story of this frantic equine hunt which is now going on is in it's way extremely dramatic. One of the greatest, if not the greatest, of race horses in this country today is a three-year- old named Fitz Herbert Already this year he has won many thousands of dollars for his owner. Two years ago. however, when he was still and untried yearling, the owner of Morganatic the mother of this famous horse, decided that she was worthless and sold her for $40 to some one in Western Canada. Now that the son has proved his earning