The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-23
NEW HUDSON RIVER
TUNNELS ARE OPEN
Jersey Cities Brought Eight Miles
Nearer New York City.
THREE MINUTES TO BROADWAY
Great Demonstration Marks Union to
New York, With the Lower
McAdoo Tube Under the Hudson
For Wedding Ring.

NCW lOrks Will tu0 AoWCr
McAdoo Tube Under the Hudson
For Wedding Ring.
New York City.-While scores of
whistles footed along both shores,
and flags waved from all the chief
buildings in Jersey City and many
skyscrapers on this side, the first
passenger train of the Hudson and
Manhattan Railroad Company's
downtown line passed under the
Hudson River.
After four and a half hours of
complimentary traffic, selling of
tickets began. Captain Gallagher
and a squad of more than one hun
dred uniformed police were kept busy
handling the crowd that c~ongregated
In Cortlandt and Church streets
shortly before the hour set for the
public train service.
w. G. McAdoo, president of the
tunnel company, was the first to buy
tickets at the Cortlandt street sta
ton, and at the Exchange place and
Pennsylvania Railroad terminals on
the other side. He presented the
IA OOu6At OA ILLS olQO " I1dIVSy
Fisk, head of the banking firm that
financed the tunnel project. The
other two tickets were given, one to
the people of Jersey City and one to
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Starting from the station beneath
the twin terminal buildings, at
Church, Cortlandt, Dey and Fulton
streets, the first train, filled with in
vited guests of the tunnel company,
went to the Jersey City station under
the depot of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road. Two weeks hence the link
from there to the Erie and Lacka-
n terminals will be opened.
The running time was two minutes
and forty seconds, the train with it's
freight of distinguished guests hav-
ing left the Hudson Terminal build
Ing, at Church and Cortlandt streets,
at 10.25.20.
The history of McAdoo, the young
lawyer from Georgia, who turned
tunnel builder, and his masterpieces
are worth running over, inasmuch as
to Jersey his sub-river tubes mean
lore than mere millions of money.
They mean that a most desirable class
of residents and taxpayers will be
brought to it from Manhattan. Men
of means, some of them, who have
been deferred from living there be-
fore by the thought of the long ferry
trip, with its tedious ice jams and de-
lays in winter or foggy weather. Nc
Adoo has driven this bugbear away
with a set of blue prints; the rest was
easy.
The Jersey suburbs have practical
ly been brought about eight miles
nearer to New York City. The saving
of time to the man who wants to take
a Pennsylvania train will be fifteen
minutes if he is whirled under the
river instead of webbing over its sur
face on a corpulent ferryboat.
In the tunnel system enthusiastic
notice should be taken of and a need
of praise be paid to the huge Hudson
Terminal Building. 1t is not a beau
ty, true, but it wasn't built for that.
The building accommodates $4,000
tenants, and that's claim enough to
fame for any building.
The rush to Jersey has already be-
gun. Real estate is booming. Towns
that have not known more than a
score of committing inhabitants will
now know hundreds, with consequent
good results toall kinds of businesses.
The running time from New York
to Jersey City is three minutes.
The cost of the system, when fully
completed, will be about 100000.
The average time which the com
muter will save by using the Hudson
tunnels instead of the ferries is thir-
ty-two minutes a day.
There are 100000 persons who
are directly benefited by the UNDER
river railroads. The regular single
trip fare through the tunnels is five
cents.
The McAdoo system is divided into
four sections. The first section runs
to Hoboken; the second to Jersey
City; the third is a transverse tunnel
running along the Jersey shore, con-
Meeting Jersey City with Hoboken,
and the fourth is a branch line run
ming from Jersey City, coming to the
surface and extending over the tracks
OF the Pennsylvania road to Newark.
In a letter to the president of the
company President Taft said:
Il I'M sorry not to be able to be
present on SO important an occasion
as the opening of the Hudson and
Manhattan Railroad tunnels under
the Hudson River. 1t is indeed a
great achievement, and those who
have been associated with the work
during the past four years and a half
may justly feel proud when beholding
the results of their labor. 1t is an
engineering feat of vast magnitude
"a monument to American enter
prise-and great credit is due to
those who have been identified with
the work in having successfully over
come the extraordinary difficulties
encountered in such an undertaking..
"Such an artery of travel and COM
merce eliminates the Hudson River as
an obstacle to intercourse between
New York and New Jersey. Not only
the people of these States, but the
people of the country at large who
visit the metropolis, will acknowledge
their hearty gratitude to the energy
and enterprise of those who have
brought this great achievement to 4
successful issue"
Matthew Gill, Jr., Kills Himself.