Mohave County miner., 1909-07-31
Great Tunnel b Completed.

tuoCS Oi Uuc huuSOu duu "duiidtCdu Railroad company, commonly known as the McAdoo tunnels, running under the North river from the Hudson ter minal buildings. Manhattan, to the Pennsylvania railroad station, Jersey City, will be opened to traffic Monday. The entire tunnel system, from the Hudson terminal buildings to the Pennsylvania, Erie and Lackawanna railroad stations, will be completed and ready for operation on that day, but failure on the part of the car build CTS to deliver sufficient equipment makes it possible to operate only that portion of the line from the Hudson terminal buildings to the Pennsylvania railroad station.
 The opening of the tunnels and the completion of the 6O,OOO, ,OOO$ system, which has been in course of construc- tion internationally since 1875, will be signalized by fitting celebration. Jersey City will be the scene of the principal celebration. When the first train starts on it's trip Jerseyward Monday afternoon with the tunnel day guests as passengers twenty dynamite bombs will be exploded high in the air over the Pennsylvania railroad ferryhouse.
 The opening of the south tunnels marks the practical completion of the McAdoo system, which has been fre- quently adjudged to be the greatest and most costly engineering feat of the country, as we'll as the most con- prehensive traffic arrangement ever devised. The project for tunnels to connect New York and New Jersey un- derneath the Hudson river was first broached in 1874. De Witt Clinton Haskin, a civil engineer of California, who had been active in the construc- tion of the Union Pacific railroad, drew the plans and made the surveys at his own expense.
 Starting at Fifteenth street, Jersey City, one hundred feet inside the riv- CT bulkhead, he began his first bore. The work was soon stopped by an in junction obtained by the Lackawanna railroad, A few years later the liti- gation was settled and Haskin's son succeeded in pushing it on until in 1880, when some l200 feet of the tun- nel had been completed, the company failed. The work was abandoned for ten years until Pearson and Son, the great English contracting firm, and Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, who built the bridge across the Forth in Scotland, became interested in the project and took it up again. Two years later the company again failed.
 The work was renewed in short time, but it was not until William Me- Adoo, young lawyer, took hold of the enterprise and organized the Hud- son and Manhattan company that it was successfully carried on. The Mo- Adoo system comprises four tunnels under the Hudson. The two north tubes were opened last year.
 And while this network of tunnels that connects New Jersey with New York, and which penetrates all over Manhattan Island, is a wonderful piece of engineering. the terminal build- ings, the great structure into which all of these tunnels terminate, is one of the marvels of the age. The struc- ture consists of two buildings situated on Church street, from Cortlandt to Dey streets and from Dey to Fulton. The buildings are 22 stories high above the surface and extend 75 feet below the surface to bedrock. Beneath these buildings is located the great termi- nal station, where l25,OO0 passengers will be discharged every morning dur ing the rush hours, and where large number will take the tunnel trains every night to return to their New Jersey homes.
 The terminal buildings constitute the largest office structure in the world. There is space on the 22 floors f)r 4,0OO offices, and probably it will house more varied interests than any other office building on earth. One thousand persons minute will pass through it's corridors all day long, or 600, 900 persons in the course of day.