The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-28
RST TUBE FROM
Jersey CITY TO
NEW YORK OPEN
sher One Being Made Ready,
and Trains viii Run
l July |.
hey AND MANHATTAN
how ALMOST TOGETHER
satic Incident as Last Few
Feet of Rock Are
Torn Away.

fifth tube under the Hudson
between Manhattan and New Jer-
Id the first one between Jersey
and New York was blasted
Ugh Yesterday afternoon, and the
and last tube viii be through in
weeks. BY Julv L the Hudson
Manhattan Railroad Company
misses to have trains in operation
9ugh the two new tubes. thus Civ
tors $ an alI-rail service between the Erie
mightl Pennsylvania stations on the Jer-
ahan ! side to the great Cortlandt street
ninal on the New York side.
~ trains are now being operated
iough the two other tubes built by
49, company from Hoboken TO Chris
49, her street. The Pennsylvania's two
IT Isoass, from the Jersey side to it's nov
ut terminal in Thirty-third street,
49, .aalhattan, nave been completed for
: time, but will not be in commits
- until the completion of the termi-
ap5 q when through passenger trains
al OPP va ~ y -
lace O Close TO Metropolis.
.'AfVith the six tubes under the Hudson
to thw Jersey becomes the closest neigh
maidr to the metropolis. o-utdistaneing
> C1l Eh9 $500 ~ AAAA way j. 4 a ~
abouleh easier to get 10 any point in New
to strsey from Manhattan than to a rela-
lively distant point on Long Island Or
then Westchester, thus enhancing realty
thealues in the New Jersey suburban
theield by many millions of dollars.
is. The blasting away of the last four
ca feet of rock which separated the river
ueends of the tube which was completed
p yesterday was a dramatic incident
At 1927 Chief Engineer Charles
+ NJ Jacobs, in charge of the
work, h had guided a party
of newspapermen through $500
feet Of the big steel tube from the Jer-
sey shore, touched a button. Three
hundred feet away a blue spark touched
off a heavy charge of dynamite placed
in holes bored in a four-foot wall of
trap rock. There was a conclusion
like the firing of a shotgun in a closet
with the door shut Hats went rolling,
one man tumbled over, and then a
great cloud of smoke concealed every
thing.
Head Blown Ont.
Jacobs-one feels like calling him gen
erai or giving him some exalted title
moved forward, bidding all await his
orders. He quickly returned to them
and pointing to a little stick that looked
perfectly harmless, but gave forth a
dense smoke, he told them that one
piece of dynamite had taken fire in
stead Of exploding, and that they would
have to wait until it burned out or
exploded before proceeding. By strain
ing the eyes through the gloom it was
possible to see that the head of the
tunnel had been successfully blown out,
and that a Jagged hole about six feet
by seven made the connection between
the two shores complete. The work
men found the connection of the two
sections to be perfect.
The chief engineer was the first mar
through to the New York side, although
he was quickly followed by his profess
sional partner and deputy, J. V. Davies.
The newspaper men clambered after.
Then, taking a position on the broken
rocks with Il couple of hundred sand
hogs" and his guests about him, Mr..
Jacobs spoke briefly and as beftted the
occasion.
In speaking of his achievement. Chief
Jacobs recalled that the river flowing
far above had been discovered by
Hendrix Hudson in 1909, just three
centuries ago
Thu work on the new 6,00o-foot tun-
mel. which is the farthest south of the
four planned by the Hudson and Man
haitian Railroad, was begun in March,
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records. Chief among the new marks
set is that made by the fact that not a
fatality has resulted from all the Gan
gerous undertakings. In thirty work
ing days 800 feet Of rock have been
blasted through, a new worlds record.
Amid great cheers Mr.. Jacobs an
nounced to the workmen that the com
pany would give all employed on the
newest tunnel an extra days pay.
Jacobs and Davies, the engineers who
have successfully added another con
nection between New York and New
Jersey, have put five tubes under the
river, two Pennsylvania Railroad tubes
soon to be ready for use far uptown.
and the three Hudson and Manhattan
tubes, known as Christopher street
tubes. two of which are in use.
Mr., Jacobs gave the newspaper men
some idea of the enorInity of the work
when he stated last night that there
a been used in the Hudson and Man
haitian Railroad Company work more
than 225,00 tons of steel.