The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-20
ACROSS HUDSON
IN THREE MINUTES
IN 4 FEW WEEKS
Tunnel-B Builder McAdOO So AS
sures New Jersey Real Es-
tate Men.
PUTS JERSEY CITY AS
NEAR AS BROOKLYN
Trains to Be Operated at the
Rate of Twenty Each
Hour.

hdtS vi lWtHty EdSH
Hour.
William G. McAdoo, builder of the
Hudson river tunnels. announced yes
terday at a meeting of the New Jersey
New York Real Estate Exchange In
Jersey City that the tubes from the
Pennsylvania station in Jersey City
to the terminal in Church street, Man
haitian, would be in operation in "a few
weeks, and that then rains which will
require only three minutes from ter
nina to terminal will be operated every
three minutes.
1T will be only a matter of a few
weeks said Mr.. McAdoo, when the
two tubes will be cut through, and on
July 1 residents of Jersey City will have
an additional tunnel service to Twenty
third street and Sixth avenue, New
York, through the branch tubes being
constructed between the Pennsylvania
and Erie railroad terminals in Jersey
City to the river tunnel terminal in Ho-
boken.
I'VE no longer estimate distances in
feet, we estimate it In minutes. 1t may
stonish you to know that YOU will be
whisked in the lower Hudson tunnels
from the Pennsylvania terminal in Jer-
sey City under the river to the Hudson
terminal building, Manhattan, in three
minutes, and that there will be d train
every three minutes. The ferryboats,
which operate on a ten-minute sched-
ule, will disappear.
You are now being put on an equal
ity with Brooklyn and the Bronx. In a
few years the territory in New Jersey
within a ten-mile radius of the island
Of Manhattan will have a greater popu-
lation han the city of Brooklyn.
with an electric service in c%onjunc-
ton with the unnel system, using the
Hudson terminal building in Manhat-
tan as g, centre, persons as far out as
Ridgewood, Mountain View, Essex FEELS,
Crawford. Westfield, Railway and Perth
Amboy will be within thirty minutes of
New York city" .
Officers Elected.
The following were elected as a
board of governors by the ex-
change: George j. Bayless, f. j.
Boyer, Wilbur f. Brewer, c. Alfred
Burhorn, e. A. Cowley. Joseph p. Day,
Joseph w. Doolittle. Abe Feist, ]. L..
CHASER, Stuart Hirschman, E., r. Hol-
den. S. J. Holmes, Philip l. Hover,
William Jeffrey, j. A. Karet, Otto
kempner, +. H. Lambert, william A.
L mbert, David Lippman, II. A.
Rounds, Thomas A. Ryer, e. L. Saw
yer, w. Irving Scott, Charles Singer,
jr3 Rufin A. Smith, w. R. Squire.
Frank Stevens, F. L. Vrooman, F. NJ.
Welles, w. w. Wilsey.
Before the public meeting in the bank
building took place the newly elected
board of governors retired to a commit
tee room Of the Board Of Trade and
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year:
Otto Kempner, of New York, presi-
dent, reelected; w. A. Lambert, of
Nutley, first vice-president; William
Jeffrey, of Plainf1eld, second vice-presi-
dent; w. r. Squire, of Ridgef1eld Park,
third vice president; Frank Stevens, of
Jersey City, treasurer, and George J.
Bayless, of Orange, who has been act
ing secretary. was elected secretary.
The afternoon session was followed
by a banquet at McNulty's Hotel. Dur
ing the session two resolutions we're
adopted, the purport of which was:
l. Urging the New Jersey Legislature
to adopt the proposed plan for the
establishment of a highway system to
link the coast towns of New Jersey
from Sandy Hook to Cape May, to he
paralleled by an inland boulevard con-
ranntiA~ H. - -. ----
and interior towns from Newton in
Sussex County to Cape May, both
boulevards to be constructed under
State supervision.
Big boom Predicted.
?. Approving of the recommendation
of Governor Fort in his annual message
to the New Jersey Legislature of a
water supply commission to be created
by the State to consider the problem of
State ownership of the water supply
system, and which commission shall
also cooperate with a similar commits
sion to be created by the State of New
York with a view to acquiring the
sources of the water supply of the
State Of New York.
In opening the speech-making part
~ biIt pipSl dlilJ IlSSlotIL ht1il pIicI
said that this section of the State was
on the eve of a great business ~reviva
and that all real estate men should
look forward to a closer alliance with
the business interests Of the section.
Fl. Nj. Wooters, of New York; Will
lam H. Corbin, president of the New
Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Com
pany; F. j. Boyer, of Newark; Judge
Robert Carey, of the Hudson County
Court of Common Pleas; j. L. Glazer,
of the Publicity Bureau. and Vice
President William A. Lambert also
spoke.
William Fl. Corbin spoke of his
knowledge of land boomers in Hudson
County forty years ago, when real es-
tate men sang its praises. n declared
that there was no reason why land IN
Hudson County should not within u
few years become as valuable as that
fronting on Broadway.
r. j. Boyer, of Newark, was the next
speaker, and his interesting speech was
in favor of the proposed Torrens land
registration act to be disposed of by the
present State Legislature.
MORE SUNDAY VAUDEVILLE.
Another sacred concert and vaude-