The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-23
The McAdoo Tunnel Will
Cost Millions to Con-
strucI.
~Acc0ApusHES GREAT FEAT OF ENGINEERING
Affords Connecting Link Be-
tween New York and
New Jersey.

IuOeS VI Lie f1uuSOH anu
railroad company, commonly known
as the McAdoo tunnels, running IN
lder the North river from the Hud-
son Terminal buildings, Manhattan,
to the Pennsylvania railroad station,
Jersey City, will be opened to traf-
fc Monday. The entire tunnel sys-
TEN, 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 builders to
deliver sufficient equipment makes
1t impossible to operate them 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 $60,OO0,O0O
system, which has been in course
of construction Internationally since
1878. will be signalized by a 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 ais pas
sengers twenty dynamite bombs will
be exploded high in the air over the
Pennsylvania railroad ferryhouse.
Then every locomotive and factory
whistle in the lower part of the town
will be expected to get busy and
every ferry and tug beat on the river
will join in the racket.
The opening of the south tunnels
marks the practical completion OF
the McAdoo system, which has been
frequently adjudged to he the great
est and most dostly engineering
feat of the century, as we'll as the
most comprehensive traffic arrange
ment ever devised. The project
for tunnels to connect New York
and New Jersey underneath the Hud-
SON river was first preached in
1874. Dewitt Clinton Haskins, a
civil engineer, of California, who
had been active in the construction
of the Union Pacific railroad, drew
the plans and made the surveys at
his own expense.
Starting at Fifteenth street, Jer-
sey City, one hundred feet inside
the river b%ulkhead, he began his
first bore. The work was soon stop
ped by an injunction obtained by
the Lackawanna railroad. A flew
years. later the litigation-was set
tied and Haskin's son succeeded in
pushing it on until in 1880, when
some 1900 feet of the tunnel 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 Poyler and Sir Benjamin
Baker, who built the bridge across
the Forth in Scotland, became in
terested in the project and took it
up again. Two years later the CON-
pany again failed.
The work was revised in a short
time, but it was not until William
G. McAdoo, a young lawyer, took
hold O f5the. enterprise and organized
the Hudson and Manhattan company
that it was successfully carried on.
The McAdoo system comprises four
tunnels under the Hudson. The
two north tubes were opened last
year.
And while this network of tun-
nels that connect New Jersey with
New York, and which penetrates
all over Manhattan Island, is a
wonderful piece of engineering, the
Terminal buildings, the great struct-
ure into which all of these tunnels
terminate on Church street, from
Cortland to Dey streets and from
Dey to Fulton. The buildings are
% stories high above the surface
and extend rs feet below the sur,
face to bed rock. Beneath these
buildings is located the great
terminal station, where $4,000
passengers will She discharged every
morning during the rush hours, and
where a like number will take the
tunnel trains every night to re
turn to their New Jersey homes.
The Terminal buildings constitute
the largest Office structure in tn.
world. There is space on the 2:
floors for 1000 Offices, and probabl!
It will house more varied interest
chan any other Office building OF
earth. One Thousand persons
minute will pass through its CORR
doris all day long, or 100000 per
sons in the course of a day. Asid
from this floating population, tn
building will have as permanent OF
cupants at least 10000 persons.
The great space beneath til
buildings, where the terminal sta
ton is located will constitute
yeritable city in itself. Here wi
be the great c%oncourse, the large:
to be found anywhere, waitin
rooms. retiring rooms, Telegram
stands, telephone booths, fiowe
booths and newspaper kiosk
restaurants, lunch counters, boo
black stands, and every other col
yenience possible in q railroad ST
tion. The great %concourse will ]
lined with stores and booths whel
the traveller nay buy clothing. ha
ha~berdashery, groceries al
hardNare. photographic and optic
n1applies drugs, furniture. autom'
6ila 1uupplies and all of the 9th
9scsseitiss Of life.
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