The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-23
BIG TUNNEL
now IN USE
The McAdoo Tunnel Will
Cost Millions to Com
struct.
AccoARusHEs GREAT FEAT OF ENGINEERING
Affords Connecting Link Be-
tween New York and
New Jersey.

as the McAdoo tunnels, running UNI
tder 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 $6O,0OO,00 O
system, which has been in course
OF construction intemittently 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 las pas
sengers twenty dynamite bombs will
be exploded high in the air over the
Pennsylvania railroad ,f%erryhouse.
Then every locomotive and factory
whistle in the lower part of the town
will be expected to get busy and
nyary forry opd t,,o hoot n " +b,a r;vnr
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 ,bc the great
est and most l1ostly 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-
sen 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, n hundred feet inside
the river bulkhead, he began his
first bore. The work was soon stop
ped by an injunction obtained by
the Lackawanna railroad. A few
years later the litigation was set
tied andt Halskin'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 COM
pany again failed.
The work was revised in a short
time, but it was not until William
G. McAdoo, a young lawyer, took
hold of the 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 las
year.
And while this network of tun.
nels that connect New Jersey witt
New York, and which penetrate:
all over Manhattan Island, is {
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 ar,
% stories high above the surfac'
and EXTEND IS feet below the sur
face to bed rock. Beneath thes,
buildings is located the grea
terminal station, where 1850
passengers will be discharged ever
morning during the rush hours, an
where a like number will take tn
tunnel trains every night to re
turn to their New Jersey homes.
The Terminal buildings constitut
the largest Office structure in til
world. There is space on the 2
floors for 1000 Offices, and probabl
It will house more varied interest
than any other Office building Q
earth. One Thousand persons
minute will pass through its corr
doris all day long, or 100000 pc
sons in the course of a day. Asit
from this floating population, tt
building will have as permanent o
cupants at least 49, 900 persons.
The great space beneath ii
buildings, where the terminal st
ton is located will constitute
veritable city in itself. Here W
be the great concourse, the large
to be found anywhere, waitir
rooms, retiring rooms, telegra1
stands, telephone booths, flow
booths and newspaper kiosk
restaurants. lunch counters, bot
black stands, and, every other &C
venience possible in a railroad s.
ton. The great concourse will
lined with stores and booths who
the traveller may buy clothing, h;
and haberdashery, groceries a
hardware, Photographic and Opt
supplies drugs, furniture, anton
bile supplies and all Of the otl
necessities Of life.
All Over One Cow.
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