Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-14
NEW TERMINAL TO
OPEN TO PUBLIC
JULY FIRST, NEXT
Will Carry Passengers to Thir-
ty-third Street and Sixth
Avenue.
NO REDUCTION in FARE
PROMISED BY A D
Jerseys interests and Residents
Are Submerged Beneath
Those of Long Island.

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the Hudson Manhattan Tunnels Com
pany, the Saybrook place terminal Of
the new high-speed line between this
city and New York will be open to the
travelling public July 1, 1911.
Passengers over this route will be
carried to the Thirty-third street sta
ton of the Hudson-Manhattan Com
pany at Sixth avenue, and eventually
to the Grand Central station at Forty
second street for a single fare OF sew
enteen cent or a return ticket fare OF
thirty cents, the same as is now
charged between this city and New
York.
That is the promise both as to time
of opening and rate Of fare yer the
new high-speed line by President MO
Adoo in ar interview, and c~orroborateo
by the Pennsylvania railroad officials.
Even II it is fulfilled the fact remains
that for a period of seven months a
resident of the city who desires to
travel to Thirty-third street, New York.
ove the Pennsylvania railroad, with
out change, will have to pay fifty In
stead of thirty cents for a return ticket
The Pennsylvania short line route to
it's new terminal at T~hirty-third street
and Seventh avenue will, as previously
announced, open for traffic on Sunday.
November ~. The opening was anx-
iously awaited and counted upon by
real estate operators as a boon for
Landowners in the vicinity.
Now 1t Is frankly admitted that the
new line was never intended for New
Jersey traffic. 1t was intended solely
for the handling Of the Long Island
traffic, and through trains 20 and from
the South and West and Philadelphia.
At the latter city the limit is estab-
lished, and from that point on an ex-
cess fare of ten cents Is charged each
way to any passenger boarding a Penn
sylvania short line train in the State OF
New Jersey.
The State is practically ~sidetracked,
so far as the new short line Is con-
cerned. but Long Island L. taken care
of Inc much OF the anticipated influx
Of new residents for this city and the
suburbs will be diverted to Long
Island, II the Pennsy persists in carry
ing out It's plans.
To Abandon Ferry.
That the Pennsylvania railroad deter
mination Is final and that 1t does not
propose to carry local traffic uptown Is
further demonstrated by the fact that
coincident with the opening Of the pew
short line the Twenty-third street ferry
and the Brooklyn Annex ferry will be
abandoned.
That means that on and after No
vember 81 automobilists and others who
desire to reach Riverside Drive or the
Manhattan Theatre district by ferry
will have to do 80 by way of Cortlandt
or Desbrosses street, or travel over b
Central railroad, which will still con-
tinue its T~wenty-third street ferry
service.
Unless a protest is made in some
other form at an early I against
this discrimination m the part of the
Pennsylvania railroad against this Sec
ton of the metropolitan district and in
favor of Long Island it will probably
be made a subject Of inquiry by the
next House Of Assembly.
Under the act of 1902, by which it
was made possible for the Pennsylvania
railroad to construct its Hudson river
tunnels, the company entered upon the
riparian lands of the State of New
Jersey without attempting to acquire
the right through the Riparian Com
llASSlOl anu AldhiILS ddCdudAC OiAAPSh
sation for the same.
It Is claimed that If the Pennsylvania
railroad had the right to TUNE the
State lands without the consent of the
Riparian Commission the Hudson
County Water Company would have
had the same right between Bayonne
and Staten Island. In the latter case
Vice-Chancellor Walker recently de-
cided that the consent Of the Riparian
Commission was essential.
Court Rules IN Question.
In either case the right to cross the
State lands would have to be paid for,
as the riparian land Of the State is ir-
revocably dedicated to the use Of the
free public schools. The Court of Err
rors and Appeals, in declaring void an
act of the Legislature of 1901, ceding
to Atlantic City such riparian lands as
the State owned to be used for park
purposes, held It was not competent
for the Legislature to ALLEVIATE any part
of this riparian LAND under any pretext
whatever.
Even the United States government
has admitted the exclusive jurisdiction
of the State over its riparian lands
and the fact that the right OF entry
upon it can only be obtained after due
compensation. In a recent extension to
Ellis Island the national government
applied for and obtained a grant upon
payment of $1,000.
MI. McAdoo, in speaking of the prog
ress being made with the new high
speed line and other extensions of the
Observation-Disclosures tunnel system, liz
among other things; The idea is TO
divert the purely local traffic through
our tunnels to either the downtown
business centre or the uptown shop
ping centre. Our Thirty-thirS street
station W. expect will develop in time
into a big railroad clearing house in
the centre of the shopping and hotel
districts. That is why so much care
was expended in it's construction.
1--WE expect to get the grand Central
station extension completed within two
years. The detailed plans and specifica-
tons are now being prepared by our
engineers. When they are finished they
will be submitted to the Public Service
Commission for approval, and then the
work will be pushed through to compile
ton as rapidly as possible. The fran
chise itself was granted a year ago.
and all the necessary property-owner5'
consents have been obtained. So, prac-
tfcally, all that remains to be done is to
build the road, and that will be done as
expeditiously as we know how, for we