Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-09-08
REGULAR TRAINS
NOW RUNNING IN
PENNsY TUNNELS
Long Island Service Inaugurated
This MOrning-New Jersey
End to Open Soon.

NEW YORK, Sept. Sat exactly ten
minutes after midnight the first Long
Island train on regular schedule pulled
out OF the new Pennsylvania station at
seventh avenue and Thirty-fourth
street for points on the Hampstead
branch, making stops at Hollis, Queens,
Mlneola, Garden City and other points,
and 1t was used by Oyster Bay pas
sengers, who changed from electric to
steam travel at Jamaica. 1t marked
the completion of eight years of flnan-
ciering rock digging, tunnel boring and
construction, and it was the early
morning signal for Long Island to get
up and celebrate.
1t put into Inauguration a schedule
which brings all the towns and villages
Of Long Island nearer to Manhattan by
from fifteen minutes to half an hour.
\ 1t was followed at 3:41 a. m. by a
Nrain which gave Long Island its morn
lng papers earlier than it had been
used to receiving them. The first news
paper train out of the terminal carried
passengers for towns on the Long ISL
and Railroad main line.
The Complete system.
When the Pennsylvania opened its
tube service to Long Island the
dream of the late A. j. Cassatt was
in large part realized. Completion of
the identification of the Jersey tubes
and the opening of service from the
new terminal of the Pennsylvania line
across the North River will be COM
peted within a few months.
This is what Mr.. Cassatt planned, and
what the railroad engineers have ac-
complished in eight years, at an ex-
penditure of $90,000,0 1000. A solid en-
bankment was built across six miles of
submerged meadows in Jersey, criss-
crossed by fifteen or twenty other rail-
roads A hole was bored through 5000
feet of solid rock under the North
River and four under the East River.
Two parallel tunnels We're scooped out
beneath two rivers and the island of
Manhattan. A passenger station occu-
pying eight acres and yards covering
twenty acres were constructed.
The extension, of which the Long ISL
and tube service is an important link,
consists of line commencing at Har-
rison, extending through New York city
to Long Island, with viaduct and earth
embankment extending across the
Hackensack meadows, under Bergen
Hill in rock tunnels, under the North
tunnels, under New York city in rock
and earth tunnels, continuing eastward
under the East River in four shield
driven tunnels, emerging on Long ISL
and and connecting with existing lines
of the improved system.
The whole line is intercepted by the
new passenger stations between Sew
enth avenue and Ninth avenue and
Thirty fourth street and Thirty-third
street in Mani atran and the terminal
passenger yarf. ut Long Island City.
The length of the run from Harrison
to the terminal is sc miles, and from
the terminal station to Jamaica, L. l.,
1lS5 miles. 20.41 miles all told.
The Pennsylvania gave out state
ment last night showing the saving in
time between the old ferry route and
the new tube route. On the main line,
where 1t took A minutes to get from
Seventh avenue and Thirty-fourth
street to Jamaica 1t will require only
nineteen minutes by tube from the
terminal.
On the Montauk division the saving
in time runs IA the way from fifteen
minutes to half an hour.