The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-06
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IN tho Pennsylvania railroad Is on
n n the eve OF opening for passcn-
Rsr t.Snc It's Jew terminal facilities
in and arognd the city Of New York.
Ffrixa'ng touches GKe being applied to
Tie splendid new passenger station In
tGe ka~rt OF Manhattan Island. The
two tunnels ls;.d;ng into the metropolis
FROM tie New Jersey shore under the
H8cson river &re completed. The four
tnnrtls lending IN from Long Island
u&d.r the Fest river are ready and
waving Tie Manhs titan cross town
tcn:lsls eD6'ng ct the river shaft in the
block bstSeen Thirty-th!rd and Thirty
Fourth scf~ets, east OF First avenue,
s.re Finished. With steady progress
the.e spring days the ruse weave Of
trscEs below tire ground surface lead
ing 40 the great passenger station is
being brought 10 completion, and at
5unByStde. on Leng Island, the i'm
latnse Ixilroad yards are ready to re-
CeiYe tie first rush Of business.
RIO date for the opening OF the sta
ton has been formally announced. 1t
is expected. however, that 1t will be in
full operation by the close of the sum-
Lter.
With the opening OF this vastly i'm
rroyed traffic system that centers in
the nations metropolis the means Of
,.@Portation between the east and
me west will have been revolutionized.
Dis revolution was conceived during
IAe administration of the late A. J..
Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania,
and has been carried forward by his
SUCCESSORS without hitch.
achieved at the expenditure of many
millions Of dollars, these improvements
VIII enable passengers from eastern,
western and Long Island points to go
directly into New York city without
c}s.Age of cars or transfer to ferryboat,
arriving at railroad station which Is
conceded to be the handsomest and
most convenient in the world.
When these vast improvements were
conceived ten years ago the Pennsylva-
MA railroad was employing the same
method of reaching New York city that
was employed when 1t first leased the
United Railroads of New Jersey in 1871
-ferriage across the Hudson river from
Jersey City. Ten years ago the road
was hauling freights to eastern cities
over practically the same grades that
were to be encountered in 1876. Then
came the plans to overcome the ferry
transfers and the grades. In few
months from now freight trains. which
reach the east over a new line, with no
grades greater than twelve feet to the
mile. viii be t1oated from GreenviIle.
-. J., to Bay Ridge, N Y, and when
tina NaXl Ynr- 4
crossing the East river on four track
bridge. is completed these trains will
be run directly from Bay Ridge to
Port Morris, n. Y. where connections
for New Englsnd will be made with the
New York. New Haven and Hartford.
Electric Engines Used.
This New York tunaAl extension and
tts r.-ce ssary 6djuu,, 60 -
costs - -,rovements ever made by a
f"' company The tunnel exten-
.,'n hosjns az Harrison, y. J.. a few
'".n'i''d -t"tds east of Newark. where
'E''e - car yard for the big electric
locomotives used to haul ell trains
through the tubes. Passenger trains
from southern and western points
change hers from steam to electric
power. Passengers destined for the
downtown ssotion OF New York. the
great financial and wholesale district
may sNEbt at Harrison and take an
electric train into the huge new sta
ton OF the Hudson and Manhattan
railroad at Church and Cortland,
Stresss by way of the McAdoo tunnels
noer The Hudson.
AFTER changing engines the through
aAins for New York viii leave Narri-
s7n on rails crossing over the old
f4'-nnsyivania tracks On a steel and
tAsons~se bridge, following a double
ssaN& Inc on a high embankmen,
asEoss the marshy Hackensack mead
"sa 10 Bergen hill. where they will en-.
Sss fae tunnel tubes and pass unde,
ne waters of the Hudson into the sta.
sss IA New York thence below the
Sn~:sce of Manhattan Island under the
ast river to Long Island City.
The central feature OF the entire i'm.
'.lovsnaent Is the passenger station In
Srw York, the main entrance being or
A~rsnth avenue between Thirty-firs
.Sad Thirsy-tb;rd streets. The station
Ia divided into three levels, the track.
o~szax tSrty feet below street level Tbs
vain entrance 10 for foot passenger.
'rfJ, Through an imposing arcade 81
t~~a f~-x by & feet wide the passen
Isss 20 to The main waiting room. tn,
tsrsss, IN the world. 277 feet long. 10
fs~t ~ine as.A 10 feet high. The arcaa.
: thanked by shops on both sides. ,
its fNrthsr end are q restau-s a.
'i'~1h room and q csfsA beyond is "a.
"rcourse .esA. or stHrsen oroper, b.
l7g "n ne nrst lSv~l below TIE stree