New-York tribune., 1910-09-08
LONG ISLAND! AbOARD!!
First Scheduled Train Leaves
New Station at 3:41 a. m.
TO-DAY is TUNNEL DAY.
Opening of Direct Service Will
Be Marked by Ella
Celebrations.

Regular passenger service through the
Pennsylvania tunnels to Long Island was
begun early this morning. To-day will be
known as tunnel day" on Long Island,
and will be celebrated with laborate exer-
cises in a score or more of the cities and
towns on the island. The opening of the
tunnels under the East River brings Long
Islands citizens twenty minutes nearer to
Manhattan.
The new Long Island Railroad schedule
went into effect at S:41 o'clock this morn
ing when the first train left the big Penn
sylvania Railroad terminal a Seventh ave-
nue. and 32d street bound for Babylon.
Hicksville Whitestone Landing and Port
Washington. Other early morning trains
went out to Winfield. Greenport and Mon
tauk.
The north side of the PENNSYLVANIA ter
minal station, which is to be used by the
Long Island Railroad, was thrown open to
the public shortly after midnight. The first
train carried the morning newspapers and
a good number of passengers, considering
the early hour.
The train carrying the committees on Gel
ebration from the various towns on Long
Island will not leave the Pennsylvania sta
ton until 9 o'clock From that time on the
. FESTIVITIES Will ttlli1lluf an oi'iiS 'AiN Ai--O
until lat at night.
Brooklyn will have a share in the demon
tration. but the biggest display of the
island is to he made in Jamaica. which is
the point where passengers bound to and
from the eastern end of Long Island trans
fer to electric and steam trains.
Alfred J. Emo president of the Jamaica
celebration, will preside. and Timothy l.
Woodruff will deliver the principal address.
Speeches will also be made by Congress
man w w Cocks Colonel William M.
Griffiths. County Judge Burt j. Humphrey.
Congressman Charles r. Law and others.
Following the exercises. there will be
luncheon at the Queenshoro Real Estate
Exchange, in Jamaica, for the Brooklyn
committee and other guests.
Food and Speeches on Long Island.
This afternoon the Brooklyn and Jamaica
committees will be the guests of Senator
William II. Reynolds at Long Beach. Ad-
ditional cars will be added to the regular
trains to take the guests to Long Beach,
and later 10 Garden City, where a celebra-
ton dinner will he held at the Garden City
Hotel in the evening. Practically every
Long Island town will send representatives..
President Ralph Peters of the Long Island
Railroad will be the guest of honor at the
dinner and Colonel Griffiths will preside.
The following list of speakers and sub
iects has been prepared: Andrew Mclean,
The Completion of the Tunnels and the
Men Responsible for Their Achievement
Ralph Peters, The Long Island Railroads
Reasons for Confidence in the Future;
Acting Mayor John Purroy Mitchell, How
the Tunnels Will Add to the Greatness of
New York City; Walter II. Bum,
Queens. the Future Borough of Homes;
Lewis H Pounds. "Brooklyn's Reasons for
Rejoicing with the Rest of Long Island:
W w Cocks. Nassau, the Next Door
Neighbor of Greater New York" and Jo
seph NJ. Belford, Suffolk, the County Of
Promise
The Long Island Railroad has made ar
rangements for train to leave Garden
City after the dinner at II 20 p. This
train will connect with trains for Brooklyn
and Manhattan at Jamaica.
table was prepared yesterday at the
Long Island Railroad offices showing a
saving of time between this city and Long
Island points OF about twenty-five minutes
to Seventh avenue and 34th street. The
new schedule includes many new trains
the various divisions. With the exception
of an independent schedule for the Rocka-
ways TO and from Brooklyn. which main
tains the previous arrangement for trains
between these points, all the trains will
arrive at and depart from the new Penn
sylvania station.
Statistics of the improvements.
The tunnels under the East River at
tain a maximum depth OF ninety-seven feet
below mean high water. The shields in
the four East River tunnels met with per-
feet accuracy, and were completed in Sep
ternber. 1906 A twenty-five inch concrete
lining was put in afterward and the tun-
neIs equipped with the latest safety de
vices known to railroading. The number
of tracks leading out of the station yard
to the east gradually decreases from TWEEN
ty-one to total of four for the main line
These pass under the city and East River
to the Sunnyside yard on Long Island, the
terminus of the tunnel extension, and the
point of connection with the Long Island
Railroad
Sunnysde Yard is fifty-five hundred feet
long with a maximum width of fifteen
hundred and fifty feet. embracing some
one hundred and seventy-three acres of
land 1t contains fifty-three miles of tracks
which have capacity of one thousand
three hundred and eighty-seVen cars From
SunHyside Yard there are tracks leading
to the New York Connecting Railroad
which, when constructed. will form ii junc-
ton with the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad at Port Morris The
connecting railroad will cross East River
b. the Hell Gate bridge over Ward : Isl
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