Evening journal., 1912-10-04
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
And A Little Child
Shall Lead Them "
By Holland.

was chatting with a group COM
posed of some Of the inanciers. men
of science and others who were as
sociated with the conception and ths
construction of what are sommonll
known as the McAdoo tubes, or. 4
other words, the series of rapiI
transit tunnels under the HuJso4
River which connect Manhattan ~
land with Jersey City, when on
member of the party said:
y have recently read one Of u
favorite lines in Scripture, And a !
tie child shall lead them, with a nf
understanding of the profound, wo Z
encompassing philosophy which is
that statement f
THE late Austin Corbin, who
known in the transportation wJrlGI )
the father Of the Long Island Il
road system, was almost excllsiVI'
occupied with his banking busiIN
in New York City for a gooJ n
years after he came to New &F
from Davenport, Iowa. He then
I believe, in Brooklyn; at all ev
he was living there at the time OF
his children became desperately ~
The child seemed to be wasting a
No physicians could be found
were able to tell exactly what
disease was.
At last Mr. Corbin was persuN II
by some of his friends to TAXED
child to a little cottage that fA
the Atlantic ocean on the stripH
sand that is now known to all fH
Workers as Manhattan Beach.
effect upon the child was instan
Gus. Abundant health was sect
and Mr.. Corbin was greatly reid III
that so simple remedy as NJ
fihad proved so efficacious. MI
when the time came to leave e''
seashore the child said that a gre
many people ought to go to that seal
shore and all the sick people of New
York that could get there ought tC
go there.
These simple words made a deer
impression upon Austin Corbin. HI
gave heed TO them He decided tha
the child had spoken with wisdom
Therefore, he began at once to per
feet plans for the establishment of Z
great seaside resort at that point
later known as Manhattan Beach
and he determined to build a railroad
which would make communication
from Manhattan Island and Brooklyn
to this ocean front cheap and easy.
He had. not progressed cry fal
in these plans before he began tC
realize what the tremendous posi-
bilities of all of Long Island we're
He determined to buy the various
railroad systems upon the island ans
consolidate them. That done, hi
mind again expanded and he planned
a great ocean port at Montauk Point
Yet again there was expansion of hil
plans, for he decided that It was prac
ticable 10 construct a tunnel undei
the East and Hudson Rivers tina
would connect Long Island with thu
mainland.
Mr. corbin did not live Ions
enough himself to carry out all hil
plans. He was accidentally killed a
his summer place, Sunapee Lake, n
H. But it was little child who leC
him in the work by which he is re-
membered. Il was the inspiration
which came to that child after it:
recovery from illness which inspired
all the colossal plans made by Mr.
Corbin, some of them completed by
him. And that same little child's
inspiration also undoubtedly indi
rectly led to the construction of the
McAdoo tubes under the Hudson anC
the Pennsylvania tunnels urder the
Hudson and East Rivers that con.
meet the mainland and Long, Island.
Copyright, 1912, by E. J. Edwards
All rights reserved.)