The Washington herald., 1917-11-26
Holland Finds Outlay for
: Terminal IN New York
Justified.

reached as far as the midyears OF the
present century at least. perhaps
farther.
Terminals outgrown-
when Commodore Vanderbilt caused
the first terminal Of the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad
Company 10 Be built In ISL at Forty
second street. New York. he said that
he was certain that IL would be good
for any conceivable business his rail-
road might be called upon to handle
for at least nifty years. within ten
years the company was compelled to
enlarge the station and . few years
later greatly to enlarge 10 and some
nve years ago erected upon the site the
new Grand Central Terminal. which
compares well IN size and architect
ural features with the Pennsylvania
Terminal, which fronts the Hudson
River.
President Rea also said that the
company had In view the expansion Of
through trafnc from New England to
Pennsylvania, the South and South
west That was In fact the original
conception Of A J. Cassatt and It was
one Of the reasons which led him as
president Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road to buy the controlling interests
In the Long Island Railroad
President Rea might, for q concrete
illustratiSn. have called attention to
the fact that New England 10 about
to be brought into actual physical
touch with Pennsylvania, Ohio. In
diana. Illinois and Missouri. For an
nouncement Il made Of the scheduling
Of q through train which will run
each way between Boston and St
Louis without change Of cars. Service
Of that kind II the second Of the DEM
onstrations OF what was in the minds
Of the Pennsylvania and New Haven
people when they Jointly built the
gigantic bridge which spans He'll Gate
and brings Boston and New England
into actual physical contact with the
Pennsylvania system
Boston to washinston.
When that bridge. which is one Of
the wonders of bridge construction,
was completed two or three years
ago, announcement was made that the
New Haven Railroad Company in CO.
operation with and. so far as train
movements were concerned, in actual
coordination with the Pennsylvania,
was % operate two through trains
daily between Boston and Washington.
results of this through-train service.
the two railroad companies in CO.
operation and coordination will make
Boston, 50 to speak. q next-door
neighbor 10 st. Louis as well as Phila-
delphia and Pittsburgh.
Il Is inevitable that, with the es-
tablishment of this long-distance,
through-train service whereby st.
Louis, Pittsburgh. Philadelphia and
Boston are to be brought into very
close relations so far as passenger
transportation Is concerned, there will
be other through trains established in
due time. 1t IL understood to be in
contemplation to schedule a through
train between Boston and New Or
= leans. Whether by way of Washing
ton or Cincinnati is not known.
Already through freight facilities
have been furnished whereby through
the utilization Of the Long Island
Railroad the Pennsylvania Railroad
can receive from New England or
send to New England unbroken freight
trains.
Vision Like q seer'a
A. ]. Cassatt's vision was that Of a
seer. His Imagination pictured forth
railroad wonders. He was much criti-
cised when he laid before his asso-
ciates OF the Pennsylvania the stu
pendous plan which involved the build
ing Of tunnels under tine Hudson, a
very great terminal on Manhattan
whence proceeded tunnels under Man
haitian and under the East River to
Long Island where a junction was to
be made with the Long Island Rail-
road system.
His associates Of the Pennsylvania
management did not cTiticise Presi-
dent Cassatt, but there were men of
large capital in the financial district
and some railway managers who were
convinced that President Cassatt had
let his imagination run away with his
Judgment. But when it was also fur
ther announced that in cooperation
and joint ownership with the New
Haven Railroad Company the Penn
sylvania would build what seemed to
many engineers q bridge impossible of
construction excepting at prohibitive
cost with q gigantic span very lofty,
involving long and circuitous approach
to the Long Island system and the
New Haven then criticism was almost
unsparing.
But President Cassatt built even bet
ter than he knew. His wonderful sys-
tenn Of tunnels and bridges has made
New England, heretofore an almost
insulated community because sepa-
rated from the mainland by the Hud-
son River. now an integral part of
the great transportation system,
freight and passenger, whereby the
South. the Southwest and the lower
West are brought into what are sub
stantially family railIoad relations.
when War II Ended.
fBy and by. when the war Is ended
and when the railroad situation has
been substantially cleared. these great
engineering undertakings conceived by
President Cassatt and accepted by the
New Haven people will greatly facil-
itate the movement Of freight and
passengers between New England and
the South as well as the lower Missis-
sippi Valley.
The operation Of through trains be-
tween st. Louis and Boston involving
the use Of the He'll Gate Bridge and
the system OF tunnels really suggests
what cooperation and co-ordination
between great railway systems may
mean for the country. It d an In
teresting fact that this development of
long-distance passenger transportation
between New ENGLAND and ST. Louis
as wen a. the South and Southwest
really makes New York City q way
station.
Not until these unbroksn trains were
scheduled and operated was New York
anything but true terminal having
only two terminal railway stations;
one at Forty-second street and the
other half q mile away at Seventh
avenue and Thirty-second street.
% - w. - .. HOLLAND.
PLAN SALUTE FOR T.R.