THE HUDSON RIVER TUNNELS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11248, 11 April 1908, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE HUDSON RIVER TUNNELS.

The first pair of tunnels bored under the Hudson River, and affording through railway communication between Manhattan Island and New Jersey, were opened on Tuesday with a ceremony m which the Governors of the States of J»cw York and New Jersey took part, while President Roosevelt, at Washington, pressed the electric button which set m motion the first trains that traversed the tunnels. A New York correspondent says that -other plans now m course of execution for dealing with the-. peculiar traffic difficulties of New lork, including the construction of four other tunnels under tlie Hudson, will fn v? lve a total expenditure of some ±560,000,000. ' The correspondent further states :— Ihe credit for the feat of successfully tunnelling the Hudson, so long regarded as a hopeless venture, belongs .to an; Englishman, Mr Charles M. ...JacdßsV the chief engineer, and at Hoboken the presence; of -the- Union Jack over the dais 'was a tribute to the part which Wtish-. engineers, past and- present, had taken m the difficult work. -" /?M Present' year has already • witnessed the opening of the Battery tunne ?f .Jv?! 1 . 0 " . a * last provides subway communication between Manhattan and VK? O^? 11 " under, the East river, to the immediate relief of the congestion of Brooklyn Bridge. The pair of tunnels now opened aftprd' underground railway fyicjlitjes .between .Manhattan aud New J «sey." That means that . a .passeneer AVill^noAV be able tv take a train on i)laiiha^Uyr for. any -part of the American continent south and west without " a , v . in g l ? br « ak his, journey at the start, as lieretofore. by a ferry over. the Hudson/ a journey of .15 -minutes, now reduced by the tunnels "to -two. minutes . IhUK,. m quick succeifiion, the two forbidding . barrier* to the transportation deve,l9pinent of . Greater New York, J o ™^ »y the East and Hudson rivers, nave been broken through. Only the teeming thousaiids living. in New Jersey or Brooklyn, who have had, on the one hand, to depend; on slow ferry boats, , at the mercy of, fogs and other •river obstacles, and. on. the other, on an ..overweighted bridge,, realise the service these 'inaugurations of river tunnels confer. • • .