GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14344, 24 October 1910, Page 7

GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT.

BRITISH WORK IN NEW YORK. The triumphal completion of one of the greatest engineering works of the age was celebrated in New York on September 8, when the Pennsylvania Railway tunnels beneath the Hudson and East Rivers were formally opened to traffic. Together with the magnificent Pennsylvania Station, a mammoth building in tho Roman-Doric style .of architecture covering eight acres in the heart of New York City, the now system of transportation represents an outlay of some £30,000,000. Thousands of people waited outside the station all night in order that they might ride in the first train connecting-New Jersey with Manhattan asd Long Island. Henceforth 1000 trains, with a carrying capacity ot 600,000 people/ will run daily through the tunnels, which aro destined to effect a radical change in the life of tho metropolis by releasing the inhabitants from the narrow, crowded limits of Manhattan Island.

Tho gigantic steel tubes forming the tunnels situated 97ft. beneath the river beds are the work of Messrs. S. Pearson and Son, Limited, of London, whose head partner is now Lord Cowdray.