. Hudson & Manhattan tunnels : uniting New York and New Jersey in picture and story. . lunch counter, flower booth, telephone booth, telegraph stand, newspaperkiosk, bootblack stand, and other modern railroad conveniences will be established. Fifty-two elevators afford prompt, comfortable, safe, and easy access to the variousfloors, already rented as offices to some of the largest of our American corpora-tions, among which may be mentioned the American Steel Company, while the FederalGovernment has engaged about an acre of space on the first and second floors for theNew York Post Office as a r
. Hudson & Manhattan tunnels : uniting New York and New Jersey in picture and story. . lunch counter, flower booth, telephone booth, telegraph stand, newspaperkiosk, bootblack stand, and other modern railroad conveniences will be established. Fifty-two elevators afford prompt, comfortable, safe, and easy access to the variousfloors, already rented as offices to some of the largest of our American corpora-tions, among which may be mentioned the American Steel Company, while the FederalGovernment has engaged about an acre of space on the first and second floors for theNew York Post Office as a receiving and forwarding station. Each building will also have a dining club, on the roof, that in the Cortlandt build-ing being known as the Railroad Club, while that in the Fulton building will be desig-nated as the Machinery club. The Construction. The story of the construction of the tunnels is a long one; toolong, indeed, to be more than touched upon in the present booklet. Here the story is,however, graphically told in pictures which carry you along through the various stages. Here we pass the first signal station, and speed merrily onward of construction; you are to make a picture trip through the tube; and now, as brieflyas possible, the details of the construction are to be unfolded to you, without any of theprofessional verbiage so often used in works such as this one. In the original work upon this tunnel, under Colonel Haskins, compressed air wasfirst used in construction, when its aid and usefulness in subterranean construction wasclearly proven. Haskins even used compressed air as a means of removing from thetunnel the sand and silt, first having mixed them with water. Since those days, how-ever, the use of compressed air in sub-aquatic engineering has made great, importantand rapid strides toward the perfect system used by the Hudson and Manhattan com-pany in the construction of these tubes. Pilot Tunneling. From the time when Haskins drove a pilot tunnel (six fee
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