. The street railway review . erating corporation to be financedlater. Actual work on the Rapid Transit ttmnel was commenced onMar. 24, 1900, when Mayor Van Wyck in the presence of membersof the Rapid Transit Commission, public officials and a crowd ofcitizens numbering several hundred thousand, turned out the firstshovelful of soil in front of the City Hall. The Municipal Assemblyhad appropriated $5,000 for the occasion and the event was fittingly be called tunnels. One of these is through the hill of Gneiss, onupper Broadway and nth Ave., from 158th St. to a point near FortGeorge. This tunne

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. The street railway review . erating corporation to be financedlater. Actual work on the Rapid Transit ttmnel was commenced onMar. 24, 1900, when Mayor Van Wyck in the presence of membersof the Rapid Transit Commission, public officials and a crowd ofcitizens numbering several hundred thousand, turned out the firstshovelful of soil in front of the City Hall. The Municipal Assemblyhad appropriated $5,000 for the occasion and the event was fittingly be called tunnels. One of these is through the hill of Gneiss, onupper Broadway and nth Ave., from 158th St. to a point near FortGeorge. This tunnel is two miles long, it being, next to the Hoosactunnel at North Adams, Mass., the longest in the United are in progress from headings at either end, and from twointermediate shafts, sunk 100 ft. to the floor level of the are made by compressed air drills and hoists taking airthrough pipes from a compressor plant erected on the HudsonRiver. This is one of the most difficult sections on the

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