. Hudson & Manhattan tunnels : uniting New York and New Jersey in picture and story. . to England, where he succeeded inobtaining about two millions of dollars of English money, and a new company wasorganized to take over the franchise, and other assets of the old company. ColonelHaskins in resuming his self-imposed task of uniting New Jersey and Manhattan Islandby an sub-aqueous route had in mind the establishment of a mammoth terminal stationon a site in close proximity to Washington Square, where railroad trains from everysection of the country could discharge passengers and freight. In 189
. Hudson & Manhattan tunnels : uniting New York and New Jersey in picture and story. . to England, where he succeeded inobtaining about two millions of dollars of English money, and a new company wasorganized to take over the franchise, and other assets of the old company. ColonelHaskins in resuming his self-imposed task of uniting New Jersey and Manhattan Islandby an sub-aqueous route had in mind the establishment of a mammoth terminal stationon a site in close proximity to Washington Square, where railroad trains from everysection of the country could discharge passengers and freight. In 1890 the new company, after pushing the tube one thousand, eight hundred feetfurther along toward New York, fell into bankruptcy, and work was again Haskins, unable to secure more capital for his enterprise, abandoned the project,and the unfinished work lay all but forgotten under the waters of the majestic Hudson. A New Man. In 1901 there came from Chattanooga, Tenn., to New York, a youngman who had been born in Marietta, Ga., thirty-eight years before. He was unknown. Here we see the train at its terminal; on the right we enter, on the left we leave. to fame, to finance, to engineering, and he, at that time, had no intention of abandoninghis career in the practise of the law. But one day Willliam Gibbs McAdoo being calledto Hoboken on business, was much vexed by the delays occasioned by a river full ofcraft of every conceivable description trying to feel their way through an almost impene-trable sea of fog. Thus delayed his thoughts were turned to the necessity for somemore safe and rapid method for transacting business across the Hudson. So in hismoments of leisure—perhaps at first from a mere sense of curiosity—he began to investi-gate the now abandoned tunnel. He found that its franchise had yet about twenty-fiveyears to run, and that both franchise and uncompleted tunnel could be bought for asong. The more he considered the project, the more convinced he
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