. Charles Follen McKim; a study of his life and work. y the intimacy fostered by closeassociation in connection with the improvements inWashmgton between Mr. McKim and Mr. Cassattwhich led the latter to entrust to McKim, Mead, andWhite, without any question of competition, thebuilding of the Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Man^hattan. In 1871 the Pennsylvania Railroad Companysecured by leases the control of the United Railroadsof New Jersey which terminate in Jersey City. Fromthat time the desire of the railroad was to get into oronto Manhattan Island, and many plans were con-sidered, only to
. Charles Follen McKim; a study of his life and work. y the intimacy fostered by closeassociation in connection with the improvements inWashmgton between Mr. McKim and Mr. Cassattwhich led the latter to entrust to McKim, Mead, andWhite, without any question of competition, thebuilding of the Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Man^hattan. In 1871 the Pennsylvania Railroad Companysecured by leases the control of the United Railroadsof New Jersey which terminate in Jersey City. Fromthat time the desire of the railroad was to get into oronto Manhattan Island, and many plans were con-sidered, only to be set aside as impractical. The panicsof 1 873 and 1 884 made it impossible to finance anygreat undertaking from which there could be no imme-diate return. The beginnings of the Hudson Terminalscheme first suggested tunnels under the North River,but the engineering obstacles to such a plan weredeemed unsurmountable. In 1884, the papers werefilled with the reports of a suspension bridge over theNorth River, having a span almost twice as great as 76. PLAN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATION, NEW YORK THE PENNSYLVANIA TERMINALthe Brooklyn Bridge. This, too, was given up largelybecause of the active opposition of the river traffic. In 1 899, Alexander J. Cassatt became President ofthe Pennsylvania Railroad. That he was a man oflarge vision we have already seen, in his having volun-tarily given up the Mall property in Washington. Tosuch a man physical obstacles are as nothing in com-parison with an ideal to be realized. Many of hismost devoted supporters after the work on the ter-minal improvements was begun offered him nothingbut discouragement at the inception of the scheme. In1892, the subject of tunneling under the river wasagain revived, careful surveys were made, and a num-ber of different plans submitted, but the silver panicof 1893 again made the financing of such a projectimpossible. The purchasing of the control of the LongIsland Railroad by the Pennsylvania in 1 900 made aphysi
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