. The Street railway journal . ween Hoboken andNew York. The uncomplet-ed south tube of this com-panys tunnel system, whichhas been under constructionfrom the Jersey side of theriver, reached the wall of theworking shaft on the NewYork side at Morton Streetand the river front a fewdays ago, and this wall wasforced through on Sept. 29,in the presence of the offi-cials and directors of theabove company and also ofthe Hudson Companies, theconstruction company direct-ly in charge of the prosecu-tion of the work. The eventwas attended with consider-able ceremony. The officials,together with a party
. The Street railway journal . ween Hoboken andNew York. The uncomplet-ed south tube of this com-panys tunnel system, whichhas been under constructionfrom the Jersey side of theriver, reached the wall of theworking shaft on the NewYork side at Morton Streetand the river front a fewdays ago, and this wall wasforced through on Sept. 29,in the presence of the offi-cials and directors of theabove company and also ofthe Hudson Companies, theconstruction company direct-ly in charge of the prosecu-tion of the work. The eventwas attended with consider-able ceremony. The officials,together with a party of in-vited guests, entered thesouth tube through the en-trance shaft near Fifteenth Street, Jersey City, from which allof the work of construction has been carried on, and rodethrough to the barrier wall at the New York end, where W. , president of the Hudson Companies, operated thehydraulic jacks which forced the final opening through thewall and permitted the party to make the first complete tripthrough the tube. *. MAP SHOWING TUNNELS NOW COMPLETED OR BUILDING OF THE NEW YORK & JERSEYRAILROAD AND THEIR CONNECTIONS The tubes are laid nearly parallel and are separated only about50 ft. toward the middle of the river. They have no crosscommunication at any point between the shore shafts. Thegreatest depth below mean tide is near the middle of the river,where the tubes are 15 ft. below the bed of the river; thedepth of water at that point is 65 ft. Each tube will providefor a single track. The north tube will carry the westbound October 14, 1905.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 74i traffic and the south tube the eastbound or New York traffic. The New York approaches to the tunnels have been extendedto some distance eastward from the Morton Street shaft. Con-struction upon these tunnels is being carried out upon theshield and hydraulic jack method, similar to that for the tubesbeneath the river, and the shields for the approaches have nowreached Christopher Street. The present
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