. Hudson & Manhattan tunnels : uniting New York and New Jersey in picture and story. . increasing shipping, and often bound hard and fast in ice or the dangerous and annoyingembrace of heavy fogs. But to revert to our story: This tunnel—or strictly speaking, these tunnels (forthere are four of them, two extending under the river from ^.ortlandt street, New Yorkto Jersey City, thence connecting with the terminals of the Pennsylvania, Erie andDelaware, Lackawanna and Western railroads, from whence there extend under theHudson two other tunnels to Christopher street, New York, thence to and up, S
. Hudson & Manhattan tunnels : uniting New York and New Jersey in picture and story. . increasing shipping, and often bound hard and fast in ice or the dangerous and annoyingembrace of heavy fogs. But to revert to our story: This tunnel—or strictly speaking, these tunnels (forthere are four of them, two extending under the river from ^.ortlandt street, New Yorkto Jersey City, thence connecting with the terminals of the Pennsylvania, Erie andDelaware, Lackawanna and Western railroads, from whence there extend under theHudson two other tunnels to Christopher street, New York, thence to and up, Sixthavenue as far as Thirty-third street)—will for years, if not for ages, stand asthe greatest engineering feat undertaken by man. Haskins 1874 Tunnel. The idea of tunneling under the Hudson river had its con-ception in the fertile brain of Colonel D. C. Haskins, an English civil engineer of consid-erable note and ability, in 1874, and he set about organizing a company to finance andbore the tunnel, and after arduous labor, and much persuasion succeeded in interestingabout two
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