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Show SUBMARINE TUNNEUJPEN Boston Now Has the Most Remarkable Subway In the Country. BOSTON, Dec. 30. The submarine tunnel connecting Boston and East Boston was opened for public travel today. The dedication of the tunnel to public use was carried out without any formality. The tunnel is double-tracked, and .1.4 miles long, 2700 feet of which is under the harbor waters. The cost of construction con-struction was J3.000.000. The tunnel was built by the city of Boston, which has leased if for a term of twenty-five years, dating from 1897, to the Boston Elevated Railway company, which will use the tunnel exclusively for the passage pas-sage of its electric cars between Boston Bos-ton and East Boston. About four and one-half years have been consumed in constructing the tunnel, tun-nel, in the accomplishment of which many difficult engineering problems had to be solved, chiefly on account of the maze of underground pipes, sewers and wires, and also because of the perilous per-ilous nature of the work of digging the large passageway underneath the bed of the Boston harbor. The tunnel Is built entirely of concrete, and is the only tunnel of that kind in the world. In arranging for the stations the builders made use of historic ground, for thev entrance near Washington street Is directly under the old Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Statehouse. while the Scollay square terminal lies underneath the old Boston courthouse. |