| Show TUNNEL UNDER HUDSON IS NOW COMPLETED N New nv York Fob Feb 21 The first of tho limo great system of tunnels and subways by hl II which the tho Pennsylvania railroad will bo lie enabled to run Iun a mm train from front Philadelphia under tho the Hudson river across Manhattan Inland and under tho tue Kaat llast river to Long Island City wun p Completed I today toda Time The two ends of ot ono one of at the tho four tubes connecting Manhattan Island with Long bong Island City wore brought together under tho th head of ot the middle of or tho the t river off oll Thirty fourth street before noon today und and the tho steel rings composing thc ho he shell of or the tho tube were for the first time bolted In ono one continuous string from shore to 10 shore This tube was wu begun in August I 1905 and is four thousand t feet teet tat In length Two other tubes will bo be beconi com completed within a 0 few days and Imd the fourth will be finished within three months according to an nn announcement mado made by the company Time The completion or of the tho first tunnel vas celebrated in Long Xong Island City by byn bya n a display ll of ot flags about tho time works wants of the tho company Workmen who wore acre dig JIg digging digging JIgging ging tho time tunnel from the thc Long Iong Island I City side aide broko broke through Into Inlo the end antI endor of or the time tunnel extending from time the New NewYork NewYork York side aide last night but the tho two ends vero not connected until today toda So accurate were the time measurements of at the engineers en that the ends came caine to together together gether with a mm I variation of only three eights el of or an mm inch litch This system of ot tunnels under tinder the Kant East river will connect tho time Ix ng Island islanI railroad with time tho Pennsylvania railroad terminal now being constructed nt at street t New York A con fleeting railroad is In to be constructed in Long Lon Island City and filth Brooklyn to con comm connect connect with various stations of ot the Long Island laland railroad |
