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Era Headlights 1964 June Supplement Public Be Pleased Wm Mcadoo & Hudson Tubes
The Public Be Pleased William G Mcadoo and the Hudson Tubes By Anthony Fitzherbert
8 pages ERA HEADLIGHTS Supplement June 1964
A history of the Hudson and Manhattan Rail Road, The Tubes, up to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey taking over the operation and renaming it as the Port Authority Trans-Hudson, PATH. Sixteen photographs and two maps.
The idea of building a tunnel under the Hudson River was conceived in the 1860s as lower Manhattan became heavily congested. The belief was that with a tunnel under the Hudson, the railroad lines terminating on the west shore of the river could run their trains directly into the city, making it possible for people to live comfortably in suburban New Jersey and commute into the City.
The first person to actually begin building the tunnel was DeWitt Haskins, who organized the Hudson Tunnel Railroad Company. With $10,000,000 of capital stock issued, he began to build a tunnel between 15th Street and the New Jersey shore. However, in 1874 the Lackawanna Railroad obtained an injunction to halt work because of the competition which the new line would give to the railroad's ferries.
In 1879 work resumed but was soon halted again after a blowout occurred, taking 20 lives. In 1889 work was begun again by the English firm of S. S. Pearson and Son, but financial woes plagued the supervising Hudson Tunnel Railroad Company, then headed by John R. Dos Passos, and in 1892 work was suspended again.
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