- 1876 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN HUDSON TUNNEL CO. RAILROAD NEW YORK CITY NEWSPAPER .
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- EDGE DAMAGE , SMALL EDGE TEARS, WRINKLED, FOLDED. ELSE COMPLETE. AS SHOWN.
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