Report has been made to the Public Service Commission that a large part of the right of way for the New York Connecting Railroad has been obtained, and more than $3,000,000 has been spent by this railroad.  The piers and docks at Newtown Creek and the electrification of the line from Newark to Jersey City are not yet actively under way.

ESTIMATED COST OF THE IMPROVEMENTS.

As appears from the foregoing statement, only parts of the improvements contemplated in the general scheme have been completed, others are in progress, and others have not yet been commenced.  It is therefore impossible at the present time to make a close estimate of the total expenditure involved in the execution of the entire scheme.  The following estimate of the cost of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s improvements in the New York District when fully completed is based on the best information now available: 

New York Tunnel Extension and Station, including
Interchange Yards at Harrison,
N. J., and Sunnyside, L. I., P. T. & T.
R. R. Co. $100,000,000

Long Island Railroad electrification, Bay
Ridge and Atlantic Avenue improvements,
Glendale Cut-Off, freight yards,
and new equipment 35,000,000

New York Connecting Railroad, to be built jointly by the Pennsylvania R. R. Co. and the New York, New Haven and Hartford R. R. Co., about 14,000,000

Pennsylvania Railroad improvements in the
State of New Jersey, electrification of
line from Jersey City to Park Place,
Newark, Greenville freight line and terminal
on New York Bay 10,000,000
          
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    Total $159,000,000

CORPORATE ORGANIZATION AND FRANCHISE CONDITIONS.

As the tunnel extension lies partly in the State of New Jersey and partly in the State of New York, it was necessary to charter two companies, each covering the territory within the State to which it belonged.  The New Jersey corporation was entitled the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Railroad Company, and the New York corporation, the Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railroad Company.  These organizations were completed early in 1902.  Subsequently, after the tunnels had been joined under the North River, the companies were consolidated, on June 26th, 1907, and thereby formed the present company under the name of the Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad Company, a corporation of both States.

Mr. Cassatt, President of the Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railroad Company, made application in its behalf for a franchise to extend the lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad by tunnels under the North River to a passenger station to be erected in New York City and thence under the East River to a connection with the Long Island Railroad, on May 5th, 1902.