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railways, as the first successful realization of the features of 

 this system that had been effected here. During the year 

 1874 the system has been extended to St. Louis, and is about 

 to be fully inaugurated in New York. 



The objective point of the underground railway system of 

 the last-named city is the Grand Central Depot, located at the 

 junction of Forty-second Street and Fourth Avenue, the rail- 

 way centre of the city. When completed, it will run from the 

 Harlem River, on the north, through the heart of the city, un- 

 der Fourth Avenue and Broadway, to the Battery, a distance 

 of 8f miles. The existing northerly section of underground 

 railway extends northward from the depot, under the surface 

 of Fourth Avenue, to the Harlem River, where the track rises 

 and crosses a bridge. This portion is now in course of com- 

 pletion, and was expected to be ready for traffic in January, 

 1875. The southerly section of the work, the so-called Broad- 

 way Underground Railway, to extend from the Grand Cen- 

 tral Depot to the Battery, was authorized by the Legislature 

 of the state in May, 1874, and will be completed as soon as 

 financial preliminaries can be arranged. 



Of other works in progress or projected during the year, 

 it may be of interest to note a proposition to bridge the 

 Mississippi at Quincy, Illinois ; and another, to bridge the 

 same river at Carondelet, which seems, however, to have 

 awakened considerable opposition. Another international 

 bridge across the Niagara River, at Grand Island, is likewise 

 projected, and charters from the proper authorities were ob- 

 tained. 



The Hoosac Tunnel, which it was generally expected 

 would be opened for traffic about July or August, will in 

 all probability not be ready for use until the spring of 1875. 

 A new tunnel through Bergen Hill, commenced during the 

 early part of the last year by the Delaware, Lackawanna, 

 and Western Railroad, is progressing gradually toward com- 

 pletion. A new railroad tunnel under the Hudson River, to 

 connect New York and Jersey City, has likewise been com- 

 menced. The tunnel is projected from the foot of Fifteenth 

 Street, Jersey City, and will extend beneath the river to near 

 the foot of Canal Street, New York, from which point con- 

 nection will be made with the underground railway system 

 at present in course of completion in the latter city. 



