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Popular Science Monfhly 



New York city wastes millions in oirtage. li the- Wilgus phin is adopttii. a frciRht subway 

 will run through New York city, paralleling the present passenger subway in some sections, 

 for the purpose of transporting the freight underground and through tunnels under the 

 Hudson River to its destination, thus saving the additional expense of re-transference 



of the coii^fslioii at that point. It has 

 been slated that it cost more to haul a 

 ton of freight from a railroad lerminal 

 in Jersey City to a wareiioiise in 

 Manhattan llian from Pittsburg to 

 the seaboaril. R. A. (". Smith, C'om- 

 missioncr of Docks and l"errics, has 

 suRgested that the time re(|uirecl to load 

 the trucks might be reduced by con- 

 structing pier-sheds in such a way as 

 In permit the trucks to go out upon 



them at one side, I'nter in order through 

 a series of doors, and ri-turn in a regu- 

 lated procession. Willi. im [. W'iigus, a 

 former \ice-prisi(lent ol the New \ ork 

 Centr.d Railroad, has submitted to the 

 jniblic Ser\ice C'onuiiission a project lor 

 transhii)]>ing freight to smaller cars at a 

 great lerminal yard to be establisluHl on 

 the llackensacic Meadows. These rar.s 

 Were to be opcr.iti-d by electricity 

 through luimels under the Hud.son Ri\er 



