N.Y. Development of Port of New York 43/22 § 4: Manhattan service

§ 4. Manhattan service. The island of Manhattan to be connected with

New Jersey by bridge or tunnel, or both, and freight destined to and

from Manhattan to be carried underground, so far as practicable, by such

system, automatic electric as hereinafter described or otherwise, as

will furnish the most expeditious, economical and practicable

transportation of freight, especially meat, produce, milk and other

commodities comprising the daily needs of the people. Suitable markets,

union inland terminal stations and warehouses to be laid out at points

most convenient to the homes and industries upon the island, the said

system to be connected with all the trans-continental railroads

terminating in New Jersey and by appropriate connection with the New

York Central and Hudson River railroad, the New York, New Haven and

Hartford and the Long Island railroads.