by Jill Jonnes
“like a Chinese wall”: Hilary Ballon, New York’s Pennsylvania Station (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), p. 35.
10. “THE TOWN IS ON FIRE”
“It was hoped”: A. J. Cassatt, memorandum, December 23, 1901, board file 269, carton 39, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“It was deemed necessary”: Ibid.
“Until the announcement”: “Pa. Road To Tunnel Into City,” New York World, December 12, 1901, p. 1.
“The line as adopted”: Ibid.
“one of the greatest”: Charles Jacobs to James McCrea, July 31, 1909, carton 102, folder 32/22, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“Tunnels of the kind”: Charles W. Raymond, “The New York Tunnel Extension of the PRR,” Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 68 (September 1910): 21.
“believed there was a drift”: Samuel Rea, “Engineering and Transportation,” Journal of the Franklin Institute, June 1926, p. 685.
“sublime exhibition of faith”: “The Faith that Digs Tunnels,” Wall Street Journal, March 26, 1903, p. 1.
“an underground bridge”: “Five Great Trunk Lines,” New York Herald, December 13, 1901, p. 5.
“Electricity and modern science”: “Tunnel Station at Quai D’Orsay,” New York Herald, December 14, 1901, p. 3.
“There will not be any smoke”: “Pa. Road To Tunnel Into City,” New York World, December 12, 1901, p. 1.
“The town is on fire”: William Baldwin to A. J. Cassatt, December 14, 1901, carton 102, folder 32/25, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“George wore fine clothes”: Maury Klein, “George J. Gould” in Railroads in the Age of Regulation, 1900–1980, ed. Keith L. Bryant, Jr., Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography (N.Y.: Facts on File, 1988), p. 168.
“Oh, Hell!”: Lothrop Stoddard, Master of Manhattan: The Life of Richard Croker (New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1931), p. 210.
“Had Mr. Roebling”: David McCullough, The Great Bridge (New York.: Touchstone, 1982), p. 493.
“A good part of”: Ibid., p. 288.
“more than ten thousand miles”: Charles S. Gleed, “A.J. Cassatt,” Cosmopolitan 33 (Aug. 1902): 421–23.
“The New York law”: Memorandum of report to PRR board, April 22, 1902, carton 102, folder 32/23, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“inconceivably low”:Beatrice Webb’s American Diary, 1898, ed. David A. Shannon (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1963), p. 63.
“I have been all over”: Samuel Rea to A. J. Cassatt, telephone message, Dec. 24, 1901, carton 15, folder 32/1 vol. 2, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“Before you decide”: Samuel Rea to A. J. Cassatt, telephone message, Jan. 7, 1902, carton 15, folder 32/1 vol. 2, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“coming up Cortlandt Street”: ”The Head of the Pennsylvania,” New York Times, December 28, 1902, p. 22.
“In his presence”: Frank H. Spearman, The Strategy of Great Railroads (New York: Scribner’s, 1906), p. 32.
“The very dogs”: Eliot Gregory, “Nation in a Hurry,” Atlantic Monthly 85 (May 1900): 609.
11. “WE SHALL MAKE OUR FIGHT ABOVEBOARD”
“If I help you”: James Creelman, “All Is Not Damned,” Pearson’s Magazine 15, no. 6 (June 1906): 554.
“We shall require some legislation”: A. J. Cassatt to Senator Quay, January 16, 1902, carton 15, folder 32/29, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“silent in sixteen”: James A. Kehl, Boss Rule in the Gilded Age: Matt Quay of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981), p. xv.
“Mr. Frank Platt”: William Baldwin to A. J. Cassatt, January 21, 1902, carton 15, folder 32/29, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“On further reflection”: A. J. Cassatt to T. C. Platt, January 24, 1902, Thomas Collier Platt Papers, Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut (hereafter referred to as Platt Papers).
“You have placed us”: A. J. Cassatt to T. C. Platt, February 27, 1902, Platt Papers.
“did not comprehend”: William. Allen White, Masks in a Pageant (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1971 [1928]), p. 21.
“sitting around the corridors”: Citizens Unions, The Best Administration New York Ever Had (New York: Committee on Press and Literature of the Citizens Union, 1903), pp. 63–64.
“There was no secrecy”: “The Pennsylvania Tunnel,” New-York Tribune, March 22, 1902, p. 8:1.
“To get a perpetual charter”: “Tunnel Bill Opposed,” New-York Tribune, March 22, 1902, p. 3:1.
“perfectly willing to pay”: “More Opposition to Pennsylvania’s Bill,” New York Times, March 21, 1902, p. 5:1.
“from the record made”: “For Its Exclusive Use,” New-York Tribune, March 25, 1902, p. 3:2.
“There will be no room”: Ibid.
“No one in this community”: “Thought Low Would Veto,” New-York Tribune, March 25, 1902, p. 3:2.
“We do not know just”: “For Its Exclusive Use,” New-York Tribune, March 25, 1902, p. 3:1.
12. “UGLY RUMORS OF BOODLE”
“It is infamous”: “A Colossal Robbery of the People,” Journal American, March 26, 1902.
“an administration of men”: “The Trouble with Reform,” Journal American, March 4, 1902.
“[Low] does know”: Ibid.
“Though he continued to dress like a dandy”: David Nasaw, The Chief (Boston: Houghton Mifflin 2000), p. 106.
“Pulitzer was left”: Ibid., p. 105.
“Pulitzer had become”: Ibid.
“The Board of Aldermen”: “Now For P.R.R. Tunnel,” New-York Tribune, April 16, 1902, p. 4:6.
“Mr. Carvalho assured me”: George Boyd to William A. Patton, April 17, 1902, carton 15, folder 32/29, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“city has received”: “Approve P.R.R. Franchise,” New-York Tribune, June 16, 1902, p. 14:4.
“one face more repulsive”:Beatrice Webb’s American Diary, 1898, David A. Shannon, ed. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1963), p. 63.
“that the company would not pay”: “Fear A Franchise Lobby,” New-York Tribune, July 10, 1902, p. 14:3.
“No vote of mine”: “Aldermen Fight the Pennsylvania Franchise,” New York Times, July 12, 1902, p. 1.
“scab labor”: “Seven Aldermen Opposed,” New-York Tribune, July 12, 1902, p. 3:1.
“Great public improvement”: “Our Obstructive Alderman,” Commercial Advertiser, July 23, 1902.
“It is a veiled”: “The Aldermen and the Tunnel Franchise,” World, July 23, 1902.
“Let us give credit”: “Refusing a Railroad’s Bid Does Not Make Aldermen Criminals,” Journal American, Juy 24, 1902, p. TK
“straightforward and manly”: “Mayor on Aldermen’s Action on the Tunnel,” New York Times, July 24, 1902, p. 2:8.
“true Roosevelt style”: Kathleen Dalton, Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (New York: Knopf, 2002), p. 218.
“No sane man”: “PRR and Eight Hour Law,” New-York Tribune, August 6, 1902, p. 1:3.
“We have come here”: Ibid.
“Had to listen”: Capt. Green to A. J. Cassatt, August 6, 1902, carton 15, folder 32/33, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“The rights and interests”: Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (New York: Random House, 2001), p. 137.
“I am at my wits’:” Ibid., p. 151.
“It is asking very much”: A. J. Cassatt to Abram S. Hewitt, Sept. 28, 1902, carton 15, folder 32/33, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“miracle…of connecting”: “Tunnel Franchise Clauses Discussed,” New York Times, October 3, 1902, p. 5:1.
“It has made its proposition”: Ibid.
“Public opinion”: “The Pennsylvania Franchise,” New York Times, October 11, 1902, p. 8:2.
“The Dollar-Rooting”: “The Dollar-Rooting Swine of the Anthracite Fields,” Journal American, December 11, 1902.
“throwing up my han
ds”: Dalton, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 237.
“the railroad interests”: “Bitter words at Hearing on P.RR. Tunnel,” New York World, November 27, 1902, p. 2.
“If this rich corporation”: Ibid.
“I am sure”: Ibid.
“If we don’t get permission”: Ibid.
“clique…determined to extort”: “PRR Gives Warning,” New-York Tribune, November 27, 1902, p. 1.
“We have come to New York”: “Ugly Rumors of Boodle,” New York World, November 29, 1902, p. 4:4.
“There is not an honest”: “Appealing to the Legislature,” New York Times, December 8, 1902, p. 8:1.
“one of the most shamefaced”: “The Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnel,” Scientific American, December 6, 1902, p. 372.
“a perpetual menace”: “The Aldermen and the Pennsylvania Tunnel,” New York Times, December 7, 1902, p. 32–33.
“every daily newspaper”: “The Pennsylvania Tunnel,” Railroad Gazette, December 12, 1901, p. 94.
“not to deprive”: “‘Little Tim’ Says ‘No,’” New-York Tribune, December 14, 1902, p. 2:4.
“No power on earth”: Ibid.
“an example to other corporations”: “The Franchise,” Railroad Gazette, December 19, 1902, p. 962.
“It means, if accepted”: “The Franchise Goes Over,” New-York Tribune, December 10, 1902, p. 1.
“during every minute”: “Pennsylvania Tunnel Franchise Passed,” New York Times, December 17, 1902, p. 1.
“If you pass”: Ibid.
“The great thing”: “The Aldermen Yield,” New York Times, December 17, 1902, p. 8:1.
“It looks like”: “Victory for Pennsy Tunnel Franchise,” New York World, December 17, 1902, p. 1.
13. “WE ARE NOT MAKING A MISTAKE”
“almost pathetic”: “Deserted Part of the City,” New-York Tribune, June 5, 1902.
“Foul Tenderloin!”: “The Deserted Village in the Tenderloin,” New York Herald, May 10, 1903, Literary Section, p. 6
“factories and rookeries”: E. Idell Zeisloft, ed., The New Metropolis (New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1899), p. 616.
“The simple homely virtues”: “Memoir of Alfred Noble,” Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 79 (December 1915): 1357.
“The great Corps of Privates”: Ibid.
“Ability to withstand”: Ibid.
“Procure all additional”: William Couper, ed., History of the Engineering, Construction, and Equipment of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s Terminal and Approaches (New York: Isaac H. Blanchard, 1912), p. 10
“The main consideration”: Charles Raymond, “The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,” Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 68 (September 1910): 17.
“about the most treacherous”: “The Pa. and LIRR Extensions Across the North and East Rivers,” Engineering News, December 19, 1901, p. 473.
“Can a proper tunnel”: Samuel Rea, Pennsylvania Railroad New York Tunnel Extension, Historical Outline, December 15, 1909 (Philadelphia, 1909), p. 13, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware.
“led capitalists and engineers”: Charles Jacobs, “The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company: North River Division,” Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 68 (September 1910): 42.
“I cannot believe”: A. J. Cassatt to Fowler, Jan. 5, 1903, and clipping of that day’s New York Times, carton 15, folder 32/33, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“to 1121/2, its lowest”: “Pressure on P.R.R. Stock,” New-York Tribune, November 12, 1903, p. 4:3.
“Mr. Cassatt has”: “Mr. Cassatt’s Policy,” Wall Street Journal, July 13, 1903, p. 2.
“We are planning”: A. J. Cassatt to Samuel Rea, August 29, 1904, carton 21, folder 32/157 v. 1, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“I think the section”: A. J. Cassatt to E. H. Harriman, July 16, 1902, carton 17, folder 32/76–90, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“called for the construction”: Couper, History of Engineering, Construction, and Equipment, p. 11
“The limiting features”: Ibid.
14. “A WORK UNSOUGHT”
“in the line of”: William Baldwin to A. J. Cassatt, Jan. 14, 1902, carton 15, folder 32/20 v. 1, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“for the privilege of competing”: Samuel Rea to Wayne MacVeagh, April 10, 1902, carton 15, folder 32/20 v. 1, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“It is a matter”: Ibid.
“I suppose President Cassatt”: Charles Moore, The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929), p 273.
“the largest and most important”: Samuel G. White, The Houses of McKim, Mead & White (New York: Rizzoli, 1998), pp. 10–11.
“scuffed wooden stairs”: Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (New York: Random House), p. 174.
“restored to”: Ibid.
“The whole thing is so”: Moore, The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim, p 206.
“It is much easier”: Patricia T. Davis, End of the Line: Alexander J. Cassatt and the Pennsylvania Railroad (New York: Neale Watson Academic Publications, 1978), p. 137.
“I passed the morning”: Moore, The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim, p. 274.
“He saw beauty”: Ibid., p. 58.
“Some of those associated”: Paul R. Baker, Stanny: The Gilded Life of Stanford White (New York: Free Press, 1989), pp. 81–82.
“Everything is all right:” Moore, The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim, p. 284.
“bubbling with enthusiasm”: Baker, Stanny, p. 83.
“hired draftsmen”: Ibid.
“brought in little business”: Suzannah Lessard, The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family (New York: Dial Press, 1996), p. 83.
“I beg to say that your firm”: A. J. Cassatt to Charles McKim, April 4, 1902, carton 15, folder 32/13–19, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“I am thinking”: Moore, The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim, p. 214.
“an eighteen story”: Samuel Rea to A. J. Cassatt, telegram April 30, 1902, carton 15, folder 32/13–19, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“surrounded by a jumbled mass”: Christopher Weeks, AIA Guide to Architecture of Washington, D.C., third edition (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974), p. 54.
“That afternoon”: Moore, The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim, p. 192.
“Since you gentlemen”: Ibid., p. 198.
“McKim argued”: Ibid., p. 274.
“She has been studying”: Davis, End of the Line, p. 129.
“cut out two or more tracks”: “New York Terminal Situation: Central and Pennsylvania,” Wall Street Journal, September 4, 1912.
“Confidence”: Hilary Ballon, New York’s Pennsylvania Stations (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), p. 53.
“While McKim had pinned”: Moore, The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim, p. 276.
“liked to sit”: Lessard, Architect of Desire, p. 83.
“at the Baths of Caracalla”: Moore, The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim, pp. 274–75.
15. “DRILLING OF FIRST HOLE”
“the present unfortunate and mortifying”: A. J. Cassatt to H. C. Frick, Jan. 25, 1903, Archives, Frick Collection, New York.
“jammed with cars”: John L. Cowan, “Freeing a City From a Railroad’s Control,” World’s Work 9 (1905): 5713.
“This was probably as drastic”: George H. Burgess and Miles C. Kennedy, Centennial History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1949), p. 516.
“with the hope”: Charles Jacobs to A. J. Cassatt, March 14, 1904, carton 18, folder 32/14–155, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“This is a very difficult”: Samuel Rea to A. J. Cassatt, January 12, 1904, carton 2, folder 32/1, v. 2, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“monumental in character”: A. J. Cassatt to Henry C. Payne, February 9, 1903, carton 17, folder 32/195, v. 1, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“400 congressmen”: Douglas Robinson to A. J. Cassatt, February 14, 1903, carton 17, folder 32/195, v. 1, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“The appealing human element”: Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (New York: Hill & Wang, 1957 [1904]), pp. 200–201.
“I am out of politics”: Lothrop Stoddard, Master of Manhattan: The Life of Richard Croker (New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1931), p. 258.
“with a Mr. Gay”: William Patton to A. J. Cassatt, memorandum, December 18, 1903, carton 15, folder 32/20, v. 1, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“Mr. Murphy would be very glad”: Ibid.
“The Connecting Railroad”: “Communication to Hon. G. B. McClellan and Hon. Alexander Orr from A. J. Cassatt,” January 18, 1906, p. 6, carton 47, folder 12/59, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“very stiff”: Samuel Rea to A. J. Cassatt, March 26, 1904, carton 15, folder 32/20, v. 1. PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“Belmont does not intend”: William Baldwin to A. J. Cassatt, January 28, 1904, carton 18, folder 32/132–32/139, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“Could I ask the favor?”: John A. Gleeson to A. J. Cassatt, April 30, 1904, carton 15, folder 32/1, v. 2, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“faint lights flashing”: “Tunneling the Hudson,” New-York Tribune, May 29, 1904, sec. 2, p. 3:2
“two ragged arches”: Ibid.
“Mr. Baldwin is very sick”: Louis R. Harlan and Raymond W. Smock, eds., The Booker T. Washington Papers, vol 8, 1904–6 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979) p. 28
“I have been thinking of him”: Ibid., p. 36
“I sincerely hope”: Samuel Rea to A. J. Cassatt, August 5, 1904, carton 15, folder 32/1, v. 2, PRR Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“You can bet”: “Aldermanic Firms Gets ‘Pennsy’ Job,” New York Herald, June 21, 1904, p. 1.
“We will have to remove”: Ibid.
“It was a carnival night”: “Our Subway Open, 150,000 Try It,” New York Times, October 28, 1904, p. 1.
“He has hit Pierpont”:The Letters of Henry Adams (1892–1918), Worthington Chauncey Ford, ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938), p. 373.
