The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 21

THE BROOKLYN DAILY EACLE. XEW YOKR. SATURDAY. Al'RIL, 13. 1007.

SUNNYSIDE ELECTRIC STORAGE YARD. This Great Eailroad Terminal Yard Will Cover 400 Acres and Provide Storage and Shifting Facilities for Nearly 1,000 Trains. FWEfcW OWNED OR. TO BE PuRCHbSEff TV RftUR0ft0 SHOWN BY HEfcW STATION EXPRESS FEEGhT STftTlOM TER.fAlN&L STfc. BtLWONT TUNNEL.

BELIAONT TUNNEL OOOO fKNft.RR.TUfJlNElu without any delay. The repair shops EFremendous Electric Terminal, Covering 450 Acres, Will Have Capacity for Nearly 1,000 Trains. tho land that was cut down and graded will prove a decidedly desirable plot for dwelling purposes. manufacturers who see in the new development advantages that are equaled no-whero on Long Island. The company feels In the accomplishment of this work by tho Pennsylvania Railroad extension, M.

J. Degnon, who litis the contract for constructing tho fnterborough tunnel, and a company of Investors who have joined with bim under the title of the Degnon Really and Terminal Im 200 ACRES FILLED II FOR INDUSTRIAL SITES will be provided with facilities for attending to any slight repairs. The yards will have a capacity for handling 700 or 800 trains a day without the least confusion. The yard will occupy about 450 acres, about 2 miles In length and one-half mile tho Degnon Company performed a feat seldom witnessed in this section of the country. A railroad was constructed on that its outlay of will net a neat profit, because the embellishment of the unsightly Jack's Creek into a navigable stream around which scores of manufactories can locate and carry on commerce unhampered is eoncededly one of the greatest improvements and most amazing the lee over the watery marshes, and for weeks during tho cold weather trains of loaded gondolas were hauled hither and yon over the many-tracked railroad successfully, with nothing moro substantial provement Company, havo taken an immense tract in the lower end of Long Island City.

They propose to transform this tract, which contains about 200 acres of barren, marshy land, Into useful property that will bo inviting to manufac ing mora nor less than marshes, presenting to tho eye an appearance that branded them forever useless. But here again twentieth century enterprise has outwitted naturo and to-day a bird's-eye view of the waterway and its environs presents a vastly different sight than was to bo had a few months ago. Portions of this big tract had been used as a dumping ground for ashes and street refuse. These deposits had grown into mounds that formed a chain of miniature mountains and precluded all attempts at opening the section for residential purposes as it then stood. But in filling in tho lowlands at the creek's edge to lit tho Bhores for factory purposes, a million cubic yards of earth were needed and tho Degnon Company calmly went to work and bought a big transformations that human beings ever accorded a barren waste of land.

as a roadbed than the smooth surface Former Swamp Tract In Hunters Point Section Converted Into Solid Land. constructed for them by Dame Nature and turers and home-seekers alike. The company has also acquired and now holds 200 acres of property lying between Corona and Flushing and fronting for Jack Frost. An irregular, unnavigable Blip of water One of the improvements of the greatest magnitude 'in the Borough of Queens is the big Sunnyside Yard, which is to bo built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Sunnyside section of Long Island City as a terminal and car ard for its entire train sorvice entering or departing from the city of New York. By the use of this yard and tho big system of loop tracks to be built in this territory, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will be able to do away with all switching of trains, and will be provided with abundant room for storage of cars temporarily out of use.

Every provision will be made in the yard for the cleaning of cars, the latest methods that do away When this topographical work is com about a mile on Flushing Bay and Flush in width at the widest section. Work has already been started on the grading, which calls for the removal oi 2,300,000 cubic yards of earth from tho Sunnyside Hills and a nil of 1,000,000 yards on the Dutch Kills swamp. The Degnon Contracting Company is to do a large share of the work. Three big steam diggers are at work and a dozon locomotives and trains of dirt cars are in uso. In some sections the swamp is to be raised to a grado of 29 feet above Its present level, as high as tho top of the tallest telegraph poles.

Seven or eight viaduct highways will be shooting off of Newtown Creek to the northward, and heretofore designated as Jack's Crock, has been dredged out and pleted the entire district will be in harmony with the established grades of tho city. Tho tract will be cut into city converted into a splendid caual, upon DEGNON COMPANY'S BIG WORK which seagoing ships can travel and thus facilitate transportation. Tho canal Is ing Creek, which It is proposed to Improve nt a later date by filling all of the low ground to a height of ten feet abova tide level: iho construction of bulkheads along the water front and the laying out nnd building of modern street; over the entire area. Owing to the proximity of the property to both water and railway transportation it is expected also that this property will be largely taken up by manufacturing Industries BUch as would profit by accessibility to good transportation facilities. Mr.

Degnon Is president of this corpor.i- tion. Us treasurer Is Adolph Frank and Whole Area to Be Covered With Six and Eight Story Warehouses and Modern Factories. hill of 38 acres and are carting the earth to lower sections where It is needed, and are filling in with material dredged from tbe creek and from the Belmont tunnel. In that way the Degnon Company killed two birds with one stono. They accomplished their object In bringing the marshes up to a high and dry topographical level, and they shaved the choppy eastern district down to the regulation blocks by streets and avenues, and through these thoroughfares sewers and pavements will be laid.

Tho section will havo a trunk sewer system all Its own, emptying Into tho East River. A few months honce will see the accomplishment of all these undertakings, and tho property then will bo considered ready for market. It Is expected that the Bcelion on and near the canal will rapidly cover with manufoetories, and that tho outlying districts will build up with apartment houses and semi-detached dwellings. 150 feet wide and hus a depth of 17 feet. A bulkhead has been constructed and the adjoining property graded and put in excellent condition for manufacturing sites.

On this canal tbore Is a water frontago of 2,400 feet. It was a colossal task that the Degnon Company undertook, but rapid progress has been accomplished, the work being pushed even through the worst of this weather. The shores of Jack's Creek for rods and rods back wore noth with hand labor being installed. The cars will be carefully inspected before being sent out on their long journeys across the continent. All westbound trains will Coincident with the Installation of the built over the yard, Including a wide extension of Blackwell's Island bridge; and there will be no crossings at any point at grade.

The yards will be finished In about a year and a half, In ample time for the completion of the tunnel now being constructed under East River. grade of the city streets. Just as the Belmont tunnel, communication between Long Island City and Manhattan, and the be made up at this terminal and will pass under the great In Manhattan territory abutting on the canal will be valuable for manufacturing sites, tho improved freight facilities to bo offered Applications have already been made by ins secretary a. siuari. 1 CO.

COUNTY THE NEW Y0 rvK 001MLJMIa13ClDrtS ISL -ELICIT 1D 1 1mam jYv The spacious, up-to-date trolley cars of the New York and Queens County Railway Co. furnish comfortable and constant rapid transit between all points in Long Island Cit Ravenswood, Dutch Kills, Astoria, Steinway, etc. as wel! as to and between the numerous fat growing villages and towns, the popular Summer reports and Tie jireat ccnu'ijiL-: in the outlying, adjacent distorts of Queens Electric Car Service Unrivaled. No section of the country enjoys better urban, sub urban and interurban electric car service, thus affording and guaranteeing present and prospective residents in this attractive section contiguous and so near to Manhattan, the old New York easy and cheap access to and from anywhere its confines. Free TransfersFree Transfers-Free Transfers.

The company's lines connect with both the 34lh Street and 92d Street Ferries. Its cars meet all incoming boats at IvilVl cfltinnc trnv'ntr ir nnu TViint nil ill av 1 tensive system for a single 5-cent fare, all transfers, wherever necessary, being free. tA a glance the route map shows how ajl parts of Long Island City are joined to each other by this system shows the numerous villages and towns up to Flushing on the one side and Jamaica on the other that are connected with each other and all with Long Island City, and thus with Manhattan shows the prominent cemeteries, to wit Old and New Calvary, Mount Zion, Mount Olivet and the Lutheran, on the electric lines of THE NEW YORK QUEENS COUNTY RAILWAY LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y..