Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1904 — Boston Trolleys Under the Sea. [ARTICLE]

Boston Trolleys Under the Sea.

Boston’s underwater trolley route, the tunnel to East Boston, the island wards in the inner harbor, which have a population of 00,000, is a municipal project, built under the direction of a city commission, which built the Tremont street subway, and which is now building another long subway in Washington street, the main business street of the city. The subway is 7,400 feet long, 24 feet wide and 22 feet from floor to roof. It runs 2,700 feet under the waters of the harbor, and the remainder is under ths streets at the terminals. Its lowest point, in the center of the harbor, is 90 feet below mean high water. It has taken four years to build it and the cost is well inside the first estimate and the appropriation, $3,000,000. Tho tunnel is said to be the finest in the world.