a controlling interest in the Long Island Railroad, and thereafter the
two schemes became one. Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Rea purchased two 25-ft.
lots on 33d Street just east of Broadway for an entrance to the
underground station. Plans were also prepared for extending this line
from Seventh Avenue northward under Seventh Avenue to 45th Street. The
investigation and preliminary work in connection with this project were
carried out in the early part of 1900.

Reconsideration was given by Mr. Baldwin to the proposed location of the
up-town tunnels, with the idea of connecting the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad by a tunnel between Long Island City (Long Island
Railroad Station) and the foot of 42d Street and extending to the Grand
Central Station, but nothing further than investigation and the
preparation of estimates was done on this.

In the summer of 1901 Mr. Cassatt was in Paris and was advised by Mr.
Rea of the opening of the extension of the Orleans Railway to the Quai
d'Orsay Station and its successful operation by electric power, also of
the possibility of the Pennsylvania Railroad reaching New York City in a
similar way (the other trunk lines not having joined in the promotion of
the North River Bridge project). He at once examined the new line, and
then consulted the writer in London in relation to the possibility of
building tunnels under the North River. The writer returned to New York
with Mr. Cassatt, and soon thereafter a conference of Mr. Cassatt, Mr.
Rea, and Mr. Baldwin with the writer and Mr. Davies was held in the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company Office in New York, when Mr. Cassatt
outlined the scheme practically as it is now carried out, the only
difference being that he also proposed a station on property of the New
York and Harlem Railroad Company at 33d Street, which was soon abandoned
on account of the grade from the East River, and particularly because