Hard to Compute: Effect of Tunnel Opening on Island's Prosperity Will Be Vast, Says W. H. Wade

Citation: "Hard to Compute: Effect of Tunnel Opening on Island's Prosperity Will Be Vast, Says W. H. Wade," The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 8 September 1910, p. 74; image, Newspapers.com (clipping by mattjameswade, 5 July 2019).

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HARD TO COMPUTE.
The effect of the opening of the Pennsylvania tunnels upon the prosperity of Long Island is so vast that it is hard to compute. The benefits which must naturally accrue from this close connection with the heart of Manhattan are inestimable. I do not believe that the people of Long Island realize the benefits that they will derive from this enormous improvement. The people do not yet understand its meaning.
The census shows that within the last ten years the population of Long Island has about doubled. And this came about without any such impetus as that which these tunnels must give to the growth. Therefore, if Long Island should grow proportionately for the next ten years, and then add to that the stimulation caused by these tunnels, what will be the result? It is unanswerable. It will be unprecedented.
Again I say that I do not believe that the people of Long Island yet appreciate what this monster improvement means to them. It gives to Long Island one of the greatest futures that ever lightened the horizon of any nation, country or city.
WILLIAM H. WADE, President of the Richmond Hill Republican Club. Richmond Hill, L. I.