§ 4. Manhattan service. The island of Manhattan to be connected with
New Jersey by bridge or tunnel, or both, and freight destined to and
from Manhattan to be carried underground, so far as practicable, by such
system, automatic electric as hereinafter described or otherwise, as
will furnish the most expeditious, economical and practicable
transportation of freight, especially meat, produce, milk and other
commodities comprising the daily needs of the people. Suitable markets,
union inland terminal stations and warehouses to be laid out at points
most convenient to the homes and industries upon the island, the said
system to be connected with all the trans-continental railroads
terminating in New Jersey and by appropriate connection with the New
York Central and Hudson River railroad, the New York, New Haven and
Hartford and the Long Island railroads.