Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-06
NEW YORK NOTES.

to her fears and modesty.
NEW YORK NOTES.
What IL Being Talked About in the Busy
Metropolis.
THE PROPOSED MAMMOTH BRIDGE TO CONNECT
STATEN ISLAND WITH NEW yEasEY-rr WILL
MAKE BRooKLYN BRIDGE INsIaNIYIcANT-rHE
MONEY sTRINoENCY-LYMPH.
Special Correspondence Of the Evening Star
New YORK. Dec. 4.
~ SETS THE IMAGINATION on fire to read
railroad station scheme which / outlined in
last weeks letter to The STAR. On Monday
the commissioners made public their plan.
Nothing like it has been attempted thus far in
the history of the world and il carried out it
will settle for another decade New York's COM
mercial supremacy. To summarize the project
a suspension bridge, on which will be laid
tracks, will connect this island with the New
Jersey shore by span of $500 feet and mini
mum altitude of $50. This great iron highway to
be focused in a grand terminal on Broadway
between 37th and 3Sth streets. From this focus
lines will radiate to points on the island
by the elevated railroad system and once
across the bridge the tracks will spread like an
opening fan to every part of the country.
Altogether 1t is thought that fifteen railroads
will use the bridge. It is intended to be so
strong that trains will dash across it at their
full speed Of forty miles an hour. By the side
OF sncn monster span the Brooklyn bridge,
now numbered among the modern wonders Of
the world, will sink to be mere toy. One in
teresting feature deals with problem that has
thus far batfied the suburban prophets. All
along the Jersey shore of the Hudson stretches
a rocky ridge. eliminating in the famous pail
sades- Or much natural beauty, this shore has
heretofore refused to be marketable, but it ia
now proposed to utilize several miles of this
neglected shore. Freight tracks will be run
along The edge Of the cliff and a series
OF chutes constructed. communicating
with grain elevators at the level Of the
river. Grain and coal freights can thus be
dumped from the cars right into these chutes
and slid into their bins. from which they can
be loaded on vessels alongside the elevators or
for that matter the cargoes could be slid di-
rectly aboard the ships if desired. The shore
Is SO abrupt that vessels of the largest draught
could tie up to the elevators or to PIERS and it
ls thought that for three miles the river will
mus be used as grand dump for the surplus
cereals OF the new world that are poured into
the lap OF the old in return for her manufac-
lures or her cash. If this part of the scheme
Is realized 1t will 60 far to retain for New York
the hons share OF foreign commerce which it
now holds.
The cost Of the bridge and It's approaches is put
at 5O,oOO,0OO-a large sum even in these days,
but insignificant Il use the word deliberately
In comparison with the gain it will be to the
city and to the railroads. No one at all ac-
qualnted with the real estate affected would
dispute the claim that the appreciation in the
value OF land due to the Improvement would
more than equal the expenditure by the time
the bridge is finished. The only wonder is that
this and similar schemes have not been carried
through before; if from no other motive,
purely as real estate speculation. No doubt
as l write land all along the New Jersey front
Is jumping good deal faster and higher than
Mark Twains frog before it was loaded.
MERCHANTS GROWING ANXIOUS.
Apanic often strikes at long range. This
seems to be true in the present instance. When
Wall street was in the grip of the recent strin-
gency 1t was a common remark all through the
mercantile community tina. the trouble was
confined to the gamblers, big and little, that
futter around the stock exchange This was
very comfortable theory. but it does not seem
to be altogether borne out by the facts. Much
as cOncentric circles push out further and
further when stone is dropped into pond,
so the stringency is broadening constantly,
until now there is considerable anxiety all
through mercantile centers. The failure of the
Rittenhouse mills, in Passaic on Wednesday
has aroused much disguietude in town. 1t il
quite probable that this failure will bring down
the old and respectable house of Ammidown &
smith. or at least greatly embarrass them, as
Mr. AmmidowE was one Of the principal stock
holders. There il good deal OF comment on
the fact that Mr.. Ammidown, who has been one
OF the foremost protectionists, is among the
first to suffer from the change in the tariff; but
while there Is more or less malicious satisfac-
ton in some quarters over this fact there is q
more widespread expression of q generous svm-
pathy with one Of the best merchants of the
city in a disaster which seems to have fallen
upon him from nc fault Of his own. Rumors
OF other failures are in the air, but perhaps
these are only ugly suspicious. which, us Lord
Bacon says in his picturesque way, are bats
that fly by night.
CONSUMPTION MUST co.
The greatest interest is felt by tho entire
medical fraternity of The city in the discoveries
of Prof. Koch and much disappointment is ex-
pressed at the non-arrival of some of the prom
ised lymph. A physician in the city, who
stands second to none in the treatment of pull
monary disease, expressed the opinion to
personal friend, who repeated it to me, that, in
his opinion. the discoveries were all that the
most sanguine could hope. Moreover he said
that their effect would not be confined to what
Is known commonly consumption, but
but would include the whole range of diseases
that were due to an hereditary faint in the
blood. such as scrofula. He believed that the
discovery was fully equal to Jenner's and would
lead to AZ complete q revolution in the ratios of
health statistics. Owing to incubation. small
pox, which ut one time led all diseases as a
cause OF death, has now sunk to an insignificant
place, and he predicted that Dis soon as the
present generation of hopeless cases had died
on IN the course of nature consumption would
be as rare as smallpox IL now and as easily
handled whenever sporadic cases appeared.
IS PARNELL DONE FOE?
1rishmen here generally talk Of Parnell as
ruined man, while they all marvel at his in
domitable pluck. His moral conformation is 4
good deal like that of the jaws OF bulldog, he
cannot let so even if he wants to. This never
say-die quality, some believe, will make it I'M
possible for the Irish cause to dispense with
him, whatever his faults. But the general
feeling is that he lis done for. Meanwhile
many are quoting Macauley's immortal Obser-
Walton. that there is nothing 30 ridiculous us
one OF England's periodical fits Of morality.
HENRY X. ELLIOT.
Reward EiyefOll.