The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-04-04
BIG BRIDGE
TO BE ERECTED OVER THE HUD.
SON RIVER.

SON RIVER.
Jersey city and New Work to be United at
Cost OF $4,000, ,ooo-cood Friday
obssr,anccs Metropolitan Note. OF
Many Kinds.
NEW York, April &c., special. Con
gress has passed ihe bii authorizing the
construction OF a bridge over the Hudson
river az New York city. and Incorporating
the bridge company. The bridge is % be-
six-track railway bridge. and viii cost Sl6.-
00oO0o. 10 will have length, including
approaches. Of over five miles.
1nis is only one OF the gigantic schemes
now on foot bere that viii employ The skill
and capital oi thc greatest engineers of the
/ day. Besides this hrligc over the Hudson.
there are plans out Cor "a new one over the
East river io BROOKLYN. 1he two viii .-oo'
! ln This city. and thus make connection
from Long Island l0 lho jersey shore. An-
other Long Island bridge boz contemplation
crO-ses.at NackWcifs Island. and Is part
of the plan to connect the Long Island
railway with the New York Central. With
this system Will Doe linked the proposed
rapid transit steamers across the Atlantic.
They Will land one hundred miles down the
coast at the end OF long Island. and thus
save a day iu the trip across. The tunnel
under tho NCfth River. too. Is steadily adj
yancing every day. and can De completed
inside OF two years. An these enterprises
with the proposed new lines OF rapid tnn-
sf roads in The city. open up am extended
vista Of mechanical evolution.
GOOD FRIDAY.
business viii be generally suspended
down town tomorrow As an lho exchanges
win lo closed and Che day passed in u moro
universal religious Observance than usual
A few of the city theatres Will continue
this year their usual clsiOm of closing their
door, ou the night of Good Friday. The
houses where this attention Will be paid 10
ihe day are the Madison square, Daly's. the
lyceum aud the nion square. The others
viii give performances as usual and, in
deed. most OfthCm have made mo- custom OF
closing The business done hy the theatres
through Lent has been in general quite as
good a- could Doe expected. The cile0t of
The season has been falf uumi-takahly at
thing as poor audience has been unknown,
and iull houses have been Che rule.
RAILROAD NOws.
Statement oi the Louisville and Nashville
ior the month OF February: Gross. 81 49,
Operating expenses. seDi -GO 1890: ss1D.O0i
1850; fl>,e1j increase. Net. Sj>S.e,O 1870;
s3i1.5Zi. 1889; Sil,it increase. July I 10
February -: Gross Sl2.lsl .330 1870. Sill
ull Oji. 1850. slI3iOW Increase. Operating
expenses. 81 i,liU.2N. 1880. >6.l10,12l, lss9.
sid0.1ls increase. Set, fj.25l.ugl. ls,0; 81
lli.NlO 1850; Stj.ls increase.
EARNINGS Memphis and Charleston for
tlo third week in March. s3iIl5, is9l. S3l.
sjs 1855 si2j decrease.
IN NEW TRADE.
The fostcr-hire Boot and Shoe Company.
of Sew York CITY. has been Incorporated
with ex-senator Charles IS. fairchild and
Colonel Daniel $. Lamont among lis trus-
tees. The capital stock is soOO,OOO Partof
ihe business Is to he carried on In Bing-
laml0n.
STEAMER ASHORE.
The British steamer C0nnomara. Captain
J0plinr, went ashore this morning at Jones
inlet, l.. !. The C0memara is freight
steamer of 2,ioi tons, which left here on
March 2ist, Tor London, and must have been
returning io tn.s port when she stranded.
MR. TAlMADGE's CORNERSTONE.
The cornerstone which Rev. pr. TAI.
madga selected for his new tabernacle ar
rived to-day Elsa block 0f rld granite.
weighing over three huudrcl pounds. and
measuring three feet hy lcu inches. large
box of relic, oi some sort 0r other accOmpa-
n.0- the stone. and 10 is "a matter OF c0niec-
fure as tO whether they ar 90 Dee laid
m tlo resting place OF The stone.
whether they ore simply 90 hc used in
church decoration. ae relics. 10 Is under.
stood that each relic iu tle D0X has an ap-
pr0pfaie historic legoni. bat what they are
no one as set knows. as the h0y has not
been opened, except perhaps, by customs
-leciof-, since Do was shipped.
TIE pLu,nmR a.. FAILURE.
Investigation Of the failure ei the Repub-
lcun magnates. John T. rlummer a. Co..
makes very great shrln.lgc iu the assets,
Mr. flummrrs individual property being
heavily m0riglsed, the stock of ihe nrm
ON hand belonging lo manufacturers, and
most Oi the bills receivable belonging io
manufacturers. The result giving a liberal
estimate 0i iho assets is >1aNOOl. and lia-
biliiies arc fully SLwO.Oro. There are many
preferred creditors. ~ that the Sl,l0OOO0
unsecured deDls are api 10 fare poorly.
ALL SORTS.
The last Steps iu the dismissal of tho in
dic'ment Tor bribery against Charles VI.
ktil.ey. one Oi ile "1c0sle' '-i Aldermen Of
ADW 1rk. WDrtaken t.-dly fore Judge
Barrett, and keillei Dr. now a ffce man.
Mrs. Mary Cooper, oi Paterson, y. j.. eel
obratfd tle one huulflltA anniversary OF
her birth flis afternoon. 40 which sixty-iiyo
oi hef descendants, representing four gem
erations, were present. The old lady can
read without glasses, and is Il regular at
tendant al church.