The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-08-05
INTERSTATE TRAFFIC.
How the Big Bridge Across
the Hudson is to Be
Constructed.
ALL THE PLANS IN DETAIL.
Will Not Only Be Great cOnve-
nience, but Will Pay Taxes
to the City.

time is the construction of the New York
and New Jersey Bridge over the Hudson
River. Work on this stupendous enter
prise will begin in October. as THE JER-
sEY CITY NEWS published exclusively
yesterday to the intense annoyance Of DR..
Pangborn and Proprietor Dear of the
Evening Journal. This great work has
never been described in the public press,
and as usual The NEWS is today the paper
to furnish the information.
Tine New York ana New Jersey Bridge
Company is composed OF two distinct or
ganizations, one being chartered under
the laws OF New Jersey and the other un-
der the laws of New York. These two
companies will in September cons Jlldate,
and from that date become one concern.
The bridge to be built will be three
foulths OF mile long, $50 feet above high
water mark. aud wide enough TO permit
eight tracks TO be laid. 1t was the origi-
nal intention of the engineer 10 lay six
tracks, but this project has been changed.
From a height OF $50 feet at the centre,
gradual descent will be made on the via
duct. that will connect with the bridge,
to sixty-dve feet above high water at the
union depot in New York SO that the floor
and rails will be about twelve
feet above the surface OF Broad
way ut Thirty-eighth street The
bridge will be thrown over the river from
Niles avenue, south Of Gutenberg, to
Seventy-fii st street, New York. The via
duct will on the New York side curve
south, and run about 100 feet west of the
west line of Eleventh avenue to point
near Thirty eighth street; thence curvinR
TO the east. and running along the
north side of Thirty-eightn street to the
proposed Union Station, which will cover
the blocks between Thirty-seveuth street
aud l'hirty-ninth streets, and extend from
Eighth avenue to Broadway. The station
will be /, 800 feet long and 400 feet wide,
and will contain room for twenty tracks
and their platforms. A lofty Basement
will be placed below the train room, into
which teams can drive, and trains Of ex-
press freight cars be drawn by locomo.
tives descending from the viaduct.
OK THIS SIDE.
The lines west of the river, on the New
Jersey side. will be as follows:-Two
rapid transit lines will curve away from
the bridge nt the east side of the
Palisades. The six other lines will ran
through the Palsade hill. partly by tun-
mel aud partly by open cuttings, with
bridges for the streets over it. One set
of tracks will curve to the south aud con-
meet with the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western, Erie, Pennsylvania, Lee
nigh Valley, and New jersey Central
railroads; another set will curve
West Shore, Ontario & Western, Nor
thern Of New Jersey, New York. SusQue-
hanna & Western and New Jersey x
New York Railroads. On the east side of
the river the New York Central q Hud-
son River. New York & Northern, Har-
lam. New York, New Haven & Hartford
and the Elevated Railways will have
branch lines connecting with the bridge.
In all fifteen lines OF railroads will be oon-
nected by the bridge and It's approaches.
THE APPROACHES.
One approach will extend from the
Union station in NewYor in diagonal
line to connect with the Manhattan Ele-
waited Railroad on Sixth avenue, at or
near Thlrty-third street. Another ap-
proach will run from the west end OF the
Union station ct Eighth avenue with
two-track line descending toward the
Hudson River. 1t Will pass not
less than twenty feet above the New
York Central and Hudson River Railroad
tracks lying between Sixtleth and Seven
ty-second stree Is, and will descend to
level of about eight feet above the mean
high tide in the Hudson River at or near
Seventy ninth street. Thence it will run
along the river front outside of the pres
ent New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad tracks upon pile foundation
or filing
street it viii rise over the New YORK Cen
tral and Hudson River Railroad tracks
and curve to the east into a tunnel about
half mile long at or near One Hundred
and Fiity-fifth street. Coming out on
the east side of the hill and crossing the
Manhattan Elevated Railroad at a clear
elevation of eighteen feet above the
tracks of said elevated railroad at or near
One Hundred and Fifty-ninth street,
thence across the Harlem River in a
northeasterly direction to connection
with the New York and Northern and the
Work Canfral and Hudson River
Railroads. opposite or nearly opposite One
Hundred and Sixty-second street pro-
longed; thence substantially by direct
line to connection with and for the New
York and Harlem Railroad, at or near
One Hundred and Sixty-second street.
Thence along the easterly side OF the
Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Rail-
road to the Long Island Sound, and to a
connection with and for the Harlem Riv-
er and Portchester Rairosd, the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
lessee. Connections will be made with all
intersecting railroads. Stations will be
erected at all connections with railroads,
and also at or near Ssventy-second
street. Eighty-sixth street, Manhattan
street and One Hundred and Fifiy-ffth
street.
Tne lines on the New Jersey side viii
be constructed partly on embankmept
and partly on viaduct. the average grade
viii be from thirty 10 thirty-hve feet per
mile. They Will all nave Tour tracks.
There is a large and growing population
IN New Jersey doing business IN New
York, the projectors of the bridge argue,
which demands better facilities for
reaching the city. For that reason the
rapid transit lines will be run over the
bridge. 1t is also proposed to run a
branch on the west sile of the river.
along the top of the BLUFF, for several
miles in a northerly direction. The high
level will allow of grain and coal cars
being run above line of grain ware
houses and coal dumps placed at the wa
ter's edge. The freights will then be deliy-
cred by gravity from the cars.
MERITS OF THE SYSTEM
The promoters of the bridge scheme
give the following IS some of the merits
OF the bridge and the proposed locatfon:-
/. a direct and quick connection with a CEN
trai part OF the city OF New YORK. The distance
from the proposed junction with the P.nnsvl-
yania road to the Union Station + nine mi les
and at a rate NJ forty miles per hour, which can
be ga silly mf Dc. The time would be thirteen and
o,e-balf II uts The average time when the
fries arc OF eiayed by Ice and foxs from
the same Tt the foot Of Cortiandt street Is
twenty minu To a point midway between
the foot os Uortandt street and Thirty
eiehth street and Broadway, such as
Tf,ion Square the difference in favor Of tie
fnidae line would be still greater. The great
aYranface Of the Bridge route Is Its freedom
from the delays and dangers OF fog aud ice and
Il would be used by all the travellers to and
f.<,.., E..~v YORK and thu New England Sfafra