The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-06-28

ing it q law. Now, If the plans Of the
company are satisfactory TO the score.
tary Of war, the work, it Is presumed.
will be pushed to q speedy completion
This means, according TO the promises
Of the company, within four years, but
unless greater expedition Is attained
than was ia the case of the Brooklyn
bridge the next century will be started
before trains cross the proposed struc.
ture.
The bill provides that the bridge shall
abut OF Manhattan Island between
Fifty-ninth and Sixty-ninth streets, and
that all railroads ON both sides of the
river shall be privileged to use the
tracks. The lines likely to avail them
selves Of the opportunity thus afforded
to run their trains directly into the city
of New York are the Central Railroad
Of New Jersey; the Pennsylvania; the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Wesera:
the Erie; the West Shore; the New
York, Susquehanna and Western; the
Lehigh Valley and me Ontario and
Western. 1t will undoubtedly be much
more convenient and much p~leasanter
for through passengers to cross theriver
over the bridge than by the present
ferry lines, although it is mot at all prob
able that its construction will drive the
ferries out of use. In the case Of the
East river bridge, although it has prov.
ed to be a great convenience and Is used
by many thousands every day In the
year, the ferries still continue TO do
business at the old stand, now carrying
many more persons daily than they did
before the construction Of the bridge.
1t is predicted that the proposed bridge
will affect the business Of the ferries
even less than has the one over the East
river. The vast majority Of the ferry
passengers are commuters who 90 Co
New York every day 10 business and re-
turn every night 20 their homes. Their
work in most cases IL done below Forty
second street, and the ferries carry them
very neal to the places of their employ.
ment, whereas the bridge would land
them miles up town.
Connected with the bridge and the
railroad lines that will nse it viii be d
vast union passenger station and ter1ni
nal hotel, which win be located between
Seventh and Eighth avenues and Forty
second and Forty-fourth streets. cover
ing the whole OF two large city blocks.
The structure will be dual and will form
one of the largest railroad depots In the
world. The revenue of the depot and
the bridge will be derived exclusively
from the railroads. as no provision has
been made for the carrying of passengers
by the bridge company itself. II IS be-
lieved that all the railroads that termi.
nate on the Jersey shore will use the
structure for their through trains, and
il is not unlikely that they will combine
for the erection of b mammoth union
depot .upon the Jersey fats besides the
one in New York.
The total cost of the bridge, it is ex-
pected, win be about $40, 00o, 900. Il IL
TO carry six tracks. 70 have q span OF
|, 900 feet, or more than one-third of q
mile. the lowest point to be $50 feet
above spring hightide. II is proposed to
connect the New York station with the
New England lines by running a two
track road on o yiaduct to One Hundred
and Eifty,ffth street, thence through q
tunnel to One Hundred and Sixty-third
street.
In the circumstances it would seem
20 be the part OF wisdom for the authori-
ties Of New York TO hasten the con-
strnction Of the long talked of rapid
transit line. II Ii getting easier every
year for those doing business Lii New
York to travel rapidly to suburbar,
homes. whereas the provisions Tor rapid
intrarnnral traffic have NOT been I'm.
proved for many years.