The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-20
DIRECTORS ELECTED.
N. Y. and N. ]. Bridge Company
Holds a Meeting To-Day.
Cantilever Preferable 10 a Suspen'
sion Structure.
Secretary Swan Says the New Bridge
will Cost So 100000.

The New York and New Jersey Bridge
Company held a meeting at noon to-
day in the Companys offices, PA Broad
way, and elected the following Board
of Directors:
John B. Kerr, Vice-President New
York. ontario and Western Railroad
Company. New York; Louis Windmuller.
director Title Guarantee and Trust Com
pany, New York; Charles A. Smylie,
merchant, New York; Frederick Potter,
Potter Building, New York; william
Bell, Produce Exchange, New York;
William H. Ely, leather merchant, New
York: Lorenzo Duncan, merchant, New
York; John Loughran, President Manu-
facturers' Bank. Brooklyn; Charles IL.
Swan, Treasurer New York and New Jer-
sey Bridge Company, Brooklyn; Daniel
n. Lockwood. Buffalo; Gen. James 3
Clarkson, Des Moines, Ia; John > Kun
nells. general counsel for Pullman Com
pany. Chicago, H., and John c. Adams,
president Gas Company, Newburg.
| The additions to the directorate are:
Gen. James S. Austin, of Des Moines'
Ia; John S. Runnells, general couhsei
of the Pullman Company, or chicago
The election of Mr.. Runnells Is espec-
tally satisfactory to the Bridge Ioih-
pany, as through him strong OUTSIDE
railroad influence may possibly De con-
trolled and competition from sucn
| new and powerful quarter Is expected
| Nv the Company to prove OF great Dehe-
Secretary Swan read report on the me
| prospects OF the construction oi VIZ rt
| bridge to the stockholders, and III part
said: naers
| IL must be carefully observed tndt ~
| specifically declares that the hgures OF
| estimated cost are not to be taken as III
| any sense absolute or approaching cor
| reCtness, but are to be taken only rel-
atively in, determining the comparalt Nv
| costs, as between the various plans
| mentioned. The report shows that the
plan proposed by your company Oh "a
| two-thousand- foot cantilever brldse IL
| the cheapest and safest structure Inc
| conclusion about the suspension plan re,
| ferred to is not that 1t has been founu
safe and practicable as required by the
Act, but simply safe II certain MODES OF
construction mentioned in the report are
| followed and its practicability Is not az.
tested; the remark is simply made ina,
the Board is not satisfied that the cosl
| OF construction of a suspension DrldBe
would be so high as to make IT imprac,
tcable. thus showing that the Board Ole
not feel warranted in declaring sus
pension bridge plan as entirely ana posi-
| llNtly II oii "a ss''N
point.
THE plan proposed by your Compan,
Is the only feasible and practicable ont
to be adopted. from an engineering ant
building a railroad bridge over the Hud
son River Is not easy OF solution. ~
raise the large sums needed for such
structure its cost must not be so larg'
as to repel capital from investing In !
as a safe and profitable enterprise. TIL
outlay must be warranted by the traffic
| 60 NaL
The bridge being) designed exclusively
for railroad traffic, must conform to tn
needs of such traffic and the desires
r may be i popular VII those for who's
use 1t is constructed. 1t must be rigi
and safe. from the chances Of casualt.
given in favor of a plan which shall nc
only be financially practicable, but g
such undoubted strength as to ,enahl
all the railroads using 1t to make tn
usual speed of heavy express trains.
1.-The question of financial practice
bility involves the fixing of rate c
fare so reasonable as to make its us
authorities Is against the use of a sus
pension bridge. The suspension plan
: contrary to the lessons taught by e'
much time in the course of ,construC
ton as the cantilever plan and the cos
. would from careful estimates exceed b
= at lease $4,000, 900 the cost of a strut
| 'H'' Va ZIG pi"' "'SPNSa ~ JSa' WI
I | pany.
q THE cantilever bridge of 2,0o0-fes
q span can be finished within four year
I at a cost not to exceed $22, 900, 900, II
| Guiding the interest on bonds durin
Z | construction, whereas the suspensio
= plan would cost $35, 100000 and woul
4 take nearly four years longer to builC
9 the said $35, 900, 900 does not include IN
e interest account upon bonds during II
four years that 1t would take to bull
IT beyond the time II takes to build I'll
cantileYer bridge, and this item alor
will amount to several millions of do
lars, to say nothing of the great 10.
of further millions in the traffic lost
these four years.
The stockholders cannot reasonab
adopt any system or plan except or
: which Is both safe and practicable. Tn
I. involves a cost which shall not be pr
!, hibitory to its use by railroads ar
: must be of such rigidity in structure ar
e with n grade so nearly zero, that trail
5. can speed at the same rate as on Il
,r soil. and the cost for transit must be
. reasonable as to command the traffi
II None OF these qualifications can
l. found in the suspension plan"
!, Secretary Swan stated to an " Eve
v ing World" reporter that he did n
a expect the Secretary of War wou
make known his decision as to Il
Il length OF span for the bridge befo
IS October.
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