The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-10
how TO Reach HYDE PARK
That Is the All.PreyauisQ Questies
Just Now.
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''IIow to get to the North Pols?'
never, proportionstely speaking. caused
as much talk and anxiety nor presented
more difyiculties than the question OF
how to get to the West side by conn
paratively easy route.
City fathers and wide-awake progress
sive citizens. taxpayers, committees
and land spectators have lost many an
hours sleep pondering over this all
pervading question. Just at present
there are several West Side councilmen
who have given themselves up to the
solution OF this difficulty and are work.
ing like Trojans to bring about q sue
cessful contamination Of their cherished
hobby. Schemes galore have been sug-
gested from time to time. but Of all. not
one Of them has been considered prac-
ticable. The difficulties Of right Of way
or the expense or something else make
them impracticable.
II II Solved IN Theory.
The latest scheme Is q substitution
for the West Lackawanna avenue via
duct. It is proposed to swing viaduct
from the intersection Of Seventh street
and Lackawanna avenue through the
old stove works and lumber yard over
the Delaware. Lackawanna and West
ern tracks. and up to Robinson street.
where Ninth street and ;Nealis court In
tersect 1t. This certainly solves the
difficulty In theory and no doubt would
In practice II 1t could be tried, but the
chances are that II will never be tried.
for the Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western company has given notice that
1. will not hear to such q scheme. and
the Delaware. Lackawanna and West
ern company's say Ii weighty In such
matters.
Such q viaduct would give an easy
street route to Main avenue. and In no
place would there b~ what could be
rightly termed hill. The grade will be
almost level on the viaduct itself. and
when the Robinson street and Jackson
street improvements now under way are
completed, the thoroughfare would be
q veritable boulevard.
Cost Less Than Proposed viaduct.
The expense would not be as great a.
the expense Of the proposed viaduct on
Lackawanna avenue. which at all events
Is scarcely desirable, because the extra
cost Of constructing the larger viaduct
would be balanced by the decrease in
the expense for damages in securing the
right Of way.
Not councilman who has been spok-
en- to on the subject has had any objec-
tions to offer and its promoters received
such encouragement that they inter-
viewed General Manager Hallstead to
get his Views on the project. He was
decidedly opposed toit, as were also sew
eral other Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western men. particularly In the engi-
neer's department.
The company's objection could be
overruled, Of course. as It cannot pre-.
vent the city from swinging q viaduct
over its tracks. providing 1t 10 kept
twenty-one feet clear Of the rails. but
the $4,000 which the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western would be expected
to contribute towards the cost OF con-
struction IL very large consideration.
az with the $4,000 from the Traction
company. 1t would pay q big part Of the
cost. So this latest scheme 10 not likely
to sventuate unless the promoters be-
come desperate and put It through at
all hazards.
Ironwerk Furnished On New Bridge.
Yesterday afternoon the fnal span
Of the Linden street bridge was swung
into place. and all that remains now to
be done Is to lay the flooring and con-
struct the guard rails. When this IL
completed the painting will be COM
menced and then the bridge will be
ready to wait until some use IL found
for 1t.
The ordinance establishing the grade
on the Swetland street approach passed
third and hnal readings in common
council Thursday night and will soon
be passed upon by the mayor. It will
require several months to fix up the ap-
proach, but the bridge can be made
accessible before that time by making
an approach at Sixth street, which
City Engineer Phillips proposes to Or.
range for during today.