The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-10
TER MINUS DISPUTE.
Sinking Fund Commission
ers Hear Arguments Re-
1ating to the Hudson
River Bridge.
MAYOR STRONG FAVQRs THE BRIDGE
Cranks and Goo Coos Wall Pite-
ously About the Destruction
to Property Length
Of Span.
MAYOR STRONG FAVoRS THE BRIDGE

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The Sinking Fund commissioners OF
New York met yesterday to receive the
plans for the approaches of the new
New York and New Jersey bridge and
to listen to arguments for and against
them. There was a large number OF per-
sons present. members of the New York
and New Jersey Bridge Commission.
members of the company, and a dele
CATION of upper west SIDE property own
ers. who went to protest against the
locating of the bridge at Sixty-ninth
street. as proposed by the Bridge Com
m~issioners.
Commissioner Andrew H. Green said
'The location of the eastern terminal
of the bridge was at first fixed at Seven
tseth street. The Board of Army Engin-
GERS recommended that it should not be
below -Sixty-sixth street. and the Con-
gressional Committee on Commerce con-
cured in this latter recommendation. A
still later act of Congress fixed abso-
lutely the limits to the location, so that
it must be somewhere between Fifty
ninth and S.xty-ninth streets. and we,
the New York State Commission, con-
forming to this act of Congress. shifted
the location to a point within these lin
it's between Sixty-eighth and Sixty-n-nth
streets west of Eleventh avenue, about
300 feet south of the original location as
the best place within the prescribed
limits. because. among other things. OF
the superior elevation and rock char
acter of the bank.
This point is about 1000 feet south of
Riverside Park, the southerly approach
to the bridge passing on an elevated
structure over the streets entirely
through private property west of
Eleventh avenue and between Forty
third and Forty-fourth streets to the site
of the capacicus station between those
streets at Seventh avenue. near it's juno
ton with Broadway"
NO DETRIMENT TO THE PARK.
Reverting to the protests of the West
Side Association. he said
"A few persons, a. 1 think, for some
time past. under the name of the West
Side Association, have been industrious
in their efforts to obtain the expenditure
| of public money in the vicinity of their
| property, ostensibly for the Improvement
of the Riverside Park, really thereby to
| advance their own interests, and have by
this means secured immense private ad-
vantages from the public treasury. |
think / may say that | had at least as
much to do with the establishment Of
that park as any one person,and Should
not be willing to see it injured.
1T is simple nonsense to say that. this
bridge will be of detriment to the park.
Why, sirs, even II the trains naye Of Inns Inns
would be but a little of the smoke, Gin
ders and racket now made by Jne trans
of the Central, road between Flfty-nlntn
and Sixty-ninth streets. These gentle
men may safely retire and leave the con,
stituted authorities of 1.-THE city to attend
to their business n Sc see s 10 1T 5 and
avenue crossings are in any wise inlet-
fered with, and hat the public convent
ence is not impaired 80 onnos,tion of
| the New York Central Railroad Com
pany on the ground that the bridge at
sixty.nin6n street T. tbe sa an1gfIe mace that it's
pproperty cannot be legally taken, and
said that its opposition was not to ,5 De
wondered at, for II alone o. ~ ~ citv
NO EXPERIMENT..
Chief Engineer Charles Macdonald 'tnen
preferable to. Fifty,ninth street he SalS
the proposed grade, from Slx5y-ninthh
s svenue " was fthirty-fve feet to the mile. II
the Terminus Of the bri hrg;9os was wo pnlaf Sc
Elf Eiftyf1 adf big a5esef in fh the of air. and M0u Would
m IL a one per cent. grade to the sta
ton. something that the raIlroads, espH5
oih kay to. and as one of the chief OBJ
Iiecfs of the promoters of the bridge was
to please the raj railT gss ! nos important
objection. Moreover, it would cost more
to have the bridge at Fifty-nintn street,
on account eeound Of If the the =i anasoTege aeisn' a00ve
tv-n Modlu street," k City Chamberlain
mo. 1t would be the same, 800 feet.
sis there any other bridge with a span
as long?" asked General raj M Mor1S s a lit
tie sN Over the half Isn hat i ia II
"But this bridge will not be IN the
nature of an experiment." inquired Gen
soh' no. was the answer.
Louis Wiindmuller, Vice President Of
the Ho,,1 New n ry Y SsId t and N the de eerseEl Salue 81
He said that there were 9 ~ew nice
sixty-ninth street and all the other
| Streets affected by. the approach We're
tenements, the value of which would
The question arose as to the power Of
the commissioners as TO- the aPPppeoaWea ass
to the bridge, MI agla 59 y re q LONE Ine 1s MgHi
Railroad Companv could demand an APP
proach to the bridge across the city. Mr..
Green answered tina That au Fa 4 was i IN the he
power Of the Sinking Fund Commission
to veto it. AS there was some question
as to the real meaning OF the law IN
| fhis respect he advised that a commit
fee from the Sinking Fund Commission,
the Board of Army Engineers, and the
Bridge Commission confer on the SUBJ
49, OPPOSITION SPEECHES.
The opposition to the proposed approach
ton. He said tina the West Side AS
ISOLATION was aware that private inter-
ests must suffer. if necessary, in order
that bubble interests might be served.
But in this case he did not think 1t nee
essary. He said that the Bridge G1mmis.
only Of itself and how it could save
After telling the damage that would
be done to the fine residential portion of
the upper west side by the bridge being
placed at Sixty-ninth street. he said that
| the only objection the Bridge Commits
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