The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-12
TO SPAN The HUDSON
War Department Acceptsth the
Union Bridge Company
Plan.
WILL COST ABOUT s25,OOo,ooo
Structure Will Be 3,l1O Feet Long
and $50 Feet High-Will
Have i. III c
WILL COST ABOUT s25,Ooo,ooo

WASHINGTON. June II, 1s95.-Secre-
tary OF War Lamont has approved one of
the plans submitted by the New York
and New Jersey Bridge Company for a
suspension bridge across the Hudson
River. connecting New York and Vice.
hawken.
This plan is known as the Union
Bridge Company's plan. The approval
of it IS a triumph for the New York
majority CT the bridge company's stock
holders over the New Jersey minority.
The New Jersey minority had submitted
a plan known as the Morrison bridge.
The selection of the plan CT the New
York majority will in all probability
nave the result of harmonizing the
stockholders again. The representatives
of the New Jersey contingent in Wash
ington good naturally accept their de-
feat and say that now that the plan
is settled the stockholders will all get
together again n work together to
get the bridge built. That the bridge
will be built. and that the work will be
commenced almost Immediately, they
say, is certain.
The Judge Advocate General advised
Secretary Lamont that the general plan
submitted. which he has approved, COM
piled with all the legal requirement. and
the Chief of Engineers recommended it's
acceptance.
While the plan and the description OF
the site submitted cover the ground in
a general way. construction eannot be
are submitted and approved nor until
the site is fixed with positive accuracy.
DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE
bridge nds e eompanS IF 10. 6 OK Broadway ads eR Waa
the only one of the many submitted by
various companies which was accom-
would build the bridge at a cost not to
exceed $25. 600. 0O0.f This the Union Bridge
Company agrees to do, and it will under
take the construction on a percentage of
cost bass.
The structure which has been agreed
upon is to. be a suspension bridge cross
Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth streets. Tt
is to span the water. without any sup
port between the p.er-head line on
either shore; to have a clear opening of
S.110 feet and a height at the centre of
100 feet in the clear above high water,
With the grade running downward from
three feet to the mile. There VIII be SIX
tracks on the same level, designed to
e eaefy tr s,eGe p pgdnd esca psT for 1lne engin ne0f ioa o.
ing.
The cables supporting the roadway are
twelve IN number. " on either side
to tpse divide de the the c asasSfs, Beam beams ! into
t taaeefSsed eq ris.d lisnstt to the The towels ssslss a sfd asf
roller shoes. On the New York side
they are secured to a masonry anchor
Inspection throughout their entire length.
On the Jersey side the anchorage will
be IN the SOLD rock, also provided with
a diameter of twenty-three inches.
The two main towers have eight legs.
braeed in two directions, and resting
high water. The New York approach
consists of one deckspan 575 feet long,
the tracks are to occupy a space 100 feet
wide on the north side of Sixty-eighth
LOCATION OF SITE.
/. The description of the site as sci
forth in the ofteisl document, is as fol,
ITO start in New Jersey at a point
opposite the block between sixty-efghtf
and Sixty-ninth Streets; New York. II
start in New York in the block between
feet west of Eleventh avenue; thenc,
curving to the right. on a curve win
2 radius of s2s feet 10 SixtyrsiGXth street TT Ct
feet to Eleventh avenue. thence to {
point 221k feet south of Forty-siXti
street sse thence on na a curve ~ ,e with no a radius q
Forty-third street; thence to a point 40
feet east of Eleventh avenue; thenct
easterly parallel with Forty.third stree
to a point so feet distant to the west line
of Seventh avenue.
sThe station in New York to occupy
the blocks between Seventh and Eighth
avenues and Forty-second and Forty
fourth streets and a portion of tht
blocks between Eighth and Ninth ave
nues and Forty-second and Forty-foprtf
streets"
Experts nave given it as their opinion
that the bridge can be built in fvt
years. It must be stroag enough t
carry the heaviest freight train.