The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-10
BIG BRIDGE IN DANGER
The Hudson River Span Men
aced by Quarrels Between
the Two Companies.

WASHINGTON. June 10. lse5.-The
Hudson River Bridge enterprise is
in danger. The army engineers have APP
proved of the Morrison plan for a sus-
pension bridge. to support four railroad
tracks, n cost S23, 600, 900. This plan has
been filed by the New Jersey end OF the
New York & New Jersey Company
Plans for a bridge to support six rail-
o tracks and to cost So, GOO, 600 have
been sent to the War Department by
the New York or main part of the COM
pany. These nave not been advanced SO
rapidly as the Morrison plan.
There is every evidence of internal
strife in the bridge company. The new
Jersey stockholders are not satisfied with
the progress made by the New York
managers of the company. or their pol
icy, and have been acting Independently
of the main body~eefXthe corporation.
The presentation Within the last few
days of one set of plans from the New
York end of the company and another
set from the New Jersey stockholders
shows that there is trouble in the camp,
ard gives rise to the fear that a bridge,
ike a house divided against itself, can
not stand.
THE NEW JERSEY PLAN.
The Morrison or New Jersey plan, il
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repudiated by the New York stockhold-
erS. who are far greater In earnest in
the company and without whose coop
laws of the State of New York. This
Morrison plan, after being passed upon
by the Judge Acknowledgment, will go
to Secretary Lamont. and viii afford
him an opportunity, If he is opposed to
the bridge project, TO seem 70 befriend
i by his approval of the New jersey
York stockholders, would be the death
blow of the enterprise,
br "a spite project Ge tnf it se was learned u : to on +
from a gentleman -cloce to Secretary
Lamont, that the Secretary had ex;
pressed himself as ia, faayorahly d impre Yseti
plan, and that it was probable that he
would approve of it. It is denied that
the Whitney-Gould railroad interests are
opposing the bridge enterprise.
what President Green Says.
NEW YORK. June 10, 1S95.-Andew H.
Green. President of the New York and
New jersey Commission. has already
said that any plans filed at Washington
would have the effect merely of sugges-
tions. The two bridge companies" said
Mr.. Green. have agreed to build the
bridge together. The plan filed at Wash
drawn by Engineer Morrison, Of the
New Jersey Company, but whether it
was filed by the ompan proper or py
individuals does not matter. 1t could
have no effect
The law OF the State requires that the
plans of the structure shall be first ap,,
proved by the State Commission, and
then by the Secretary of War, There
were two companies in the field Who
proposed to do the building. They rep
resented respectively the interests of
New York and New Jersey, and there
was an understanding that they should
work in harplory. Both corporations
are known under the same name, and
while they operated under different laws
and were nominally separate ooapor-
atoms, they form practically one COM
pany.
Secretary Lamont has now two plans
to choose fron-the first was submitted
bv George S. Morrison on behalf of the
New Jersey end of the corporation, the
second by the Union Bridge Company,
representing the New York end.
Each side repudiates the plan sub
mitted by the other, neither possesses
alone the capital required to build a
bridge, and as soon as Secretary, La
decision is known a split will re-
suit.