Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-26

remember when r0Wboata were run
across these streets upon the small
inlets that then existed. Upon this
land the most prosperous business
houses are located, without fear of
encr0achment from the outlying waves
OF the sea and river. The new land,
the contractors say, could be made
Just as firm as this, and there are
pieces of made land in Chicago and
Boston to which they point to back up
their assertions.
The greatest trouble with this
made" land would be experienced in
putting up the sky-scrapers, but the
building laws would govern the depth
of the foundation. In certain 2or-
lions, where no rock bottom could be
found, it might be necessary 10 go
down and fill fifty feet of made land
for firm foundation, but where the
bottom of the river had been rock
bed half the depth would be enough
for the laying of the foundation
stones, and perhaps even less.
FILLING IN THE NAVY YARD.
There is another interesting point
to be raised, and that is the abolish
ment of the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
which would be done away with in
this case. The Brooklyn Navy Yard
lies almost on a line with, although
little north of, Grand street, New
York, and as the filling in would be
carried to "a point two miles below
and five miles above the Navy Yard,
this would be completely filled in.
and it would be necessary to make an
other headquarters for Uncle Sans
ships.
But there would be no embarrass-
ment experienced in this, as New
York, with it's seventy-five miles Of
wharfage, could easily find room for
the navy headquarters.
The water frontage, after filling in,
would be slightly curtailed. With
New York and Brooklyn united by
land, the river front would extend
from the Battery to approximately
Hamilton Ferry, Brooklyn, running
east and west, instead of north and
south, and from Harlem to Long
Island City. The most careful call
culations of frontage would have to
be made before the work began 1t
might be found so inexpensive that
Wards Island so inclosing it, and of
course, Blackwell's Island, too, which
is further south in the East River,
would be completely closed before
Wards Island was reached.
For the sake of navigation the in
ventor proposes to cut through Long
Island between Flushing Bay and
Grassy Bay, thus opening up the inte-
rior to commerce and benefting the
sanitary condition of Long Island
This would provide an outlet, also, for
the dammed-up waters of the East
River should the Harlem River prove
inadequate.
One of the points Immediately sIg-
gested to the inventor was the dispo-
sition of the present Brooklyn bridge,
which cost 100000 and was the
work of thirteen years.
To do away with such structure
would be sacrilege, while to leave it
in disuse would be one of the great
pities of the age. But this the dis
coverer of seven square miles for
Greater New York does not propose to
do.
BROOKLYN BRIDGE AND IL" ROAD
He suggests that the present bridge
company be allowed to operate just as
now, and puts forth the claim that
there will be as many people patroniz-
ing the bridge as at present. 1t will
be short cut for Greater New York
to communicate with the opposite side
of ITSELF and the bridge will be
convenient way of getting from one
part of town to another-in fact,
sort of short elevated railroad
The inventor also has an idea for
the treatment of the new land he has
discovered He has several schemes
the most ornamental of which is the
establishment of a grand avenue to
run down the center of this made land,
to be known as President avenue