The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-01
THE BRIDGE TROLLEY WINS
AND TOM JOHNSON CONES OYER ON
A TROLLEY A IN 1897,

Courts sweep Away All the Hnlunctions I'm sight
Surface Loops May ne Built Across
tho PassaEeway Mt This End and tho
Tracks MAJ No Completed on the Bridge.
Tho application OF Thomas s. Stillman for an
injunction to restrain the bridge trustees from
laying tracks on the structure for tho use Of
trolley cars was denied by Justice Van Wyck In
the Supreme Court in Brooklyn yesterday. AT
tho same time the Appellate Division of the
Supreme Court reversed tho order OF Justice
Andrews restraining the bridge trustees from
building the proposed loops across the promo
made approach at the New York end for the troll
ley roads. BY the plans which the trustees can
now carry out there are to BIO four loops on the
surface across the passageway. Tit original
plans OF the engineers provided for elevated
loops. and Justice Andrews thought that the
trustees were not empowered to mako this
change In tho plans OF their engineers. The
opinion of the Appellate Division is written by
Justice Williams, and Justice Ingraham writes
an opinion concurring in the result. Justices
Van Brunt and Patterson write dissenting
opinions.
As soon as tho injunctions were removed q
corps Of workmcn were set to stringing the
trolley wire on the north roadway. Every effort
was made to complete the work before mid.
night in order that tho first car might be sent
over the now road in 1897. At IL :15 word was
sent that the trolley line was completed, and the
tower car, constructed for tho repairing of
trolley wires, was run over. In tho car were
Tom L. johnson, his brother, Albert johnson,
and several other officials of the company. At
1880 the car was taken back to Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company
and the Nassau Company will get ready to
go on with tho work with tho utmost ex-
pa1itinp no eonn aQ tho LEGAL fOrmRlifiaa
can be completed. The orders of the courts
must be entered, which may take two
or three week days. Had no injunction
proceedings been begun IL was the pleasure Of
President Rossiter of the Brooklyn Heights road
that Mayor Strong should have q ride over the
bridge on a trolley car on Jan. l. 1t may tako
nearly three months to complete the work now.
The tracks are nearly all in place. On the north
side of the bridge they are complete from near
the New York terminal to Brooklyn and are con-
nccted with tho tracks in Washington street.
On the south roadway the tracks lack n section
in the middle and are not connected with the
tracks in Brooklyn. There are still trolley
wires to put up along both sides OF the bridge
and feeder wires to lay, but this would take but
n few days. Tho big piece of work is ut the New
York terminal, where the four loops are to con-
meet the north and south tracks. The mere build
ing of the loops is of slight moment, but to
make room. for them and get the present col
there out of the way big steel girders. each eighty
feet long, have got to DO inserted in the walls.
one on each side. Besides this; the two waiting
rooms must be moved in whole or in part, and
each roadway has to be widened five feet to
make room for the curves of the loops.
Electric Railway Company. was in conference
with c. c. Martin. Chief Engineer and Superin.
tendent of the Brooklyn Bridge, last evening.
He told the reporters that be knew nothing
whatever about anything. but 1t wassnid that
he was arranging to have men set to work &C
Martin said afterward that he had not been
asked as yet for n permit to begin work, and
that none could be done on the bridge without
such a permit.