The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-11

Is, of course, as yet lergely a matter of
conjecture Up to Friday last, August
81, the total amount Of money actually
paid out was IS, 1856. This suminclu-
ded the full contract prices, 1878, 462
ind S4S5032, respectively, of the fouh-
dations of the Manhattan and Brook
lyn towers, which are completed and
paid for, making a total of 1858, 544 In
addition to this $672,336 of the contract
price of $7s4,27O for the New York an
chorage had been paid, and $736,77S of
the contract price of s756,77S for the
Brooklyn anchorage, making a balance
of $131 934 still to be paid on the total
contract price of $1,541 ,04s for the two
anchorages.
The largest amount so far paid out
for any one item is for real estate-$1,-
522,4 APT. The purchase of real estate
has only just begun and a conservative
estimate of the amount of money that
will have to be spent is considerably
over three million dollars. If, as has
been estimated, the total cost of the
bridge structure itself will be some
thing like eight million dollars, ire
spective OF the ground, the total cost of
the bridge would be brought up to
somewhere between eleven and twelve
million dollars, or anywhere from three
to four million dollars less than the old
bridge The total contract price for the
two steel towers and end spans was
ST., 220 230 and Of this sum only 1892 237
has been thus far paid out The COM
mission expects In a few days to get
through the last red tape touches O
another appropriation of four million
dollars, without which 1t would soon be
up against the stone wall of lack of
FUNDS. With this appropriation in
hand and the strike and Injunction
trouble out of the way it would be in a
position to go ahead once more and
build the bridge as far as the weather
and general physical conditions will
permit. The contract price to be paid
the Hoebling company for the cables
and suspenders is 81, s9S, 900, ard no de-
lay is anticipated from that quarter
For the Manhattan and Brooklyn
steel approaches, the awarding Of the
contracts for which is now held up by
the injunction proceedings, there were
seven bide, the lowest of which was
S1,S74, 900 for Manhattan and 1926 900 for
Brooklyn; the highest s1,650,OO0 for
Manhattan and s1,15o000 for Brooklyn.
The lowest bidder was John r. Hall G.
Co; the next lowest, 81 339, 900 for Man
haitian and s994o00 for Brooklyn, is the
Hydraulic Construction company, of
which William De Fl. Washington is
president, Bassett W. Mitchell vice
president and Samuel Worthington sec
rotary. Both Of these firms, it is under
stood, are favorable to decision in the
injunction proceedings which Will elm
mate the clause specifying acid steel,
The Hydraulic company, or at least
members of that company, built the
water pipe line from Jersey City to
Bayonne and is said to have made a
fair amount Of money out of the con-
tract. Both of these companies fur
nished the requisite bonds, although
John 7. Hall & Co are comparatively
little known in the contracting world.
Put into nutshell, about two years
and a half and something like seven
million dollars more are necessary to
the completion of this second connect
ing link between the boroughs of Man
lIhtt'fF anu III ot'hiS II NeiS i've
years last May since the governor ap-
proved the act authorizing the building
Of the structure, although it was not
until August 1896, that the general
plans for the new bridge We're formally
filed in the department of public works
of New York and Brooklyn, after hav-
ing been adopted by the bridge commits
sion appointed by the governor to SUI
perintend the construction. In May Of
the following year, 1897, an amended
plan was adopted covering change in
the line of the bridge on the Brooklyn
side-a change which was authorized
by the legisla ture, and which made the
bridge straight from end to end ex-
tending from point between South
Fifth and South Sixth streets, Brook
lyn. to a point near the foot of Delaney
street, Mania ttan. The end of the
bridge in Manhattan is between Attor-
ney and Clinton streets, with it's north
ery line corresponding with the south
erly line of Delaney street, with thirty
two feet left on each side as clearance
space. The Brooklyn end Is just west
of briggs avenue, and two blocks in
each city are taken for entrance p1azas
People who are accustomed to think