Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-10
FOR BRIDGE :
OVER KILLS.
Opportunity TO Connect Staten
Island and the Jersey Shore
Urged by Islanders.

Resident oil staten lSlanu, dnlmaJ-
ed by the progress looking toward
a bridge between Jersey City and
New York, are agitating with as
much {ervor as ever the movement
for a bridge from Staten Island to
this state, somewhere north of this
city.
The following communication,
which has been received by the editor
of the Staten Islander is typical of
the attitude of prominent residents
of the island on the subject:
New Brighton, July 5, 1906.
To the Editor.
Sir-It is probably not generally
known to your readers that by chap
ter COZ of the laws of 1906 the legis-
latufe of the state created a commits
sion to act in conjunction with a sim
liar commission created by the legis-
lature of New Jersey for the purpose
of submitting to the next session of
the legislature in each state a plan
and recommendations for n or
more bridges to be built across the
Hudson river and connecting the two
states.
1.-THE members of the New York
and New Jersey Interstate Bridge
Commission are:
''For New York-Hon. McDougall
Hawkes., A. ]. Shamberg and e. w.
Bloomingdale.
'For New Jersey-EX-Governor
George T. Werts, Victor l.. Mason
and James F. Minturn.
The Opportunity.
at appears to me that here is an
opportunity for the people of Staten
Island to induce this joint commits
sion to include in their report a plan
for a bridge across the Kill Won Kull
from some available point On Staten
Island to the New Jersey shore.
Through communication could be es-
tablished with the Borough of Man
haitian by means of the trolley line
now running between Bergen Point
and Jersey City and which could
probably be extended into Manhattan
from the New Jersey side. The bridge
across the Hudson from Jersey City
to Manhattan which the commission
will recommend will be designed for
trolleys especially.
"There can be no doubt that a
bridge giving through rail connection
with Manhattan and also easy access
to points in New Jersey would be of
very great advantage in the develop
ment of our borough.
ITO bring the matter effectively be-
fore the commission u two Boards
Of Trade and the Chamber of Com
merce and any and all other bodies
organized for the purpose of further
ing the commercial welfare of Staten
Island should appoint a joint COM
mittee to go carefully into the matter.
and select the point of greatest adj
vantage for a bridge and then call
upon our citizens to rayy around the
project, and bring such pressure up
on the interstate bridge commission
that they would include a bridge to
Staten Island in their recommended
lions to the legislature of their re-
spective states.
Public Hearings.
lHc UIluSG COHIliloSiOh W1i ohOi
ly m holding public hearings
in order to ascertain the sentiment of
the people of both states as to the To-
cation for a bridge between Jersey
City and Manhattan, and | feel quite
certain that an application from the
people of Staten Island for a hearing
to urge the necessity for a bridge
across the kills would receive favor
able consideration.
"As the cost of building the bridge
would be borne by the states of New
York and New Jersey, our people
would not be called upon for any por-
ton of the expense of securing a
means of transit that would event
ually prove to be as great a boon TO
Staten Island as the municipal ferry.
eff any action is to be taken it
should be prompt, as the time is lin
tied to the remainder of this year,