Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-06-09
HUGE RAIL NAYBR|DGE
Longest and Heaviest Steel One
In the World.
TO ! Q. SPAN : N THE II EAST RIVER

Artistic Structure at New York VIII
Link New England and the South.
Four Tracks, TWO For Passenger and
Two For Freight Service.
Plans for the huge East river bridge
Of the New York Connecting railroad
were fled recently with the municipal
art commission for Its approval, in
accordance with the provisions Of the
charter granted to the company, says
the New York Tribune The new bridge
will suTpass all ever built or planned
to cross the East river and will be the
longest and heaviest steel bridge in
the world. First OF all the bridges to
meet the eye OF the passenger from
the sound three years from now, II viii
sweep In q graceful curve. over Hell
Gate Wards island, Little Hell Gate,
Rand ll's island and the Bronx kills.
When 1t Is completed and the last
spike driven IN the four railroad tracks
to cross IT For the first time there VIII
be an all rail route through New York
between New England and the south.
Until the completion Of the missing
transit link the trains, as heretofore,
viii have to be carried down the East
river and across the harbor. Although
these ferries, with the Tide In their Ia
yor. easily beat an elevated train from
One Hundred and TWenty7ninth street
TO the battery, the all rail connection
viii save fully an hour and half or
more and much trouble.
u Besides designing bridge to be OF
more than needful strength, the COM
pany has sought to build one the ap-
pearance Of which win be ID accord
with the increasing demand for artis-
tically Impressive structures. It has
been designed By Gustav Lindenthal,
with whom was associated Henry
tHornbosteI as consulting architect
Huge arches will be erected on the Is
lands over which the bridge passes,
and the work Of constru ction viii pro-
coed from these foci In the same man
ner as the work on the Blackwelrs Is
land cantalever. Ss5s &.
There will be steel arch span OF
more than a thousand feet across the
turbulent Hell Gate between abut-
ments. The abutments will be monu-
mental stone towers. dividing the
bridge proper from the steel viaduct
which forms the approaches. They will
be Of granite at the base and nodded
concrete above, reaching up some 200
feet. They will contain various small
rooms needed for. the operation Of the
railroad.
The tracks themselves will be 40
feet above high water, five feet higher
than on the other East river bridges.
They will pass through steel arches,
which will rise $50 feet higher. Some
of the steel members of these arches
win be nine feet IN diameter and
weigh a hundred tons each. Eighty
thousand tons of steel will be used In
the construction of the bridge.
The carrying capacity Of the new
bridge will be about twenty times
greater than that Of the old Brooklyn
bridge, or equal to four lines Of the
heaviest freight locomotives.
OF the four tracks two will be for
passenger and two for freight service
The passenger tracks by way of a cut
fof In Queens county will connect with
1.-The Pennsylvania railroad tunnels and
Its central station at Thirty third street
and Seventh avenue, Manhattan, and
| the Long Island railroad and its sea-
shore resorts and city stations and all
of these lines with the New York, New
Haven and Hartford and other New
England lines. The freight tracks will
| run across Queens and with the Long
Island railroad will form a big loop
around Brooklyn. Through freight
from New England for the south and
west will be carried over this route
and across New York bay from Bay
Ridge to Greenville, N. y. Thus there
viii be two distinct routes for the two
classes OF traffic, and neither will In
terfere with the other. 8SE
Timely Counsel.