The evening world., 1908-12-16
Many Speakers Protest at
Meeting of Interstate Com
4.i.s-,un in City Hall.
ARE UNITED.
All Stand Firmly for a Span
, End at Fifty-Ninth
Street.

n New Jersey bridge advocates stood
" eolidly for span over the Hudson at
NFifty-ninth street al the hearing to-day
gbefore the joint meeting OF the New
9York and New Jersey Interstate Bridge
.Commissions in the Council Chamber at
9FCity Hall New Yorks representatives
,4were split up in supporting Fifty-ninth.
txAOne Hundred and Tenth and One Hun
Sdred and Seven,y-ninth streets the
8. ,seplace for the terminal on this side of the
a river. Voices wero also heard In favor
sof bridges and tunnels from Tottenvliie
ITO Perth Amboy and Eizabe;hport.
Otto Wadshedt, a Hudson County
Iengineer sprung mild sensation when
ahc said:
- why pay five and six times what
81 four-tIbe tunnel would cost for new
bridge? The Belmont tunnel was Of
.Aferei = the city for seven millions. It
,has Keen reported that { bridge over
the Hudson at Fifty-ninth street would
sscost S5O01O0eo. Why not hive a series
a of tunnels from Canal, Fourteenth,
sTwenty- thrd. Thrty-fourth and Forty
1,second streets? All of them wouldn't
cost as much as a bridge"
- Mr.. Wa.dshe'dt wasn't familiar with
the engineering problems 10 be met in
such tunnel wor!: and the session ad-
journed.
IL A report of the meeting, with further
Recommendations by the commissions
Sengineers, will now be submitted to
SGovernors Hughes, of New York, and
fort, of New Jersey, and the Legisla-
8tures of both States, which authorized
1he appointment of the commission.
kBills will then be framed and submitted
Sso the Legislatures of both States, prob
yably designed to authorize the construc-
elton Of a bridge at Fifty-ninth street.
u Frederick GoctZe, Columbia tniver-
ptty engineer, was the first of number
Heights to protest against the location of
the New York terminus at one Hun
@dred and Tenth street.
The Commissioners present were Nc
.Dougall Hawkes., chairman: E. w.
t'Bloomingdale A. J. Shamberg, Anthony
r. Kuser and Frederick y. Eberhart.
yrhe Council Chamber was crowded.
y John G. Shaw, representing the estate
= ,4of Mary q. Pinkney, the aged spinster,
sIwho owned the bulk Of Harlem AT one
gtiine, vigorously acclaimed against a
bridge approach in Mornngside neIgnts.
y IL Jus; as good 10 stop bad public
improvement as To promote, good
one" he said. "Not bridge has been
Y the city millions in damaged property.
{By attempting to deteriorate Morning
gsiJe Heights property YOU would
plunge IT., tn city into endless suits Of
tween one Hundred and Tenth street
4 and one Hundred and Twenty second
astreet Is largely OF a residential and
greligious character. Build the bridge ut
EFifty-ninth street, and leave our sec
Rtion of Manhattan free from the dis
&tressing element of a bridge terminus"
Favor Bridge for Uptown.
Il the North Side Board of Trade, and
yaA!bert b, Davis President of the Civic
ek League Of the Bronx. spoke for the
-, location of the bridge at one Hundred
tgand ScrcntN-nnth street.
,EiuSehe fle{eI, OF the Riverside
q, Helshts Association, protested against
"a a, ih ,t,a, south Of one Hundred and
II IhlTteth street;
d me heF' NJ ~ Gates, OF the faculty
$of the Home Of Deaconesses, declared
tnqt Ine ,o rSs "cG ana ben ,e2 inst
u Murrsy Butler OF Columbia University.
Xiit@iy SS aS in preyeRtmg ioca-
aannuno ."i'h' or mon seminary
ain ann. .t[ win Columbia University.
saiaa h"HF engineers nave agreed that
street ana south OF Manhattan street
i4 MouIu DE impractical because OF me
= sleePness 81 me grade and because II
would REQUIRE an absolute abandon,
4 benevolent associaions We stand on
llaI tec7'Dh'
= For Ftty-rlrth Street Site.
u Hudson c,u,,y Now Iorsov sont n
s,r.II,,, ii,,tG N%M 1,IaeH s,,, -
u en.t'","s ps'. i'"tt'I y" "I,P'S. w H"E
a s.E'ln" tIaI tMo nI,"s' nr plboeu AT
E,m,re ''g a, Ct" "u entm Of IN
kF1,ui,iu It su anu 1eN"nlT .hftiI street: oen-
n g. IA p ana we Eey. J. w Iowhh
should be erected between centres Of
n pobulauon ana commerce; ana BRIDGES