New-York tribune., 1908-03-19
RIVER SPAWNED AGAIN.
NEU BRIDGE CONNECIE EA'
"Ijttle Tim" Smaskes Bottle OF
U;uc ON RlocIureH Island Cant'teueF

Little Tim Sullivan, represehUil.s ,..ar md
walked across a sirder between Hie W., ,+reyer
o,,eens s,aus of the Blackweli ls1d-i ai.ol,.
,o.o,,av afternoon at S:3S o'clock prec'seiS
hllose - go, ,,,ds,e or the big girdeT he re-
a..r z,onned and broke bottle OF chsiiip'7. e.
,++crinr according to those neares' "
What a waste ,,a of a great
American ensign Tapping over hlih' anu 81 =. .,.
-, "a tbo con,plezee part Of the Queens ann "a -
., ,;1a,,.- .ov-er There George f6oW"fs' l"-'
man of erection for the PennsyiVaia -. =
,,aD,- who has had the anAietF O ii -.
s,o,,sibli-v for the whole huge pie0o -
oa his ,and while whistles all over 'he VI rug
structure and for mile no siiu ~
footed in stTfdeTt chorus s+oa,
--le lazinc OF The last in.l Of the chail u
from Manhattan TO Queens was MAJ " ,,o ,aot
o dav as this year has Seen Ii Is c'i0e -,
above the East River than II - al ne :" -
and tf- driving rain turned 20 ice on S,ee' anu
-, 44.-s Ind ozarcoats had an icy coating ne
,ore half an hour Of the wait % nearly TWO 'o''i
r-as ended Little Tim was sorry the n'H'
r.s;sa,+ ,Ic,.oycan Of The Board o. Aldermen haa
e-yn before ne 10 the bridge hut i'e
.u+ce as sorry before tie eirder was IN Plee'
The girier over which the party Wialhe" = N W. :
% .nei-aars as a bottom chord. The one uecu
yesterday was SIS feet % inches long. ioo' :. ;
inches wide Chat was the width OF I-ttie
nathl and feet y inch deep \ NJ =,
o'clock everything was ready to swing ii INTO pia'e
gently into place between the TWO slEaii@' ~
- ,.r- 70 the north Of its appointed resting pld'
s.rad,,alI-- Fl was worked over. with Az
and Peter Olsen. of the Queens gang pe'N''e "
securely as i seemed. alnidslips
Pack and forth il swayed for minute o. '"o'
I,f. Co. she eysri connection. Then there was
. ,,riel % whistle as il slipped into iis proper
rlace and in moment Rudolph hnor1 :" ing
DOWN with the agility Of = monkey. aho' i'Siie
IN a beam by his right elbow hah1fhsied IA ''
Anal on
side 1t was a spectacular thing 10 rhe siHNeiiis
crowd and won much applause. which seemed 10
ruzzle the man, who evidently thousi' He '
cone nothing Of the ordinary
Then dozen men sprans out on the sirder-
Quickly they laid plank path across 'he steer
tuilt a railing On each side. and made everything
safe for the passage When they had hrlshed AZ
derr1an Sullivan stepped to the path, ana pan
den1oniIr1 broke loose. The Gin~of the Whis'es
was p-odigious and the hundreds on The struc'uie
contributed all the noise they could shou'ns WE
one way TO get warm. anyhow. and anything 'eho-
ing toward that a welcome discovery
,-o,r,iss;oaer Stevenson of the Bridge Depart
nent followed Alderman Sullivan. and with him
were & NJ. Ineersor. chief engineer of the Depart
rnert: J d Wikens and J. = knishton the en-
sineers in charge for The city; T. G feI'on prs
dent and J. Y. w. Revnders. rIce-presiden' OF 'he
r,ennz,-lxania Steel Company. and Thomas Earle.
T. G hunz and (. ". Cohen, who were IN charse
of the erection OF the bridge for the company
Others the party f Van Zailt Lane, 'Iai-
fc engineer OF the Bridge Department o. NJ heliE'
engineer charge of the WILLIAMSBURG follose'
Charles Macdonald, Professor William H. Bur- o.
Columbia University, and A l. Bowman consult
ing engineer of the Bridge Department
The residents OF Queens doing all they can
10 have the Dew structure renamed 'seueensoor''
Tsrilee~ That was the only name heard by the
people in that borough yesterday, when they con-
rrs,uted their share TO ceremonies Of ceebrat-
ing the union with Manhattan. 1t IS argued 'ha'
The two great bridges which span the East klNei
have received their from the Long Island
side OF the city. and conforming to this general
idea the local boards passed resolutions yesterday
that the name OF the Blackweil's Islands Bridge be
changed TO Greensboro Bridge. the former ap-
pellation did in any way illustrate the i'm
l,ortance of tile bridge the industrial and resi-
Dental interests OF their borough and county The
city authorities Will be asked to recognize the
bridge officially by the new name