The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1910-12-20

been to foot passengers from the time
of its acceptance. This proposition
met with the approval of Mayor Buck
ingham and was accomplished under
the director of Director NJ. A. Kenny;
the bridge being Informally opened
on July 16. at a. m. 1910.
The decision of the Connecticut
company as announced to the COM
mission regarding the completion OF
their roadhed. has not been reScinded:
but nevertheless the work has beer
resumed, presumably under some un-
derstanGing with the city government.
As the bridge proper Is PRACTICAL!
completed and in full use by the pub
lie, and the city authorities have as
sumed full control of the roadway
work, the commission feel that they
are absolved from any further re
sponsibility regarding their charge
and very gladly turn it over to the
city as near completed as was possible
under the circumstances.
Unfinished Matters.
Owing to causes beyond the control
of the commission there are two mat
ters which they have been unable t.
finish.
First-The contract for paving the
approaches between the city and A. j
Langfeldt and the Webb Granite Con-
structioa company are still not com
ranged with the paving commission o.
this city to compIete THESE contracts
whenever conditions will allow. The
commission estimate that $550.0e with
the material on hand will complete
this work.
Second-The commission also ar
ranged with the United Illuminating
company for the sum of 1888 co tt
install cable and connections acros:
the channel to light the cas- ap
proach to the bridge. The cable Wa
laid, but not to the acceptance of tn
gov ernment inspector. therefore tht
account is still unsettled. The United
Illuminating company now agrees that
when the dredging through the draw
occurs, they will tale up the cable
and after dredging is completed, viii.
again locate the cable IN its proper
position.
The material On hand together with
the apportioi. of cost to the ad-
joining property and the sum of $3.50,
will, we estimate. complete the paving;
so that the expenditures as represented
by 287 vouchers on file in the Office
of the city auditor represent the cost
of the structure which we find to be
to the commission by the city $275,000,
the contribution by the Connecticut
company was $4,000. The commits
sion also received from the Connecti-
cut company the sum of 5000 for
their portion of the paving upon the
nova BILE span: the rema nder OF their
right-of-way having been paved under
separate contract between that COM
pany and the contractor who per-
formed the work for the commission.
Also received from the sale of the
Lines building the sum of 500.
Appropriated by the city. .$275,O00 90
Contribution by the Con-
nectcut company, 3U,OUO 90
Rece we'd from; the Connec-
ticut Co., FOR their por- :
ton Of the paving on
movable span. ....... $50 90
Sale of Lines 6uilding.... 100 90
Amount of funds DIT dis
posal of the commission. $305,650 90
E end til; cs
aggregate ..S234,697 16
Estimated cost
of completing
paving o0O w
Total amount 1926, 247 16
Leaving a ba.ance to credit
of bridge account .....$ 10, 403 "a
In concluding, the commission beg
to report upon one matter which We
are unable To account Tor or explain,
viz: Since the bridge has been in use,
we discover that tire tenders which
under the government requirements
should show a clear waterway of 70
feet through the draw, have receded
few inches from PIERS. thus reducing
this width sligntiya We Eould recon-
mend that, IL the future when it be-
comes necessary to renew or repair
these tenders, clIe should be taken to
force these Genlers back to their origi
nal position, and obtain the clear way
which it was the intention of the COM
mission and their engineer to secure.
Finally, we desire to express our
sincere thanks to the different admin
istrations of the city government dur
ing the time that the Congress street
bridge commission has had its exist
ence. Especially to- the city auditor,
Bernard Heating, and the city attor-
ney, Thomas II. Cullinan, the commits