Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-10
.BAR INSPECTION
TRIP MAY SAVE
NEWARK $4,000
Uncle Sam Will Now Probably
Remove Passaic River
Obstruction.
BAY AND RIVER BRIDGES
MAY BE COMPELLED TO Go
Tunnels to Solve This Railroad
PrOblem-in Generation or
Two, Says Expert.

pOlnL WHICH mas IOrIneo IN the SdsSdic
river, several local manufacturers to-
day declared their inspection trip OF
the river, Newark bay and Hacken-
sack river to nav cen huge success,
for in removing the Tar the govern
Now that this matter seems all but
settled, the local manufacturers will
begin to work for the Improvement OF
navigation conditions in the matter OF
bridges across Newark bay and Pas
sale river. For some time a concerted
movement has been TN Ter way by the
local men to have the government do
away with bridges altogether and in
sist on the railroads ~tunneling their
roads under the waterways.
Calvin Tomkins, dock commits
sioner of New York city, who is an au-
thority on bridge matters and who was
a guest Of the Newarkers on the trip
yesterday, was asked by q reporter
for the Evening STAR what in his
opinion is the solution of the bridge
troubles in the Newark bay and Pas
sale river.
Tunnels Solve Problem.
THE contention of the Newark
Manufacturers said Mr.. Tomkins,
that the railroads should build tun-
sells instead Of bridges gives the ulti-
mate solution of the whole problem.
However, I do no. agree with them
that this should be done at once. ! do
,at @Hs-fp <Lo AAA% t~a f9a haG Uaf
reached the growing point here that
will make 1t necessary tc adopt tun-
nels. +
But, as I said before, the tunnels
will have to come. With the growing
commercial industries on the river, the
time will come when 1t will be i'm
possible to carry or navigation in the
Passaic river with the present assert
ment of bridges. BY thai time, also,
the railroads will have prospered ac-
G~rdingly, and will be more able to
afford the building OF tunnels. They
will do it Of their own accord then.
for It will be to their advantage as
well as to that of the wharf-owners
and manufacturers"
Asked what he thought L consefva-
tive estimate of the number of years
lit will take before those conditions will
arrive, Mr.. Tomkins declared 1t would
be hard to tell. Maybe a generation
or two" he said.
Mayor Haussling Explains.
At Point Nopoint, where the first
stop of. the trip yesterday was made,
and where the Objectionable bar has
formed, the entire situation was eX-
planned to Colonel Rossell by Mayor
Haussling. Commissioner Charles f.
Kraemer and Curtis r. Burnett, presi-
dent of the Board of Trade. The
colonel was told that the bar had been
increasing in size for nine years, and
now extended from the point to a dis
lance of a half mile, and has a width
of 100 feet. Thu wharves on the New
ark side, 1t was declared, are becom-
ing useless because boats cannot get
to the land.
The Central railroad bridge across
the Passaic was visited next. In con-
nection with this the recent applica-
tion of the company for another
bridge was discussed.
The Board of Trade opposed this
bridge, and the inspection yesterday
was a result of their protest. 1t was
Intended by the company to fill In 400
feet on the east side of the river. The
board also thought that a bridge-draw
OF $50 feet was not adequate for the
requirements of navigation.
J. o. Osgood. chief engineer Of the
company, when asked what answer he
could make to the objections OF the
business men, declared that the
filling in will not prove a detriment to
navigation. He thought that instead oil
hurting the tidal flow, as claimed, 1t
will improve the river, especially at the
point. He said the company would
raise the bridge rs feet and do away
! with the piles Ind have a pier bridge
with openings of 100 feet. He also de-
cided that the claim for a 20o-foo'
bridge wal a just one. and the company
intended building it 100 feet on ethel
side.
stop Made mt Pennsy's Bridge.
The trip was made on the Joanna
which was supplied by John #. Kehoe
After leaving tho Central bridge a stoI
was made at the Lehigh Valley and
Pennsylvania railroad bridges, which
cross the river from Newark tt
Greenpoint. The bridge. with its nu
merous piles, vas referred to as
veritable dam when the ice clogs II
the winter months. 1t was carefully
inspected by the engineers and bushes!
men.
The next was the Central bridg'
across the Newark Bay from Bayonn'
to Elizabethport. This was discussed
at length and severely criticised. There
is a petition before the government
now. signed by the mayor, Common
Council and Board OF Works, asking 70
the removal of the bridge.
Objection was also made to the pro
posed bridge across the Hackensacl
along the line of the Newark-Green
point bridge. On the way back tn
boat went through the Pennsylvania
bridge. the Centre street bridge and tn
Bridge street. Clay street and Erie rail
road bridges. Before landing Mr.. Bur
nett moved that a vote of thanks b
given Mr.. Kehoe and the officials VIII
made the trip.
Members of the Party.
Those who made up the party wer
Colonel William T. Rossell and Clerk o
the Engineering Corps H. B. German
State Board Of Riparian Commission
ers M. r. Mclaughlin and Joseph Birk
holz. with John C. Paine. secretary an
engineer; Mayor Jacob Haussling, Johl
F.. Kehoe, the host of the occasion
Board of Works Commissioner Dr.
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