Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-20
AZ MILLIONS To
BRIDGE HUDSON
Plans Also Filed for ST 900, 900
Tunnel Between Jersey City
and Canal Street.
z,SS0-FO0T PONTINE SPAN
TO BE LONGEST IN WORLD
Entire Structure from Fifty
eighth ST. to Palisades Will
= Be $3.50 Feet Long.

. JERSEY CITY, March 2O.-The
New York and New Jersey Interstate
Bridge Commission celebrated at
dinner last night the finding of a
bridge site in which they say no in
surmountable engineering problems
can arise.
The members of the bridge commits
/. mission held the reunion dinner at
the home of j. Hollis Wells, here,
+ alter four years of work up and
down the Hudson river
Governor Fielder attended the din
ner as guest. and saw maps giving
the results of the preliminary boring
on the New Jersey bank at a point
opposite Fifty-seventh street and a
! point opposite 18th street.
To Governor Fielder the imprac-
ticability of a bridge at 18th street
was explained. and the bridge COM
missioners announced that they had
finally decided upon a site at Fifty
seventh street
suspension bridge to span the
Hudson river from Weehawken to
Fifty eighth street, and two vehicular
. tunnels to run under the river from
Jersey City to Canal street are the
recommendations which the New Jer-
seys Interstate Bridge and Tunnel
Commission has made to the State
LEGISLATURE.
The report aims at the solution of
the traffic problem between this State
and the New York side of the Hud-
son. and will be followed in a few
weeks by a similar report presented
to the New York Legislature by the
New York Interstate Bridge Com
mission.
The commission has divided its re-
/. port into two parts, the first dealing
with the construction of the bridge,
providing for variety of methods
of transit and costing approximately
81, 100000, and the two tunnels, one
for east-going and one for west-going
vehicles at an estimated cost of
vi ,O00,O000. Boiler, Hodge & Baird,
bridge engineers, have prepared the
plans and specifications for the
bridge. and Jacobs & Davis, engin-
GERS of the Hudson and Manhat-
tan. and the Pennsylvania railroad
tunnels the estimates for the tun.
heels.
viii Have Largest Span in World.
According to the plans of Boiler,
Hodge & Baird, which are prelimi-
harry and subject to the recommends
tons of the Legislature and commits
sion, the bridge will have the longest
single span in the world and a greater
atf -
1t is proposed to throw it across the
river with one end lying between
Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth
streets, Manhattan, and the other the
J Boulevard and Sixth street, Weehaw-
ken.
The suspension portion of the
bridge is to clear the surface of the
river by 10 feet, which is 80 feet
higher than any bridge over the East
river. The river will be crossed by
a single span $3.50 feet long, which,
with the approaches, will make the
structure $3.50 feet in length, from
Ninth avenue to the top of the Pail
sades. The towers which will sup
port the roadway will be Of steel and
545 feet high, while the width of the
towers at the base win be 204 feet.
The capacity of the bridge will be
eight lines of traffic. Provision has
been made for two subway lines, two
elevated lines and four trolley car
lines, two each way.
There will also be two driveways
36 feet in width, allowing for the
passage of four vehicles abreast, and
two sidewalks eight feet in width.
No provision has been made for
steam traffic. All travel will be made
on the one level, allowing for ready
transfer in case of blockade.
To BE Finished in six Years.
The site selected for the bridge has
been made after a series of expert
mental borings to determine the
proper foundations. and the cost of
approaches has also been consid-
cred. time limit of six years is the
estimate for the completion of the
work
The tunnel plans call for the con-
struction of two tunnels $3.50 feet
from portal to portal, with a road
way in each of II feet. 1t is pro-
posed to make the entrance of the
tunnels at Canal and Varick streets,
extend the lines under Canal street
to the river front, thence across to
Jersey City, with the terminal in the
block bounded by Twelfth and Thir-
teenth, Provost and Henderson
streets, a distance in all of $3.50 feet,
including the approaches.
The New Jersey Commission which
has recommended these improvements
is composed of w. H. Noyes, chair
man: J. Hollis Wells, De Witt Van
BuskirS, George Limouze and John j.