Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-09
DISCUSS SPAN
To THIS STATE
President Van Name of Rich
mond Outlines Kill Won
KulI Situation

by Evening News Staff CORRESPONDENT
TO1TENVILLE, Aug. 9-There is
considerable agitation just at the
present time for a tunnel or a bridge
to span Kill Won Kull between Stat
err Island and New Jersey. Accord
ing to all reports those in favor of
the movement desire that the bridge
or tunnel be built across the Kill Won
Kull in the vicinity of Elizabeth.
Borough President Van Name Of
Richmond, recently presented the
situation very concisely as follows:
While we are politically a part OF
the city of New York, we are twenty
FIVE minutes from Manhattan and
twelve minutes from Brooklyn, but
even the inadequate and Anticipated
ferry service that provides our only
connections with the Jersey shore
we are only five minutes distant
from you. With modern bridges or
tunnels replacing these ferries Stat
en- Island will become in effect a
part of the mainland. They will
open up to us the country to the
west, and they will open up to yon
New Jersey our unequaled harbof
facilities, so hat the wheels Of your
great railroads will touch the keels
of the worlds vessels at our PIERS.
The following recently published
in the Elizabeth Journal is creating
considerable favorable comment
throughout the Island:
"Those who have studied the ge-
ographical relation of Staten Island
to Manhattan and to Brooklyn, inc
it's relation at the same time to New
York Bay and to future shipping
possibilities, cannot fail to realize
that the future development of the
metropolis as the greatest American
seaports reaches at least considera-
bly, in that direction.
IF they look further and note
the direct relation of the great
mainland of New Jersey to Staten
Island they canno fail to be i'm
pressed with the proposal that the
Island should be linked more close
ly with this state by means of ade-
quate tunnels OF bridges.
1.-THE union of New Jersey with
Staten Island in the n propos-
ed would greatly serve the inter-
ests of both as was repeatedly point
ed out at the conference held last
week. 1t would give the Island a
direct connection with the manifold
of a wide area of the coun-
try, from which it is now very large
lip cut off. 1t would give New Jer-
sey a close connection with rapidly
developing harbor facilities. 1t
would greatly expand what now
seem to be cramped facilities for
both The Island INC the mainland.
New Jersey would be so connect
ed with Staten Island that it would
reach, in all else than a political
manner, out into lower New York
bay and the ocean. Staten Island.
on the other hand, would reach far
back into the harbor of the nation.
1t would be no longer an isolated
island.
ut augurs we'll for the proposed
plan that such an enthusiastic atti-
tude was assumed toward it by all
who participated in the inspection
tour and the conference that was
had between officials of Jersey NUM-
cipalities and other interested in
dividuals and those of the island and
of the metropolis"
Although there is considerable
agitation for a bridge or tunnel be-
tween Elizabeth and the island,
there is also agitation for a more
direct way of getting from Totem
vile to Perth Amboy and some
argue that if there is a concerted
effort put forth to build a bridge
connecting the State of New Jersey
and the island, it should be built be-
tween this place and a point GRO
the sound in Perth Amboy.