Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1921-10-03
State Engineer Says That
RepaHS Will Be Made
In About Two Days
While Repairs Will Not be
Complete Span Will Soon
be Open to Traffic
WILL DRIVE PILING
Steel Work Will be Delayed
About 2 Weeks--City Has
Quiet Weekend

TRENTON, Oct. 3.-The State
Highway Department today an
nounced it's intention to take legal
steps to have the Tice Towing Com
pany of New York punished for its
responsibility for the damage Satur-
day to the Amboy bridge over the
Raritan ,fiver. which caused great
to hundreds of motor
ITS who were travelling over Route 4
the highway system yesterday.
One of the company's barges hit
still span south of the draw span
ION the bridge Saturday morning and
SO wrecked the truss as to make the
bridge unsafe for travel. AS this
bridge is very important connec-
ting link on Route 4 the road to
the seashore great Inconvenience was
soccasioned to the travelling public.
'It is our intention to request At
torney General McCran to take steps
against the Tice Towing Company"
stated Mr.. Wasser this morning. 1--WE
will request that the states legal Of
ice prefer charges against the COM
pany to the United States govern
ment for its action in mishandling its
barges at this important bridge.
This is not the first offense of this
concern. Only recently it caused SIM
mar trouble at the little ferry bridge
on the Hackensack river. Due to the
damaged condition of the Amboy
bridge it was necessary for our de-
partment to provide detours for the
motorists on Saturday and Sunday by
way of New Brunswick and
South River. These roads were
blazed with arrows for the guidance
of the public.
"The damage to the bridge is par
ticularly unfortunate and distasteful
to the commission especially as 1t
has been endeavoring to maintain
this structure with extra attention in
view of the great amount of traffic
using it,"
The state bridge between this city
and South Amboy will be open to
traffic within day or two" ac-
cording to information given out
from the Office of State Engineer
Thomas Wasser, of the State High
way Department, at Trenton this
morning. The damage to the bridge,
caused by a tug-boat and tow RAM
ming it early Saturday morning will
not be permanently repaired by this
time but temporary repairs will have
been made which will permit of au-
tomobiles going across the structure,
the statement said.
The contract for repairing the
bridge has been awarded to Linde &
Griffith. It will be necessary to in
stall several new steel girders, truss
es and braces to replace those which
have been bent and damaged as a
result of the collision. 1t will take
possibly two weeks to get these ready
and in place, the state highway de-
partment official announced this
morning. In the meantime piles will
be driven under the structure to
serve as a temporary means of sup
porting the planking at this partic-
ular point.
The bridge was closed for traffic
Saturday morning when it was found
that the section just south of the
draw was sagging considerably to
the east as a result of the large sup
porting steel girder being badly bent
when the boat struck the bridge,
Trolleys were allowed to go as far
as the drawbridge, where passengers
proceeded by foot across the draw
and boarded other cars on the other
side. All automobiles. including the
buses. were prohibited from going
on the bridge.
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