Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-04-18
BRIDGE PLANS
NOT APPROVED
Newark Bay Protest is Again
Before State Board of
Navigation

TRENTON, April 1S:-Plans for
the erection of a new bridge across
Newark bay, from Bayonne to Eliz-
abethport. by the Central railroad.
again failed of approval by the
Board of Commerce and Navigation
at its meeting here yesterday. The
company has agreed to all the
changes asked by the board except
hat of height. The board wants
the structure to be 80 feet above
mean high tide. and the city Of
Newark has asked that it be at
least IS feet above this level. The
company reported hat unless Hud-
son county and the city Of Bayonne
will agree to change the level of the
Boulevard and Avenue A bridges 1t
cannot make the bridge higher than
Is feet, 6 inches bow mean water.
Counsel for the company reported
that action by the county authorities
seemed impossible to secure. The
Bayonne Commission answered the
company's application by laying
over the matter until a satisfactory
agreement between the city and the
company could be reached regard-
ing carrying of vehicular traffic over
the proposed bridge.
There will be hearing on the mat
ter in Newark on May 81. when the
whole question will be threshed out
before the board. If the new rail-
road bridge is raised to either of the
higher points, the Boulevard and
Avenue A will have to be carried UNI
der, instead of over, as at present,
the railroad tracks.
The board decided at yesterdays
meeting to request the designation o.
engineers of the United States De-
partment of Commerce, n of the
War Department, to sit in with its
own committee, the whole group to
sit as an advisory board in making
the comprehensive survey of the
problem of preventing erosion OF
the New Jersey coast. Hearty CO.
operation on the part of the Coast
and Geodetic Survey Office. of the
Commerce Department has already
been assured, it was reported. The
federal officials would receive ex-
penses, but no compensation. Ten
thousand dollars has been appropri-
ated for the purpose.
Plans for raising an additional
amount by coast resorts to aid in
1.-THE survey are all off. it is learned.
since the Atlantic City interests,
which would have raised most of
the additional amount, have decided
to wait for results from the expend-
iture of the appropriation.
The state will receive the sum of
S1,549.S5 as the result of the
boards approval of the conversion
of seven riparian rights leases into
permanent grants. The largest item
amounts of s47.4S7. to be paid by
the Public Service Railway Com
pany for the grant of rights to
lands under the Passaic River. ada
cent to Harrison's Creek. in New
ark.
The other grants. and the price to
be paid the state for them. are as
follows: Public Service Electric
Company, for rights on the south
shore of Cooper River. in Camden,
$705.90; South Jersey Gas, Electric
& Traction Company, for rights on
the north side of the same stream.
near Fifteenth street, Camden.
$~1,576.55: Gas & Electric Company
of Bergen County. for rights in
Hackensack River and Gas Works
Creek, City of Hackensack, $3.450:
In the same river at the Borough
of Bogota. 500; Joseph H.. Reidiger,
for rights in the Hackensack River.
south of Paterson Plank Road, Sc
caucus, ~$5,146.40.