The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-26
Making
Progress On
New Bridge
Next Step Will Be C0nstruc-
ton of Stone and Mas
Onry Supports
STEEL ORDERS
BENEATH ROADBED
Completion and Opening of
Albany Avenue Boulevard
Bridge Will Be Signal for
Extensive Building Opera
tiOns

The keen delight of West Allan
tic City property holders is express
ed over the progress made in the
construction of the new Albany
Avenue Boulevard bridge and the
very helpful influence the new
bridge will have on real estate val
ues.
The new bridge, one of the hand
soonest possible to construct, has
now been under way for several
months, during which progress has
been made on the foundation pill
ings. The next step will be the
construction of the stone and ma
sorry work on the four houses of
the span and the placing of the
steel Orders beneath the roadbed.
So well has the work been car
ried on that there has been very lit
tie let up in traffic on the Albany
avenue boulevard. The pontoon
bridges are carrying the great num-
Der of tourist cars while heavy
trucks detour through Ventnor.
The successful movement of mo-
tor cars in and out of Atlantic City
via the Albany avenue boulevard,
the number of which promises to
exceed any previous season, proves
to West Atlantic City property ow-
ners that the locality lies in the
path of Atlantic City's greatest
popularity.
Once the new bridge is opened,
nothing can delay the movement of
business houses and distributing
concerns to sites already consider
ed on the Albany avenue boulevard,
while the building of homes will
also increase CORRESPONDENCE.
New Bus Line.
One of the features of West Allan.
tic City life awaiting the completion
of the new bridge is a new bus
company which will begin the op-
Grafton of buses as soon as the new
bridge is opened.
The value or the Albany avenue
boulevard as an important main ar
terry is being demonstrated every
day. In spite of the bridge situa-
ton, the traffic does not experience
any real inconvenience and there
fore does not lessen in volume as
compared to other years. When
the bridge is completed there will
be relief of pressure from within
Atlantic City TOR opportunity to ex.
pand westward into West Atlantic
City, where many hundreds of
thousands of dollars are being ex-'
pended in development work. This
work will be completed and i'm
provements will be ready as their
progress is one of the most nota-
bic in this section today.
The contract for the bridge pro.
per is held by the S.. S. Thompson
Company, of Red Bank, while the
approaches will be built by Henry
Schweirs Jr. company, of New York
City. The bridge will be listed as
a county expense, while the ap-
proaches will be paid for by the
city of Atlantic City.
! The bridge will be supported by
four stone and concrete piers, each
to be 35 feet in length and, to con-
tain 225 wooden pilings, As feet
long and IL inches in diameter. The
wooden pilings will themselves be
contained in a larger concrete pill
ing surrounded by sheet metal pill
ing, when Will be sunk ten feet
into the bottom of the canal. In
all there will be 252 of these sheet
metal pilings under the four piers.
23o Feet Long.
According. to the plans prepared
by Alexander H. Nelson, county en-
gineer, the bridge will be 239 feet
in length and so feet in width. in
addition to ten-foot concrete side
walks on each side. The roadbed
will be of wood block, laid on heavy
creosoted planks. Four houses. of
cut stone construction, with slate
roofs, will be erected on the center
portion of the span, two of them to
be public comfort stations. one a
storage house and one an operators