To Span The Hudson.

Te Aroha News, 15 February 1890, Page 4

To Span The Hudson.

PLANS FOR AN IMMENSE $40,000,000 BRIDGE.

Doubtless the next generation will greatly surpass the present in wealth and resources, but it will have plenty of use for all its money and all its ingenuity if half of the great enterprises now being prepared for it are carried into execution. Of one or more of these enterprises the Hudson river, above or below water, will be the scene. The hope is held out that a railroad will be laid in a tunnel under the river in time to bring visitors bo the World’s Fair in 1892; but even should that be done, more tunnels than one will be wanted, or else a bridge, or possibly in course of time both tunnels and bridges. Gustave Lindentlial, of Pittsburg, the well-known engineer, has planned a bridge from New Jersey to New York, which, it is computed, will cost 40,000,000d015. The following description is given of this mammoth structure :

i The drawings show one span 2850 feet in length clearing the river, and two other spans, each over 2500 feet, extending from piers on the shoie to the anchorage on either side. The structure is to be a suspension bridge, the towers 506 feet in height, almost double those of the Brooklyn bridge, which are 280 feet. From highwater mark to the floor of the roadway is 120 feet, twenty feet more than that of the Brooklyn bridge. The span between the towers is to be 2850 feet, which is 1255 feet longer than that of the Brooklyn bridge. The shore anchorages are to be 210 feet in height, 180 feet wide and 4QQ feet long, of solid masonry, except a tunnel through the upper end of the roadway. The roadway is to be eighty-five feet wide, and will accommodate six railroad tracks. It will be supported by four cables, two on each side, passing over the towers and fastened in the anchorage at either end. These cabjtes are to be four feet in diameter, will contain 15,000 steel wires each. The two cables on each side are joined together with lattice trusses of wrought iron, each one of which will weigh eight tons. Running from the cables are sixinch cables ab short intervals, which sustain the roadway. The main cables will weigh two tons to the foot. The full length of the bridge is to.be something over 'SQOQ feet- On the New Jersey side the anchorage is to be placed at the foot ot Union Hill in Hoboken, and in order to reach the grade, which at" this point is 135 feet above the street level,, the approach will have to. eommen.ce. near the Hackensack rjyqr..