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a i iT te al t g AND country. (ere from securing building ma- +, Then there came strikes on oughs. deen injured. In fact it will be fionths before there the winds have been so {ga direct connection from that point ture in 185 the plans for the new bridge were not adopted by this Commission until Aug, 19, 18%. ‘They then were formally filed in the Department of Public Works In the cities of New York for fear of being Proper is now com- fated approach running street to the elevated Bowery is not nearly done. — Fhe fore Bridge In creat Britein us 4 GIRL CLIMBS UP ‘ABLETOTOWER ‘\ Made the Perilous Ascent on the j} Manhattan Side and Walked t] A. bandsome, well-dressed girl of twen- ‘ty, accompanied by a young man, made ber way to tho entrance of the bridge ‘ealinly about “So you don't think I dare do it?” the asked the man, “I will do what you ie not do, I will climb up the cable ‘to the tower and you don't dare take the risk. Bhe stopped speaking and laughed | When she san the man pale at the very suggestion of such a perilous climb. Only 150 Feet Up! ‘2 only 150 foot trom the water,"* fhe then said. “If you should fall you “yrouldn't know it and when they find you, if they ever do, your friends fouldn't know you." Spurred on by the girl's ohaffing end that he couldn't dissuade her attempting to make the trip the crash of New York, and with pure alr tor their children. present traffic conditions. end of the Brooklyn Bridge from the further up into the heart of the city. as Queens County is concerned. fast and in the lead. Reaching Seble. which supported the bridge ythe high tower she took hold of when they made out the trim figure of @ gin now nearing the to’ “It he falls it’s muro dea them ventured. “And if-we attruct her attention she'll tall,” another answered. Perched Hersett on Tower. ‘Wale tio worknwn waicied thoy saw the girl reach the tower, Sha perched erseif on the @ige of tho tower and waited tor the men, He came slowly seemed to gain confidences In him- © énd of his half- the couple ."" one of bridge will take thousands away from the eas! But aside from the relief of the crowded districts, the new bridge will bring comfort and convenience to the people of Manhattan, Kings and} gone; rrancis B. Thurber, Secretary It will bring the borough®} gna Richard Reeves, Treasurer. Mayor Bchleren, of Brooklyn, appointed An- drew D. a} Sperry and Henry Batterman, Queens who do not live in the tenements. closer together or in closer communion. There will be a great saving of time in travelling The congested condition of traffic will be relieved on the ol Brooklyn Bridge, and the Borough of Brooklyn and the Brough of Queens will be built up with greater rapidity than either of them had expected. eon Jan. composed of: Following the filing of the plans there vice president, James W. came differences of opinion between retary, Muay, ridge was adopted, covered a clrange in the original line of the bridge on the Brooklyn side, the Slime GC. Marriott, Legislature authorizing the building of 1, Robinson, the bridge wiralght from end to end and Leffert L. Buc TRAVEL FROM QUEENS WILL BE ON NEW BRIDGE. BY JOSEPH CASSIDY, President of the Borough of Queens. hdescend, using. ed Fomthomme hy New Bridge Cost Many Lives Before It Was Finally Brought to Completion. WILL BUILD UP QUEENS BROOKLYN BOROUGHS. BY JACOB A, CANTOR, President of the Borouyh of Manhattan. HE Williamsburg Bridge will open the outlying sections of Brooklyn} of and Queens to people seeking better homes. build or rent homes where there is not the constant noise and pressing crowds as in this city. They will be more comfortable, with better ‘and purer air and playgrounds for their children. I believe that the neW? Brooklyn, the two Mayors acting as t-side tenements ta the} ex-officio members of the commission. They will be able to between the bor- an amended plan of The amended plan 1897, COMPARED WITH & BT me predict through The Evening World that the County of Queens will become a city in itself within the next two or three years be- cause of the building of the new Williamsburg Bridge. which has been so neglected, will now be thrown open to the people of New York, It will pring up like a mushroom. In a few years the people of New York who live in te thickly populated east side districts will have disappeared to a large extent and will be found in Queens, in homes that will be healthy, free from the constant rattle and This county, to breathe and natural playgrounds going away with @ curve in the Will- jamsourg approach, which had been in the fir amended plans diamond borings were pushed rapidly on act May 27, then appointed, three by the Mi New York and three by the Mayor of fam Li Str York, were Salem H. Wales, Vice-Presi- York, a new commission was appointed pointed ed TIOO FEET SPAN OF It {8 a difficult and an uncomfortable task to get into New York under It now takes an hour to get to the New York Newtown section of Queens County. When. the new bridge is completed the ride will be taken in twenty or twenty-five minutes and one can land, not at the Brooklyn Bridge, but With a terminus in the Bowery con-' necting with nearly all the principal street car lines in the city and with the Second and Third avenue elevated roads, the new bridge will carry a large per cent. of the people of Queens who work in or visit New York. The new bridge will relieve the congested traffic conditions on the old bridge as far Silpped past the guard and out to! eS ‘entrance of the bridge. The girl path, the same care in coming down they had used ia golng up. Once on the bridge again the girl laughed. Her hands were bruised and bleoding through her torn gloves, ‘The man was in no bettor shape. “I am the first woman to make such to ® climb,” sald the girl, “Now. you have kept your promise to follow me and I am proud of you." Whe the watchman waited to inter: oapt the couple as they left on the Manhatyan ain they left on the Wul- ai Ie heer ee along over the pr} panded Trouble atter thelt olbme, ii narrow pla nfiled. Immediately upon the adoption of the both sides of the ‘er for the sites of the tower founda~ borings had Geen started These was slow because of but worl state of the plans. Bridge Com- nder provisians This River past mn was organized un apter 789 of the laws of 189%. approved by the Gov 1595. Bix commissioner: was Joners appointed by Will- then Mayor of New The commt Baird, President; James A. ‘After the election of Robert Van to be Mayor of Greater New This commission was Lewis Nixon: Boyle; Seo- ‘Treasurer, 1898, President, 19, Lane: id; Commissioners, smith Falrch have refused to go on with Williamsburg. the members of the Commission and the Julian D. AV. with or eyen on the narrow foot- While the original East River Bridge ofmcials of both New York and Brooklyn, edly ace re tun sonny € perramith constructed before the Commission was named by the Legisla- ‘exe differences worw adjusted and in Mave, Nixon, Lane and Hoy the from Manhattan and the others ‘ooklyn. Is election Mayor Low appoint- Lindenthai, Commissioner; ecretary; Nelson puty Commissioner, and Consulting Engineer. ‘rom After Gustav RIVER BRIDES WOMEN FIRST CROSS BRIDGE Wife of Engineer Hillenbrand and Miss Annie Schoonmaker Made the Trip July 25 Last. ‘The footpath of the bridge was hardly two feet wide on July 2%, 198. Bo frail was it that a breath of wind made {t shake fram shore to shore, and the weight of a man seemed to»make it sway. It rocked and creaked under his step. It was a brave man that walked across the narrow little margin of a path 't Mrs. William Hillenbrand, wife of one of the bridgo engineers, and Miss Annie Schoonmaker, a friend, were anxtous to bo the first women to make this tip. They were warned that the walk was most dangerous, that one false step would plunge them to the riyer below, and that at thmes the wind made the bridge rock and twist 80 that footing was very dificult “I want to go.” Mrs, ‘Hillenbrand sald. “I am determined to make the telp."" Accompanied by several engineers the two Women started out across the The combined weight of the party made the bridge away and tremble as though it were going to fall, There were only two small ropes on either aide to hold to wheh the wind caught them full. fofce as it rushed down the eiver, Many umes the women stopped {9 gain confidence and then. they clung " » ropes madly. “HDi A Aoow down,” they were told by ‘the men who were to climbing, to high places on the bridge structure. “Look in the heaveds you won't Yee your "t get dizzy or you will fail.” & slowly dit Mra, Hillenbrand and Miss ey eo > merous was ! elt position that, they. were Ses Bh er tt tal bs “i ‘ Iq 7 > FORTH SRIDG al <4 < Lae ag