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creased la the lust decade, but It Is
now swamped, especially on Satur
days, Sundays and holidays. It Is of
record that on Memorial day, 1921,
some cars had to wait hours before
they could cross on the Dyckinau
street ferry. You see, more than
eight million people live and do busi
ness In New York and its environs.
Another feature of the situation is
the development of the Interstate I'nl
lsades park, where New York's swel
tering millions go to cool off. In 1921
over .100,01 X) cars stopped at Hear
Mountain Inn in this park, and for
the last live years the unnual increase
In motor travel has been 40 per cent.
So, while the ferry lines are con
stantly increasing their equipment and
service, New York has decided to put
something else across.
One method of getting across Is a
tunnel, so a vehicular tunnel of two
parallel 29-foot tubes Is being con
structed from Canal street* Manhat
tan. to l'rovost street, Jersey City, a
distance of 9,250 feet, 5,480 feet of It
under water. Its capacity will be
4t>,otK) vehicles dally, about twice that
of the fourteen Hudson river ferries.
The work has now reached the under
water sections on both sides. The
total cost will be about 8110,000,000,
and both tubes. If nothing happens,
will he ready in two years. Tolls and
charges are expected to pay for It In
twenty years.
In addition, two additional vehicu
lar tunnel projects are under way, to
be built by private capital. One is
planned between Hudson county. New
Jersey, and Manhattan Island and the
other between Bergen county, New
Jersey, and Manhattan island.
In the meantime a suspension
bridge is going across from Anthony’s
Nose on the east side of the Hudson
to Bear mountain in the Interstate
I’alisades park. It will have a main
spun of 120 feet. This bridge will
therefore be one of the largest sus
pension bridges In the world, if not
the longest. It will hang 153 feet
above the river. The towers are 350
feet high. The bridge will be ready
for tratlie, It is hoped, by Labor Day
of 1924. Provision Is made for pub
lic ownership after a reasonable pe
riod of tolls.
How the bridge will look when com
pleted Is shown by the designer's draw
ing. reproduced herewith. The view
is down stream from the Henry Hud
son highway on the west bank, which
Is In great part completed and will
extend from Dyckmau street ferry,
along the west hank to Newburg. At
the right of the drawing Is lona island.
and beyond that Jones point. The
railroad tracks in the foreground are
those of the West Shore railroad, and
the New York Central main line is
shown across the river. The full
sized model of Hudson’s Half Moon is
in .evidence Inside the west shore
trestle.
The hill across the river is An
thony’s Nose, nnd the highway is part
of anew three-mile road from the
Albany Post road, North Peekskili,
-antt just below Annsville. Near the
river and a little east of the New York
Central railroad tracks the road
around Anthony’s Nose will begin. It
will cross at one or two points the
tunnels over the railroad tracks fol
lowing the outer edge of the moun
tain and affording admirable views of
the lofty Dunderberg and the high
hills back of Bear Mountain park on
the west bank. The actual width of
this new mountain road will be 30
feet and the concrete surface will be
18 feet wide throughout. Its cost, ow
ing to the large amount of rock ex
cavation work required, will be SIOO,-
000 a mile, and before completion the
cost may exceed that figure. This is
not state work, but is being paid for
by the bridge company, which received
its charter a year ago from the New
York legislature. Plans have been ap
proved by the War department and the
state engineer.
Work on the new road around the
mountain has been begun at its easterly i
end, where It joins the State road lead
ing off from the Albany Post road.
When the bridge crosses the river at
Anthony’s Nose It will be 185 feet
above the river. The western end of
the bridge will be at Fort Clinton, just
south of Popolopen creek, near the
foot of Bear mountain. The road
way of the bridge will be 38 feet, with
a sidewalk for pedestrians 4 feet wide
on either side. The vehicular capacity
of the bridge is estimated at 5,000
cars an hour.
The total cost of the bridge and the
new road will be from $5,000,000 to
: $0,000,000. It will be conducted as
a toll bridge with reasonable charges
for vehicles and pedestrians.
Motor travel along the Hudson
River by pleasure tourists has in
creased materially on the west bank
of the river since the opening last
season of the Storm King road be
tween Cornwall and West Point. It is
not only the most expensive road ever
built by the highway commission of
the state, but probably the most
scenic highway lr. the eastern part
of the country. It is just south cf
tiie road, at the northern extremity
of Bear mountain, that the new bridge
will be built. On the east bank the
roadway leading from the bridge
swings to the right and follows anew
road three tulles in length, which ex
tends around the mountain to Ron
Hook, where it connects with a road
which leads to the Albany Post road.
Concerning the reasons for the loca
tion of the new bridge, the Scientific
American has this to say:
“It Is not so much the failure of the
ferry owners to try to meet the situ
ation as It Is the development of good,
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
road's' aird’ automobile transportation
during the last decade, that has given
rise, to ‘the present necessity for a
, bridge crossing the Hudson river
within ea*sy reach of the metropolitan
district. ,
“After an exhaustive examination of
all possible bridge sites between New
York and Poughkeepsie, a site a few
miles nortli of Peekskili was selected
as having the following advantages:
—-tT* that a highway
suspension bridge for motor traffic, in
cluding approaches on both sides of
the river, could be built for $5,000,000,
in less than two years’ time.
“Secondly, the bridge will be about
40 miles from the heart of New York
City, and will make a direct connec
tion between the main highway lead
ing through Middletown to Bingham
ton, Syracuse, Elmira, Rochester and
Buffalo, and the Albany Post road.
“It will give residents of Tuxedo,
West Point, Newburgh and Kingston
sections direct highway connection
with New York City, thereby avoiding
ferry delays at New York; and now
that the Kingston bridge nnd Storm
King road are completed, It will give
an all-land route from Albany to New
York via Kingston, Newburgh and
West Point. Another great advan
tage, especially In the vacation sea
son, Is that Jt will give an all-land
route to West Point, Palisades Inter
state park and the Catskill district,
for residents of New York City and
Westchester county.
“Oyer and above the benefits to au
tomobile travel will be the advantage
of this crossing in quickening and
cheapening the motortruck service.
There Is at present a very lnrge freight
trucking business carried on from the
farms, truck gardens and dairies of
Orange county Into New York City.
At present this traffic goes through
New York state to the west of the
Hudson, through Suffern, and down
to New York City, through the north
ern part of New Jersey, finally cross
ing the Hudson by ferry from Jersey
City to Manhattan. The necessity of
taking all of this freight over the con
gested roads in northern New Jersey
nnd the ferries is felt to be a big
handicap; and it Is expected that most
of it will reach the city via Central
Valley, Highland Falls, and the new
bridge and down the roads on the
east side of the river. There has also
recently been developed an extensive
freight business by motortruck from
the New England states to distant
cities lying to the south and west. At
present these trucks use the Lincoln
highway through New Jersey, and
have to pass through the congested
metropolitan district and use the same
ferries across the river.
“We give the above rather extended
statement of the traffic conditions as
an answer to the question that has
been asked, as to why such an Im
portant bridge, one of the longest sus
pension bridges in the world, should
be erected at a point so comparative
ly remote from the big city centers.
Considered strategically, as a glance
at any road map will show, the site
lias been wisely chosen."
IDEftLTWO-STOfIY
BUNCH HOI
: Pleasing in Effect and of Excel
lent Structural Value.
MAY HAVE PERSONAL TOUCH
Roof Lines, Shingled Siding, Dormer
and Spacious Front Porch All
Combine to Make This an At
tractive Home.
By WILLIAM A. RADFORD
Mr. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building, for the readers of this
paper. On account of his wide experience
as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he
is, without doubt, the highest authority
on all these subjects. Address all inquiries
to William A. Radford, No. 1527 Prairie
avenue, Chicago, 111., and only Inclose
two-cent stamp for reply.
There nre six rooms in this pleasing
bungalow, which one might be apt to
qualify by the term of “little” unless
the floor plans were looked at care
fully. The over-all dimensions are 35
feet by 32 feet 6 inches, and down
stairs we have three amply propor
tioned rooms, with a like number —
bedrooms —upstairs.
The shingles are used for siding In a
way which lends variety and charac
ter to the exterior. Properly applied
in this way, with overhang for drip,
shingles offer ideal protection and last
quite as long as other materials. Sin
gle siding may be stained In any vari
ety of pleasing shades, or one can use
the white-painted ones. No matter
what color is used for the siding, the
roof shingles should offer a pleasing
contrast. One could use green or ma
roon-stained roof shingles and white
painted siding shingles and gain a very
attractive effect.
The porch is ample, and has no diffi
cult lines to deter its being windowed
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First Floor Plan.
or screened in. Handled in such a way,
it can easily become an extra room,
auxiliary with the living room, and
used at night as a sleeping porch.
We enter the living room from the
reception hall and find it is a spacious
room. 13 feet by 23 feet 6 Inches, with
a fireplace and ample lighting on three
sides. Worth noting i s the pieasing
line oi unbroken wall space formed by
the inner partition. This offers an
excellent background for the piano.
■ r pictures, and the larger pieces of
furniture.
We go out again into the reception
hail—a Colonial staircase could he
used here with fine effect, and at little
outlay—and reach the dining room
Observe that there is a bay-windoved
effect here, always a good idea, for It
adds appreciably to the floor space
without increasing construction ex
penditure too much. In this bny win
dow, with its small windows, lsspact
for a buffet—built-in or movable— -nd
we have immediate connection through
the other door into the kitchen.
Everything is very handy here. The
sink is adjoining, and the dinner
dishes can be piled into place immedi
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Second Floor Plan.
ately for washing, with no waste of
time or steps. The range is handily
placed in the corner. The light in the
kitchen is very good, and the pantry
also is well-lighted and ventilated,
with an outside icing door for the re
frigerator, which Is cared for from the
rear hall.
This rear hall gives access to the
upstairs rooms as well as does the
front hall. We would like to see more
stairways handled in this way in
homes of more than one story, for il
is rather awkward and inconvenient
sometimes, when there are visitors, tc
have to pass In plain view through the
front hall to reach the upstairs foi
dressing or those little adjustments
of the toilet the housewife wishes tc
make before receiving unexpected
guests.
Upstairs we have the three bed
rooms, all very nicely situated with
relation to the floor plan, with alcove
and ample closet space. There is t
rear balcony on this floor, whi' 1 oa
serve as a sleeping porch if desire
h4 T adding two more windows.
All in all, this is a very suitabu
type of small house to consider it yoi
plan to build at all. It is suue t 0
always in style, and the consriut <
problem presented is not too conip
cated. So, if a person is really inten>
upon building, a house like this cou
be begun with any ordinary bum ia
labor which might be available, a
the interior finished off as time pc
mitted.