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Hearing on the Rainey Bridge

HEARING ON THE RAINEY BRIDGE Will the City Build to Blackwell's Island? Mayor Van Wyck gave a hearing this afternoon on Senator Plunkett's bill authorizing the Sinking Fund Estimate, if in its judgment the best interests of the city require such action, to purchase the Rainey franchise and all rights for the bridge across the East River over Blackwell's Island. Senator Plunkett, ex-Mayor Patrick Gleason, of Long Island City, and Dr. Thomas Rainey, the owner of the franchise.. appeared in favor of the bill. L. M. Manley was against the bill. He said the location of the bridge proposed by the city was better than the Rainey bridge location. Dr. Rainey made a strong plea for the bill. In answer to the Mayor's questions, he said that within two years after the contract was signed he would deliver the bridge to the city. It would cost $7.000,- 000 to finish the bridge. Property rights had been acquired on both sides of the river. He considered the money invested by him and his friends, and the interest therein, to amount to $1,000,000. He claimed that Controller Coler's tunnel scheme was "an infernal humbug." "My bridge," said he, "will accommodate more traffic than ten tunnels. The four piers for my bridge will cost less than the one caisson pier for the bridge proposed by the city." The Mayor said he would- -look the bill over. Asked afterward what he would sell for, Dr. Rainey replied: "I might sell for ten cents or $10,000,000. Its sure I wouldn't for ten cents."
Article from 16 Apr 1900The Brooklyn Citizen(Brooklyn, NY)
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