Show Another Bridge for East River The people of Brooklyn are clamorous for another bridge over the East river joining tho two big cities at a point further uptown up-town the point selected being at Grand street New York the Brooklyn terminus being at Broadway There is an impera tive demand for this second bridge and tie o agitation should have begun sooner The present Brooklyn bridge is in a congested state every hour of the twentyfour Dur ing the busy hours morning and even ing the jam of humanity is so great thee on the-e goes through the rush for the cars almost al-most with peril to life and limb Consider ing that 150000 people in round numbers are carried over this bridge every day tho year round it is amazing that it is done so well Perhaps nowhere else in the world is such perfect transportation service furnished fur-nished as there is by the cable car system on the Brooklyn bridge The endless cable never stops except for throe or four hours in the early mornlng when the cars are shot across by small but powerful locomo tives From 9 to 11 in the morning and from 5 to 7 in the evening cars leave either end of the bridge 0d almost continuously One train scarcely leaves the platform till another an-other is drawn up and as the loading requires re-quires but two or throe minutes the break in the stream of traffic is but slight Of the forty millions and more people who crossed the bridge last year over thirtyseven mil l lion were carried in the cars This enormous enor-mous traffic should be relieved as soon as possible by another bridge Trivate capital I capi-tal should not bo timid in regard to such an enterprise and since the receipt of the bridge are sometoing over a million and and quarter a year the building of a sego a-nd bridge is perhaps more or less alluring even to the proverbially timid and careful capitalist It costs something to build bridges about Few York too The 15000000 put into the present structure is three times as much as it cost to build the London bridge and while me aro making comparisons It is wolLenough to remark that about 40000 moro people pass daily over Brooklyn bridge than pass over London bridge |