Show RK ext E A M ATUN XZ WS K k 44 JERSEY CITY r jit at CA I 1 I 1 j 1 REM STA 9 4 t BRO 0 KLY N 0 M ir A 44 M abw YORK aa J crmim jit ir k n tl W ara 1 f 11 71 1 I 1 NEW YORK which will celebrate its tercentenary as soon as it gets through squabbling over the date ot of the celebration has annexed pretty touch lunch everything in sight which does not belong to new jersey pennsylvania massachusetts and connecticut and thereby has accumulated a population of something like people now it is talking about extending island nine miles out into we hie bay and adding some worth of realty really to the city according to the new york times An any yiNny ft ay one man Is going ahead with the idea ot building a city of where now is but bill an expanse of water ue he Is T kennard thomson the engineer who jolted a good many imaginations when lie he came forward with a plan for the eul enlargement argement of the city along lines nature never contemplated in the revision and detailing of this plan he has altered the original outlines to extending manhattan toward new jersey in fact to cross the new jersey water vinter line this possibility of increasing man hattan by nine square miles has stirred up so much interest la in staten island and along the new jersey shore that the good folk there have become rivals to have the plans favor their respective communities thus the bayonne liay onne chamber of commerce brought all of its guns to bear and had mr Thom sons plan so modified that the tip end ead of the new manhattan would run down in the general direction of bayonne with a proportionate increase in property values there but staten island has not giren up the fight has only begun and it if this vision of a greater manhattan ever should be realized staten island may be depended upon to do its duty from an engineering standpoint the only thing necessary to reclaim nine square miles from the bay and annex it to manhattan island according to Thom thomson lion Is the construction of a series of sea walls he proposes pio proposes poses the pneumatic caisson method used la in building the foundations foundation of new york skyscrapers to place such retaining walls down upon bed rock before enormous suction dredges are put to work to pump out all the water and other material above rock at the southerly or lower end I 1 of the bay where the rock Is too deep mr thomson explained we would build massive concrete walls as before and then backfill back fill with clean sand band pumped from the ocean using suction dredges with intake pipes of at least 40 inches in diameter such as have been used in egypt for years pur pumping cuble cubic yards of sand baud a doy day tile proposed extension is 11 said to have won the attention tIon of financiers engineers inventors and civic since it received reci received ived tho the first organizers serious endorsement indorsement Indor two years ayears ago from the broadway VA association among amon the first to declare for the be scheme heme which mr thomson says bays would eliminate most of the difficulties arising arlson from new yorks present fon congestion was ex judge alton 13 head of the national civic feW federation ration thomas A edison Is one of a hundred or more experts who have informed mr thomson that the thing it 1 if if it 41 Is 44 q ik tl 11 T fa A its A n L na 1 J ti C ID BRdA zuay 4 mua Mt can be done the inventor himself hlin once pondered over the physical and geographical problems ot of manhattan and offered a solution lie ile also proposed an extension of manhattan lie he would woul d have extended it to brooklyn by filling the east river after studying the plan of mr thomson mr edison expressed this opinion your extension of new kew york Is bold and seems practicable so BO tar far as engineering Is concerned it beats in my y old suggestion of filling in the E east ast river instead of being better than your plan it Is only the first part of it replied the engineer he then explained that the proposed extension of manhattan island was only one step in a comprehensive scheme tor for a city ot of As the addition to the tip end ot of manhattan Is the first step in that scheme mr thomson Is concentrating tor for the most part on this phase ot of the undertaking der taking he Is design designing int what lie believes will be an ideal city cir y because in bull building ding a modern city from the ground up it would be possible to avoid all the mistakes made in the building of our present cities just to give you something to start on said the engineer imagine the whole ot of Alan manhattan battan south of forty second street swept clean overnight of every building property line ine sewer subway etc think what a wonderful opportunity there would be to improve each and every detail especially it if ou did not have to start rk rebuilding without having time to think as Is usually the case cage after an earthquake or a fire one womans comans view the i lews of women also have been sought by mr thomson because he believes it would be 11 impossible in possible to design an idealistic city without the ideas of the women mr thomson emphasizes the improvements prove ments which would add to the comfort of living and even suggests that each building bo be planned to cover an entire block with the tenants governed by a sub mayor we never want to burn a pound of coal nor cubic foot of gas in our new city of manhattan Mui hattan extended as we hope to get by hydro dro electric light neut neat and power from the niagara st lawrence delaware anil and hudson rivers which would supply all the light heat beat and power at a fraction of the cost required if 11 coal were used be said bald this would save the wear and tear ot of the streets from the hauling of pon oal and ash carts to say bay io nothing thing of the dust smoke and congestion of traffic it also would save space in the cella cellars a from coal ashes furnaces fura aces and boilers we do not want to have any dark subways but above our sewer street we want to have three other street levels each with sidewalks and stores on both sides the lower of these three levels level would be devoted to heavy trucking with railroad tracks all around the waterfront the next level would be ba for rapid transit purposes some soine big rapid transit engineers tell me the moving platform system could be so developed that our rapid transit streets in might be eq equipped nIpped that way the top level would be tor for light traffic automobiles buses and so on obviously we could handle at least four to live times the population per square mile of any other city in the world without congestion these df different ferent street levels would permit us to walk all over the city on the hottest day in summer or the coldest day in winter without a bat or overcoat merely selecting the proper street level every building would cover a whole block having root roof gardens on top with pools where children from three years up could learn to swim any one passing over the city would ook look down on beautiful gardens instead of thil present eyesores would it not be possible to have the top floors of many of these buildings devoted to apartments the floor below given up to restaurants clubs and so on where the people on thil tb upper floor could go down tor for their meals or have them cooked and sent up by dumb walters waiters in some cases where whole buildings above the street were devoted to apartments it would be possible to have a floor near the top Gel devoted voted to school purposes where the could have ready access to the roof gardens if the buildings were twenty or thirty or more floors tall a trolley line might run all around the city on tha file top level so that in the hottest day in summer refreshing rides could be had bad plans could be made tor for handling snow in front of each building which would prevent any trouble from snow or the necessity of carting it away new york lias has a wonderful erfiA bay and has had wona wonderful erful opportunities but in one hundred rind and twelve years the possible exception of the water supply every plan it has bas laid out war wai inadequate before it was completed |