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THE GRAND ISLAND BRIDGE
[People’s Press, 13 December 1898]
The following appears as a dispatch to a Buffalo paper re the International Bridge rebuilding and may be of interest to citizens here:
Washington, Dec. 6-A somewhat startling piece of information comes today concerning the proposed new bridge across the Niagara River to touch Grand Island. The commission appointed under the act of Congress to decide upon the character of the bridge to be erected across the American channel of the river directs that there shall be a clear span of 200 feet each side of the pivot draw.
This makes an exceedingly expensive structure and one which is not likely to meet with the approval of capitalists, whose only desire is to secure communication between the Buffalo side of the river and Grand Island. Consequently it is necessary that the Canadian charter which authorizes the bridging of the channel between the island and the Canadian shore shall be used. This will be done, it is said, by a railroad corporation.
The news of the situation is that the railway company to construct that bridge will probably be the Grand Trunk. And they are going into the scheme for the purpose of providing more adequate terminal facilities for their road on Grand Island and than they now have in Buffalo.
It is said to be the purpose of the Grand Trunk to abandon their yards at Black Rock, and to acquire great tracts of land on Grand Island instead. Then, with the facilities which the new bridge will give for communication between the Dominion and the United States, they will be in shape to compete for trans-continental business to greater advantage than they are in the present moment.
The gentleman who is responsible for this statement is not willing to go into further detail but assured the correspondent that such a plan is in the air and that its consummation is likely to be brought about with the limit of time set by Congress for beginning the work upon the bridge.
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