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...increased approaches. The Army's specifications, it said, would add $25,000,000 to a cost that already rose close to $200,000.000. But the Army insisted on 200 ft. clearance to accommodate the masts of the Leviathan, Majestic, Olympic, Bremen and Berengaria, which otherwise could not get above 57th Street. The Bridge company pointed out that 135 ft. was the highest liner stack, offered to put collapsible masts on vessels that could not get under their span. The Army's decision was a victory for the Fifth Avenue Association and other civic groups who argued that the congested midtown...
...that same year the Pennsylvania opened its Manhattan terminal. For two decades he has been plotting and planning how he could get his line across the river to compete with the Pennsylvania in the country's richest passenger market. A huge Hudson River bridge to Manhattan's 57th Street seemed the solution. Though no official sponsor, President Willard rooted hard for this project. Now he is 70 years old; his great career as a railroader is drawing to a natural close. The War Department's disapproval meant that he would probably never live to see the day when...
Austrian-born Engineer Gustav Lindenthal, builder of New York City's Hellgate Bridge, co-builder of the Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnels under the Hudson River and planner of the prospective bridge to span the Hudson at Manhattan's 57th Street, celebrated his 81st birthday and said: "In half a century, perhaps . . . New York will . . . rise a great, white, shining city, such as the world has never known, and men will be more at peace there than anywhere on the earth. . . . But I know what will happen in 200 years. . . . New York will be like a ripe apple. All things...
...Queen passed the afternoon shopping in West 57th Street, accompanied and counseled by Mrs. Reid. The? King, attended by the Physician in Ordinary, Rear Admiral Thavara Chayant, was pleased to consult Dr. John M. Wheeler in his office at No. 30 West 59th Street...
Protesting that "functionalistic" modern architecture was being excluded from the exhibition, Art Dealer Thomas Mabry and a number of architects held a rump show on West 57th Street of their rejected concrete-and-gaspipe designs. But the committee of the Architectural League had not excluded all examples of functional architecture. There were rows & rows of photographs and designs of such buildings, and chief exhibit of the show was the "Magic House," a complete three-story affair of polished aluminum and glass, designed to take the place of the rows of jerry-built Olde Englysshe cottages for families of modest means...