ITEMS OF INTEREST February 6, 1909 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

After the Pennsylvania Railroad has advanced farther with its terminal station and other improvements in New York city, work will be started on a bridge from Port Moreys, a suburb of New York, to Queens County, Long Island. With the approaches it will be three miles long, and span the Hell Gate ship channel with an enormous arch one thousand feet in the clear. The train floor of the bridge, instead of resting on the crown of the arch, will be hung from it. The crown will be three hundred feet above the water and the floor one hundred and forty feet, enabling the largest steamers to pass under with ease. The bridge will have four tracks, two for passenger trains and two for freight.

Secretary Newberry's plan for the reorganization of the Navy Department which recently received the unanimous approval of a conference of men who have been prominent in naval affairs, called together at the direction of the President, contemplates the abolishment of the bureau system at the navy yards, the enlargement of the general board of the navy, and the reorganization of the board on construction, so that there may be more complete coordination in the work.

By virtue of an important decision affecting the diamond cutting and polishing industry of this country, rendered by the Department of Commerce and Labor recently, eight Belgian diamond cutters, whoom the Diamond Workers' Protective Union of America succeeded in having detained at Ellis Island on the charge that they had been brought to this country in violation of the contract labor law, will be permitted to enter the United States.

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