. Scenes of modern New York . Copyright, Irving Underhill, N. YTHE SPEEDWAY AND WASHINGTON BRIDGE. This well-constructed roadway on the western bank of the Harlem River was built exclusively for thespeeding of horses in light harness. It cost $4,000,000. was four years in building, and is four miles long. Here speed trials are made every afternoon. TheWashington Bridge crosses the Harlem River at 181st Street. It is a steel, iron and granite structure, costing $3,000,000, and is 2,384 feet THE NORTH RIVER. The name applied to the Hudson where it flows between the city and the Jersey sho
. Scenes of modern New York . Copyright, Irving Underhill, N. YTHE SPEEDWAY AND WASHINGTON BRIDGE. This well-constructed roadway on the western bank of the Harlem River was built exclusively for thespeeding of horses in light harness. It cost $4,000,000. was four years in building, and is four miles long. Here speed trials are made every afternoon. TheWashington Bridge crosses the Harlem River at 181st Street. It is a steel, iron and granite structure, costing $3,000,000, and is 2,384 feet THE NORTH RIVER. The name applied to the Hudson where it flows between the city and the Jersey shore. The available North River water front of NewYork is estimateu to be about 13 miles. Below 43d Street on the New York side the shore is lined with great steamboat docks and warehouses, and ferry Jersey City and Hoboken side is equally crowded. Many of the famous transatlantic lines have docks on the Jersey shore. The amount of daily traffic onthese waters is enormous. Big liners, tugs, ferries, and canal boats are continually passing. The great freight and passenger ferries of the Pennsylvania Railroad,which has a terminal in Jersey City, are a noticeable feature of every day life on the river. v^ $ * 4* ? ~;p* I \. 1? S ?.?.• : .^v -
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