Chatterbox, 1906

When two large cities stand opposite to one another on the banks of ariver, it is not likely they can do very well without a bridge toconnect them. Yet the citizens of New York and Brooklyn were obliged tomanage as best they could for a good many years before they had theirbridge. There were many difficulties in the way. For one thing, theriver is very broad; for another, the tall-masted ships ply up and downso frequently that it would never do to build anything which wouldobstruct their passage