Originally published in 1939
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Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003

BAYONNE BRIDGE (toll: car and passengers 50¢, pedestrians 5¢), Hudson County Blvd. and W. 7th St., is the longest steel arch span in the world, exceeding a similar structure at Sydney, Australia, by 25 feet. Resting on the subsurface rock at the southern end of the Palisades, it sweeps across the Kill van Kull in a single span of 1,675 feet to Staten Island. The bridge deck is 150 feet above high water; beneath it passes a steady procession of tugs, lighters, oil tankers and freighters. For beauty of design its gray arch is rivaled in the metropolitan area only by the George Washington Bridge (see Tour 1), a suspension span. Designed by Othman H. Ammann and Leon Moisseiff, the structure cost $16,000,000. Since its opening in 1931, traffic has not been great enough to take care of the carrying charges.

TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Broadway and 5th St., was erected in 1881 after the burning of an earlier edifice.. Built in the Victorian Gothic style from plans by E. J. N. Stent, the rough brownstone building was the scene in 1887 of the wedding of Nicholas Murray Butler, then a young tutor in philosophy at Columbia University, to Susanna Edwards Schuyler, daughter of the church's chief benefactor. Another prominent church 'member was Henry Meigs, first mayor of Bayonne and a president of the New York Stock Exchange. Early in 1938 the church attained new distinction when the rector, the Reverend William C. Kernan, opened the parish halt for a speech barred from practically every other hall in Hudson County: an address by Roger Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a spearhead in the attack on Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City for his campaign against trade union organizers.

ELCO WORKS (open 9-5 weekdays), Ave. A and North St., is the oldest and largest builder of standardized cruisers in the United States In the long, low building along Newark Bay are built small motorboats and 125-foot yachts with a complete series of intermediate sizes. During the World War, Elco built 722 submarine chasers. Organized in 1892, the company's first big job was the construction of 55 electric launches for the lagoons at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.

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