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Queens Borou Its Social Happenings and Industrial Life; Wedding of Prominent Flushing Man. Mr. Ernst Wetmore Pittman of Flushing and Miss Estelle Young Romeyn were married on Thursday at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Romeyn, 63 East Sixty-fourth Street Manhattan.

Miss' Emma L. Romeyn was maid of honor. The bridegroom is the son of Mrs. H. Wise of Flushing and is prominent in social and civic affairs.

Lawn Fete To-day. The lawn fete and bazar for the benefit of the New York branch of the Shut-In Society will be held to-day at the home of Mrs. G. Howland Leavitt, Bayside, To Keep Open Country Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Steele of 1 East Sixty-seventh Street will remain at their country house, Sunridge Hall, Westbury, until the new year. Will Remain in Weatbury. Mr. and Mrs. Walter S- Gurnee and their daughter; Belle B.

Gurnee, have decided to spend Christmas at their country home in Westbury. To Spend Autumn Daya in Manhaaaet. Mr. and Mrs. Cortlandt D.

Barnes are passing the autumn in Manhasset. Will Winter in Town. Mr, and Mrs. Horatio S. Gardner of 601-West One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Street have, closed their summer home, Shadow Brook, Bay Shore, and will spend the winter in town, Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens, and also president of the New York Queens Electric Light Power Company, which has supplied the electric power used in the construction of this bridge, "The completion of this enormous engineering project will be of inestimable value not only to the thousands of manufacturers who are now established in the borough, but will be the deciding factor in bringing a vast number of new industries to Queens Borough, This big undertaking will do away with the necessity of lightering freight cars across the East to the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad terminals as it will give a "direct all-rail route between Long Island and the New England StateSy and the West, and will result in a great saving of time in the" transportation of commodities of every kind.

In the very neat future long trains of freight cars will be threading their way over the great structure bringing to Queens coal, iron, steel, cotton and food products, and taking back to all parts of the United States the finished products of Queens Borough's thousands of manufacturing establishments. It will furnish remarkable shipping facilities for freight to and from New England over the New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad, to all parts of Long Island and Brooklyn over the Long Island Railroad and to the South and West over the Railroad." Maurice E. Connolly Favora Railroad Lease. The proposal to lease a section of the Long Island Railroad trackage for the operation of rapid transit trains from Corona to Whitestone and Little Neck has been favorably received by Borough President Maurice E. Connolly from Clifford B.

Moore, Consulting Engineer; of Queens. The report shows that the cost of constructing a city built line to Whitestone Little Neck would be. approximately on which, the interest would be $300,000 per annum, in comparison with an initial rental of the trackage at $12,000 a year, with anannual increase-of six per cent. 7 It points out also that while the city has pledged $1,000,000 toward rapid transit in this section, this amount would not cover the cost of building a three-track elevated road to Main Street, Flush- ing, including the construction of a bridge across Flushing Creek. Attention also is called to the fact that no money will be available for several years for building a city owned line beyond Flushing, while the city's schedule provides no rapid transit whatever for Little Neck, College Point and Whitestone, The report recommends that four new stations be erected on the Port Washington branch, one at Parsons Avenue, Flushing one between Broadway and Auburndale one between Auburndale and Bayside, and one at Tenth Street, It also recommends that the platforms of all the stations now on a ground level be raised to the car floor level, and that the Whitestone branch be double tracked and a signal system installed.

The report further recommends that the $1,000,000 promised for -the Flushing extension shall berheld in reserve until an agreement with the Long Island Railroad Company has been entered into. Local Yachtsmen's Meeting Announced. Yachtsmen of Long Island Sound have been notified of a meeting to be held at the Astor Hotel October twenty-eighth, under the auspices of the Yacht Racing "Association of Long Island, when the affairs of that active organization incidental to the sport will be discussed. It is also possible that the con-; sideration of a few (pfptests will also be before the meeting: for adjudication and adjustment. Foreat Hill.

Field Club. The main feature of the Forest Hills Field Club last Saturday was a medal play handicap in two classes. In the first class J. I. Wheaton captured the honors, while in the second a triple tie resulted.

The scores were: Class A J. I. Wheaton 84-13-71, A. G. Brooker 90-14-76, S.

R. Nagle 9415 79, O. M. Voigt 96-1581, A. Gussman 921082, Thomas Chisholm 951352, S.

Owen 9814-84, Charles Cameron 97-12-85; L. Kaiser 100-15-85, Ologaga 101-15-86; Class W. B. Hutchinson 941876, W. B.

Chisholm 98-0-22-76, J. H. Blue 9519-76 (the triple tie), W. W. Lyons, Wilson Vance 106-16-90, H.

O. Seely 114-23-91. The New Bridge Over Hell Gate. The two halves of the arch of the new bridge over Hell Gate were joined during the past week to form the greatest steel arch bridge in the world, which will be part of the costliest link in the mammoth project known as the New York Connecting Railroad connecting the Pennsylvania Railroad system with the New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad system. The accompanying photograph shows the arch as completed this "week.

The steel werelbuilt gradually out over the river; fromjhe two huge stone abutments and their physical connection will-now, permit the jeon-; struction of the deck of the bridge, which will be 140 feet above the East River, while the'top of the arch will be 300 feet above the river. The steel used in the superstructure shown in the photograph acted as a counter-weight to support the river spans during construction and will now be taken down and put into the construction of- the viaduct approaches on both sides of the river. In commenting; upon the great industrial impetus this bridge will give to the Borough of Queens, Mr. C. G.

M. Thomas president of the v- A Copyrighted by Brown Bros. THE NEW STEEL ARCH BRIDGE OVER HELL GATE, Part of the New York Connecting Railroad..