Word: rea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with strings of steel for the wind to play. So, in 1890, was formed the North River Bridge Co., a corporation dedicated solely to the building and operation of a Manhattan-Jersey bridge. Engineer F. W. Roebling was one of the original incorporators; so was the late great Samuel Rea, onetime (1913-25) Pennsylvania R. R. president. So was the late, great Thomas Fortune Ryan (TIME, Dec. 3). But of all that original company, only Builder Lindenthal, now 78, is alive today. And over the Hudson River, on Manhattan's west hangs yet no path of steel...
...east and west. In 1896 the Williamsburg Bridge was begun; in 1901 the Queensboro and the Manhattan. But none of these bridges were over Builder Lindenthal's river, although, as city commissioner of bridges he redesigned the Williamsburg Bridge and aided in the construction of the others. Meanwhile Railroader Rea, having found bridging the Hudson an insoluble financial problem, turned his attention to tunnels, and for him Consulting Engineer Lindenthal worked on the building of the 21-ft. cast iron tubes through which travelers from Pennsylvania Station today pass en route to the Jersey mainland. Later, still working with...
Tremendous, indeed, were the changes in the Penn system during the 50 years in which Mr. Rea was associated with it. He began as a rodman in 1871, at a time when the Penn road had hardly outgrown its original (1846) charter which provided that it should extend from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. Not only did he see the road pass through the greater part of the expansion which has made it a 12,000-mile system, but it was directly through his efforts that the Pennsylvania secured access to Manhattan. He planned a bridge across the Hudson from Jersey City...
...later years, as head of a great railroad, Mr. Rea was not only rail tycoon but public figure as well. Thus many a person knew that he belonged to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, that he supported Alfred Smith in the late campaign. He was famed, too, as a woodchopper and as a collector of English antique silver. Doubtless many of the thousands who this week passed through Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station realized that in it Samuel Rea has an enduring and a fitting memorial...
Died. Samuel Rea, 73, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., onetime president of the Pennsylvania Railroad...