A change in the masonwork was again recommended in 1880 and the work was again delayed. Wm. J. McAlpine was then appointed engineer of construction and A. P. Boiler was invited to consult with the board as to the iron superstructure. June 6, 1881, the contract for construction of approaches was awarded to John Mc- Quade for ninety-four thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. The whole cost of the bridge was four hundred and ninety-two thousand two hundred and ninety-five dollars.

This bridge is now crossed by the Madison Avenue line of horse-cars operated by the Harlem Railroad Company.

The Harlem or Third Avenue Brid(;e.-- The Harlem Bridge, at the terminus of Third Avenue, was first authorized by an act of the Legislature passed March 31, 1790,- granting the

> Acts above referred to nml Reports of Comniiseioners on flie in New York niitl VVestchcsler ("miiities.

-March HI, ITyiP.-- ("liaptiT xxxvii. of the laws of that year niithori/.e<l Lewis Morris to cuiiBtim t a Ijriilpe from Harlem to Morrisaiiiii, which was to be provided with a dniw ; tlic rates of toll were estiiblislicd. The

privilege to Lewis Morris, his heirs and assigns. The Morrises assigned this grant to one John B. Coles, who, on the 25th of March, 1795, obtained an act of the Legislature authorizing him, his heirs or assigns to build a dam across the Harlem River at that place, to be of stone and to be so built as to answer for the foundations of the bridge as well as to collect the waters of the river for the use of grist and other mills. The act provided for locks and that a man should be in attendance on thehk-k at all times ; that tiie bridge should be completed within fouryears; that Coles and his heirs should keep it in repair for sixty years and collect the tolls, after which it should vest in the people of the State.^