HARRISBURG BRIDGE COMPANY
223 MARKET STREET
HARRISBURG, PA.

Willard S. Young
Secretary and Treasurer
May 20th, 1902

Mr. Theodore Cooper,
Consulting Engineer,
35 Broadway, New York City.
Dear Sir:
We may be able to make plain our need for a consulting engineer without a formal interview.
The old piers from 70 to 80 yards apart will not answer and new ones for two bridges 
(divided by an island 260 yards wide) each 1400 feet long must be built. - the material
to be chosen.  A proposed trolley rack outside of truss with say a twenty foot roadway
and say 8-foot footwalk also the nature of the flooring whether plank, brick or asphalt and c.
would also be decided, as to the best for the money.  Cost is now a serious matter because
of present prices.  Again and ordinary design made by each  builder - would do as well as a 
special upon which bids should be made.  We would need light on hour close supervision 
is necessary for proper construction and what times we could get for having the whole job
completed in a satisfactory manner.  You may see that the advice we 

HARRISBURG BRIDGE COMPANY
223 MARKET STREET
HARRISBURG, PA.

Willard S. Young
Secretary and Treasurer

need is from the start adapting the site of the old bridge first, and from that point on 
to the end.
As you probably know, the original bridge built by Theodore Burr in 1817 is still standing,
that is, the west end of it  
Yours truly,
Henry McCormick, Jr., Prest.