 However, the contractor of which they hired to reconstruct the bridge, the New Jersey Bridge Company of Manasquan, New Jersey, believed that the new bridge would need new abutments and piers to be completed by that time, instead of using the old wooden bridge's piers.The three piers from the wooden bridge were used, and would require them to be heightened to be above any high flood waters.On June 3, 1904, the bridge construction began on a barge in the river, with promises to be complete by the set date of August 17.