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THE ILLUSTRATED BEE.
April 28, 1001.
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This Bridge is a
Record-Breaker
tCupyilght, 1WI. I'V tho H. a. .MeCluto Co.) to tower will bo uii nffalr of tho greatest
( iiIdhm In llif Immediate future sumu of lulnir mid nlconcks. It would bo hard to
tin- magicians of science spring u surprise present thu delicacy of this operation to
upon tliu world, the new East river bridge, t10 ny ml ml, but ft conception of It may
thrown from Mniihiiiiun (o llrooklyn, will bo given ulun It Is said that these enor
le tho Hist ureal record-breaker of tho iiioiih cables will havo to bo twisted, two
twentieth eeiilury. It will, when llnlshed, tiny wires at a time, high In nild-alr. The
mark tho ellmax of achievement In bridge pteparatlons for spinning thnso cables aro
building. I" many respects It will bo ono now undur way; tho four solid stotl saddloj,
of thu most reinarkiiblo structures of Its curb weighing thlrty-ilvo tons, over which
kind hi tho world. As a suspension bridge iho cables will pass, aro In place at tho
u will stand unrivaled, mid as an engl- lop (lf (ho towers, and all Is being mado
nccring feat only ono bridge inn approach ready to sling tho first wire. Hut before
il, Us near neighbor, tliu llrooklyn bridge, that can bo done n sort of minor bridge
Indeed, the latter Is thu only suspension but ono which, by the way, will cost $200,
brldgo In tho world to be compared with 00(1- will havo to be erected, and from
II, and to give some Idea of tliu magnitude this thu work of constructing the cublcs
and ambition of tin- new bridge some e ,m- will go on.
paratlvo Ilgures between it and the old will ''hU f0(,t,rldgo ul consist of ti sus
forin tho best Illustration. ponded structure of threo Bpaus, one of
Thu greatest contrast between the two lm f),ol between t,0 two towers, and two
lies In their relative strength. Roughly, tho (lf CHry (;qo feet each between tho towers
new Enst river bridge will bo four times uh 11MI Krui,t unchorago. Tho mlddlo span
strong as tliu llrooklyn bridge; each of Its -vv t X I virtually consist of two narrow par
four rubles will lie about twlcu as stout an,, ,i(,ubIo-deck bridges, sixty-seven feot
as those which support thu span of tho ,mrL 0ll centers, and connected by cross
oliler Htructure. and in other respects its bridges joy fact apart. Making tho con
superiority In strength will bu maintained. nuct between tho towers for this fuot
Mim-iiuIIi ir Hi 'ulil'N. bridge is an interesting operation in ltsolf.
Each of thu four cables will consist of Contrary to precedent In such ciiecs tho
thirty-seven strands, and each strand will llrt bond of union Is a heavy cable,
havu 2S2 single wires, a total of 10,13! weighing- over twelve toriB, and not a
wires In each cable. Thu normal pull on thread or light lino as was used in tho
each cable will lie about r,,000 tons, and us llrooklyn and other suspensory bridges,
each will be capable of supporting 200,000 Hero is how tho connection was made:
pounds to thu Htiuro Inch, and will havo Thu end ol tho wlru rope, two anil a quur
222 hquaru inches, net, tho engineers cal- tor incites in diameter and three thousand
ctilato that the suspension power of the feet In length was attached llrnily to the
bridge will bo four times greater than the unchorago on tho Manhuttun side. Tho
maximum demand upon It. other end was then passed over tho tower
The width of the new structure will lie IIS on tho Manhattan side and down to a tint
led, as compared with tliu elghly-llvo feet boat at tho edge of tho water. On this Mat
of tho lliooklyn bridge, ami the character boat tho free end of tho cable was fixed,
and amount of its tralllc accommodation and u tugboat started slowly on the ttlp
will lie proportionately greater. II will across tho liver, tho cable being carefully
have six railroad tracks, two carriage ways, reeled off, ho us to sink toward the bottom
each twenty feet wide, two-foot walks, and of the stream, between tho Mat boat and tho
as concessions to thu growing tastes of the side of tho river on which It was attached,
public, two bicycle (ml lis. that it might not Impede navigation during
In actual channel span thu two bridges tho time ttiat the cubic was being pulled
will not present u great difference, merely across tho stream. When tho cable had
a mutter of four ami a half feet, but In tho been stretched ncross tho river tho unat
l nt nl length of the spun tho new bridge Inched end was passed up over tho Brook
will claim the record by 1,200 feet. Tho lyn tower and tho lino hauled from tho bed
llrooklyn bridge lias a channel span of 1,- of tho river and drawn taut till the loose
r,.r, Vt feet and u total length of 0,000 reel, end reached the anchorage on the lliooklyn
Tho Ilgures of tliu new blidgo aro respco- slilo.
lively l.fiOO feet and 7,200 feet. .. .
The steel lowers of tho now bridge nru "'-
about llfiy-nln.- feet taller than thu m.i- wlth thu C0InpIul,,n ()t the temporary
sotiry spires of llrooklyn bridge. Tho rap 1)rl(lf,0 w, hvKlu tllu 8trotching of thu
of tho steel work from high water is :i:i:, clll)lu prop,,,.. T1, necessary wire for tho
feet, similar iiienhiircuicnts on the llrooklyn ,, cal)lll( ,s nw , t,,0 UOU.80 of Ina,ju.
bridge give a height of 27(1 feet. Thu mini- fllC!turo ,lt Trenton, N. J., and will uo
mum height of the bridge for 200 fe.it on three-sixteenths of an Inch In dlamotor.
either side of thu center abovu mean high MH , lmvo uIrt.U(Iy , wlll bu cnpauiu
water of spring tides is ir. feet; thu llrook- of H11HtillnlllK a Htrillll llf 00,000 pounds
Imi bridge has thu same height, but only at l(, lllu B(mro ,Iluh. Kliuh wlru wl bo nm,ll
icilirai point. -1 .000 feet hi letiLth n nil will hi, nhlnnnl
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MANHATTAN END OP NEW EAST RIVEK BRIDGE, LOOKING FHOM THE RIVER.
Not Too Blind
the
liniinu ami liclleiilr. to tliu brhlgu site on drums. In each cable twisted steel w ire rope, and to ench of these will bo received on shoes, which will rest
The work of building this brhlgu Is n thero will ho 10.000 wires, laid straight and suspenders the cud of the Hour beams will on legs several feet from tho anchor plus.
work of during uiid enterprise, complicated parallel to each othor, which will bo first lie attached. Tho lloor beams and thu entire This arrangement will cause tho strand Mls3 Wnlta Webster went to tho probate
nod full of the most delicate detail. It Iiub grouped Into strands of thlrty-slx to each structure will bo thus suspended from tho during construction to hang from twulvo Judge at Stockton, Kan., and procured n
brought forth tho display of the greatest cable. Each strand will contain 280 wires cables proper by the suspenders. Whou to sixteen feet above Its Una 1 position aud mariiago license for herself and Joslah
skill in engineering and the perfection of aud will bo temporarily wrapped. When completed tho cables will be sheeted with ulford an opportunity to udjust each wire Thompson. Sho explained to tho Judgo that
mechanical appliances. From tho sinking tho thirty-seven strands for each cable are n casting of sheet steel about one-six- separately to exact parallelism with a stau- Joslah didn't come along because ho is
of tho stone piers to their bed of rock, lift niudo, then the temporary wrapping Is re- tconth of nn Inch In thickness, overlapping, dard wire. As the end of one coll Is blind and couldn't see to do tho business,
feet below thu water level, to tho spinning moved and the 10,000 wires are grouped in order to shed tho water reached, It will be spliced to the end of an- "But ho makes $S00 a year, even If ho Is
in miil-iilr of tiie mighty cables, tho work together in a cylindrical cable. Each cable Tho operation of cable-making will con- other coll, and tho wire uiudo continuous
lias been performed, with unerring preel- will bo held In form by heavy chimps of slst of an endless rope, moved In both throughout tho strand. The wires In each
sloii mid lldollty. Thu sinking of the.io steel weighing nbout 100 pounds each, directions by a steam engine placed in tho strand will be lashed together in an approxi-
plers was done in a depth of sixty feet of These bands will bo placed twenty fee construction plane of each cable. This niatoly cylindrical shape, lowered several
water ami presented a dltllculty real and apart uud will securo tho suspenders to the ropo passing around sheaves at the nnchor- fuel, aud united to form tho cable, which
Imardoiis. rallies. These suspenders are to consist of ago will carry a bight of the cabl wire will be built In a vertical plune and after-
iiie stretching of the rubles from tower four strands of ono and three-iinarter-lnch across tho river. The loops at both ends wards moved transversely to glvo It tho
required cradling. As explained, during thu
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process of cable-making In previous bus
pouslou bridges, Including thu Brooklyn
bridge, tho straud wires havo all been
pulled across from one side of tho river
and the cablo-tnaklng has been performed
by a limited number of men In traveling
cars suspended alongsldo of the cables.
This, however, has been vastly Improved
upon In tho cuso of tho now bridge, whore
tho wires will bo pulled across from both
sides of tho river.
WorUlim; I rout llotli KiiiIn.
It has been so arranged that two st ranis
of each cable, or eight strands In all, en
be simultaneously made, aud a practlcallj
unlimited number of men can work on
them simultaneously by means of the fool
bridges, which form thu working platform
under each cable for Its full length. For
this operation four sots of machinery will
bu required, and tliesu will so expedite
tho work on tho tour cables that they wlll
bo built moro rapidly than over before
thought practicable
Tho weather will play an Important part
In the making of those cables. In calm
woather tho work can bo cnriied on with
out Interruption, but it will almost entirely
ceaso during high winds. Tho cables at
each unchorugo will bo attached to tho
forty steel eyebars, fourteen feet long,
which are built in solid masonry. These
will bo walled In with granite blocks of
tho sumo sizo as thoso used In building tho
anchorage, after tho cables huvo been attached.
This new bridge will, Indeed, bo In ovory
blind," triumphantly added Miss Walta.
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monument to American engineering genius.
The re is no spaco hero to speak of its
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It. LEWIS NIXON,
President New East Ulvor Bridge Cora-mission.
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