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Show Five Giant Fingers Bind Cities. The five giant spans of steel, which, like gargantuan fingers clutch the two sides of East river, binding New York and Brooklyn together, cost America's Ameri-ca's metropolis half as much as the Panama canal cost the federal government. govern-ment. Three of them are suspended from cables, the wires of which, if placed end to end, would more than twice girdle the earth. If placed side by side, these five great structures would provide a roadway as wide as the Washington monument is high, and if placed end to end they would make a great bridge over six miles long. Across the Brooklyn bridge alone 125,-000 125,-000 surface cars travel every 24 hours, with other vehicular traffic in proportion. propor-tion. National Geographic Magazine. |