Show l LARGEST T BRIDGE I t tI 4 I IN T THE W L That Joining the Boroughs of Man Mao Manhatton hatton and pod Brooklyn Has This Distinction A IMMENSE STEEL STRUCTURE While bile It liDS Has Been Formally Opened it itIs ItIs ItIs Is Not Sot Yet Ready Read for Pro Iro Proposed posed Traffic Special Correspondence Now New York Dee Deb Zi Tho ascend of tho the great bridges joining tho the boroughs of 01 Manhattan and Brooklyn hu has at lit last lait been formally opened to the tho public Mayor Van an Wyck cherished through Ills his term the tho hope that t at to him would fall the honor of 01 calibrating this fur tur further ther unification of Greater New Ne ew York but hut strikes lire fire and other causes caules have hae delayed tho lie progress s of ot the structure until Mayor M or Low has barely bare escaped having hallIg to leave to his hl the dedication of at the he largest argest l r el uel n bridge In III the world Even now the tho bridge Is far ar from front nady for the traffic It Is destined to bear benr Not a n rail lucia has heel heed laid for tor the hue earn cura which will carry the hue bulk of or those thore who must cross crOM tim the bridge every HY day die For l or sonic BOttle time limits to como come only the foot Coot footways ways Ill and one aim of the carriage roads will be used u Hut But the thc bridge Itself Is completed and that Is reason rea on enough lor mr the tho Jubilee has Just Juet been beert held hehl The Flue bridge is not only the largest suspension bridge In tit world but hul It Is time the largest larK Mt steel structure ture turc tire Stone masonry Is employed only In III the foundation of or the lie and the he approaches The towers totters of the old Brooklyn bridge are all nil stone Each of at Ie the towers of ot the tho new RI highway high 11 ron eon hums tons ins of 01 steel The he girders III In tin thiu approach weigh and In lit the Manhattan approach JOli O tons tuis The TIte central span weighs tons tOIlA while the cables and anti JIlting fittings tip the tim scales ealos 8 at nt tons tone Other Oilier parts hurts of steel about the great Creat structure bring the total to toils tuns The That mill full length of nC the bridge Is feet fet 1215 1275 feet more than tho the old bridge The width is IR feet while tho thin bridge Is III but hut 65 fret wide The length of tho tInt main span spon from Crom tower to In tower toner is 1000 COO feet feel Time The minimum height of or the th structure above mean highwater of oC the spring tides for tor or feet teet tacit side of or the Ih center of or tho the main intuit span Is 13 feet Thin Tho ho height of If the tho cables lIlt at the Uie top tup of or the tho towers tover Is feet Ceet The Tho foundation of oC the tow tov to IT era 1114 rest on bed rock The north pier on III time the Manhattan Hide Is fC ToG feet teel deep at nl high bight water while the south pier Is U 10 feet ret deeper The hl timber used u ell for or false also work etc In building hun I lull the hue t bridge ge amounted a to feet Tho Iho excavating vat log equaled lout cubic uhle yards There are u re cubic yards of ot concrete masonry cubic yards of ot stone static masonry III In the lie foundations and approaches A S feature of oC the new II W bridge Is If that the tho hue carriage ways lA arc outside the tho cables supported by II brack brackets brackets ets They Time The are arc paved with wooden blocks laid lahl on foundations of 01 steel teel plates 8 Between the Ohio roadways there will lie 10 six railway trucks tracks two tim III In the limo center for tor thin tho uso of or elevated trains and 1111 two trucks on nit each side clue of or these o fur or trolley ears cars The Time elevated P tracks will be slight ly I higher titan than the trolley tracks and amid andover over them n a bicycle path may be Ito built Over each cant of time the spaces left for or ley It earn Is a footpath While thin the new bridge Is not nearly as graceful as the thu old curl because of the free uso etia of steel teel It Is much stronger for or that mime sattie reason and will bundle n a third larger The Thi preliminary work on art tIm tho bridge was urns undertaken In iii los but It was wa not until 1506 that ac at actual tush construction was begun Political changes have transferred the sion slon of the work from one to another It has been under the control of the department of bridges A spectacular fire In November W 1902 starting from rein a a match dropped by a careless workman on ott one of the tho destroyed the wooden footbridge hung across the river for the use of the men in stringing the cables and seriously damaged some of the strands of the hue two southern cubic cables setting the work back several months The cables were woven scoven in n position The Tho cost coat of the bridge about Leffert Lefferts Huck fluck the man who designed the tho bridge Is nn an engineer of at large experience During his career hp has ha superintended the tue construction of two steel arch bridges at Niagara Falls the Columbia river bridge for thou thu Northern Pacific railway the bridge In Peru and many other notable engineering works storks He lie Is iu a civil war veteran |