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Show THE ST. I.OUIS itltUM.r. The BUperstmcturo of the new St. Louis bridge across the Mississippi may be brieHy described. ' There nre three ppans of. respectivuly, 497, 515, and 407 feet in the clear. Kach is formed of four ribbed arches of cast steel. The upper roadway, planked and bounded by railings, is for carriage car-riage and foot passengers. There is a roadway of 34 feet and two sidewalks, side-walks, each 8 feet,- making a total width of 50 feet. ' The railroad passages pass-ages are beneath tho carriage-way, each is lo$ feet wide in the clear and 18 feet high, arched openings of tho same size being made in the piers. The tracks aro carried over the levees on oither shore on five stone arches, each 20 feet wide; over th&se is a capstone cap-stone arcade of twenty arches supporting sup-porting the carriage-way. From the etono arches on the west sho-e brick arches carry the track into the tunnel at Third street, leading to the Union depot. On the eastern shore the tracks curve awity to the north and south, descending to the Tltinnia pnidfi over an annroach of trestle-work somo 3,000 foet in length, with a fall of one foot in 100. The- carriage-way descends straight between them, with a (all of five in 100; on the west side it is carried car-ried on a level to Third street. Gates with automatic attachments registering register-ing the number of passers, check the gray-uniformed toll-takers, and police patrol the bridge to discourage suicide. sui-cide. Under the bridge, the lowest part of the arch being tifty feet above high-water mark, the diminished iteamere pufl and creep and the impatient im-patient river flashes past with a speed that makes the head swim. The cost well, Colonel E;ids told your correspondent that they dealt in ! nothing less than 8;x-figure items, and 1 it would be impossible for a long time to arrive at the precise amount. For oridge proper 116 eetiuvaitir iuour St; . 000,000 $700, 000 for the land,$da,- 000 for caissons and foundations, 51,-300,000 51,-300,000 for masonry, $.r.00,000 for the approach on the Illinois shore, $1,700,000 for the superstructure, and 1 $1,300,000 for incidentals and lmsc-el-mheoufe. ' -nr thn tnnnel he added $1,500,000 or over, and tho interest account, discounts, cost of consolidation, consolida-tion, financing, etc., would make altogether a sum of $11,000,000. |