| Show j passing assing of One of ca s Noted Wonders bonders il 1 Chat G 6 and electricity Dave Wrought I 1 engineers of tho 1111 B department of ot bridges New Nety NewYork I i I of ot the Iho city of ot have decided York fork ork it that thai tho time line Is h trot not far distant dl when tho bridge must bo be condemned ie re relit rev staled taUd authoritatively Il it is also dan dnn danof lit I no Immediate that while from tho truo Ii io to be of tho thu r the subway a h b rill If 0 a and tho under construction rennel bolh noW limit of ot the tho old the l bo Sine and that Its It II recon t of at ue ln 1111 ilIO on should a the be entered upon at atU tart IU j tut IGat time or of Us its At U the time ago O last laet l t port q oue years were ero nudo live M n ement ono of ot thorn a act the Ibe reAt that the clant K effect rdo at 10 US Ul to tho tl o do doU doot would to tomate U 1110 M for tor generations of ot demon 11 li It did dl 1 not tako e long to cf mate fallacy ot that Proposition Ilia Me tha thO deistic tsar 1111 spun ho hoc ho lit III Out Inadequacy of ot the won wort wonder tore c re the Iho utter uller apparent nt tS to nil U It was wall also der Spat on aP tho the occasion of ot tho the bridges bridgest trance that It II was wan Indestructible t to 10 un an enduring L to tho the skill of ot lt Its builders t spirit of ot tho the clU cill T and IK the tho he metropolis The rho last rein rem C eM of that bell Indeed It over rant ant of I shattered a IL few tew M at tit awa that 2 1 6 when hen It waa W S discovered yeas eaU pg of ot tho the steel which ecu beautiful structure In the Md held succumbed beneath tho tiro un unC unforeseen C foreseen lion ion ud bad n twin which they hud had been 1 upon u on to endure ellIt local prophet had risen dur I II If soma omo ceremonies attendant on tho the the he of ot tho do bridge and predicted opening treatment which the tho new now structure IM the would bo be culled called J upon to undergo he ho THE BROOKLYN r BRIDGE BRIDGErS BRIDGEr I rS r 1 b I j 1 I Is s f 1 a 4 a Lt marled uk i r 1 L L rl niN rYu CORROSION ON EXPOSED r r r r V fn r N fl I IX caL J L rG S Sw Sr r Y d y r r w i HOW THE CABLE CApLE C DU DUIS p e 4 IS ANCHORED would have been bee 11 discredited moat most promptly rho Tho mil milway way was opened to 10 tho thu public on Sept 24 1883 1583 HI id that ditto data the tho service leo ice huu has expanded from from a IL car every evory flea IIvo minutes to 10 a n four cut cur train min every seconds during the busy bu time of ot the tho da The passenger Ilk I has imas Increased from 1500 a n tiny dilY to about In At 1891 the thc trolley cart cars hero permitted to use UBe the brill us liS a n roadway rOI l U It Is its estimated c that hunt tho thu to total total tor tal tol number of ot dully daily round lIIM made by these theBe cats cars rather exceeds 1000 The Tho actual number of ot persons carried over the tho bridge within horns ions has been approximated at At least cross oVer ncr by hy the tho promo promenade nado nade and carriage vui ways s Inadequacy however IK is by hy no me means ins 1118 1 I 1 the wort that Ih tt huts has n h hl Milieu splendid did structure The Tho very means that have havo been Iwen devised to it of ot Us lis of Incompetency have hap led ly iy I to Its early dissolution Mankind has been so se absorbed In tho the benefits conferred by electricity that little account has hall been t taken r of ot ilK Ils ca en enl a l purity to Its very power to lQ end cad animal an existence speedily and pain painlessly lessly has hilS been lm utilized t i to make mans putt part In tin till of ot Justice less onerous and ani repugnant It has hns won Its way Into Inlo the tho hearts and minds of ot men until thero Is III none who looks upon It us as nn 1111 enemy Without yield yieldIng Ing III nn atom of ot UN its mystery It lax has bo ho come cOllie tho the familiar of ot men inert and linn lax been heun 1011 assigned the tha role of ot obedient servant It has hall been so outwardly HO so tractable that man mall bas almost ceased to regard It ns hS ono OliO of tins least understood mid and II I III most to be feared tea rod of ot natural All the tho time that man hoe has been gloat gloating KOA liiK ing In over his hue cleverness a In III this mighty mIght force and guiding It with u n rein there thero has hall been mischief ml brewing h w III I Noiselessly without uxter exter nal lIal muni rotation of any description but hut hover ceasing anti and forever nearer the tha Html catastrophe electric I itys ts almost forgotten power of ot diem chern teal Ual decomposition has been he en going on onTo onro To ro this unseen disintegration In Is II duo the tho systematic undermining of ot the tho Brooklyn bridge the steel foundations of at the lie adjacent skyscrapers and tho the miles manes of ot underground metallic mains and wires wI reg In the tho vicinity According i ito to tho tha reports of ot the most mORt expert elec electricians C In fn the tho country the great steel spans over the tho gust EI t river and all nil tho the property properly lying between tho the termini of at atthe the tho bridges and within n a two to mile milIo rn 11 dine of ot them ate are being disintegrated e l I and corroded by tho the stray electric cur currents current cursor rents rent and their devastating sor u of ot f When electricity el was wall first used lilt this his danger was almost entirely overlooked Even aven the croakers those who Mho saw no merit In iii the now power made no 11 point of ot tho the matter This neglect on the tile part of scientist to sound n II note fete of ot Is the more inure Iron tho the o fact that electrolysis haul bc been n known to chemists for tor many genare lIon It 11 had bang 1011 been heen an undisputed and frequently demonstrated tact fait that composite o 11 substances could he be separated cd ell Into Int their elements by hy the tile electric C current Against t lion Iron pure Ire amid tho the current Is In Inert Steel Ste l however Is la lanot not on an elementary Besides Je ldes Iron ton It contains silicon mung nese I and phosphorus pho The of ot these elements clementI in III small seems to bo be 1 t HS to the Integrity r which disturbs of ot steel und mIl anything the lie cliental chemical union by b which they the are I held together converts conert the substance I known as steel Into a It worth E I li loss less corroded mass That Is l the tats fain fa It of I the tho Brooklyn and IU its fellows f tellow A similarly handicapped victims of ot the thu f V of ot 1 Ii d t tIt tl It must not lIot bo be 0 concluded conclude that tho the Js bridge has been a n failure In III every ery t sense en a r I I i t of lit tho pro term On the contrary It h been one of lit the most 1101 Hue HUB I I of the present time ngo AM As u tl it o t teal II ell I of ot It a giant cancel Ij rat tion It has Us Its II right light to ox Vi r lilt lat It t has hili d 4 1 i to the expansion of ot the metropolis and all 1 I l It H linn has been ono one of ot Us Its most potent meg mag l i Ji iT nits nets to attract the visitor Neither hen hall hallIt i r l lIt It been u a disappointment Its cost COlt was wnM shout I Three years yeam ngo ago the tho total receipts had t already exceeded derl The ho list car crossed the bridge on Sept Sell I 4 1683 At fret first the entire rolling roiling stock of ot the bridge bridle railway consisted 1 Y f ri of ot twelve cars f teet ct and P hr twelve oars O rM feet teet In III length i 1 When travel was waR light only one cur curIll was twos Ill used U It soon became necessary to tn form trains train of two or three oars care These Thaw Ir s scars cars car were run by cable power and ancl were switched by locomotives from the In to 10 tho ho nut platforms of ot the tho terminals Within a IL short lima Imo hail had Increased i c l no so rapidly that tint It became necessary n to lengthen and In en n tho the platforms In III order to b be abio to 10 y run tun longer trains train This process of ot ex ox extension tension has hu been heen repeated many louse anti ovary every possible po rc scheme has h ss boon hoet n tried tiled to lit s lI secure cur ure ud transportation lion tion facilities t e es I l ir TWISS l s |
