Show ANOTHER WONDER OP THE WORLD the proposed north river bridge across oro me the hudson river says the bel acl american Is ia the greatest engineering undertaking lo in the world A board of t ft leers of the corps ot engineers has recently been appointed ato to investigate and report their conclusions as to the maximum length of span practicable for suspension bridges and consistent with an amount of traffic probably sufficient to warrant the expense of construction 1 I working upon the data furnished the board has baa calculated the amount and weight of material needed as well as the coat of a steel suspension bridge feet long jong as 88 follows suspended weights weight in gounde towers chains and anchor plates plate or a total of pounds at a cost coat of to this come main cables and wrappings and backstays back stays with wrappings at a total weight of pounds and costing the cost of superstructures bad and foundations Is ia further estimated at making ft a grand total of as aa the be estimated arst of abe structure should this bridge be built it would far eclipse any of the so called seven sevea wonders of the world that once so go strongly appealed to use ancients the greatest of the pyramid amida of egypt would be more than equaled in bulk balk or quantity by the united mass of masonry that must be constructed on the abe shores abores to resist the enormous pull poll of the 16 cables the four steel towers that carry these cables will each overtop the lofty washington monument and be exceeded in height only by the ibe eiffel tower in parts paris looked at from another point of view it will certainly be more rueful and more worthy the present age thao than that parisian Parl Blan monument of on en gl skill inasmuch as the latter to is but bat merely A a spectacular object more curious carious than anything else the bridge is calculated to carry at a height of feet above the river seventeen everteen heavily loaded freight trains train which it if strung out would form a too line two miles long jong and weigh tons and yet be able to resist ft windstorm that would endanger ger many of the buildings in new york city it 16 i is evident that the difficulties to be overcome in the construction of this mammoth ar are immense yet so far has baa engineering skill kill advanced that the abe work can be undertaken with absolute safety and tt at too without disregard for the requirements of beau ty and elegance in the outlines outline |