Show 1 S iS O N i 0 r. r 0 Nearby and Yonder By Oy T. T T. T MAXEY j N i o vi v ss s aw i Service The Tula he Philadelphia Camden Phil Bridge Bridga A ALTHOUGH I around persons persons per per- persons sons have lu been annually ferried across s the Delaware river rl between mid and Camden In III r recent rent c I rs rs' rs and counties nOli s i additional thou thou- Banda n 3 have hate passed over It on trains It ItIs itIs Is no nevertheless an astounding fact fuet that not until 1020 1926 w ns It 11 possible for foot street car or automobile tomake to tomake make the tile trip trill between n these two great treat points poInt II Un vin bridge In Jul July 1 IH Cool Wee ige d dedicated the rent new suspension bridge which now spans this busy and useful river tr lit at t till this point It Is U n a ft I Tile sue i no mom span pan is III isa a third of n a mile Ions the ion the longest lon of the kind In the world It Is claimed while the entire structure Is one und anti three quarter miles In length Its i broad deck Is one hundred and anel ty ty fl ave feet wide and accommodates six Ix lines linE's of vehicles and four lines iines of street cars In addition to two foot walks for tor pedestrians The total cost COAt which was divided between bet the states stalEs of ot Pennsylvania lenns l and New V p Jersey and the city of Philadelphia Phila IMla delphia delphin was t al o t The far far significance of or th great connecting link when ono one scans senna n a road map It has an nn Interstate In In- as well as ns a national rela The Thc great coastal highway system running down from Maine Mune strings Into Camden ln The great prent coastal highway system running north from Florida goes gOE'S Into Philadelphia There Therel II ns l nil as no public bridge across this Atner- Atner Iran Icon Clyde h between Philadelphia an and the sea sro sro-loo miles mile to the tile southward Camden was the strate ate Ilc and focal toral point These two greet highways made one by hy this connect the Atlantic states with all the other states stoles In the Union O d. 1927 W. W tn Newspaper le al r Union |