Kane County Standard | 1947-10-24 | Page 6 | Boy Helped Solve Problem of Bridging Niagara Falls

boy ay helped solve problem of bridging niagara falls when the first bridge over niagara falls was planned in 1848 mio ho problem of getting d a cable from the american to the canadian side was solved by offering 5 to the first person who could make a kite carry a string across the foot chasm after this had been beell accomplished by a boy the string was used to pull over a small steel cable which tor for several years enabled persons to go back and forth two at a time in a little wire basket the original steel suspension bridge thrown across the river civer just below the i american falls had a span of feet and was long con to be a feat of engineering