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Show i i j ..................................................................... WORLD'S GREA'TEST SUSPENSION DKIDGE OPENED j 1 ; FOR TRAFFiC IN THE EASTERN METROPOLIS I Writing In the New York World of the gr,..,i Williamsbiiig l.tl.lite. opened fur tr.ifflc lu that city In .1 week. James t'reeliran snys: The greatest l,n,iL-e in th world, containing 4n.nuo tons of steel, costing cost-ing lll.ouii.non, and connecting the swarming tenement dl-trltis of Manhattan Man-hattan with Williamsburg nnd the cheap home lands of Long Island, wns opened after Mayor Low nnd Hie principal prin-cipal officers of bis administration had walked Its entire length of 7.2111 feet. A few speeches, bristling with statistics, statis-tics, a club reception, an hour of artillery artil-lery firing, a march of societies across the giant structure, and a really mng-nincent mng-nincent display ot fireworks nt night. Mlh a parudc of titubonts down the Knst Illver, (Illy celebrated the end of seven years of unbroken work and tho Inauguration of a bridge with a capacity, capa-city, when It la In full operation, of 1'JH nnu pssseagerH an hour. Thero were bands of music, strenms of bayonets, praclng otivalry and batteries bat-teries of cannon to both sides of the river, but the march across wns in deep silence. Mayor Low and Iho ofll-clals ofll-clals of Manhnttnn. the llronx and Richmond walked from the Mnnh.it-(an Mnnh.it-(an side. Itorough President Swnn-slrom Swnn-slrom and the official of Ilnsiklyn dueed to figures, its superiority becomes be-comes even mure strikingly tusnlfest. Fifty millions more of pnssengers. the engineers estimate, ill he carried by the transit lines on the new bridge than on Iho old. Against the hundred hun-dred million who annually cross the older bridge, one hundred nnd fifty million will cross the new. The river span of the new bridge Is only five feet longer than that of the old. the figure for the dinner being 1,'j'KI. b;it the approaches make up the difference differ-ence In the lengih of the newer structure, struc-ture, those of the former measuring l.XiHI feet each, while the Manhattan approach to the old bridge Is only l.ritiS ami the brooklvn only (171. The towers of the Wllllnmshurg bridge, built of steel, rise 3M feet alMive high water mark, r0 feet higher than the stone towers of the Brooklyn Brook-lyn bridge, while this height will bn Increased by 20 feet when tho orna-mentnl orna-mentnl caps are placed on the new structure. The height of Iho new bridge alsive the river In the exnet center Is 135 feet, the same height as the older bridge. Tho npw bridges now In construction will keep the same level. The great cables which hold the ateel framework measure IH Inches In federate army and Hint he feels only those soldiers of the Confederate army i who wore the gray aro entitled to the I badge of honor which this bronie cross Is. ( |