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Show NEW WILLIAMBBURQ BRIDGE, CONNECTING MANHATTAN AND BROOKLYN. sssar'y'zir ' i-''J7' ' jt,": '7 ' " ' j and Queens walked from tho Wll llanisburg side. They met In the middle mid-dle of the bridge, raised their hats to one another and then trudged together to-gether to Wllllntnsliurg. where the speeches were uttered lo a great mill- I 'lludu In the new plnsa at tho en- 1 trance to the bridge. ! It was a melancholy but suggestive experience, thnt walk across to Wll- llanishurg. A raw wind whipped the vast reaches of palnled ateel beams, and reddened the noses of tho mayor and Iho nfllclnl multitude which shuffled shuf-fled along the roadway. Coat collars were turned up, shiny high hats were dilhcult to keep on, nnd nn irreverent ranldu of photographers raced about, aiming their cameras, flapping their hsnds, shouting and Jostling tho half-frozcu half-frozcu oirtcinls. Thero was a faint scent of whisky, too, fully Justlned by I the weather. I But the bridge Itself how mlghly It '.-!' and bow solid under the feett -ti V small It made a man feel to '"31 !snt compllcntod Immensity of , t- it, suspended from tho two steel towers by four cables, containing 17,-43'J 17,-43'J miles of sleel wire. And as the j mayor walked nn at tno head of the shivering, mirthless procession, with his while flag carried before him. he may well hnve pondered the opening words of his speech; "No such achievement aa this bridge is over the work of a single man." |