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Show CR08S SECTIONS OP OLD AND NEW BRIDGES COMPARED. ' COMPAHATIVI caea- tfjll 7-t I0 6-Mr-II:6' I Half Section of th's New Bridge. Half Section of the Old Bridge. Just short of O.Obt) feet, being 6.9K9 feet long. Tho new bridge, more than 1.2no fuel lunger, has a total patent of more than 7,'.'on feet. The old bridge, built before the age of Irollevs. has two roadways, now shared by vehicles end surface car alike The now bridge entries on lis dotihlo decks two rondswnys, each twenty -live feci wide ond each unobstructed by trolley. Two double, track trolley roadways, two promenades, to the onu of the old brldgo. each ten and a half feet wide; two cyclo paths, each seven feet wide, nnd a central space for a double track or elevated cars, give the new i triictiire a total v. littli of 1 1 H feel, as colltrHsleil with ml H". foot width In the ob'er structure. When the lucn-n-ied efficiency of the 1 new bridge In currying tiulllc is ru- , the government and will remain there about ten mouths, after which he will j go to South America. While abroad I he will be chiefly busied with law j work and the gathering of hooka for I the library of Congress. Mr. Scott Is j a New York man and has held scholarships schol-arships In Coliimliiu. Curnell, Chicago and Hid I'nlverslty of Pennsylvania. |