Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-11-15 | Page 4 | Dumb-Bell & Co.

DUMB-BELL A. CO Engineers used lo say that It wa Bh 'impossible to bridge ihe Hudson river at New York City. They have chanced their minds. The bridge will We built. The Impossibility of yesterday is the H9 acccimplishmont of tomorrow. So Hm , The new bridge will have for Its I 'jyhsckbono" lour cables, each 12 feet 1 in diameter. These u-bles will suupoi-T the central span, 3000 feet long, without with-out a pier In the water bMow The bridge, says one engineer, will contain 450000 tons of steel, which is 1 ! more steel than all the bridges across the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio J Hr 161 ( T.y 1940 at least 25.000,000 vehicles! 1 and 200,000,000 passengers a year will I be paaslng over this bridge If expee-H expee-H laUona materlullxe. I Quite a Job. to keep New York City Efll coQnected with the United States. I Representative Finest Ackerman of New Jersey says tho bridge across the Hudson will be "the most stupen- !' cious engineering work yet undertak en, surpassing In that respect and also in final coBf, the Panama canal." The actual bridge will cost at least $100,000,000. About $115,000,000 addl- I tionai will be required for tho termi nal towers from which the huge cables will be suspended. Tbeso terminal I towers will rise Into the air 68r. feel bSI'imI Very fliong lowers required, to sup-j :jJ port 400,000 tons, the weight of the I rieel in the suspended section. More millions required, for the approaches. It makes you wonder, is there any limit to the engineering powers of man, second only to the ant Mn pro-I pro-I portion to flze) an a builder? Hy i Thil enormouM eypenditur of mon- I HI I (ey, human labor and materiala is nee-OSSSXy nee-OSSSXy because people ersiut in I flocking lo join the swarm in New j York City, eacb yeai on a larger .scale. 1 1 just a beginning of hat will be required in Uie future. All this, I the penalty of flocking to an island. In ihe long run. ii might be cheaper ,lo abandon New York City proper ami Iniovfi the swarm era to the mainland of the United States. It starts you wondering if, alter all, many of our " v ,-. i . v . n i in i "i-ais" are not rather futile. The high cost of swarming together, like all othfcr costs, has a prohibitive limit