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Show BROOKLYN BRIDGE LOSING PRESTIGE New York. Aug. 17. Brooklyn bridge is no longer what it used to be the attractive center of New-York New-York and ihe bnclesl spot In Amer-i Amer-i ica. The report of the city bridge commission shows that the tide of travel is beginning to move north ward, and that tho Williamsburg Lildge. second north above the L'rooklyn bridge, now carries more passengers across the East river to Brooklyn than any ot Its companions. I Moreover, the Williamsburg bridge, : by presenting a mort- attractive route to automobiles which pay the hear-I hear-I iest traffic tolls, has Increased Its 1 carillons far above the Prooklyn bridge, and has made the Bowery, where automobiles were seldom seen a few years ago, one of the greatest automobile highways of the city. |