Pleasant Grove Review | 1947-10-24 | Page 6 | Boy Helped Solve Problem of Bridging Niagara Falls

i ' 3oy Ilelpetl Solve Problem Of Bridging Niagara Falls When the first bridge over Niagara Ni-agara Falls was planned in 1848, .he problem of getting a cable j Vom the American to the Canadi- an side was solved by offering $"5 ! ;o the first person who could make ' i kite carry a string across ne j JOO-foot chasm. After this had been accompjlsh-' accompjlsh-' ;d by a boy, the string was used ;o pull over a small steel cable allien, for several years, enabled -persons to go back and forth, two at a time, in a little wire basket. The original steel suspension bridge thrown across the river just jelow the American falls had a span of 820 feet, and was long considered con-sidered to be a feat of engineering.