Now All Ready for the Laying of Stone to Commence. The wooden arch is an impressive structure, as can be seen by the excellent illustration of it which is appended hereto. From end to end it is one hundred and fifty-five feet, and to adjust the timbers to that when this false arch is removed the stone work will be rigid and firm was a work of the most extreme nicety. Nor is the nice adjustment all done. It is necessary that each of the timbers which are now being placed on the arch to receive the stone shall be true to the inside line of the stone work to the hundredth part of an inch, and every successive piece of the work till the bridge is ready for travel must receive the same care and attention that the placing of the main timbers of the arch required.
Crowds inspect the progress of the work every day, especially on Sundays.