New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-23

become useless from age. 1t was oompleted IN
Nay, l845, and comprised spans, each VI
l62 Feet The cables inches In diameter,
ana tne success OF the work such that during the
succeeding year. Mr. Roobng was engaged to construct
he MOnongahela Suspension Bridge connecting Pitts
nurgh with Sligo, great manufacturing suburb.
inc spans OF this bridge were eight in number each lS5
Ieet IN length and each supported by two inch cables
In this bridge the pendulum process was employed
counterbalanee adjoining spans under the pressures
unequal loads In 184S Mr. ROebling commenced sere5
OF suspension aqueducts on the line OF the Delaware
HUDSON Canal, connecting the anthracite coal Ter
OF Pennsylvania with the tide water of the Hudson az
THESE were the Lackawaxen Aqueduct two spSbndd
feet each. and two finch cables the Delaware I
four spans 14 feet EACH and two Sinch cabes no Su
falsAqueduct, one span l45 feet, and two 6anI nd
and the Neversink Aqueduc span, 40 i1J anu anu
years, and are all permanent works. needing ele J an
occasional renewal Of the wooden ducts Hcu uon u
pletion Of these works that Mr. ROebiDg remover lis
works and residence TO Trenton, n, j. IN, u.oors,o
bridge across the Niagara to connect the Central ka
road Of NewYork and the Great western haIiway Ua
first suspension bridge CAPABLE Of bearing the immense
weight of railroad locomotives and trains The span OF
inch cables Mr. RoebiipS. While the Niagara bridge
was building was also ehedgeu on ou to hove
crossed size the KentSeky River, on the line Of
the Cincinnati and Chattanooga Rallroad' WIN ~, d
space of 1924 feet but before the structure hau 3ee
completed the Company suspended payment, ana the
work was discontinued In the ran OF lSoo nc TV 6ao
SRced the great 6Ga ar CIfS TspeSd
for several years, account OF financial diaWgaChs
brought "A
Interim from 1858 to 1860 inclusive he engaged on
another suspension bridge at Pittsburgh Inc lsst anu
greatest work Of Mr. ROebling was that on winch nc
was engaged up to the time of his death-the
East River bridge AS he had prepared all his plans
and made of the arrangements for the construc
on of the bridge his death is not great misfortune
to the cities of New-York and Brooklyn it would have
been had occurred at earlier day AS Is evidenced
by his career Mr. Roebling man Of lndomitaDle
will and persistent energy IL Is related OF MN 'nau
ease that at length took his life he wrote in one after
noon, ten pages Of manuscript giving uI nef.
te Gs' FSla't the e Time Of the accident and during
the surgical operation, not one groan escaped MN
was loved and respected by all with whom he came IN
contact. His remains will be conveyed to ms nome III
Trenton, N j., where the funeral will take place
"By his works shall ye know him." says the Holy
Book. Judged by that standard John A. koeplhg mas
left behind him record inscribed on many noble WORK,
which shall stand for years his most hitting monument
The fame Of the warrior, the statesman, the scholar Is
ephemera but to this whose loss Is so universally
deplOred is vouchsafed fame which shall only dc with
his works He needs no lofty monue.; no sTunuinb
James Duff, an actor we'll known in this
CITY, died on Tuesday night, rather suddenly, of heart
disease Mr. Duff came to the Park Theater, Brooklyn,
during the first Of Mrs. COnways management In
1864 and has played off and on through subsequent sea-
distinction the British boards was young man
OF handsome personal appearance ana engaging man
ners and possessed of good natural ability HIS last ap
pearance on the stage was at Donney's Olympic, in
Brooklyn few weeks ago.
o The Rev. DR.. Roswell Park, who died in
Chicago July It, became Professor of Natural Phoso'
ply and Chemistry in the University Of Pennsylvania
in 1885, In 1850 he accepted the Presidency OF Racine
College, Wisconsin, retaining the position until 1882 ana
acting as Chancellor Of the College until 1868 In that
year he removed TO Chicago where lie founded literary
and scientific school FOR young gentlemen called I'M
manuel Hall Dir. Park born IN 1901 graduated at
West Point in 1884, and spent several years as an army
officer, occupied in various engineering labOrs He be-
came an Episcopal Doctor Of Divinity in 1880
Officer Gilbert Leggett, an old and we'll
known policeman who has been detailed at Essex Market
Police Court since 1858, and has been member OF the
Metropolitan force since its organization died at m
yesterday his late residence, No 2s TLrdst He was
years OF last January and has been an active and
efficient officer for 81 years. He was born In THIS city
and in early life sailor serving that capacity on
board the prvateer Armstrong in the war OF 1872 When
the vessel captured by the British at Spanish port
he was sent the prison az DartmOor England, where
lie was confined for two Mr.. Lcggott WAS taken
sick only a week ago, until which time he had been
almost constantly ut his post. He was much esteemed
by the members OF the force and tho attaches OF the
Court.