Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-02-18
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rrn,rAEriAL BRIDGE To EE BUILT
The proicc, OF building a bridge over the
! Brandyv.ine. at Washington street, has now AS
sumed deGpi,s shape plans having teea adol
cd by the Bnilding Committee, and proposals
for doing the mtsonary work ADVERTISED ior' IN
the columns Of the GAZETTE
This bridge Is moi. AS many suppose, be'hg
built by the city and county conJolntly, but ny
the county alone The only manner IN when
the CITY Is connected with the improvement, Is
by pledge to pay $4,000 to the county on the
completion of tie work, for the privilege OF car
ryinr the water pipes over this bridge, in in'ro-
ducinc Brandywine water into the Ninth Ward.
Several plans for the construc ION 0! tins
work have been r,ceiy : Nv the HIding Com
mittee (of winch VI. 81 80, OF tins clty' Is
chairman Tie acr rs. oeing sent Dy the
Baltimore Br,d4e Company, through the Edge
moor Iron Company. by this plan, the super
structure is to rest ON four piers, and two abui-
meuts. The span over the bed Of the creek is
50 feet; the side span 96 feet each; span from
the Wilmington to tic side abutment 81 ice;
span from the llrandywihe side to the abu'ment,
100 feet; making the total length OF the bridge,
565 feet. The greatest height of the bridge from
the bed Of the crcek, is 60 feet.
The piers ard to rest on grabitc ioundatiops,
and are 10 be Of The following dimensions Width
26 feet above the water table, and 2G feet below.
without including the ice breaker. which will
have projection of four feet, the ends will be
eight feet wide below tho wafer table, and & feet
above; the water table will be 8 inches IN width
OF hammer dressed stone; the coping Of the
piers will be 3 feet long, . feet thick and is
inches wide.
The abutments will be Ij feet wide at the
ground and 1 feet above the water table, with
water tables and coping the same az the piers,
the bed stones will be feet long. - feet wide,
and 5 inches thick.
The wing walls in their distance apa,t will
correspond with the different widths of Washing
ton street, So feet, 6 inches on the Wilmington,
side, and 60 feet on the Brandywine side. They
will be feet wide at the bottom graduating to
A feet at the top, capped with Is iuches of dres-
sed stone.
The material used in construction of the
piers and abutulentS will be either Fort De-
posit stone or Brandywine blue rock and will
have pass under the examination of the Build
ing Committee before being used. The
Committee will also furnish all the lime and
cement.
The superstructure of the bridge will be of
iron, "a feet in height and of weight suffi-
cient to bear ion to the foot. Proposals for
its erection will be advertised for as soon as
the piers and abutmenis are constructed
BY building the bridge according to the
above plan, The lower portion of the super
of the Brandywine side will come
out with levelwith what is known as Jes-
sup's read which approaches the Brandywine
at a level considerably below the bed ofWash-
ington street. When The water pipes are placed
in the bridge and floored over, teams from this
road can pass right through and over to the
other side, if a similar road be here graded,
to enable them to reach The main s'reer,
which will probably be the case.
The approaches 10 the bridge on each side,
will need but little grading or alteration, as
The work already done here has been directed
with view to Tie ultimate eeection of the
bridge.
The bridge, when completed, will be
handsome and substantial structure.
Its erection will occupy about three years
and the cost of the work will be between s75,-
900 and $50 900.
The Building Committee also received two
other plans besides the one accepted One
was from j. ii. Cofrode & Co., of Philadel-
phia and contained five piers and two abut-
ments. The other was from Clark Reeves, *
Co, bridge builders, Philadelphia, and con-
tanned three piers aud two abutments,