New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-06

s,vayma of man over whom great angel is stepping
with Iute tits the true cathedral OF New-Tork
and Brooklyn, Hitting man 70 heaven and saying
{" couraeep Yet huge as it is, the Chinese built
bridges on this plan while Christ was yet awe
BRIDGE sTATIsTIcs
A few notes on comparative bridges win conclude
The most modern and representative bridge in Lon
don Is the new Blackfrlars, opened twelve years
AGO Il il of five iron arches stone piers, l,272
feet long, and cost 81, 100000.
The Point Neuf probably the longest bridge in
paria rebuilt 1852, is 1850 feet long, and partly
stonds upon an island in the middle OF the Seine.
The International bridge at Buffalo, finished in
1873 cost 81 800 900. and has twelve spans In all
8. $50 feet.
The bridge over the Susquehanna at Havre de
Grace finished in 1867, is seVen-eighths OF mile
long and cost $1,250,O00. The bridge over the
Gunpowder River between the susquehanna and
Baltimore, is 5,238 feet long.
The longest stone arch in the world Is said to be
Cabin John Bridge on the washington Aqueduct
100 feet above the stream below, and 220 feet span
The iron truss bridge over the Connections River
below Springfield was built at Manchester, Eng,
and sent over here and set IN 1865. 1t is 1925
feet long and cost S265 900. The bridge over New
ark Bay. between Bergen Point and Eizabethport,
is one mile and half long.
The bridge across the Susquehanna az HarrlsDurR,
resting on large island in the middle Oh the river
was built in 1917 by celebrated bridge architect
of that day named Burr. 1t is 2,S76 feet long and
coat S155 OOO-more than half subscribed by the
State. bridge by the Same architect at CoiumDia'
about twenty miles lower down, is 596O feet long
or moro than one mile and was erected by COM
pany supported by the State IN 1914, at cost Oh
$500 OOO At that time bridge companies were some
times in the banking business as WELL ana the tois
wero very high remember when boy being Tufled
nm AN inclined plano at Columbia by which the
Pennsylvania Railroad gained the plateau above the
river runnng I'D 800 feet to make 90 feet per-
pendicular.
The bridge over the Delaware River at Trenton,
recently remodelled by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
was finished in 1906, and was considered at the
time the finest bridge in the world in wood 1t was
| ]. 100 feet long and stood on five arches.
The course of tho bridge builder westward has
been accurately related by General g. X. Warren.
from the opening of the Wheeling bridge in lS40, TO
| connect the Ohio and Allegheny Divisions OF the
National Road (which little bridge required forty
three wears of Congressional agitation and legsla-
ton. and suits in the courts, TO the first bridge
across the Mississippi at Rock Island IN
1856. torn down in 1872. of which f. b.
Washburne said it had been damage TO
commerce of So OO0, 000 two-fftbs wrecks. 1t re-
ouired nineteen years after the incorporation OF
| company to put O bridge at st. LOUIS opened IN
| 1874. The estimates OF Captain Eads were under
four millions and half, but the cost and manpula-
ton of finances made it cost nearer twelve millions
In this bridge there three spans and two piers
| in the channel the great middle span 5l0 feet.
The viaduct at Cleveland. Ohio, is one OF tho
greatest works Of our timea stone and iron siruc-
ture with paved streets above and steam draw at
the Cuyahoga River. the whole bridging chasm
three-auarters of mile wide, and uniting two parts
of the city. The Holborn viaduct in London is q
baby to II. CLEVELAND was the fountain head OF the
principal American iron bridge company one OF tho
several which build bridges and nothing else. aud
do 1t by Wholesale JOHNNY BOUQUET
The Conservatory. March /. 1851.