Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-04-18
CrOssin. Brooklyn Bridge.

Broadway Lou-ger In New York Tribune.
l crossed over the Brooklon bridge for the
first time on Tuesday last it is considerably
more than one mile long, from the top of the
hill where the station is being built in Brooklyn
to Chatham street. The large station in Brook
Ign is to be used by the steam-drum cars for
Waitins-looms, etc, and smaller building of
that kind is being framed at the New York end |
am afraid that foot passengers are not going to
have the most perfect view of the river If they
pass through the middle of the bridge, which
understand to he their avenue, leaving the sides
to vehicles. The cars. I understand, are to run
on the second floor of the bridge. l was adj
mitted at a gate, and put on an asphaltum walk
in the middle of the Brooklyn approach. along
which went for a thousand feet or more and
then climbed down ladder, or crude steps, to
the northern flooring. in which crack occurred
mere and there, showing the frightiul Chasm be-
low, one glimpse of which was enough to make
man finch The flooring on this side was of
planks but the parapets being up there was no
danger.
When reached the east tower. the magnif-
cent character OF the arch there seemed to show
more wonderfully than from the surface of the
river below. 1t is a fact that on the top of each
OF the towers two houses can be built Of 20 feet
front and 133 feet depth. ANY man who owns a
house and lot of the full depth in New York can
look out of his back window on his ward and his
nelghbOrs. and consider that both of them do not
cover as much space. by another half building
lot. as the top of these bridge towers. The East
river assumes beauty of color and extent from
the bridge that one could hardly imagine: nearly
the whole river. from Governors Island to
BIackwelrs Island, lies under the eve. and it
seems to be the principal thing in the New
York landscape and those buildings which
border it. especially up towards williamsburg,
rise enormously from their great bulk, In gem
| era', sugar rctineries. New York itself seems
from the Brooklyn end ofthe bridge like a town
on hill! which rse' to certain profile or para
per, and beyond that is smoke and vaoueness
The four great cables that drOop as modestly
from their towers as four whitewaShed bologna
sauSages, do not attract much remark since the
rushing objects beneath the long line of barges,
the white sails of coasters, many sorts
OF steamboats, and lighters, all wonder
fully exposed to notice. since their decks
and upper works are. for the first time, fully
visible to every spectator turn the eye to other
Things. None of ROebling's bridges seems
lighter than this, the imposing nature of the
towers and the breadth of the bridge making
one almost forget that it is the cables which are
doing the work. The bridge is as solid as a
turnpike road in the middle of the country; it
neither rattles nor trembles, and however
nervous one is stepping over 1t at first he soon
feels secure and feasts his eyes on the ever
opening panoramas. Though l crossed in a
| rather raw March day, hardly observed the
wind. The bridge was tul of carpenters
painters, bOlt-drivers, and understood that
the rolling stock for the cable railroad is
finished