The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-06-01
THE BROOKLYN RRIDaE,

dedicated to the use of the people.
Amid the booming OF cannon, the shrill
whistling Of a thousand steamers, and
the plaudits OF great masses of citizens,
the Brooklyn bridge was formally pre-
sented to the cities of New York and
Brooklyn. The President of theUnited
States and the officers of his cabinet,
the Governor of the State of New York
and staff, Senators and Representative
from many States and Territories, and
the mayors of both cities were approx
ing witnesses of the ceremony.
The chatter about the occurrence of
the bridge opening on Queen Victoria's
birthday is only amusing now the great
ceremony is over; but it Is simply fair
to remember that, while the bridge
trustees had no thought of honoring her
Britannia majesty in the selection of
the day, they uncOnsciously enlisted the
clerk of the weather on their side of it.
No feature Of the celebration attract
ed more of popular interest and atten-
ton than the parade of the military
contingent, made up of the National
Guard and attachments from theUnited
States regular forces, representing the
army and navy.
The 7th Regiment National Guard,
State of New York, Colonel Emmons
Clark commanding, detailed as the mil
itary escort for the occasion, assembled
at the armory in full uniform. Aguard
of twenty-three were detailed to march
on either side or the residents car
rage. The command marched down
Park and Fifth avenues to the Fifth
Avenue hotel, the Presidents quarters,
where it was drawn up.
The sidewalks along the route were
lined with people. On Madison Square
it was estimated that ten thousand peo-
pie were gathered.
It's total length is $3.50 feet, and the
span is ,595 feet 6 inches, and of each
land span $50 feet. The length of the
Brooklyn approach is 971 feet, and of
the New York approach ,562 feet 9 in
ches. There are four cables, made OF
wire, each 15a inches in diameter, the
four containing 4,36l miles of wire and
weighing 3,5SSi tons. The walks for
pedestrians can accommodate $4,000
persons an hour, the driveway $500
vehicles an hour, the car track 800 cars,
or SO, 600 passengers an hour. The EN-
tire cost of the mOnstrous structure has
been $15, OOO,O 900.
ftMark Hopkins. ex-president of Will
Jams college, Is dangerously Ill.
A paper steamboat is being built at
Lansingburgh, New York, for Pitts
burg parties.
The Catholic church at Mount Car
mel, Iowa, burned Sunday, involving
loss of $4,000.
George Sharswood, ex-chief justice
of Pennsylvania, died Monday, aged %
years.
The Pine Lake Iron Company's fur
mace at Mancelona, Michigan, burned
Monday, causing loss of $50,O0O.
The receipts of the American Baptist
Publication society were last year $72,-
500 in excess of the receipts of any pre-
viOus year.
The 104th anniversary of the birth of
Thomas Moore was appropriately cele-
brated by the Brooklyn Irish societies
in Prospect Park Monday.
Joseph Bailey, the oldest iron manu-
facturer in Berks county, Pa, died
Monday morning at his residence, aged
IS years.
A messenger for the United States
Express company at Cleveland, Ohio,
was robbed of two money pouches sup
posed to contain about $4,000.
1t has been determined by the iron
workers at the Bay View, Wis, rolling
mills to strike on June unless the en-
ployers accede to their demands.
The market buildings and large
section Of the business portion of the
village of Uxbridge, Ont, was burned
Saturday. Loss, $4,000.
Three railway laborers on the line Of
the Philadelphia, Norristown and Phe-
nixville road were fatally injured Tues
day by bank caving in upon them.
Captain James Sanderson, one of the
pioneers of the navigation of the upper
lakes died Tuesday at Milwaukee, aged
80 years.
Two hundred packages of tea were
seized at New York Friday under the
provisions of the act prohibiting the
importation of spurious and adulterated
teas.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
is about to shorten the running time
between Omaha and Ogden eleven
hours, the present schedule time being
tifty-four hours.
The Atlantic cables, according to Mr..
John Fender, are capable of accommo-
dating three times the amount of bus
mess that is at present required o.
them.
a Ceacner IN n CaCnOllc pdTOcnldl
school at Cleveland, Ohio, is charged
with having beaten one of the pupils so
severely, year ago, that he will be a
cripple for life.
Frank Adams, of Duquoin, Illinois,
who lost a foot in the service Of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company, has
been awarded $4,000 damages by the
circuit court at Decatur.
The annual collections for the Pope
IN the Catholic churches of New York
and Brooklyn, Sunday, showed falling
off, as compared with the contributions
last year, of nearly 0ne-third.
Immense throngs passed between
New York and Brooklyn, Sunday, over
the new suspension bridge, the struc-
ture being so crowded that progress
was extremely laborious and slow.
The lockout of shoemakers at~Cincin-
nati has been ended by arbitration, hav-
ing lasted two weeks, during which
time twenty-five hundred men were
idle.
Surrogate Rollins, of Newly ork, Mon
lay issued letters of administration on