The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-01
MEMPHIS APPEAL.
TUESDAY, : JUNE 1, 1855.
THE BRIDGE WILL BE BUiLT.

ton increasing with marvellous "a
pidity. Destructive epidemiCs and a
debt which threatened the confisca
ton OF the tsxIble property paralyzed
the energies Of ourpsople and crushed
out all ambition. But the financial
condition Of the city no longer
threatens us, and will soon cefse
to be burden to the people. Tbs
city is in a good sanitary condition
and everybody is sangune in the be-
lief that epidemics will be relics OF the
past. These facts have inspired conf
dence; our aspirations have grown
larger and the faith that Mem
phis is destined to become a large
emporium, ranking with the largest
cities Of the United States, Ia gem
eral. Many are the forces at work
for the upbuilding OF mighty city.
There is no longer any doubt OF the
destiny that awaits us. Since the re-
form in municipal afiairS, the adjust
ment Of tie city debt and the provis-
ions made against epidemics, other
cities have striven in vain to accom-
plish 1.-THE OF that which has come
to us almost with 1ut an effort, Rail
roads have reached Memphis Almost
before the people knew that they were
in process of construction. There are
now more roads concentrating in
Memphis than the most sanguine as 10
its future ever predicted or expected,
and she is making rapid strides in
business asd population, and viii
soon present the most opulent
and busiest hives of human
industry in the Mississippi Valley.
A magnificent future certainly lies
ahead. For years the building OF a
bridge across the Mississippi river hes
been considered a chimera emanstinR
from the brain of enthusiasts. But
everybody now sees aud feels and
knows that such q grand Structure
will soon span the river at this point.
Sunday evening last several prominent
citizens stood on the bluff and raptu-
rously described the appearance Of
the bridge that would reach from Fort
Pickering TO the terminus of the Kan
sas City railroad, in the neat future,
The impression obtains that as the
MiBsii sippi river descerdJ to the Gulf,
in the same proportion will be the ex-
pense OF constructing bridge, and that
one built here will be a gigantic Struc!-
ure, SURPRISING all others in hight,
length and cost. But this is mistaken
AIDES, The Brooklyn bridge, spanning
East River from New York to Brook
iyn, is $3.50 feet long, with clear span
OF 1895 feet over East River. 1t Is
built OF steel, and cost 81, 200, eco more
than bridge at Memphis will cost
The last number Of the Brooklyn
Magazine contains long and interest
ing article on "The Worlds Great
Bridges" from which we learn that
"the frat bridge of cast iron ever erect
ed was over the Severn, about two
miles below Colebrookdale, in Shop
shire, England. The SECOND cast
iron bridge was designed by
Thomas Paine, the famous pc
litical writer, and was intended
for America, but the specula-
tors failing in their payments, the ma
terials were used for the construction
OF the beautiful bridge over the river
Wear, at Bishops, Wearmouth, in the
county Of Durham, England. South.
wark bridge, London, is constructed
OF iron. Its length ia 700 fee,
aud it's cost was 100000. II
was opened in 1919, The Blacklrisrs
bridge is 1000 feet long, and cost $780,.
900. Waterloo bridge is considered
the finest in the world. Canova, the
sculptor, said it was alone worth a
journey from Rome to London to see
1t. The cost was 100000. Charinl
Cross is the next bridge on
the Thames, 1t is used by a railway
company. Westminster bridge Is
1920 feet long, and cost e400,0OO. Lam
beth bridge is 740 feet, and cost El00,
900. Vsuxhall bridge lie $40 feet long
The fret wire suspension bridge wat
erected at Frlilburg, Switzerland, snt
hangs 800 feet In the air over deer
chasm. Chelsea Chain suspension
bridge is 922 feet long, forty-hve fee
wide, and cost e75,OOO, Hammersmitl
suspension bridge is Sal feet long
thiIty-two feet wide, and cost e75, 900
Suspension bridges, although held BY
some persons TO be Of modern inven
ton, or derived from the rope bridge
of South America and the East Indies
were in use in Europe in the time o
Scamozzi, early in the seventeenth
century. One Of the most emsrkabl,
suspension bridges in existence is tina
constructed by Mr.. Telford over tn
MenAi Strait, between the Isle OF An
glesea and C@naroonshire, in Wales
IL was finished in 1926. In the Unit
cd States there are a number Of thes
bridges; one over the Merrimac, q
EewburypoIt, measures PA feet. Tha
over the BrAndywine, at Wilmington
is las feet; that at Brownsville, owe
the Monongahela, measuring -
feet. The Wheslipg suspension
bridge has q span Of 1910 feel
Roebling's railroad suspension bridge
at Niagara, hss a span S2l feet, with
DETECTION Of SO feet its roadway
$50 feet above the line of the stream
The bridge at Cincinnati is 1920 fee
long, with clear span Of 1857 fee
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