The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-15
1T Work on the Bridge East River

PSne h1' SGah said be eo"da i"G trust % yoa Stay
sober month and then around
s'There's one of the best men in the business,
continued the foreman, as the man shufhed away
Few of the iron men have domestic ties That
very largely it would seem, for the dIsspa
f3r the most part ToaesS ro Warcoer nono 10
home nor permanent habtaton. High wages Is the
magnet that draws them. to New York. now TO
Frisco now to Birmingham. Working overtime and
up as high as So, ''and that for man who can I
take of mis- money is very bad SAID the fore
mot LIKE ZGs faqama a@ SePS Pbnsbig %o
~ struck an old bridgcman not long ago who was
diver and bridgeman. too we got him with me now.
and one GaS " lumber dolly went down in tanl, Of
muddy. Shiny water about sixteen feet aeesP we we
He had already asked me twice for work ,., say,
says he, walking up, if get that lumber dolly out
U' sure you do, says l.
inch hose e and s ne rope Then he kicks OF his clothes
Sits the hose so it covers hls nose holds u iaS "n
''' Pretty soon he comes up with the rope. 'Now
pull up your lumber dolly; says he,
.''H M says he .I'ye beer doing that every
day down in Lake ira foreman after nousc
1--we the saysGaper grow 1F0% o1ty yc%ag one
put up at EegheTnh @ bd1g a fgq IShy S oneg
up 10 the Singer and Metropolitan towers s., c,..
NOWADAYS s02H n hat I'll time VS we could build ystoy
So the sl5yscraper is new, and so is the sky skip
per a product Of The decade you might almost say.
Perhaps in the next generation he Will change, like
the cowboy of the plains. sacrificing ms wild PIC,
turesoueness saner, steader, more matter-ottact
was struck with this fact ono day while stand
ing on the massive anchorage of the new Manhattan
bridge whittier had climbed Dy series Oh Irregular
ticklish outside stairways ,
A roly-poy little urchln came up to the foreman,
with whom / was talking. He perfect diminu.
tive type of the bridgeman-gTeasy oYeraIIs, open
battered cap. was very old and grave. ,
.Say,' said he, s'the supe says measure up that
length Of cable-the that broke ~
The foreman bowed with mock humility IAN
right Mr.. Davis said he. Anything more can
The youngster shot, warning look at him and
ives said he calmly, harry UP about tan II
yoif for jtI'' There he stopped and picked cable
splice .'You oughter keep these splcss IN keg' .
said he 'We re running short on en-
And Of such, perhaps, Will the second generation
'e Through blowy window in the great anchorage
,ior Of the New York end of the bridge locked out
% feet above those foundation caissons, sunk deep
fbot toward the end o. the work the builders offered
mon $40 a day for two SHIFTS or fortNnYe minutes
nach TO 90 down in the terrific ar pressure.
The great cables swing gracefully out, up TO the
towers and down again in gigantic sweeps All along
them little men, like monkeys, are cIam3erpg and
swinging far out. their 81 tail wrencbes cleaning in
circles they work -, -. II.
There arc four great cables from when to sus.
ord the mighty structure beneath, only four. but
Zach is built of thirysx strands as big as your
md every strand is composed OF TWO hundred and
Gfty six stout steel wires
' Every wire is strung separately tho ends being
carried back and forth from Brooklyn TO New York