The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-08-17
SOME NOTABLE BRIDGES.


taken very seriously by New York
newspapers. The fact that-tWo Of the
bridge cables have slipped little
over an inch is not accepted as in
dicating the disintegration of the
structure as a whole. Washington
A. Roebling, who supervised the
completion of the bridge back in the
eighties, declares emphatically that
it is good for two centuries at least.
The New York Tribune says that the
thing to do is to seek the advice of
the very best bridge engineers. This
would seem to be the only sensible
course.
What the Brooklyn bridge has
meant to the development of Greater
New York is beyond all calculation.
1t was the first tremendous step in
the development of lower Manhattan
island into the heart of the busi-
ness world. There are four other
great suspension bridges across the
East river but the Brooklyn bridge
has never lost its supremacy. Longer
bridges have been built elsewhere
but no other bridge has the fame of
| the Brooklyn bridge, no other bridge
is used daily by so vast number of
people.
1t is interesting to note in this
connection how large part bridges
are accustomed to play in city build
ing; especially is it interesting for
Charleston to do this at the present
time. Springfield, Massachusetts,, is
dedicating this week a superb bridge
across the Connecticut river, built as
a memorial to the patriotism of the
men of Hampden county. The bridge,
| which has a length across the river
of 1,18O feet and total length, in
cluding railroad viaduct, Of 1,494
feet, is of reinforced concrete, arch
ribbed type, and has been completed
at a cost of S6,000,000. 1t is thing
| of beauty as we'll as of the utmost
permanency. During the period of
it's projection and building the bridge
has been the subject Of much contro-
| versy but this seems to have died
down and Springfield is to celebrate
the opening in great style. With
reference to the width, one of the
matters formerly in dispute, the
Springfield Republican says that "it
is clearly recognized now that it
would have been a mistake to have
built a bridge less than 80 feet
wide"
There are numbers of fine bridges
across the Connecticut river, one at
Hartford which is similar to that at
Springfield and which like the
Springfield bridge has a width of 80
feet. The most remarkable bridge
now under construction in this coun-
try is that across the Delaware river
| between Philadelphia and Camden,
a structure, which, to take care OF
| the navigation requirements of the
| situation, must be the longest sus-
pension bridge in the world, with a
center span 1850 feet in length, 135
feet above mean high water This
bridge is to cost s2S,S71,O0O the
state of Pennsylvania putting up 49,
$4,000, the city of Philadelphia
| 1921, 900, and the state of New
| Jersey $12,429, 900.
Probably not many people know
of the proposed bridge across the
| Hudson river between New York and
| New Jersey, a bridge intended to
take care of vehicular traffic as we'll
as of passenger traffic of all the
steam railroads which have termi-
| nails on the New Jersey water front.
According to the Springfield Repub-
lican President Rea of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad and President Will
lard of the Baltimore & Ohio have
both given their approval to this
project and a company has been or
ganized for it's promotion, but the
difficulties are so great that "an ac-
tual beginning within the next five
years is improbable.''
Few things more strikingly typify
the spirit of progress than does a
handsome bridge. The spanning of
the Santee, the fine new structure
soon to be built across the Ashley,
the bridging of the Savannah and
the numerous other bridges which
have linked the islands of the coast
with the mainland and opened the
way over such smaller streams as
the Edisto will mean the joining up
for the first time of the country
which lies along the immediate
South Atlantic seaboard and should
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