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3 THE BUFFALO COURIER. iyi mi kiii i I'hoto by Orrin E. Dunlopi. Niagara falls by searchlight. This Photographic Masterpiece, Taken at Night From Falls View, Is the Only One of Its Kind Ever Made, tons, and not a thread or light line as Marchmont Need ham.

was used in the Brooklyn and other This suspension bridges. Here Is how the connection was made. The end of the Bridge a I Record Breaker A Story of the First wire rope, two and a quarter inches In diameter, and three thousand feet in length was attached firmly to the anchorage on the Manhattan side. The pther end was then passed over the tower on the Manhattan side and down to a flat boat at the edge of the water. (Written for The Sunday Courier.) "Pish, thou meanest Lady Phillip and the Countess Amelia.

How took my lords the Jest?" "My Lord Orrery told Capt. Hick son that he could not fight a beggarly writer. said honest Hick, 'your lordship showed no such indisposition at Calais, witness that gash above your lordship's "And the gash, who dealt It?" "I did, old Rob, I did. He was a viscount stripling then and was not too proud to fight me. There was some woman we both sought." "March Needham, we are in King Charlie's time and slashers of doublets are liked better than slashers of lords." "They fought with us, drank with us and borrowed from us freely enough in France and Flanders during the exile.

I myself passed my Lord Hardamomle 4 4 Rob, I'm glad to On this flat boat the, free end of the cable was fixed, and a tugboat started ylOD's took us to your kltchenj where soon we held all we knew to carry. i "In cam bully Richards, swaggering 1 and seeking for quarrel. Next Harda-monde, smarting under his sermon on the rlver and another, masked. A cocking mjjin was forward, so all hands to the cellar Tto see the birds at work. "Tom's bird, sports a crown as tall as says Jack Pidgeon.

"And a crown's no aid to a fighting cock." "Nor to a fighting sayg gaffing the a better red fighting cockerel I never saw. Rob). Then I must needs go on with such talk as this. 'Tis a question which our mutton-eater wears the lighter, his head or his "'Twas a question answered in his father's time." "Then' the masked man stamped and Went away and asJie left. Jlardamonde gave me an evil glance as Who should say, 'We're raid now for the whole score "And the.

mask "Was the course. slowly on the trip across the river, the see. ye. Forsook the Cock and Pie of a thirsty Friday to come and see an old" cable being carefully reeled off, so as NEW EAST RIVER STRUCTURE FROM MANHATTAN TO LONG ISLAND WILL BE THE PERFECTION OF SUS PENSION BRIDGE BUIL DING MARVELS OF ENGINEERING- comrade laid by the heels in the John Turnkey, here be my old friend-Rob Scorenought, host of the Cock an4 Pie in Holborn. Who'd ever have thought poor March Needham worthy is 335 feet; similar measurements on the Brooklyn Bridge give a height of 27,76 feet.

The minimum height of the bridge for 200 feet on either side of the center above mean high water of spring tides is 135 feet; the Brooklyn Bridge has the same height, but only the central point. The work of building this bridge- Is a work of daring and enterprise, complicated and- full of the most delicate detail. It has brought-forth the display of the greatest skill in engineer-, ing and the perfection of mechanical appliances. the sinking of the stone piers to their bed of rock. 115 feet below the water level, to the spinning in mid-air of the mighty cables, the work has been performed with unerring precision and fidelity.

The sinking of these piers was done in a depth of sixty feet of water and presented a difficulty real and hazardous. The stretching of the cables from to tower will be an affair of the greatest labor and niceness. It would be hard to present the delicacy of this operation to; the lay mind, but a conception of it may be given when It is said that these enormous cables will have to be twisted, two tiny wires at a time, high jfn mid-air. The preparations for spinning those cables are now under wav; the four soljd steel saddles, each weighing thirty-five tons, over which the cables will pass, are in place to sink toward the bottom of the stream, between the flat boat and the of the river on which it was attached, that it might not impede navigation during the time that the cable was being pulled across the stream. When the cable had been stretched across the river the unattached end was passed up over the Brooklyn tower and the line hauled from the bed of the river and drawn taut till the loose of a dungeon in the royal Tower of London? "Nay, thou'rt rlht, I'm an IngrateV: 'tis a good enough chamber, John, but' where be that wine? Talking Is ill with '(Written by Lewi3 JJixon, President of the New East River Bridge Commission.

yesterday a week, taking the water in a King's wherry. My boat-knave crossed his bows and my lord singj out 'Hulloa, fellow, is your fare a creditor that he bars my journey 'Ay, my quoth I. What do I oVe thee said the Marauis. and "oJ strand will have 282 single wires, a total, of 10,434 wires in each cable. The normal pull on each cable will be about 5,000 tons, and as each will be capable of supporting 200,000 pounds to the square inch, and will have 222 square Inches, net, the engineers calculate that the suspension power of the bridge will be four times greater than the NLESS in the immediate future I some of the magicians of II science spring a surprise upon the world; the new River Ifrldge, thrown from Manhattan to Brooklyn, will be the first great record-breaker of the twentieth Century.

It ill. when finished, mark the clima achievement in bridge buil4ing. In many respects it will be one of the love ye, Rob, you should have seen the ladies laugh to see a cit thus baited. "What doth the Marquis owe for. honest man," said Lady Phillip, "is it for doublets? If ye be a goldsmith, 'tis never for a bride's Then they laughed and by the Lord, I laughed, out it.

What a my say you-; why my Lord. Hexham, saith it looks to him like treason and that he smelly the ax. "He never was a gentle joker. 'Tlif a beggarly treatment after my loyalty; I should tonight be drinking clary witf my Lord Rochester jand the bishop at Twickenham, maugre this raw Ay, say it Rob, and drinking it without a score to pay, the which suiteth me perfectionally. Nay, we all say much in jest that is not stood to; maximum demand upon it.

faith. 1 thought little of it at the time, for the birds were hard at work, but this morning I was arrested by Will Stanton and six life guards and brought here like a disgraced duke. "I'm older than I was, Rob. Thou'rt ,64 and I'm' three years older. vWlll they think you wilj it be the blockt Give me the liquor.

Rol curse my rheums and aches, I cannot reach It." "Master; Needham, a messenger on' thy business." "I am to be tried, eh? Well, so be it God's death, sir, I would do you the, courtesy rise, but I am weak, sir, weak." "I come not from the Judges. Master The width of the' new structure most remarkable structures. 01 us Kina the 83 a suspension bridge it 118 feet, as compared with As end reached the anchorage on the Brooklyn side. "With' the completion of the temporary bridge will begin the stretching of the cable proper. The necessary wire for the main cables Js now in the course of manufacture at Trenton, N.

and will be three sixteenths of ah inch in diameter, and, as I have already said, will be capable of sustaining a strain of 200,000 pounds to the square inch. Each wire will be made 4,000 feet In length, and will be shipped to the bridge site on drums. In each able there will be 10,000 wires laid straight and parallel to each other, which will be first grouped into strands of thirty-six to each cable. Each strand will contain 280 wires, and will be temporarily wrapped. When the 1 i too.

I had rather be the object of a woman's laugh than never hear it. I Rob. "'No, your said ''tis for gold to buy his lordship's bread and meat what time the king lay in Amsterdam and Noll Cromwell carved the 'Twere bitter, Marchmont isy the Ma Ha, ye nearly heard me swearing by the miss, and since the King's treatment of me I should 0' rights forswear his religion. Our sec ond Charlie holds the mass dearer than i vvif a dull presbyters Chant, and a elas and a woman better than both. A vintner's liquor and a lady's virtue are alike in one way.

Testing aids them Needham but from the king. His par-. don and a purse of Help there!" March Needham sank down heavily in his chair and" his head drooped. Be fore his old friend reached him he was dead. FRANK BUTLER.

not. thirty-seven strands for each cable are made, then the 'temporary wrapping is removed and the 10.000 wires are grouped together in a cylindrical cable. Each "The matter started with this pas sage in mine English Mercury: 'Twas honest, friend. But to get me to the matter of me treason. Thrice had I gone to Windsor and.

thrice had some pup page denied me audience with the king. Faith, he was easier to see in Amsterdam. Once more I did essay; and this time I took Sir John Pidgeon; whom the king likes well, to bear me company. Before we set ourselves, tq the palace, what must do but ale at thy place, Rob. Thou was't not home." "Nay, at Hlghgate." "Some laborers sat at their drink an 1 asked me had I knocked the lords and cable will be held in form by heavy! The Lords Orrery and Vane were Regular Thing.

much remarked upon the Mell with Phlllda and Amarynta. Ye to whom the nymphs remain unknown may serve the first two letters of their names and Grogan I suppose you know it Is the proper caper now not to serve butter at dinner. Hogan That's always been the rule jk. I I i I trm. I fill the rest at "Understand Rob?" "Any fool could take thy "Therefore at our boarding house.

They servs oleo ladies over the curls in the day's Mer cury. I gave them the sheet and we instead, you know clamps of steel weighing about 400 pounds each. These bands will be placed twenty feet apart and will secure the suspenders to the- cables. These suspenders are to consist dt four strands of one and three fourths inch twisted steel wire rope, and to each of these suspenders the end of the floor beams will be attached. The floor beams and the entire structure will be thus suspended from thecables proper by the suspenders.

When completed, the cables will be sheeted with a casting of sheet steel about one sixteenth of an inch in thickness, overlapping, in order to shed the water. The operation of cable making will consist of an endless rope, moved In both directions by a steam ensrine placed in the construction plane of each cable. This rope passing around sheaves at1 the anchorage, will carry a bight of the cable wire across the river. The loops at both ends will be received, on shoes, which will rest on legs several feet from the anchor pins. This arrangement will cause the strand during construction to hang from twelve sixteen feet above its final position and afford an opportunity to adjust each wire separately to exact parallel-Ism with a standard wire.

As the end of one eoil is reached, it will be spliced to the end of another coll, and the wire made continuous throughout the strand. The wires in each strand will be lashed together in an approximately cylindrical shape, lowered several feet, and united to form the cable, yhlch will be built in a vertical plane and afterwards moved transversely, to give it the required cradling. As ex- a spga1 -11 1 I plained, during the process of cable making in previous suspension bridges, including the Brooklyn Bridge, the strand wires have all been pulled across from one side of the river, and the cable making has been performed by a limited number of men in travel 1- fL -Ts i -slrm ing cars suspended alongside of the cables. This, however, has been vastly Improved upon in the case of the new -bridge, where the wires will be pulled across from both sides of the river. It has been so arranged that two strands of each cable, or eight strands in all, can be simultaneously made, and a practically unlimited number of men can work on them simultaneously by means of the footbridges which form the working platform under each cable for Its full length.

For this operation four sets of machinery will be required, and these will so expedite the work on the four cables that they will be built more rapidly than ever before thought practicable. The weather will play an important part in the making of these cables. In calm weather the work can be carried on without interruption, but it will almost entirely cease during high winds. THIS BRIDGE A RECORD-BREAKER. The Manhattan Approach to the New East River Bridge.

4 The cables at each anchorage will be feet of the Brooklyn Bridge, and attached to the forty steel eye bars, fourteen feet long, which are built In solid masonry. These will be walled in with granite blocks of the same size as those used In building the anchorage after the cables have been attached. This new bridge will, indeed, be In every way a remarkable structure, and a striking monument to American engineering genius. There is no space here to speak of its commercial value as an Investment by. the City 'of New York, but it will be worth many times the eighteen millions to be spent upon It LEWIS NIXON.

at the top, of the towers, and all la being made ready to sling the first wire. But before that can be done a sort of minor bridge but one which, by the way, will cost $20,000 will have to be erected, and from this the work of constructing the cables will go on. This foot bridge will consist of a suspended structure of three spans, one Of' 1,000 feet between the two towers, and two of nearly 600 feet each between the towers and granite, anchorage. The middle span will virtually consist of two narrow parallel bridges, sixty-seven feet apart on centers, and connected by cross bridges 160 feet apart. Making the connection between the towers for this foot bridge is an' interesting operation in itself.

Contrary to precedent in such cases, the first bond of union is a heavy double cable, weighing over twelve will stand unrivaled, and as an engineering feat only one1 bridge can approach it, its near neighbor, the Brooklyn Bridge. Indeed, the latter is the only suspension bridge In the world to be compared with It, I and to give eome Idea of the magnitude and ambition of the new: bridge some comparative figures between it and the old will form the best illustration. The greatest i contrast i between the two lies In their relative strength. Roughly, the New East River Bridge will be four times as strong as the Brooklyn Bridge: each of its four cable will be about twice as stout 7 as those which support the span of the older structure, in other respects Its superiority in strength will be maintained. 1 Each of the-ifour cables will consist of tMrty-seven strands, and each the character and amount or ns traffic accommodation will be proportionately greater.

It wllf have six railroad tracks, two carriage ways, each twenty feet wide, two foot walks and as. concessions to the growing tastes of the public, two bicycle paths, In actual channel span the two bridges will not present a great! difference, merely a matter of fourT and a half feet, but the total length of the span the new bridge will claim the record by 1,200 feet. The Brooklyn Bridge has a channel span of 1,595 1-2 feet and a total length of 6,0001 feet. The figures of the new bridge are respectively 1.600 feet and 7,200 feet; The steel towers of the new bridge are about fifty-nine feet taller than the masonry spires of Brooklyn Bridge. The cap of steel work from high water Hot Engaged Harried.

Caller I should like to see mother, if she isn't engaged, i your THIS BKIPQE A RECORD-BREAKER. View of the Manhattan End, from, the Bridge. Flossie (aged five) Engaged! Why, mamma has been married ever since I knew her. 1 i.