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tr THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE PICTURE AND SPORTING SECTION PICTURE AND SPORTING SECTION NEW YORK CITY. TUESDAY. AUGUST 10. 1909. MANHATTAN BRIDGE CABLES COMPLETED ON FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF STRINGING OF WIRES.

The Main Roadway. Last of the Riveting at the End of the Approach. End of the Approach Near Sand Street. tl jif" nil. rniSjjyC 1 The Approach Crossing Sand St.

The Approach From Top of Anchorage. pleased with the Manhattan Bridge work to date, and that it was more than a record construction, since nothing like it has ever before been achieved. All the motive power employed in this work has been of electricity, and the work of stringing, "squeezing" and "serving" or wrapping the cables was accomplished by new mechanical devices and-improvements that. were invented for this specific work. Patents are being secured on this machinery.

The cable which has just completed the operation of wrapping the cables with 140 tons of No. 9 wire about .15 of an inch in diameter has been able to "do" in a day from five to seven panels or spaces between suspenders. The big contract of the Carbon Steel Company for the building of the cables of the Manhattan Bridge and for the supply of immense quantities of tine acid sfeel for the huge structure, was practically completed to-day ex-, actly one year from the time the first wire of the cables was run across the river towers from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Only a few odds and ends of the job remain to be done, but these will be cleaned up while the remnant of the suspended working platform is being taken down. Within a few days the ornamental bronze collars to be fitted on the cables, one at each end of the anchorage saddles, and where the cables pass through the floor of the anchorage, will be in place.

Then, with a few more turns of "serving" wire and the painting of these parts, the work will be completed. H. D. Robinson, chief engineer of the Glyndon Contracting Cmpany, the subsidiary erecting force of the Carbon Steel Company, said to-day that but for a slight delay on the part of the people supplying the bronze collars, the entire work would have been completed on the anniversary of the stringing of the first of the 37,888 wires constituting the cables. The bronze collars referred to are twenty-four in number and weigh 500 pounds was stated at the Bridge Department to-day that Commissioner Stevenson' was greatly CHINA FORCED TO ACCEPT JAPAN'S PLAN FOR NEW ANTUNG-MUKDEN LINE.

HE Chinese Foreign Board and the Grand Council have been In consecutive conference with Prince Chun, the in regent, on the Japanese situation since the issuance of Japan's note announcing her intention of proceeding immediately with the reconstruction of the Antung-Mukden Railroad without China's co-operation. The Regent showed anxiety at Japan's attitude of coercion, which was supported by Great Britain, and he urged that the Foreign Board accelerate a settlement of the question, in order not to provoke Japanese violence. It has been learned that the report from Toklo that China had withdrawn her objections is correct in so far as that she has virtually unconditionally conceded Japan's demand that the railroad be made of standard gauge and is willing to accept any reasonable compromise. China, however, is debarred from giving a treaty consent on account of Japan's suspicious attitude in forcing the gauge question, In claiming for the Antung line advantages existing on the South Manchurian Railroad, and through her refusal to negotiate the latter question. Japan insisted on postponing consideration of the South Manchurian line question until the Antung-Mukden railroad was reconstructed.

China does not object to the expansion of the Antung-Mukden Railroad commercially, but she does oppose a Japanese military strategic enterprise ending In another foreign military rind commercial barrier acoss Manchuria. ife EK" jilt i A Chinese Street in Mukden. Prince Chun, Chinese Regent. Old Pagoda, Near Mukden Railway Station..