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HE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGL I to Oriarlaal rttli-trrapaa af all Ho-tirtt raatatara1 fla taa Eaarla. walea ear tha "Kaale Im-artat." earn aa aa (alaad far aoaila-1 rir at the Eaarla Jab Prlnttaa aft a Hoar, Eaarle Balldlnar. Aar reader wtuhlao a proof on a fla tied paper of anr aJetara In ffala arctlon eaa oltlalo ft by tctdlnit this coopuft, wlia ante m4 addreaa, and 'J c-nt stamp ta xofr fiosiasc.wltMa foar dam. to Plrtnra Dally baffle. April lff7.

PICTURE SECTION. NEW YORK. FRIDAY. APRIL 5. 1907.

PICTURE SECTION. Si SETTING UP THE TOWERS FOR THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE if 'J 1 to 4t 1 3) 5i ll j-t- "1 I ft Bi mi a' The Anchorage on the Brooklyn Side. First Iron Girders in Place for the Brooklyn Tower. ORK lias been be)un in setting up the towers for the Manhattan Bridge. The structure -activity in the effort to make a record in hurrying on their big contract.

The cyebars are being placed in position. There are about twelve hundred of these, averaging twelve hundred pounds iu Weight. They are formed- in four groups one group for each wire cable. The eyebars of each group come together in one muss near the top of the anchorage and are so arranged as to form thirty- seven places for attaching the strands of the cable. Each strand will contain wires, making 0,427 wires in each cable.

There are, there- fore, 37,888 wires to be spun across of concrete and granite nrnich will be placed about and on top of them. As soon as they are accurately placed line concrete will be deposited, holding them securely in position. The mass of concrete and granite masonry i to be placed on top of the anchor steel will be about 100 feet high. storage yard-is to be built close to the site of the bridge for storing and other materials required for- the Construction. Just now the rboenixville Steel where entire structure is to bo fabricated except the cables, is a scene of much the Kast Hiver to support the new bridge.

Kach wire will be about three-sixteenths of nn inch in diameter. The strain produced by the weight of the bridge will lie carried through the cables to the steel work, which will be able to resist this great strain by the enormous weight will be' completed in two and a half years if no unforeseen delays occur. Over three nlillion pounds of steel have been delivered recently. A Ml 1 Tit 't nl fc. a hS WA I.G2i iaV 1 if-.

Bottom of Anchorage on Brooklyn Side to Be Filled With Granite and Concrete. Putting Eye-bars in Place. NEW ART TRERSURES AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM fUK Metropolitan Museum of ffij Art has ai'qulrel iiiiportant ni'imiKilimiM Id ki'VithI of IIm iia i wr- wai ,11 hii ji pi iaii 5 i IIS collei'tlniiH. lly purchase, possession has been gnlned of two portraits by (Mlbert Smart. A certain historical Interest miiik-Iics to tlicse, apart from their Intrinsic merit.

Inasmuch as they represent lion de y. Ncliot, minister to the 1'nlled Stales, ami Ioim Matllde Stotigliton di' his wife. They were palmed In New York In 17111. uml have been in Spain until recently. They are similar In general eompoHl-tlon, and reveal Stuart as essentially a painter of fares, upon which fact fame as one of the for- moat painters of America rests.

The Museum Is fortunate In the Msses-sloli of these well-preserviil examples of his early work. Seven pieces u( Irish silverware, consisting of a tint-top tankard of the time of ijuren Anne, two waiters, two two-handled-cup, anil it creainer have been lidded to the exhibition of silverware. Mf Interest too, are. the reproductions of t'eltic work. Copies of the Ardagil Chalice, the Turn P.roocli and (lie Cross of Cong, all famous pieces of early Irish make, the nrigltuils of which are now In the National Museum at Dublin, show the mastery of tite I'ii gun Irish In design and execution.

Several medals have Imih added to the present collect Ion In ttullery Z. copy of one, made for Kuis'ror I'nuir, of Austria, In commemorate tin. eightieth birthday of ids urn le. Archduke Kuiner. has been presented by IMwhi'iI l.

Adams, rnmi Mr. Knille I'llrhs, the dls-tlllilllshe'l inciliillsl. have beeu received copies of the commit loll imslal of King r.ihvuril ninl lateen Alexandra, illlil of I lu I'eilet. Medal" dedicated, "To I lie memory imsi who gave their lives fur king in.d country- Soulii A t'i unipulgu Ik 61 4 i it II aw. i hi Matilda Stoughton de Jaudcnc.

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