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LAYING BRIDGE FLOOR. Girders Being Buttoned to Manhattan Structure's Suspenders. The travellers on the Williamsburg and Brooklyn bridges as they cross to and fro between their homes and their places of occupation morning and evening are searching their mental equipment for jokes about the new Manhattan Bridge "Have you heard the latest?" asks jokesmith, turning to his neighbor in the elevated train. -No; what Is the expected reply. "It has to wearing suspenders.

And. more than that, it has no trouble about suspender buttons. because it has buttons on its bul are bright this morning! Whore did you replies his seatmate. The purpose of the "suspenders" and the buttons" being rapidly demonstrated. The steel girders of the floor are being laid at the rate of four panels, or seventy-two feet, a Jay.

A panel is the space between uach row of These spaces average eighteen feet in length The girders of one panel are laid on each Bide of each of the two towers each day. It Is expected that the floor will bo laid in the course- of a month. The length of flooring between the two towers will be 1.47" feet, and the portions of the bridge suspended over the land will be 725 feet at either end. The weights added to the oor from day to day on either side of the towers are made to balance as nearly as possible to equalize the strain on the cables and the towers A plumb bob suspended from the top of each tower and approximately three hundred feet long Indicates any variations of the towers from the perpendicular. A curious and Interesting fact has been discovered by means of this bob.

It is that the tower bends three-quarters of an Inch under influence of the heat of the sun. When the sunlight strikes one side of the tower in the morning that side expands and causes the tower to lean In one direction. In the afternoon the Bauer-Folsom Galleries 396 FIFTH AVENUE Between 36th and 37th Streets rare: works of art Tapestries. WoodcaLi-vings Decorations Persian and Racca Faience Selected American. Paintings SPECIAL EXHIBITION of Paintings by LOUIS PAUL DESSAR.

NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1909. LAYING THE FLOOR OF THE NEW MANHATTAN BRIDGE. An average of four panels are laid each day. and the floor will probably be fimshed in the course of a month.

opposite side expands and the tower bends cables an opportunity to adjust themselves to ba.k in the other direction. each other Before any riveting Is done the The girders are loosely attached by means ol steel of the trnsswork which is to carry the to give the bridge superstructure and tracks and pavements will be distributed in its BORNE DEAD AND ROBED THROUGH THE STREETS. The burial of the Primate of Rumania in the Cathedral of Bucharest the other day was grewtomely picturesque ceremony. After death the body was fully robed, and with mitre on hoad, crozier at and book of the gospels on knee, sat in state for three days, while thousands came to kiss the cold hand. In the same position it was carried through miles of crowded streets and was then set down before the altar in the cathedral after the funeral ceremony.

In tf same position and without coffin the body was afterward lowered into the tomb, amid the ringing of anthems and the tolling of bills. liliutraie.l position. Th- n. the weights being la place, riveting will begin. More than a million rivets will be driven before the paTementa sidewalks are laid next fall.

Th- girders are nickel steel, a material which, owing to its strength and elasticity, permits of making tft parts of lighter weight than would possible. It is expected that cables, which conta 23.100 miles of wire 1--- than one-fifth of a. inch in diameter, will stretch feet load that Is now being placed upon them. The live load which the bridge will be called upon to carry Is estimated at an average of ffur. tons for every toot of Its length.

Its capacity ha 3 been figured out at twice that amount, or eight tons for every foot. Tin: T. R. Mary Anderson de Xavarro, at a ctiaaex la New York, told many stories of th" 'Sir Augustus Harris, one week-end, took I cab for Charing Cross," she said. "He had painted In black letters on box an.i 'Augustus Harris.

T. K. I' I- They stood, of course, for Theatre Royal, Drury But the cabby thought that they stood for some I learned that here was an innocent, help- 1 lean scientist whom he could easily out II an exorbitant fare. "So. on reaching Charing Cross, the cabby frowned down at Sir Augustus and said, darkly: good five shillings wuth, sir." 'But Sir Augustus laughed and hand.

tia man one and the exact fare, plus a tuppenny tip. "The cabby looked at the money sneered bitterly. he said. 'An' ye call yerself aT. R.

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