ANOTHER GREAT BRIDGE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 304, 3 October 1888, Page 7

ANOTHER GREAT BRIDGE.

~3lT»is proposed to bridge the^Hudeon" \ili\rer between New York and Jersey City. '.The scheme is not new, but it has, onty 1 now been put into practical shape by Mr Gustav Lindenthal, an American engineer of some note. The proposed structure is to be a suspension bridge of three spans, : under which the largest ships may pass. The bridge is for the New York Terminal ■ Eailway, over winch all the roads centring ' In Bew York that carry passengers across the riv«r in ferries may in future pass. In tbeoliy a central depot will be constructed/ The nature of the river is such that, in order not to interfere with navigation, it will have to be crossed in one span, -which must be 2,850 feet, or about half a mile in length. The materials used will have to possess extraordinary strength to resist the strain and pressure, and it is calculated that the cables will each have to be 4ft in diameter. Two towers will be built, each 500 feet high, down to the -wharf lines, and the monster cables will l)e swung, fastened in masonry 300 ft Jong. Between the tower and the masonry two shorter spans, both together about the length of the middle one, will be ■suspended. The bridge will be wide -enough to hold six tracks, strong enough to carry six trains at the same time, and gather over a mile long. — Iron.