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Blackwell's Island Bridge Construction Advancing Rapidly

BLACKWELL'S ISLAND BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION ADVANCING RAPIDLY. The Big Traveler-180 Feet High. General View of Bridge and Approach, From Second Avenue, Manhattan. Work on the Tower. View From Sutton Place and Sixtieth Street. DORK on the Blackwell's the collapse of the St. Lawrence w Island Bridge and the bridge near Quebec, which was of approaches in Long Isl- the cantilever type, the same as the COT anl City and Manhat- Blackwell's Island, interest in the tan bave, advanced to such an ex- construction of. the latter has intent that the contractors are confi- creased. The two lofty steel towers dent the steel structure will surmounting the massive stone piers great on Blackwell's Island, and the perbe completed by next spring. Since manent island span and the giant Excavation at Second Avenue and Sixtieth Street, for Foundation of Approach. completed on both the Manhat- tower on the Manhattan side. This 000 tons of steel work, the most tan and Queens sides of the river. tower will rise to 330 feet above the massive bridge construction in the The 250-ton cantilever traveler, 185 surface of the East River, at high world. The Firth Forth strucfeet in height from floor to the top tide. It will be 199 feet from the true is larger and contains more maof the tower that supports a mon- tops of the stone pier to the top terial, but it is not so massive. The ster steel derrick rising ninety feet the steel tower. The total weight of length of the bridge from the Queens in the air and capable of lifting to the tower will be 2,200 tons. Each anchorage to Manhattan anchorage that height the big truss secticns of its two legs will contain nine sec- will be 3.724 feet. It is doublea weighing seventy-tive to eighty tons, tions. The Pennsylvania Steel Com- decked structure, ninety-one feet in will be ready in a week to erect the pany's contract calls for nearly 53,- width. 31 Cool cantilever. each arms of extending East out River to channels are all put together, and the riveting upon them will be completed this week. The entire work has received a coat of paint, and the second coat is now being put on by a large force of men. The false work between the river front stone piers and the anchorage piers is
Article from 02 Sep 1907Brooklyn Eagle(Brooklyn, NY)
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