The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1903, Page 9

PASS. nik AG. § NG, DECEMBER 7%, 1003. i MNCL SFORMATION ome! i is if will ACCOMPLISH | What the Williamsburg Bridge Cost, How It “i Was Constructed and Benefit It Will Confer. nion with Manhattan. will make a great city of the Bor h of Queens within the next fer tssion named by the san July 1, *}BIG STRUCTURE ON FIRE ONCE. the construction of « i footbridge was strung BY GUSTAV LINDENTHAL, spr Aap x Wire fest permanent cable Bridge Cemmissio ver. New York has seldom beheld a more : Irawn Nov. 20. 1901 beautiful sight than it did on the night Main span built by the Pennsy!vania Ei now when the bridge cannot be said to be in operation, it will of Noy. 10, » when the great Wille * bridge was afire fram shore OF 4) ims ADprokerar teri ne ne So NCE tend to relieve the congested traffic on the ald Brooklyn: Bridge ore. the flames leaping nigh in the ale yivanta Steel Company at The completion of the bridge will act as 4 stimnutus on. the railroad$#nd scurrying ng the wooden foot! 55 YY puth while the firemen stood helpless); “ on eliher shore unable to make battle, ©. / old bridge because of the} ‘nwenty oarrels of pitch and many bare” By having a direct connection with {rels of olf were stationed about on ‘the oy the Pen: A cost of $1,426,0m 1 the New York{companies and the work on the approaches ‘will be pushed more. rapidly side and $917,000 for the Brooklyn aide, The Williamsburg Bridge will relleve ths The ag aches on the Manhattan side 1 are mare tin af 13.000 tonn of tect, the ‘on of its terminus on the Bowe ’ Brookien apptoach (s made up of 6000 Phird avenue elevated and surface ronds 1 and Madison ‘avenue footpath. In some way ono of the bars © tons of steel, and Second avanue lines and the Second avenue elevated road, and prac: 1!% Se “ erates bs oa \ f blazing oll ran dow ; Bixwer than the Old Bridge, {Ucally a dire@yonnection with the Broadway ourface road, people -whofhitic siveleta serine Ate to the bark” The Willi g Bridge exceeds thepAt@ employed uftown or who have been to the upper part of the city, and}rels ahead, and as the fire reached # , nd Bronkivn Bridge by 1251 fect infwho are going to Brooklyn, will take the Williamsburg Bridge cité At ithe {terrél there was a loud. exploslonsang {cOgt: [feet iy Width: pet width in} Bowery terminus. You will see when the trains begin running detads the} ‘% rivulet of flame became larger and) abe wey GAM wees 4 new bridge that there will be almost a solution of the congested conditions encthe Acpinen thea ineeene 4; In strenath of rach slde be taqn0s00 traffic between New York and the boroughs of Kings and Queens, peared to be one great span of fike and in hetg towers bg vee Pn eee The Wooden paths had burnt and crash= surface by Bt ed into the river. Fireboats were: 1 capacity of brought into play under the spans, but | the talling sparks made this work most) > euble feet of lumb: and 4 + 10,000 gubic yards trains between New York and the New- mm cuble yards of from one hour-to about Williamsburg of co sirdge structure: “Hour murfuee rallrotd stone masonry . dangerous, “Phony too there Was a Mg | tracks, tw tracks for elevated trains TeEwiliian awa ie sot ed Wind blowing and sparks were cari twa roudware f¢ two foo What It WII Accomplish. wal an Away with the congested from ‘the bridge and. blown cer NeW venicte traffic conditions on the old Brooklyn york and Brooklyn, threatening ways for pedestrians and two ble This Is what the new Willlomsbure Bridge. to boais on elther’ side and to houses. © ath : Bridge will mean to New York will afford a terminus on the Bow When the wood and ot aud pitch had — Ms Manhattan anchorage of the It will relleve the congested tenement ery which will have direst connection BUTed themselves Tooth ht eee bridge rests on 9,000 piles and the Brook- districts on tne east side, + with the Se. and Third avenue’elr- thought at first that the bridge bad ee yn ancaorage on sand, In each an it wil open up the surburban districts vated roads and other surface roads in greatly damaged and that! the tron ani se chorage there ure 1,00 tons of cable of Kings and Queens Countles for poor New York steel hag) been bent Bad ceten te inchor steel persons seeking homes. It will bring the Boroughs of Brook- ginecra were mistaken, The damage Wamll In the anchorages there are 1,500,009 It will increase the running time of tyn and Queens into closet business and oniy emall. s . 4 a Riga Mapas. os et ctor hoy ah ee ame the Fadj RR: Bridge. | —s20-7 ~_—s2077 E-RIVER Bripek SHOWING LENGTH F SPan: : Co} CLUNG FOR LIFE ‘ =) A A BRIDGE WILL LESSEN a cite a ue 44 370 FEET IN AIK EAST SIDE CONGESTION. KILLING ON MEN» EH | How Iron Workers on Tower of Meron kia Ey Ons Lawrence Warren Tried It; bts ‘ the Big Bridge Narrowly Es- President of Rapid Transit Commission His Heart Gave Out and ‘He: caped in Its Early Days. Was Given Up for Dead> O tell the full benefit the people of Manhattan, Kings and Queens ‘ Brits ‘When forty tron workers staried up will derive from the new Williamsburg Bridge is difficult. That} “Unless you ere accustomed to wort | - the narrow litle ladder, to the! fop of a they will all derive great benefit there is no doubt {n my opinion. Hh alloca bows eg, wah : the great bridge tower, 370 feet in the en the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and the Rapid Transit Com- he abies pahhaaiel the batt t alr, on the morning of Jan, 2%, 1901,{mlsstoners come to some agreement on the way the new bridge is to be}o¢ March ‘24, 1898. ‘You are a new man‘ they were told thelr work would be very {operated or rather who is to operate the cars, the congested traffic of the {and are subject to the bends, Be care” dangerous. old bridge will be relieved to a great extent. ful,” the foreman added. S “That wind wilt blow you off,” an en- I am of the opinion that the new bridge will tend to relieve the thickly $ Wa7te™ @ Dlg strapping fellow, to e fo. pan. i wh ft was stranger, laughed at” to the foremar populated east side, Of course I can't cay how far reaching this relief will }”¢°™ vesiad ee “You an blow. off that tower but the warning anc once,” answered the sturdy iron worker.4b€, but [ think the bridge will open a section of Brooklyn to the people$ “1 gues¢ I -can § and: tt ff some of ‘ “Come, men, up to the top of the{move to suburban districts, where they can get to and from their work in besaateh et ke aly Gesceuse teas bi i " v' 0." = 1 wi e * Peaeome ls which will enable families now crowded in tenements on the east side tot; make mo show the white feather’ As the men made thelr way up the ‘| x 5 Pu CANSERAG i 1 $ MaadenU they ware Faroteclaa “eroa athe Manhattan with almost as much ease as they can now. Already I have? por an hour or two Warren worked biting north wind. TL came down thegnoticed that that section in Brooklyn, known as Brownsville, is drawing Sand there was the flush of health on his river cutting like a knife and high inffrom the thickly populated east side. I believe when the new bridge is {cheeks. Then suddenly he was seen to the air i was little less than a hurrl-foperating and Brownsville is plerced by direct ratlroad connection with soa! and he was slower in his mo} cane. Stowly the men made thelr way {Now York it will tend to greatly relieve New York's tenement districts Hirceltide the’ Bendat’) Cee tareeeae ce Ma head above he stone work the wind {00 the east, side. MMM Sesned Heiter. taka tc tes Skee ; cuught him full force, He called to the, gp awhile.”” H men below him: Warren was about to reply when he “Hold tight or you'll be blown off.” ly ¢ u dragged their half-paralyaed about 165 fee: from here dow reeled and fell like one dead. With On top of the tower no work could be bodi he ladder and descended to ain’t it?” he asked, and then, great difficulty, he was carried above, & hk done, Neither could the men descend safety. pat crowds had gwihered un- continued his work. distance of forty feet. There a: phys 4 because the wind had shifted, and no der the ladder and awaited them. 80 Some minutes later Sizer’s companion sician examined him aud sald that the : 8 were strong enough to. hold a weak were the men when they reached heard a cry and saw Sizer plunging pulse had stopped ‘ to a lac r The men lay at safety that some of them could scarcely head first from the cable. Sizer struck Heart disease, id the physician: the top of the tower. All alk a @ carried to their the water and went down deop. The 4x9 couldn't stand ‘thet alr preasun they kay there afraid to move. Calling homes or the hospital man on the bridge was zo-horrifled thtt an that distance under the water: Edward Sizer was working on one of he was weak and ready to, fall himself, “Warren was-carried torn house neartyy centre of the span whon he saw Siser rise to. the surface, and. nis family and’ friends were notes ing wind, No one could come to them of the bridge on 10, 1908, when one shake the water from itis Neal and si” Acq anae he was dead.» While te ‘artery iy mere than they could’ get'down,© of hls'compantona called. to} ont doldiy for the shore with a strong jr crowd stoud near the body, Wark ‘The weather became bitter cold and ‘Haye to hold on pretty th tovday, overchand stroke, Sizer laniled in safety 1 Crowd aoe i ie pen oc titi s and hands of the for J," sald the man, “There's (ust wind and laughed, ; gash eat : Leading eln frozen, “Still they clung enough to/make It hard gripping “Told you T was Alain diver, giant Sorhtale 1 was donde alae on for Ife, and then their bodies & ame ‘It ain't hard for * ani I?” he asked. That, ls Just a itt penbantt uy ‘ime oad 1; have numb and almost paralyzed from cold, “You fellowa are afraid of wat jump. You can do any ; been ‘Toward night the wind died. down and ain't. Always could dive igh, Know how and get used io ; the cold became still and bitter, Slow- vould be a regulation dive for mé. its Sixet had not 80 much as 4 briiss, . even if their vo! for help was uscless could have beens heani*avove that ho 1- the cables in th iron ns Londor: rN eine, THe Tower BHIGE a -