Elevator, Volume 8, Number 47, 1 March 1873 — A Brooklyn Bridge. [ARTICLE]

A Brooklyn Bridge.

A bridge is being thrown over the | East River to unite New Yoik and Brooklyn. An elevation has been reached of 300 feet above high water maik. Henceforth, instead of one mass of solid masonry, three towers will go up—one at each end and one in the middle of the structure, and the frames erected will be needed lor t C'iHolding. These three towers are now to be carried up one hundred feet, where they will be again united by two pointed arches, thus forming Iwii high arched gateways to the bridge, Above this, the masonry, ihus again built into a solid uiass, lull width, 's to be carried fifty feet higher— making one hundred ai d fifty feet above the present point, (or roadway), and two hundred and eighty above high water mark in the river. Over these towers the plan is to puss four principal cables, each of which would bear a direct strain of seventy five hundred tons,or together ihirty thousand tons before break'iig; we say " din ct strain," because tiie oblique slrawi to w 11i ™ti they will lie in fact subjected, reduces the load they are able to carry to about onethird the above amount, or ten thousand tons. The weight of the bridge itself is to be forty-nine hundred tons, to which is to be added the weight of its traffic and the ice or snow which may at anytime rest upon it, the maximum of both which it is to be extended Bhall never exceed twelve hundred tons; thus, making both together never above sixty-one hundred tons, or thirty-nine hundred less than these four Cables alone are abie to support. To make, however, assurance, doubly sure, still other cables are to be added. It was Mr. Kcabling's plan to make this not only the largest, but also the safest suspension bridge he had ever planed, or which has thus far becc built in the world. Death of a Journalist.— M. M. Voah, formerly of this city, died in Washington, D. C., on Friday, 14th inst. Mr. Noah was a native of New York, and was son of Major M. M. Noah, a noted journalist of that city —of the last generation. Mr. Noah was at one time one of the editorial corps of the AHa. Colored Reporter.—At the trial of UpperciiH for murder in Baltimore, a colored mail applied for admission within the Bar as short hand reporter for the New York Tribune. lie was admitted. Hope fob the Assassin. — Judge Davis of New York, has granted a stay of proceedings in the case of Edward S. Stokes, the murderer *of Jatnes Fisk, junr. He way escape the gallows after all. New National Era.—Bend for one year to Chas. 1,. I). Richards, Post office, San Fraucisoo, and charge to Elevator.