Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — Some Big Bridges for Europe. [ARTICLE]

Some Big Bridges for Europe.

They are indulging in some big bridge talk in Europe. The high level bridge across the Mersey at Liverpool is to consist of three spans on the arched suspension principle, each of 1,150 feet, 150 feet above the river at high water. There is to be a double railway track, a roadway 40 feet wide for vehicles and sidewalks or footpaths. The railway bridge proposed across the Bosphorus at Constantinople would be 8,645 feet long, or nearly the length of the Forth bridge. The projected Channel bridge between England and France runs in a straight lipe from the south foreland to Cape Blanc Nez. The structure, as now proposed, would consist of 73_spans, alternately 1,300 feet and 1,625 feet long. It would give a clear headway of 175 feet at every point between the piers. Two bridges just completed across the new North Sea and Baltic Canal have spans of 510 feet each, and, besides railways carry also a common roadway and footpaths. —New York Evening Sun