Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — WORLD’S HEAVIEST BRIDGE SPANS’HELL GATE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WORLD’S HEAVIEST BRIDGE SPANS’HELL GATE

IS WORLD’S HEAVIEST BRIDGE

New York Has Structure That Exceeds in Weight Anything That Has , Yet Been Built - The steel arch across Hell Gate, the heaviest bridge in existence, will soon be ready for traffic, and then it will be possible for travelers to pass through New York going north and south without any of the Inconveniences and delays that have hitherto been unavoidable. Time and money will be saved. The Hell Gate bridge is part of a two-mile project known as the New York Connecting railway, and of this the East river division alone, represents an outlay of $30,000,000 and covers a stretch of three and one-half miles. The massive span has cost $12.000,000. Today the Hell Gate bridge represents a sustained mass of 19,000 tons of steel alone. It is the longest fourtrack, railroad-bridge and able to support a greater load per lineal foot than any other bridge. Gustave Lindenthal, the engineer, who laid all of the plans for the bridge, is a modest genius, and has little to say of this latest monument of his technical skilL