People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — DEDICATED THEIR BRIDGE. [ARTICLE]

DEDICATED THEIR BRIDGE.

The C. B. & Q. Bridge Over the MissigHlppi Formally Opened. St. Louis, May 2.—At lp. m. Tuesday the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad company formally dedicated their magnificent new steel bridge across the Mississippi river at a point a short distance south of Alton and connecting the shores of Missouri and Illinois with a double track railway. Trains left the Missouri and Illinois shores simultaneously, meeting in the center of the structure. These bore state officials and invited guests. After brief speeches by Lieut Gov. O’Meara, of Missouri, and Lieut. Gov. Gill, of Illinois, Edith Brenhalt, daughter of the mayor of Alton, broke the conventional bottle of wine on the rail of the bridge, and the dedication was over. The trains then rolled to the Illinois shore where a banquet had been prepared for the visitors by the Burlington company. After this a parade of civic and military societies marched through the streets of Alton.