Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1899 — NIAGARA SUSPENSION BRIDGf. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NIAGARA SUSPENSION BRIDGf.

Only One of Its Kind, steel Arches Being in Vogue. Another tie has been forged between the Dominion of Canada and the United States in the shape of a new suspension bridge erected between the famous Queenstown Heights and the Lewiston mountain. This bridge Is the only structure of the kind now spanning the gorge, as all the Did suspension bridges have been supplanted by steel arches. This bridge Is destined to be a link in a belt line electric traction

service about the beautiful Niagara gqrge. It has a cable span of 1,040 feet, and a suspended span of 800 feet It i* sixty-five feet above tbe water, and therefore hangs suspended midway between the dlff-iopa and the water's edge. It has a width of twen-ty-five feet and through the center runs a single track for electric cars. There are 800 tons of metal In the bridge, and tbe cables weigh 200 tons more. These cables once formed a

part of the old suspension bridge Ghl stood close to the Falls, having bCeM cut in two for this new bridge. WlgS so cut, however, they do not HE out thir entire cable span, and tar this teamuim short distance at each end la filled oaf with eye-bars.

THE NEW SUSPENSION BRIDGE ACROSS NIAGARA.