East River Bridge

Marked progress has been made toward the completion of the East River jridge. All of the floor beams have 3een placed, the foot bridge is removed, the approaches have been brought almost to completion, and the elevated superstrueture has been commenced tiiid is now progressing, having reached a distance of ninety to one hundred 'eet each way from each tower, and the overfloor stays are correspondingly ad van eed. The bridge is designed to carry three dnds of load: the outside roadways béng for wagon traffic, the middle one or a promenade, with the railway racks on either side of it, and between c and the roadways. The approach on the Brooklyn side differs from the New York approach n having iron street bridges at all of ,he streets. The New York approach ias but one iron street bridge, and this s Jocated at Franklin Square. All the other streets are spanned by massive avches of masonry. The total vveight of metal in this Dridge ia round numbers is one thousand tons. Of this 1,658,279 pounds are wrought iron, 82,092 pounds steel, 27,440 pounds steel pins, 146,891 pounds cast iron. The width of the bridge over all, 88 feet. Each cable contains 5,296 parallel not twisted) galvanized steel, oil coated wires, closely wrapped to a solid cylinder, 15 iuches in diameter. Total height of towers above high water, -278 feet. Clear height of bridge in center of iver span above high water, 135 feet. The depots at the ends of the bridge iré to be elabórate structures of glass and iron. The one on the New York ide is to be 260 feet long and 59 feet wide, with a platform on the bridge nd 70 feet long. The cars wül pass through the de)ot, and are shifted from one track to ■he other on switches between the )ot and end of the