. Water & sewage works . ue bridge was the firstregular trunnion bridge in America. Ithas a clear distance of 95 feet betweenfenders, but as it crosses the river on anangle, the channel width is only 70 has tail pits and the arms have cantl-le%er action when down. Its total costwas ?85,000. The break in the floor wasincorrectly placed, causing dirt from theroadway to slide down into the machin-ery pits. The Broadway bridge, nearer the har-bor mouth, is sometimes opened 150 timesper day, and it is one of the busiestbridges in America. It has a 100-footclear channel, with arms in the for
. Water & sewage works . ue bridge was the firstregular trunnion bridge in America. Ithas a clear distance of 95 feet betweenfenders, but as it crosses the river on anangle, the channel width is only 70 has tail pits and the arms have cantl-le%er action when down. Its total costwas ?85,000. The break in the floor wasincorrectly placed, causing dirt from theroadway to slide down into the machin-ery pits. The Broadway bridge, nearer the har-bor mouth, is sometimes opened 150 timesper day, and it is one of the busiestbridges in America. It has a 100-footclear channel, with arms in the form ofan arch when closed, and it cost complete$125,375. The Michigan street bridgebears the simple and appropriate tho un-usual inscription on a metal plate, builtby the people of Milwaukee, a practicequite different to that of placing on thename plate the names of all the local al-dermen who chance to be serving at thetime of its construction. The amount of power on the early bas-cule bridges was insufficient, and it has. OLD LIFT BRIDGE at State and Martin , Wis. Mil- July 191S LIFT BRIDGES OF MILWAUKEE been about doubled on the later ones,that at Michigan street having a 50-horse-power motor on each leaf, and requiring40 amperes to open it. Some further par-ticulars of the modern bascule bridgesare given in the following table. A fine new bridge has been completedat Oneida street and one is soon to beplaced at Buffalo street at a cost of $175,-000. The old swing, which was built by a waukee are much superior to those inother cities, where thru trusses are usedinstead of plate girders, but plate gird-ers are economical only for comparative-ly small channels. It should be noted,however, that the Tower bridge at Lon-don, with its clear opening of 200 feet,has plate girders beneath the movingleaves instead of trusses, tho the lattertype are generally used in Chicago, where Milwuakee Bascule Bridges Street and Stream Constructed Grand Avenue, Milwaukee 1902 Broadway,
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