. The Street railway journal . 898, through condemnation or dedication. The streets inLong Island City were laid out on property belonging toproperty owners, and the municipality owns only the ease-ments. What now has to be determined is whether in ad-dition to paying the city for the easement rights the Penn-sylvania Company also will have to pay for the propertyrights. Another conference is to be held in about twoweeks. June 7, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 737 Rolling Lift Bridges Prevent Drawbridge Accidents The slight accident on the bridge of the Metropolitan West SideElevated Railroad,
. The Street railway journal . 898, through condemnation or dedication. The streets inLong Island City were laid out on property belonging toproperty owners, and the municipality owns only the ease-ments. What now has to be determined is whether in ad-dition to paying the city for the easement rights the Penn-sylvania Company also will have to pay for the propertyrights. Another conference is to be held in about twoweeks. June 7, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 737 Rolling Lift Bridges Prevent Drawbridge Accidents The slight accident on the bridge of the Metropolitan West SideElevated Railroad, of Chicago, which was spoken of and illustratedin the Streeet Railway Journal, and which would have beenvery serious had the bridge been other than the bascule type,brings to mind forcibly the advantages and safety of this kind ofbridge, and also calls up some interesting historical facts regardingthe Metropolitan bridge at Chicago. This bridge was the first of thenow well-known Scherzer type of rolling lift bridges. In fact,. OPEN SCHERZER BRIDGE. AN IMPASSABLE BARRIER TO TRAINS it was the peculiar problem which had to be met by the Metropoli-tan Elevated in crossing the Chicago River that led to the designof the Scherzer rolling lift bridge, and this was the first one of thekind constructed. When the Metropolitan Elevated was beingbuilt a most difficult situation had to be faced in regard to crossingthe river. The road had its right of way between Jackson andVan Buren Streets between two swing draw bridges turning oncenter pivots. There was not room for a swing bridge, because it better must be devised and the invention of the Scherzer rollinglift bridge was the result. The Metropolitan Elevated adoptedand built this design of bridge, which was followed soon by one onthe same principle on Van Buren Street next to it. , the designer of these bridges, died soon after the planswere completed, but the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company, ofChicago, continued the
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