. Public works . with concrete bridgeIt has been decided to make bridge threespan. It will be 165 feet long. It is tnbe built iointly by citv of Orange andcounty which will nay one-third of cost Jacksonville, Fla—Ensrineers willsnortly be employed bv Duval CountvCommissioners to nrepare plans for bas-cule type of bridge across St. JohnsRiver. Tampa, Pla.—Bids will soon be adv^ -tised for construction of 24 brid. D—State Engineer Blisshas recentlv furnished Mercer Countvwith • standard bridge speciflcation =County exnects to build from 20 to -bridges this season and state engine-has been reques
. Public works . with concrete bridgeIt has been decided to make bridge threespan. It will be 165 feet long. It is tnbe built iointly by citv of Orange andcounty which will nay one-third of cost Jacksonville, Fla—Ensrineers willsnortly be employed bv Duval CountvCommissioners to nrepare plans for bas-cule type of bridge across St. JohnsRiver. Tampa, Pla.—Bids will soon be adv^ -tised for construction of 24 brid. D—State Engineer Blisshas recentlv furnished Mercer Countvwith • standard bridge speciflcation =County exnects to build from 20 to -bridges this season and state engine-has been requested to furnish inspect!.^-during their construction. Municipal Journal Volume XXXVII NEW YORK, AUGUST 27, AUXIIilARV STEAM GENERATING STATION, SEATTLE MUNICIPAT- and Circulating- Air Pumps Being Installed. SEATTLES LIGHTING DEPARTMENT Arcs and Series Tungsten Being Replaced With Nitrogen-Filled Lamps—Low Lighting Rates—Electricity forResidence Heating Found Not Economical—Deprecia tion Rates—New Hydro-Electric and Steam Stations. The superintendent of the Lighting Department ofSeattle, Wash., J. D. Ross, claims that city was the firstto use for street lighting the new nitrogen filled tung-sten lamp, which gives an efficiency approximately twicethat of the ordinary tungsten. The department was alsothe first to use low voltage tungsten lamps. They arenow experimenting to determine the practicability ofusing electricity for heating the home. The business district is illuminated by an ornamentalcluster lighting system, five-globe poles being placed op-posite each other at the curb line and spaced from 80 to90 feet apart. In the residence districts a pole with threeglob
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