. American engineer and railroad journal . obstruct inany way the fine view of thebanks and of the other bridgesover the Neva. Plans have been prepared forone of the great bridges whichit is proposed to build across theEast River at New York. Thisone is a cantilever bridge, whichthe Long Island Railroad wantsto build just below the south endof Blackwells Island, and if isintended to be entirely a railroadbridge. The plans provide fora cantilever 3,540 ft. long; inall there will be three spansover the river—one 1,000 ft. longover the west channel, one 690ft. over the reef south of Black-wells I
. American engineer and railroad journal . obstruct inany way the fine view of thebanks and of the other bridgesover the Neva. Plans have been prepared forone of the great bridges whichit is proposed to build across theEast River at New York. Thisone is a cantilever bridge, whichthe Long Island Railroad wantsto build just below the south endof Blackwells Island, and if isintended to be entirely a railroadbridge. The plans provide fora cantilever 3,540 ft. long; inall there will be three spansover the river—one 1,000 ft. longover the west channel, one 690ft. over the reef south of Black-wells Island, and one i, too over the west channel. Thepiers will be placed at the wateredge on either shore, and on thereef, offering no obstruction tonavigation. The bridge is tohave a clear height of 135 high water. At the NewYork end it is proposed to ex-tend it by an elevated structureto a point somewhere near Thir-ty-eighth Street and Fourth H n K* r -J Q X 0 :n Q^ rn -- 0 c T^ _ ; A -^ m -n n > ^, . 2o6 THE RAILROAD AND [May, 1892. Avenue, where the passenger station will be built. Thetracks on this side will not be brought down to the streetlevel, but the station will be high above the ground, andpassengers will be carried up and down in large the eastern or Long Island end the approach to ihebridge will bean iron or steel viaduct about It long,and will descend to the present level of the Long Islandtracks with a grade of i per cent. It is stated the Com-pany is ready to begin work as soon as the necessaryauthority can be obtained. The April report of pig iron production, as given by theAmerican Manufacturer, shows that on April i therewere 2S0 furnaces in blast, with a total weekly capacity of188,109 tons —a reduction from March i of 10 per cent, inthe number of furnaces, and of 3 per cent, in reduction was greatest in the anthracite furnaces,although the charcoal and bituminous furnaces also showa falling off It is not
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