. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. in the threearches is four million seven hundred and eightythousand pounds and six million three hundredand thirty thousand pounds of wrought iron. Thewest pier stands on rock ninety-one feet belowhigh water, the east pier one hundred and twenty-seven feet below high water, and the east abutmentone hundred and thirty-five feet below the surfaceof extreme high water. The calculation made forthe strength of this bridge being, the greatest num-ber of people who could stand on the roadwayabove, and each railway track below covered fromend to end
. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. in the threearches is four million seven hundred and eightythousand pounds and six million three hundredand thirty thousand pounds of wrought iron. Thewest pier stands on rock ninety-one feet belowhigh water, the east pier one hundred and twenty-seven feet below high water, and the east abutmentone hundred and thirty-five feet below the surfaceof extreme high water. The calculation made forthe strength of this bridge being, the greatest num-ber of people who could stand on the roadwayabove, and each railway track below covered fromend to end with locomotives, this enormous loadwould tax it less than one sixth of the ultimatestrength of the steel of which the arches are con-structed. The computed ultimate strength thethree arches will sustain, being twenty-eight thou-sand nine hundred and seventy-two tons. The railroad passages run beneath the carriageways, and are each about fifteen feet in the clear,and eighteen feet high. The bridge is always illuminated at night, and 50 SAINT LOUIS. SAIXT LOUIS 51 is an imposing sight. James B. Eads, for whomit was named, was one of the finest engineers inAm-erica, and the designing and erection of thisbridge is considered a master effort in that bridge, The Merchants Bridgecrosses the Mississippi above Eads bridge, and anew bridge, The McKinley, is now being con-structed between the two. MERCHANTS EXCHANGE. This building, costing $2,000,000, is one of thehandsomest in the world for this purpose, frontingtwo hundred and thirty-three feet on Third Street,and one hundred and eighty-seven on Pine andChestnut Streets. Built in modern Italian style,of Warrensburg, Missouri, limestone, with Doricportico, emblematic figures sculptured in relief, thegrand doorways and grand stairway of Americanwalnut, with decorations of several varieties ofhard woods, gives the interior an appearance ofmagnificence and architectural beauty. Occupying the full length of the building abovet
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