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GIGANTIC BRIDGE OVER HUDSON. By Far the Largest Suspension Bridge in the World. The Hudson river bridge, an undertaking beyond precedent in the history of engineering, has apparently been taken from the realm of conjecure and made an actuality by the re^ cent announcement that a company (has been formed to build it, and that plans have been drafted, the charter declared constitutional, and the work begun, with actual construction to be entered upon shortly and completed in the comparatively short period of seven years. In announcing the formal launching of the project, maae public at a dinner given a few weeks ' ago in New York in honor of the seventy-first birthday of Gustav Lindenthal, the designer, who has either planned "or been consulted in the planning of practically all the bridges of the country, the New York Times said: "Plans for bridging the Hudson river with a structure suspended from two towers, each higher than the Woolworth building, and having a capacity greater than the four East river bridges combined, were indorsed last night by financial, commercial, and industrial leaders, at a dinner of the Hudson River Bridge and Terminal Association, -Inc., at the Hotel Plaza.? Ex-Gov. Alfred E. , Smith. SDeakine for the Port Au thority, of which he is a member, and Gov. Edward I. Edwards, of New Jersey, also indorsed the project. I "Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, was one of those who spoke with the warmest approval of the project. He indicated that such a structure might furnish to his railroad a solution for its suburban traffic, which, according to Mr. Rea, the Pennsylvania railroad can not continue indefinitely to handle through the Pennsylvania Station. "Mr. Rea said his interest in the proposal to bridge the Hudson river had not wavered since the plan was first outlined to him twenty-five years ago by Mr/ Lindenthal. He said that the city of New York and the business conducted within it had grown so enormously within the last . decade that it was imperative that this project should be realized if the metropolitan district were to hold its own commercially." More details of the immense structure, which will be by far the largest suspension bridge in the world, are contained in an article in The Scientific American, which compares the bridge by diagrams with other notable engineering feats, and gives the following statistical information: "The main outlines of the bridge, as at present determined, call for a total length from anchorage to anchorage of 6,660 feet, divided into two shore spans each 1,710 feet long, and a central span across the river of 3,240 feet. The roadway, 220 feet 'x win width, will be suspended from four steel chain cables, each consisting of 80 lines of eye-bars arranged in three banks and enclosed in a water tight I . tubular casing of bronze plating, I ' whose diameter will be fifteen feet.' The upper deck will consist of a broad automobile and mjotor-truck roadway 155 feet in the clear, and there will also be provision for two i./vllatrHnii tnaal'C onH twn 1 7-fnnt LI uuc;":mt nuvau UUU Mf. ? ? . I walks for passengers. On the lower B deck will be ten trunk railroad lines. f "The function of a suspension ' -bridfee anchorage is to resist the horizontal pull of the cables. This, in the Hudson river bridge, amounts to 260,000 tons. Resistance to this pull, with a wide margin to spare, is obtained by building the anchorage of such size and weight that the frictional resistance to movement between itself and the ground is sufficient to hold the cables taut and do so with a sufficient friction in reserve to prevent the slightest movement. The engineers' calculations call for a mass of masonry measuring on its base 400 feet in the direction of the length of the bridge, 375 feet in width, and 220 feet in height, while upon this base will stand two office buildings 70 feet in width, 250 ' feet in length, and 280 feet in height. "On an equal scale or magnuuae with the rest of this great structure is the double-deck suspended floor of the bridge. On the upper deck, on the extreme outside, will be two 17foot passenger footways. Adjoining these will be two tracks for trolleyIcars. Between the cables will be found one of the greatest boulevards in the w*orld?a clear, unobstructed roadway 155 feet in width and 12,000 feet in length, including the approaches. The roadway will be cov ered with asphalted concrete. It will be absolutely water-tight and its broad surface will give ample room for sixteen automobiles and motor trucks to pass abreast across the bridge. On the lower deck will be ten railway tracks, over which will pass the transcontinental trains of all the railroads that come into Jersey City from -the west and also freight trains as are destined for Manhattan, the Bronx, and Long Is DEATH FOLLOWS WHIPPING. Spartanburg Guards Under Charges. Prisoner White Man. Spartanburg, Sept. 2.?Tom Hatchette and Lee Porter, guards on the white chaingang operated by the county highway commission, were bound over last night by a coroner's jury holding an inquest into the causes of the death of thomas H. Keelan, who died at the camp Wednesday after being severely whipped by the guards.) They gave bond in the sum of $2,-; 000 each, and have been released. Keelan was arrested last Friday: for hoboing, and was sentenced to serve 30 days for his offense. He was asked if his people would pay a fine for him, and he is alleged toi have said that his people needed the) money worse than he did, and took the days. Wednesday morning he was un?? / > 11 i *Jn or on/-? eVi nTviri cr PvirlpTlPPc w cil? v auu ouv < ^ *vkwMwwV of being sick, but the guards insisted on his working, and when he could not perform the duties imposed upon him he was severely whipped. After he got down and was taken to the shade of a tree it is alleged that Hatchette kicked him and threw a bucket of water in his face. The physician who held the autopsy said*that there was no organic troufble, that his heart, spine and brain were normal, and that death was not due to any organic trouble. He also stated that he did not think the beating alone would have produced death, but that the man's being ill and getting the flogging he did made it possible for him to be overcome by heat. The jury recommended that the men both be discharged from guarding convicts. There is considerable feeling in the vicinity where the camp is located, near Glenn Springs, over the occurrence. His Ambition. A messenger boy in the Broadway nffir.e nf a teleeraDh company is al ways reading lurid novels. The manager said to him the other day: "Charlie, what's your ambition in life?" The boy put down his Indian story and said gravely: "To have people tremble like leaves at the mere mention of my name."? Exchange. land." In speaking before the Merchants' Assciation of New York, an organization of business men, George A. Post, president of the Hudson River Bridge Corporation, is quoted by Greater v"'t' V/nkIt fVio nrcon of the Assneia A>C>T 1U1IV, QMU V4. VMW . tion, as follows: "There ought to be a bridge across the Hudson river, connecting New York and New Jersey. In that pronouncement, I am voicing the deep conviction, not only of the Association newly formed for promoting that consummation, but, as well, a vast multitude of those in New York and New Jersey who know and feel that a bridge is not urged as a solution of all our port troubles. It is but one of tVi in ore f Vl Q t must hp af> cue uiauj <iuiueo viiM v ? complished for the safety, comfort, and convenience' of the millions who now people the metropolitan district, and the millions wore who, in years! to come, will here require adequate facilities for the pursuit of their myriad avocations. "When there shall be a bridge, miseries in transportation now suffered will be ended; fetters that now bind will be cut; growth and development now hindered will be set free; Manhattan Island will be safer from the perils of war and the transportation vicissitudes of peace time; Greater New York will be surer of the con tinuance of its commercial primacy! in our nation, and New Jersey will have teeming centers of population and industry where now are wide expanses of sparsely settled territory." The man whose ability and vision have finally triumphed over untoward conditions is Gustav Lindenthal, thus described in the American Magazine of December, who would thus seem by experience and vision eminently fiitted to undertake the stunon^mio tact nf hridcin?r the Hud ? ? I son: "Whenever you look at any bridge anywhere in this country thpt was built within the past thirty' years, you may be certain that Gustav Lindenthal designed it, or was consulted1 about its design, or that some of his design formulas were used. "Take New York, for instance, the greatest bridge city in the world. It has the largest three suspension bridges?Brooklyn, Williamsburg.and Manhattan?while the Queensboro is one of the most important of all s cantilever bridges ana tieu uaie is the largest of all steel-arch bridges. Lindenthals* hand was on all of them, j "He repaired the Brooklyn Bridge, j finished the the Williamsburg bridge, j designed the Manhattan and Queensboro bridges, and built the Hell Gate bridge." THEATER MANAGER KILLED. Crowd Captures Thief After Chase Through Crowded Street. Jacksonville, Fla. Sept. 4.?George S. Hickman, manager of the Palace theater here, was instantly killed tonight when a man giving his name as Frank Rollins, of Chicago, held up and robbed the cashier's office of SSOO. Rollins was captured after a chase of thr'ee blocks by several hundred persons. He was taken to the city jail, but shortly was removed to the county jail for safe keeping. The robbery occurred within one block of police headquarters' and while the show was in progress. Hickman and E. W. Harris, treasurer for the theater, were seated in their office, just off the first balcony of the building, counting the day's receipts. Rollins, who had been viewing the show, lefr his seat and started toward the exit as though passing out of the building. As he passed the cashier's office, he opened the door and confronted the two men, with the money lying on the table before them, and commanded them to throw up their hands. It took several minutes for him to convince the two men that he was in earnest, whereupon Hick man grabbed the man and was instantly shot through the left eye. Harris was struck over the head with a blunt instrument but not seriously injured. Rollins darted from the building with Harris at his heels and in the crowded street pedestrians joined in the chase. Patrons of the theater hearing the shooting began to pour out, although there was comparatively little disorder. The show continued in progress for several minutes. After Rollins' arrest several hundred persons gathered around the city jail but there was no demonstration, although officials deemed it advisable to rush him to the county jail. I The man said he had only recently been discharged from custody on a charge of stealing a suit of cloihes. He said he had no intention of killing Hickman, merely wanting the money. ; Clemson Alumni Meet. Coach "Doc" Stewart, of Clemson college, on Wednesday evening addressed a meeting of 70 Clemson men, assembled in Orangeburg from Calhoun,Orangeburg and Bamberg counties. Coach Stewart in his usual modest but forceful way told the "Tiger" supporters that with their loyal support at home, he could again place Clemson athletics back in the enviable position it held in the days of "Fritz Fertick, Puss Derrick" and others of like fame. He .commended the Clemsonites for the good work thev had been doing in lining un ex cellent athletic material, and urged them to do no less in the future, but on the other hand bend their efforts to get others. "Clemson is not only a college, where honors may be won in athletics, but a canvass. of the country as a whole, shows it's graduates holding high positions, carrying big responsibilities, in all lines of business" stated coach. These things alone should be great inducements to the young men, who have high ambitions, to go to Clemson. The meeting, which was in the form of a dutch supper, was held in the K. P. hall; on the programme were Clemson graduates, who not only stressed the advantages offered at Clemson, out tne necessity ui forming a Clemson chapter. This was accomplished, all three counties represented combining into what will be known as "The Lower Carolina Clemson Chapter." The officers of the chapter are: M. E. Zeigler, Orangeburg, president; M. H. Banks, Calhoun county, St. Matthews, vice j president; W. L. Neeley, Olar, Bamberg county, vice president; N. G. Thomas, Cope, Orangeburg county, vice president; and H. C. Wannamaker, Jr., Orangeburg, secretary-treas. Excellent music was furnished by the Wolfe orchestra, and Miss Lucile Dibble, which served to not only entertain the Tiger aggregation, but" assisted in restoring the "pep" which the famous Clemson band instilled into them, during their years at Clemson. The supper was served by the Dixie club. Professor A. J. Thackston, superintendent of the Orangeburg city schools, who for several years had on the Tiger football and baseball team, a son who proved to be a star, spoKe along; tne unes 01 me goua accomplished through clean athletics. He stated that it tended to produce a clean mind, clean body, and a clean soul, all of which are necessary in the making of a real man. Rev. R. L. Merryman, who has known Coach Stewart for a number of years, told his hearers of the record which coach , has made for himself and his teams throughout the west and middle west, stating that he knew that the j purple and gold would within the | next few months make itself felt under his able direction. 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