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The arch : abutmen‘s b X great stee abutments a The new bridge is being built awround the old stracture without any interruption to railway traffic. Itis one of the engineering feats of the contury, and interest will not deâ€" éline as long as work upon it conâ€" Kinues. 4896, and has continued uninterruptâ€" edly until the present time, It is be lieved that the finishing touches will have been added to the bridge long before the heavy autumn traffic begins. Built to maximum requirement of £,000 tons, more than ten times the capacity of the bridge which is being replaced, it ought to relieve all conâ€" gestion. Spanning the noisy gara‘s famous gorge three distinct types c Xpension, cantilever and erection 1s, perh&ps, Cld muse hridecsu img, because it is a radical change from the ordinary methods of modern bridge building. It is being built to replace the old railway suspension bridge at Suspersion Bridge, and is designed to accommodate the immense traffic, conâ€" stantly increasing, between the West and the East. As R. 8. Buck, the s and fro rests on massive masoory built against the solid rock. el shoe rests against the Specialdeposits also receivedat eurrent â€"rates ofimterest. Correspondentsin United#tates: ._New Yorkâ€"Fourth National Bank and ‘Hanover Mational Bank. Buffaloâ€"Marine iRank of Buff@lo. Detroitâ€"Detroit Natlonal *Bank. Chieagoâ€"Union National Bank. *3ostonâ€"International Trust Co‘y. Kansas (Gityâ€"National Bank ef Commerce. Correspondentsin Britain : + WetionalProvineialBank ofEngland, Ltd® ‘Collectionseffeeted at all parts ofthe Doâ€" ‘ainion of Canada at lowest rates. Careful attention given and prompt reâ€" larns made. ‘ 11. J. HeWwWat. A can+ M Alliston Listowei Port Elgin ‘Ohesloy Lucknow Bimecoe Seorgetow r Milton Toronto Rrimsby Owen Soun d "KWamilion Orangoville _ Wingham Bartor #%, Berlin. Winnipeg King St Mast ‘+Carmen, M an Deposits o{?$8l1 and upwardsreceived and rRterest @llowed ({rom date ofdeposit to date o1 withdrawal. A. B. Lee, Esq., Toronto. | _ _â€" "1, Taurnbull,Cashier. H. 8. 8teven, Assistant ‘Joehn§Stuart, Esq., President. A.G. Ramsay, Ksq., Viceâ€"President ‘Tohn Proctor, Ksq. George Roack,Esq ‘W m.Gibson, M. P. _ A. T. Wood, Ksq. NIAGARA‘S NEW BRIDGE â€"~Jepital{Ail Paidâ€"up] BReoserrce rund w BANK OF HAMILTON MOL. XII. No 41 is a Marvellous Pisce gineering: its arms ext THEIN eering feats of s6 will not drâ€" upon it conâ€" HEAD OFFICE. HAMILTOR® RIMSBY. BRANCHE®, _noisy torrent of Nia.| OSb ce.lebr‘at(?d Wmfk connection with the gorge there are now pension bridge now types of bridgesâ€"susâ€"| q reinforced the anc ver and arch. Of the|the oldgwooden stitfe DIRKECTORS : Orangeville Wingham _ Berlin. Winnipeg ‘Carmen, M an Pm Meeetors u5. 000 : yen and prompt reâ€"|_ â€" 6 designed and built â€" Hewat, Agent | bridges for South Ameri j among which the Verrug is the most celebrated. _ NEW BBRIDGE. <|, number of bridges for â€"â€"â€"â€" ;| Pacific railroad, and d us Pilece of En.|built the Driving Park ring, thPlatt street bridocs is 1 ‘Tne No job too +m : guarantee good work at fa a trifle more. Many New Jersey fruit g:owers are said to have benched colâ€" onies of bees in their orchards. Don‘t spray when the blossoms ars open if you have bees.â€"Exchange. In many sections beekeeping is conâ€" sidered a necessary adjuanct of fruit growing, because of the assistance of the bees in fertilizing the blossoms. Some orchardists have borrowed colonâ€" ies during the season of bloom, get ting the use by paying the cost of transfer from and to home again and L. Ranuie, Toronto ; Charles Riordon, Merritton ; Judge E. J. Senkler, St. Catharines ; J. . Riordon and D. R. Wilkie, of Toronto Beekeeping and Fruit Growirg. This company is an amalgamation of two companies, one composed enâ€" tirely of Canadians and the other wholly of Americans. The Canadian board is composed of Thos. R. Merritt, St. Catharines, Ont., president ; Wil liam Hamilton Merritt, Toronto ; John The old bridge was 184 feet wide, The new‘ bridge is 474 feet wide, in the lower floor. The roadway on the lower floor will be 25% feet wide with a single trolley â€"track in the centre, and there will be walks on each side eleven feet in width. The arch span from pier to pier is 550 feet. The rise of the arch is 114 feet and the distâ€" ance from the water to the top floor of the new structure will be about 240 feet. Eind spans 115 feet long conâ€" nect with the top of the bluff and there are plate girder approaches at each end 145 feet long, making a total length of new briigs of 1,070 feet. Seven mwision pounds of steel have been usc in the <nuilding of this wonâ€" derful arch «od is will cost the Niagâ€" ara Rauilway Suspension Bridge comâ€" pany a round $500,000. WWotninnftina® ht adidsl A 25000 arch. Of thelthe oldgwooden stiffen ue one .o Low : ; pen‘ding trattiec. Fre aesxgn""('e Wfifl? foot arch intended to replace thepâ€" per suspension bridge, near the Falls, which will be built, doubtless, in the not distant future. He is now chief engineer of the suspension bridge in course of erection across Hast river beâ€" tween New York and Brooklyn. s<â€"L£rYy lependent Port Elgin Bimecoe Toronto Owen Sound 1e job $1,250,000 $675,000 2LA B is . 3 SLPL Enâ€"| bi <L PJ Viaâ€" | 9 RS co pe department of t! e h your next order. 1 or too larze. We Devoted to the . â€" Thet sections or panels of the arch. l These panels are 34 feet long and four feet thick, and the main ribs weigh about 32 tons. The two arms of the )|arch were built out like cantilevers 0| until they met in the centre of the span, being held back on both sides by an ingenious system of anchors. These anchors are imbedded 20 feet below ; | the surface of solid rock. In shape | they resemble an inverted T and ten times the weight of the arms of the |arch would not pull them out of their rocky bed. The anchors are connected to one end of an immense diamondâ€" shaped adjusting link, from the other | end of which the anchorage connection | . is attached to the arch,holding it firmâ€"| ‘"ly in place. The intermediate joints q of the diamond are connected by a huge serew which widens or narrows it at will and correspondingly conâ€" tracts or relaxes the supporting chain. | t As a whole the construction of this | i new bridge is a marvelous piece of enâ€"| o gineering and ranks with other work | c of Chiefâ€"Engineer L. L. Buck, whose reconstruction of the old bridge in former years without disturbing the d railway timeâ€"tables stamped him as a man of high standing in his profession. . He designed and built several large bridges for South American railroads, | among which the Verrugas cantilever |â€" s the most celebrated. He also built . number of bridges for the Northern { acific railroad, and designed and 1 uilt the DrivingPark Avenue and || P RgA P ols es e ie the first sections or designed " tnf] *# . \gkang.t idges in Rochester. His d work, however, was in th the old railway susâ€" _ now being replaced. he anchorhges, replaced stiffening truss with GRIMSBY, BEAMSVILLE, AxD Chemist and Druggist, 50 King w., Hamilton Kootenay Cure $1. $1 bottle best Quinine Wine 50c. A splendid tonic for after effects of la grippe. 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Interests of the im Come and see the Display in the H. SPENCER CASE, . KIng anbp James sts., HAMIL TON. These below shape 1 ten 1)J.*. ¢ . $*_ "" SHIRT (~ 41 * | Ireble‘s III hoc _SI] headaches are Now John, don‘t forget that box ders to cure my headafiles. â€"See the program in this issue of the celebration to be held at the Drivâ€" ing Park on the 24th, It is & good one and will no doubt draw a large crowd. next morning |_ The "new journalist" received an interesting setâ€"back inNew York the other day. , An entenrising reporter of the World called w Dr. Newman Smyth by telephone ard informea him that he Wanma?(:;”ood interview on "Hell," for the Suiday edition of his paper. He wantd it bright and terse and he got it. "Hell, in my opinion," said Dr, Supyth, "is the place where the Sunday edition of that paper should be bubh’shed and circuâ€" lated." It is hardly necessary to say that the interview BAlaae 222. c u.c MENT. signo vincesâ€"by p re always conquered. 1t is hardly necessary to say interview did not appear the Bright and ‘erse BHarme1}Fruitâ€"Grower, and Business SMITANVLLE, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1397 BP 14! Y . H. ECHEKHA RDTD, STAR MUSIC STORE, T. CATHARINES s 5 MGn . 4. s se en nrran se ns T1 OR 17. .o 6 ol on Arollanbalrnoiieviataca e ie o Teihcnch Pa: .27 +) 4 40 craler a sewing machine, and so on; and remember that the goods are the best. We Pay No Agents as all sales are managed b«( principals, and we do not store pianos in people‘s houses free just to make a showing. â€" It Will Pay You to visit the Star Music Store when in want of an instrument of any kind. Ou1 stock embraces : Heintzman & Co, Bell & Co. and Dominion pianos, Bell & Co, and Dominion crgans, New Raymond, Domestic, and other sewing machines, and all kinds of musical merchandise., "Goods the best, prica right" is the motto, and when we say a discount we mean it. For instance, $50 on a piano; $25 on an organ; $10 on to our business and conduct it under our own roof, None of our pianos are used as frames to display carpet patterns on. Nor do we find it necessary to call instruments five, ten and fifteen years old, that have been hawked about the country, "just as good as new," vV e zay Cash for all the instruments that are placed in stock in our wareâ€" rooms, and are thus enabled to give our customers the beneâ€" fit of A GENUINE DISCOUNT. stands on its own merits toâ€"day after a career of over a quarter of a century an the Niagara District, with whom both methods are well known. 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DEN Y after a successful business cases the Fancy, a Quality that éf)i)eals‘ f inducement that sweeps all doubts away. n af L. SSEI Man, ng the people of the store and its ment of Men‘s and Boys‘ Readyâ€" and as we manufacture our own for Spot Cash, you can depend on it, Lowest Prices. oNE DOLLAR PER YRA * $2.98.. . : $3.95 to $10. = $3.95. $4.75 to $10.50. : newest imported, at half $2.98 8.98 2.98 7.05 to the