Identifier: americapicturesq02cook (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel, 1842-1910
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Canada -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : John C. Winston

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ars,and a Avide raised footway in the centre. The bridgecost nearly $15,000,000, the distance between thepiers is about sixteen hundred feet, and its entirelength between the anchorages of the cables is threethousand four hundred and seventy-five feet. Thecable anchorages are enormous masses, each contain-ing about thirty-five thousand cubic yards of solidmasonry. The whole length of the bridge and itselaborate approaches is considerably over a mile. Itsprojector was John A. Roebling, who died during theearly work, and its builder, his son WashingtonRoebling, who caught the dreaded caisson disease while superintending labor under water, and foryears afterward an invalid, watched the progress ofthe later Avork from his chamber window on Brook-lyn Heights nearby. The bridge has carried anenormous traffic, taxing its capacity to the utmost,and its passengers average over a million a week.The view from its raised footway is one of the mostsuperb sights of New York, disclosing both cities,
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ASTCR THE CITY OF CHURCHES. 71 and the extensive wharves and commerce of EastRiver, the Navy Yard just above, and for miles overthe surrounding region and down through the harborto the distant bhie hills of Staten Island. THE CITY OF CHURCHES. The Borough of Brooklyn, which has grown fromthe overflow of New York, whose people are said togo over there chiefly to sleep or be buried, is pop-ularly known as the City of Churches. A largeportion of the working population of the metropolis,as well as the merchants and business men, make ittheir home and dormitory, while there are beautifulcemeteries in the suburbs peopled largely by deadNew Yorkers. Greenwood, overlooking New Yorkharbor from Gowanus Heights in South Brooklyn, isregarded as one of the finest American cemeteries.In no other city can be found such an aggregationof churches, developed in a past geneiation, andunder the ministry of a regiment of distinguishedclergymen, then led by Beecher and Storrs, so thatthe popular title was

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