Largest Stone Arch Bridge.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 97, 16 December 1904, Page 3

Largest Stone Arch Bridge.

In spite of mammoth steel arch, girder and cantilever bridges, the stone arch bridge ia still employee!** under certain conditions, and the largest structure of this kind in the world is now in course of erection at Plauen, Saxony. This bridge will have a span of 295 feet, exceeding by 20 feet the famous Luxembourg Jbridge opened last year, and by still more the Morbegno bridge in Lombardy and the Cabin John bridge, near Washington, D. C, which have held in turn the record as the longest stone arch bridges. The Plauen bridge differs from the Luxembourg bridge in being of masonry throughout, instead of consisting of two parallel arches connected by iron and concrete. Ijts cost is estimated at about ?120,606.— Chicago Chronicle.