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SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR?ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.
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BAY ST. LOUIS,
NEW BRIDGE FIRST ROADWAY TO SPAN j TWO-MILE WIDE BAY
Facts and Figures of Gigantic Project Amaze Many Home Industries Patronizeo as Far as Possible? Total Cost of Bridge Approximately $800,000.
Many residents here have become so familiar with the bridge already they perhaps do not realize the amount of labor, material and total cost necessary for this huge structure.
The Echo statistician interviewed Mr. Wm, Moore, bridge contractor, and was amazed at the figures obtained?lumber, piling, steel, bolts, nuts, etc., used in the construction. Moreover a great many unforseen engineering difficulties were encountered and solved?some situations peculiar to this particular structure and the surrounding terrain.
The actual work was not started unti] three months after the original date set, and numerous unavoidable delays have made the construction time almost a year.
To begin with the- bridge itself is about 2 miles long, a mile and nine-tenths to be exact. In width it is 24 feet over all, 20 feet for a vehicle roadway and 4 feet for a foot path. The draw bridge section is a steel
swing span, 200 feet long and weighing 220 tons. It is operated by an electric motor. The permanent center pier for the draw is faced with ^100 pieces of Larssen?s copper bear-j mg sheet pilii-f imported from f!<?i i many. This is a special patented | process interlocking piling, superior to many fabricated in this country. The swing span was designed and furnished by E. L. Shaw Co., of Chicago, and fabricated by the Rochester Bridge Co. ,of Rochester, Ind.
Some 180,000 linear feet of cre-osoted piling were used in GO, 60, 75 -?l- ? T?\.nr thousand 1
Mayor?s Proclamation.
Mayor Traub?s proclamation de-
clares Friday?today?from 12 to 6 o?clock a half holiday, ar.d requests all business houses that will, to close during celebration of bridge dedication.	1
Mayor Traub also asks every private houso and public plc.ce of business to decorate for the occasion.
Bay St. Loi In
AY ST. LOUI?! connt
ij =11/5 route on the west by j =|i\:
U- "1	Orleans and on to the
I ? .-bU Pacific Coast, conne _	* i?l route to the east witl
of the Bay St. Louis which this edition of The Sea Coast celebrates by issuing this mammott bids you welcome, thrice welcome!
It is now possible to enter the c5tj To the east and on to Mobile there is en roadway. Including bridges, U hardsurfaced highway from Bay St. like one untwined long ribbon of t winding its way for many miles ale seashore line, then again slightly ste necting in unbroken space the Gulf City-By-The-Sea.
It is the realization of a wonder: ing hope that none, less than five have indulged in. A fitting story f Dreams Come True,? and fortunat lived to see today culmination of tl builded into realization.