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     THE WORLD'S GREATEST 
        SUSPENSION BRIDGE

   Canada and the United States
are about to be connected by the
longest and largest single-span
suspension bridge in the world.
It will corss the Detroit River at
Detroit.
   Construction work has been
started by C. E. Fowler, cheif
engineer of the project.  A
joint Canadian-American company,
authorized by the Dominion 
Parliament and by Congress,
has been organized to build the
bridge.
   The bridge's span is to be
1,803 feet, 203 feet longer than
that of the Williamsburg Bridge.
The weight of the bridge and
approaches will be 107,000 tons.
Six of the enormous cables are to
be twenty-one inches in diameter.
The lower deck will contain four
electrified railway tracks.  The
upper, or highway, dock will be
97 feet wide, with two roadways
carrying six lanes of traffic, two
sidewalks, and two trolley tracks.
The clearance above the rive
level will be 110 feet.  The 
steel arched portals will give a
towering architectural effect as
impressive as that of the Woolworth
Building.
   Railway trains, which are now
ferried laboriously across the
river, will go over the bridge
under their own power.