The New Williamsburg Bridge 
THE TOWERS IN ELEVATION 
Showing Balconies 
ways around the outside of the towers could 
he made larger. While spacious enough for 
pedestrians, in the side elevation of the towers 
they appear insufficient, a fault, however, 
which could not have been avoided unless a 
sense of architectural proportion had been, 
from the first, in the minds of the designing 
engineers. Statuary or monumental candela¬ 
bra may still afford a means of giving weight 
and importance to these balconies, which exist 
at the most stable and important level of the 
bridge, and where, too, they will always be 
before the eyes of pedestrians, using the van¬ 
tage points for a view up and down the river. 
Near the end of the masonry approaches 
to the bridge, the footwavs have been carried 
around two small monumental structures con- 
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