The New Design for the Manhattan Bridge 
crowning the towers with a cornice effect, under the lines 
of the cables, like the cap of a column under an architrave. 
This cornice has a wide projection, and about it are concen¬ 
trated all the decorative features in a gallery effect extending 
the full width of the tower. 
An interesting development of the architectural design is 
the way in which sheltered resting places or observation 
galleries are added outside the towers on a level with the 
roadbed. Each of these is covered with an iron and copper 
hood, which affords an opportunity for a minor variation in 
the general color effect of the steel work. These galleries 
are about thirty-six feet long and five feet wide. A short 
distance above them are smaller uncovered galleries. The 
galleries have been popularly described as “roof gardens,” 
although, in point of fact, they are merely narrow balconies 
which lead out of the main footway and extend around the 
outer tower posts. 
In the treatment of the towers the architects were neces¬ 
sarily restricted to mere matters of detail work in iron, which, 
viewed in conjunction with the great masses and interlacings 
of the structural steel work, are almost wholly overshadowed. 
The really important feature of their design is the stone work 
over the anchorages. Their purpose, as they have explained 
it in a letter accompanying the plans, has been to give 
“ some expression in stone above the roadbed of the immense 
amount of masonry necessary under the roadbed for the con¬ 
struction of the anchorage. On the one hand, this affords 
us an opportunity to bring stone construction in contact with 
the great amount of necessary iron construction, and on the 
other hand makes it evident to all crossing the bridge that 
they are on the anchorage by some other method than by the 
mere change in the pavement material.” 
The anchorage, which has an area of about two hundred and 
twenty-five feet in length by one hundred and seventy-five 
feet in width, as seen from the street, is devoid of unnecessary 
ornament, entire dependence being placed upon the strictly 
structural decoration and the effects obtained by the large 
masses of material and stone jointing. Massive buttresses 
on the water side carry the saddles to receive the cables and 
also serve to take up the thrust given by the cables. 
Coming to the spaces over the anchorage, the design of the 
stone work is an impressive court treatment, which gives extra 
width at this part of the thoroughfare and makes room for 
spaces off from the general circulation where pedestrians 
can rest on their way over the bridge and obtain a magnificent 
view of the city and the river. The pavilions of the colon¬ 
nade on either side are long and low and detract in no way 
from the sense of great height derived from the main towers 
in a general view of the bridge. Within, the pavilions are 
about one hundred and sixteen feet long by twelve feet wide, 
in the clear. On each side stairways connect with the in¬ 
terior of the anchorages and thence lead to the street below. 
By examination of the perspective (see page 240) it will be 
