Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume VI, Number 11, 13 July 1933 — AERIAL BRIDGES-THE BRIDGES OF THE FUTURE [ARTICLE]

AERIAL BRIDGES-THE BRIDGES OF THE FUTURE

Twin towers of steel, 628 feet high and 2,000 feet apart, rear their graceful tips mto the clouds. Inside eaeh tower illuminated elevators in glass wailed shafts race up and down with their cargoes of humanity. Setween these towers, dauble-<lec& rocket cars are wrJjsked on stcel cables, than 4,000 passengers an ho\ir to and fro 200 feet above the eorth. Such ia the tarill awaitixig visitors to Chlcago s V7orld's Fair. The Parls exposition had lve> Eiffei tower, the Cciumbia expo&\s- - its Ferris wheel, and the Century of Progress in Chi£a&o will have its "Sky Ride/' costing $1,200,000. To thi> million people the fair hcp<iS to attract, this skyride will be merely a amusement enterprise. But 4 to the five big indusrtial concerns whieh pooled their re§oyrces to, erect it, the structure represents a public utility—the forerunner | of the suspension bridge of the future.