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Cady Street Bridge
First
Constructed in 1874
1865
02 09 REPAIRS NECESSARY
The Mayor called a meeting at the
request of the Committee on Streets and Bridges, repairs being necessary on
Cady Street to a larger extent than said Committee would order to be made
without the consent of the Council.
Alderman Prentiss moved to authorize the Committee of Streets and
Bridges to cause all necessary repairs on Cady Street to be done without delay
and report the cost thereof after completion.
Motion carried. WD
04 06 REPAIRS NECESSARY
Alderman Moak,
Chairman of the Committee on Streets and Bridges, reported to allow the
accounts of A. Bornschein, $105 for repairing Cady
Street bridge, $15.75 for replanking sidewalks on
Main Street bridge. Clerk directed to
issue orders for the amounts on the city general fund. Common Council Proceedings. WD
1872
12 04 NEW CADY STREET BRIDGE PROPOSED
The propriety has been suggested to us of building a bridge across
the river at Cady Street, for the use of the city while the new Main Street
bridge is being erected. In building a
bridge at the point mentioned it was thought the city might get consider able
assistance from individual sources that could not be obtained if this site was
not selected. During the winter would be
a good time to get the piers down. Watertown Republican, 12 04 1872 [Cady St bridge
constructed in 1874-75]
PRE
1874 THERE
WAS NO BRIDGE / conflicts with 1865 entries
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View,
pre 1874, from Main Street Bridge, of Cady Street before bridge was constructed
in 1874
12 31 VIEW SOUTH
FROM BRIDGE
The
Iron Bridge, known as the Cady Street bridge, is now in course of construction,
which is all right, and no one is opposed to have a passage over Rock River at
that point. But it seems the city, or
rather the sapient Committee on Streets and Bridges, have got themselves in
something of a scrap. We are told the
contractors for building the bridge insisted on the city furnishing the
measurements from abutment to pier, and from pier to pier on each span. The committee on Streets and Bridges took
this job, which they never ought to have done, but to have compelled the
contractors to make their own measurement, as is usually the case. The committee made the measurement, and at
the same time made a mistake of some six feet as to the length of one of the
arches. The consequence is that in
making the castings, the east arch projects some six feet beyond the abutment,
and cannot be fastened on it and made secure and permanent as it should be.
Here
is a pretty kettle of fish - the old story of meddling and muddling whatever a
set of stupid ignoramuses undertake. We
should like to know how long the upright, fair-minded men of this city purpose
[propose] to submit to this chronic kind of folly before they awake to the
necessity of taking public affairs into their own hands, as they can do any
moment when they see fit to arouse themselves to the earnest efforts
imperatively demanded by the crisis. WD
1886
Cady
St Bridge and Rock River, view from Main St Bridge, looking north, 1886.
1890
12 19 DRUNKEN FOOL
FALLS FROM BRIDGE
The
intoxicated individual who fell from the Cady Street bridge onto the ice last
Wednesday night and made night hideous by his yells for nearly an hour, will
probably not fare so well next time. It
was a fortunate thing for him that the ice was strong enough to aid in
preventing him from drowning. As it was,
he broke through and got a good ducking, and but for timely assistance he would
have drowned. It’s whiskey and not water
he was looking for. It's too bad a man
can make such a fool of himself.
c1895
View north, from Main St bridge, c1895
1900
10 26 UNSAFE AND
LIABLE TO FALL AT ANY TIME
The
Cady Street bridge has been closed to traffic by order of the Board of Public
Works. It was recently inspected by an
expert who declared it unsafe and liable to fall at any time, the braces and
supports being in poor condition. The
council is considering the matter of giving it a thorough repairing or the
building of a new bridge. WG
1901
02 06 KUNERT
MANUFACTURING TO BUILD NEW BRIDGE
The material
for the new Cady bridge is being received by the E. Kunert Manufacturing
company and work will begin shortly. The
contract calls for the completion of the structure by April 20. WR
05 01 CONSTRUCTION
OF NEW CADY STREET BRIDGE
On
Friday the A. Kunert Manufacturing Company began the construction of the new
Cady Street bridge. The structure will
consist of six spans, each fifty-seven feet long and weighing six tons
apiece. It is expected to have the
bridge completed by June 1. WR
06 14 NEW CADY STREET BRIDGE
Last
Monday the Board of Public Works inspected and accepted the new Cady Street
bridge just erected by the Kunert
Manufacturing Co., and on Tuesday afternoon it was opened to traffic. The bridge is a first-class one, and reflects
much credit on our home institution. It
is built entirely of iron, excepting the paved roadway and sidewalks. The work was under the personal supervision
of our fellow-citizen, A. F. Baumann, one of the best-posted bridgemen in the
state and a member of the Kunert Co. He
scrupulously looked after every detail.
The result is a first-class job.
It is a three-span steel bridge, 18 feet wide, and cost $6000. WG
1905
FLOOD OF 1905
c.1905
View
to the north from top of Fuermann brewery of iron
bridge built in 1901
S. M. Eaton ice house with chute for
harvesting ice from the river
08 28 BRIDGE RAILING REPURPOSED
A portion of the old Cady Street bridge
railing, which was salvaged when that structure was demolished, has been set up
as a rail on the west side of Main Street bridge. It replaces a wooden railing which had been
put there to fill in the gap when the old shoe repair shop which was last
occupied by George Keller was torn down.
c.1940
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