Capt. John Monroe & Lyons Bridge - 1892

MONROE, LAMB, MCKENZIE

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Date: 6/13/2017 at 23:25:05

The Clinton Daily Age, Clinton, Iowa, April 5, 1892

Capt. John Monroe, of the steamer Chancy Lamb, informed an AGE reporter yesterday that there was much dissatisfaction among the pilots in regard to the manner in which the Lyons Bridge was being constructed. Capt. Monroe has passed through Lyons on a boat twice this season and said it is the hardest bridge on the river to put a raft through. The pilots who has seen the piers since they have been completed claim that they have not been built according to plans shown them before they work had begun; that they understood from the plans and drawings shown them that the bridge was to be built one block south of its present location, that there was to be four spans instead of the five now being put up. The pilots have been circulating petition among themselves during the past week, which will be forwarded to Major McKenzie Monday, asking him to look into the matter at once. Sheer booms are demanded for the high piers of the new bridge.