Fire threatened to destroy the wooden roadway of the otherwise fireproof McKinley Bridge yesterday afternoon when about 100 feet of the under side of the north roadway near the center span of the bridge was scorched.
Although heavily-clothed in "two or three of everything," Louis Lasser, 34-year-old attendant on the MacArthur Bridge, yesterday afternoon insisted he has "easily the coldest job in St. Louis."
An increase in the amount of floating ice in the Mississippi River was reported yesterday by the United States Weather Bureau here. This scene at Eads Bridge is an icy reminder that King Boreas still reigns.