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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN MID-JERSEY BUSINESS

A Tribute

to Roebling
Brooklyn Bridge stunt was

actually meant to honor

Chamber’s irst president

hen the American lags atop the

Brooklyn Bridge were replaced
with white lags earlier this year,

it was feared that the major
security breach had to do with

urban terrorism or any number
Wof sociopaths looking to create mayhem. Upon further

investigation, it was revealed that the lags were secretly
replaced as a tribute to John A. Roebling, the German

civil engineer who designed the bridge. Two German
artists claimed they put the two white lags up on July 21,

commemorating the day in 1869 that Roebling died in an

accident on the bridge.
A year earlier, in 1868, Roebling was named president

of the Board of Trade of the City of Trenton, which even-
tually became the MIDJersey Chamber of Commerce.

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