Julius Walker Adams

        COL. JULIUS W. ADAMS DEAD.
      Was One of the First Engineers to
         Urge the Building of the
             Brooklyn Bridge.
 Col. Julius Walker Adams, one of the first
engineers who conceived the idea of building
the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, died at
his home, 155 Congress Street, Brooklyn,
yesterday. He was eighty-seven years old
and was born in Boston, Mass. Col. Adams
was a cousin of President John Quincy
Adams. He left the West Point Military
Academy before graduating to become the
Assistant Engineer of the Stonington and
Providence Railroad. He was the chief en-
gineer in the building of several bridges and
many railroads in various parts of this
country. He acquired the title of Colonel
while at the head of the Hawkins Zouaves
during the Civil War. On several occasions
he was in the service of the United States
Army as consulting engineer and as chief
engineer of various works constructed by
the Government.
 During the riots of 1863 in New York Col.
Adams was in charge of the troops sta-
tioned at Printing House Square. He was
consulting engineer in the construction of
a Hudson River railroad bridge in 1865, and
of the Wallabout Commission for Bridging
and Docking the Wallabout Canal, Brook-
lyn. The designs for the East River Bridge
were submitted to him in 1867. As early as
1855 Col. Adams agitated the necessity of
a bridge between New York and Brooklyn.
Upon his return from the civil war he in-
terested William C. Kingsley in the pro-
ject, and helped to keep it alive. During the
early period of the big span's construction
Col. Adams held various positions in con-
nection with it.
 For several years he was Consulting En-
gineer of the Board of City Works, Brook-
lyn, and also as to the distribution of water
in New York City. He found time, too, to
edit the Engineering News, and had previ-
ously held an editorial position on Apple-
ton's Magazine.
 Col. Adams was the last surviving mem-
ber of the twelve founders of the American
Society of Engineers. He was a member
of the New York Acamdemy of Science and
of the Association for the Advancement of
Science. He leaves one daughter.