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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.