The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . t years under my personal observation, and forsome years previously, in erecting bridges for the PennsylvaniaRail Road Company. The wooden bridges have generally beenon theHowe plan ; the iron bridges have been constructedin the shops of the Company, from plans prepared by the Engi-neer Department, some of them of boiler plate, but most ofthem on the Pratt plan of truss, with modifications intro-duced at various times. All the work of raising and completingthese bridges has been performed by Messrs. Piper and Shifflerin
The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . t years under my personal observation, and forsome years previously, in erecting bridges for the PennsylvaniaRail Road Company. The wooden bridges have generally beenon theHowe plan ; the iron bridges have been constructedin the shops of the Company, from plans prepared by the Engi-neer Department, some of them of boiler plate, but most ofthem on the Pratt plan of truss, with modifications intro-duced at various times. All the work of raising and completingthese bridges has been performed by Messrs. Piper and Shifflerin the most satisfactory manner. It affords me pleasure torecommend them as unsurpassed for promptness, energy andskill by any builders with whom I have had business relations. It thus appears that Piper and Shiffler had been extensivelyengaged in buildmg bridges of wood and iron for at least eightyears prior to the formation of the Keystone Bridge Carnegie, however, in his account of the business,speaks as though it originated with the Keystone Bridge Com-. 42 //v(^.V KA/LWAV BRIDGES pany, which he represents as his personal creation. In a shortbiography \vhich he recently published through the S. Newspaper Syndicate, he says: There were so many delays on railroads in those days fromburned or broken wooden bridges that I felt the day of woodenbridges must end soon, just as the day of wood-burning locomo-tives was ended. Cast iron bridges, I thought, ought to replace,them, so I organized a company, principally from railroad menI knew to make these iron bridges, and we called it the^ Key-stone Bridge Company. Development of this company requiredmy time, so I resigned from the railroad service in 1867. Mr. Carnegie has an excellent verbal memory; but he isespecially prone to error when recalling events. He is, in fact,constantly mistaking impressions for occurrences, as in thiscase. That it is his memory which is here at fault is shown bya further error in t
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