. The railroad and engineering journal . an : E. L. Dunbar, Superintendent. BayCity, Mich. ; issued by the City. Address of the President of the Engineers Club ofCincinnati at the Annual Meeting of the Club, December5. 188S : Colonel William E. Merrill, President. Cincin-nati, O. ; issued by the Club. Herzogliche Technische Hochschule Carolo-Wilhel-MiNA zu Braunschweig : Programm fur das Studienjahr1888-89. Brunswick, Germany ; F. Vieweg & Son. Hornigs Direct Power-Steering System : Julius , Jersey City, N. J. ; E. S. Wells, Agent andManufacturer. 158 THE RAILROAD AND [April, 1889


. The railroad and engineering journal . an : E. L. Dunbar, Superintendent. BayCity, Mich. ; issued by the City. Address of the President of the Engineers Club ofCincinnati at the Annual Meeting of the Club, December5. 188S : Colonel William E. Merrill, President. Cincin-nati, O. ; issued by the Club. Herzogliche Technische Hochschule Carolo-Wilhel-MiNA zu Braunschweig : Programm fur das Studienjahr1888-89. Brunswick, Germany ; F. Vieweg & Son. Hornigs Direct Power-Steering System : Julius , Jersey City, N. J. ; E. S. Wells, Agent andManufacturer. 158 THE RAILROAD AND [April, 1889. Laii Caialih^uk 01 ScAi lis. Rknssi;;r Scalk , N. Y. ; Arnold & Rowe, Proprietors. The Taper-Sleeve Pulley Works : Catalogue and Price-List. Erie, Pa. ; issued by the Works. and schemes (or ! transit, and, while they make verygood reading and sound well, yet there is apparently noimmediate prospect of anything better than the presentelevated roads. Any practical plan for either underground roads or ele-. The Excelsior Iron Works Company : , O. : issued by the Company. The Bryan Manufacturing Company. Wheelbarrows:Catalogue. Bryan, O. ; issued by the Company. Catalogue of Wood-Working , Pa. ; issued by the Willlamsport Machine Com-pany. -•- WOODEN CANTILEVER BRIDGES. To the Editor of the Railroad and Engineering Journal :Apropos of your cut and description of a bridge re-cently built in Sikkim (published in the February Joltr-NAL, page 66), I send you the accompanying sketch of abridge at Rijraas, Norway, which you will find illustratedin Du Chaillus Land of the Midnight Sun. He de-scribes it as follows : The Hitter River flows throughthe center of the town, the two parts being connected bypicturesque wooden bridges of construction peculiar toNorway. The logs are supported by the filling at theends, and also by the braces, as the following engrav-ing shows. vated stone structures through the blocks wi


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