. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ional Educational Associa-tion, President Roosevelt,among other sensible things,said: Venomous envy of wealthis simply another form of thespirit which in one of its mani-festations takes the shape of cring-ing servility toward wealth, and inanother the shape of brutal arrogance onthe part of certain men of wealth. Eachone of these states of mind, whether itbe hatred, servility or arrogance, is inreality closely akin to the other two;for each of them springs from a fantas-tically twisted and e


. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ional Educational Associa-tion, President Roosevelt,among other sensible things,said: Venomous envy of wealthis simply another form of thespirit which in one of its mani-festations takes the shape of cring-ing servility toward wealth, and inanother the shape of brutal arrogance onthe part of certain men of wealth. Eachone of these states of mind, whether itbe hatred, servility or arrogance, is inreality closely akin to the other two;for each of them springs from a fantas-tically twisted and exaggerated idea ofthe importance of wealth as comparedto other things. The clamor of thedemagogue against wealth, the snob-bery of the social columns of the news-papers which deal with the doings ofthe wealthy, and the misconduct ofthose men of wealth who act with brutaldisregard of the rights of others, seemsuperficially to have no fundamental re-lation: yet in reality they spring fromshortcomings which are fundamentallythe same; .ind one of these shortcomingsis the failure to have proper mt^^^ii -^ Thi re is but one man in th worldwith v^om you are to have perpetualCf ntent on and be always toexceed him, and that is yourself. A FIFE BRIDGE. necessary to coat the pipe, after which itwas taken out and allowed to cool andharden. So well was this pipe construct-ed that no leaks of any consequence werenoticed, when it was filled and light calk-ing only was necessary. We are indebted to Joseph J. Ryerson& Son, Chicago, for the cut and descrip-tion. New Jersey Had the First RailroadCharter in the of the first railroads built in theUnited States was in the State of NewJersey, yet the people very rarely boastof the work their sires performed tostart the wheels of progress. Whatthey accomplished was important, butan earlier attempt in the same State toinaugurate the work of railroad build-ing deserves much more attention thanit has received. When William Hedl


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