. Book of the Royal blue . o muchfaith plans that he built a model, ofwhich the present bridge is an exact repro-duction, and when it was finished demon-strated the strength of his bridge from itto the satisfaction of the authorities incharge and his plans were conseciuentlyaccepted. Whilst the stone piers werebeing placed in the river, the wood-workto be used was under i)reparation in theneighborhood forests. The bridge had practically been com-pleted, with the exception of the centralspan, when, in August of the same yearanother flood carried away the false workwith fourteen men, drow
. Book of the Royal blue . o muchfaith plans that he built a model, ofwhich the present bridge is an exact repro-duction, and when it was finished demon-strated the strength of his bridge from itto the satisfaction of the authorities incharge and his plans were conseciuentlyaccepted. Whilst the stone piers werebeing placed in the river, the wood-workto be used was under i)reparation in theneighborhood forests. The bridge had practically been com-pleted, with the exception of the centralspan, when, in August of the same yearanother flood carried away the false workwith fourteen men, drowning two of them,Ebenezer lUickingham, the president of theBridge Company, being one of them. Thespan was immediately rebuilt and is stillstanding along with the rest of the bridge,all in fair condition but weakened consider-ably from heavy traffic. Whilst Zanesville is loth to part withthe old relic, there is a necessity of re-placing the old bridge with a steel struc-ture, but this will probably not be donefor some TMK KAMOL-S -V llUincJE AT ZANESVILLK, (illIM, Aiuoss TIIK >1 Ul\ KBaltiinoiv iV Ohio HailroAtt RrJil^o in Foi-etrromul. THE SONG OF THE WHEELS. HOW closely associated with the habitualtraveler are the rumbles of the is largely from them that we ob-tain our impressions of those commercialinstitutions—the railways. It is a fascinat-ing and absorbing interest to be in somemountainous region at night and listen tothe myriad of sounds emanating from therailroad many feet below you, as the traincrawls by like a gigantic snake, with thehead-light apparently a fiery eye and the twolittle red lights at the end of the train likethe poisonous rattles on the tail of thesnake, a warning of danger. The night ismore prolific of sound impressions than theday, and one easily distinguishes the slow,heavy freights with the shrill whistlesof the locomotives reverberating from hillto hill, the groans and creaking of theheavy wooden box cars, the quick and
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