Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Wonderful Piece of Engineering. [ARTICLE]

Wonderful Piece of Engineering.

Modern skill and facilities permit wonderful things to be done by great corporations without interrupting daily business. The Frankfort (Ky.) Call says: “The mc*e one thinks of the undertaking the more wonderful it looks. The L. and N. Railroad spanned the river with an entire newbridge eight feet higher than the old structure that has been entirely removed, without even so much as retarding any trains over the old or the new structure so long as five minutes at a time, and without a casualty of a, serious nature happening during the progress of the entire work. This, in our judgment, is as great a piece of work as can be singled out in this country. This work has been done so quietly and with so little parade that many of our people do not even now know that we have a new railroad bridge that is eight feet higher than the old structure.”

She—l will keep those roses you sent me forever. He—Thanks; if you do it will save me a pile of money.—[Detroit Free Press.