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Updated: May 12, 2025
The marvellous fertility of his mind was entirely occupied in facilitating and rendering certain the movements of that enormous mass of men and horses during a long campaign and across vast spaces. The transport arrangements were in charge of skilled lieutenants, who had been with him in all his battles; and General Eble was at the head of the engineer division for bridge-construction.
"I'd give a mighty good part of my millions right now for a bridge-construction gang," he said, but his cheery, whimsical smile belied the words. Also, he added, "It's all right; I'm a cat." The pick, and the long stick he used as an alpenstock, he balanced horizontally after the manner of a rope-walker.
This sparing use of cast iron indicates the timidity of the architect in dealing with the new material his plan exhibiting a desire to effect a compromise between the tried and the untried in bridge-construction. But the use of iron to so limited an extent, and in such a part of the structure, was of more than questionable utility; and if Mr.
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