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Each voussoir was a cast-iron framed piece two feet long and five feet in depth, and these were bolted together. The Southwark bridge over the Thames, by Sir John Rennie, followed, in which a similar principle of construction is adopted.
A marble coping and mosaic flooring would render it pleasing in appearance. The overflow and waste run into cast-iron drainpipes, which should be employed till outside the building. On the end of the overflow pipe is screwed a gunmetal rose with leather packing, the screw-holes being drilled into the flange of pipe. For the waste I have shown a "disc" valve of gunmetal.
I think our present cast-iron stove arrangement is preferable to that, although not up to the old-time kettle." If Margaret had been a reader of the New York Argus, she would have noticed that the facts set forth by her visitor had already appeared in that paper, much elaborated, in an article entitled "Our Daily Bread."
Tom Peters, leaning over the ornamental cast-iron fence which separated his front yard from the street, presently spied me scanning the sidewalk. "What are you looking for, Hugh?" he demanded with interest. "Oh, something I dropped," I answered uneasily. "What?" Naturally, I refused to tell.
"In that case I will say no more," he remarked, pursing up his lengthy mouth and assuming a cast-iron attitude. The Prophet perceived his mistake. "Forgive me," he exclaimed. "It is my fault." "Oh, no, sir. Not at all," rejoined Malkiel, with icy formality. "Pray let the fault be mine." "I will not indeed. But let me explain. My beloved grandmother still lives, although I cast her horoscope and "
Still, she often neglected her osier tray to go rambling about the neighbourhood. The building of the central markets as yet incomplete provided both children with endless opportunities for amusement. They made their way into the midst of the work-yards through some gap or other between the planks; they descended into the foundations, and climbed up to the cast-iron pillars.
The old members who have been returned term after term since they began to grow stubby beards on their cast-iron chins are an argument against rotation; they have had a chance to acquire the confidence of the public, they are experienced legislators, and they are incorruptible." Betty drew a long sigh of relief. "You have cleared up the atmosphere a little," she said.
About the same time Hogge employed a skilled Flemish gunsmith named Peter Van Collet, who, according to Stowe, "devised or caused to be made certain mortar pieces, being at the mouth from eleven to nine inches wide, for the use whereof the said Peter caused to be made certain hollow shot of cast-iron to be stuffed with fyrework, whereof the bigger sort for the same has screws of iron to receive a match to carry fyre for to break in small pieces the said hollow shot, whereof the smallest piece hitting a man would kill or spoil him."
But I make haste to say that within the last twenty or thirty years American students have improved immensely in this respect. Athletics and greater interest in study, caused by the substitution of the students' own aims and tastes for the old cast-iron curriculum, are doubtless the main reasons for this improvement.
The only part of this plan that was executed was the cast-iron caisson, which was deposited in its place among the sands. In this situation, during one dark and stormy night, it was struck by a ship and shivered to a thousand fragments. This untoward accident has led to the abandonment of the design.
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