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THE EPIC OF STEEL.
It was the boast of a Roman Emperor that he had found the Eternal City brick and left it marble.

Similarly the present generation of Americans inherited a country which was wood and have transformed it into steel.
That which chiefly distinguishes the physical America of today from that of forty years ago is the extensive use of this metal.

Our fathers used steel very little in railway transportation; rails and locomotives were usually made of iron, and wood was the prevailing material for railroad bridges.

Steel cars, both for passengers and for freight, are now everywhere taking the place of the more flimsy substance.