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Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ

CHAPTER III
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None of the things he had gained in the least compensated.

In the last six years his reputation had become, as the saying is, popular.

Four years ago he had been called to Japan to deliver, at the Emperor's request, a course of lectures at the Imperial University, and had instituted reforms throughout the islands, not only in the practice of bridge-building but in drainage and road-making.

On his return he had undertaken the bridge at Moorlock, in Canada, the most important piece of bridge-building going on in the world,--a test, indeed, of how far the latest practice in bridge structure could be carried.

It was a spectacular undertaking by reason of its very size, and Bartley realized that, whatever else he might do, he would probably always be known as the engineer who designed the great Moorlock Bridge, the longest cantilever in existence.


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