ILLUSTRATIONS

Wilhelmine von Hillern, Author of “Only a Girl,” “By His Own Might,” etc. [See Our Monthly Gossip.]

“Assembling” Bridge under shed.

The Lyman Viaduct.

Blast-furnaces.

Dumping ore and coal into blast-furnaces.

Elevator.

The engine-room.

Running metal into pigs.

Carrying the iron balls.

Rotary squeezer.

Boiling-furnace.

The rolls.

Cold saw.

Hot saw.

Riveting A column.

Furnace and hydraulic die.

VIEW OF MACHINE-SHOP

New river bridge on its staging.

Bridge at Albany.

La Salle bridge.

Bridge at Augusta, Maine.

Saco bridge.

Phoenix works.

“The first ford of the Cconi was passed just outside the town.”

“Gentlemen, I am Juan the nephew of Aragon.”

“The straw sheds and grassy plaza of Chile-Chile.”

“Chaupichaca was marked with A square terminal pillar.”

“The Mamabamba was crossed by an extemporized bridge.”

“The examinador and the colonel hopped valiantly over the Mendoza”.

“The reputed gold-bearing river or Ouitubamba rolled from its tunnel.”

[Illustration:  Wilhelmine von Hillern, Author of “Only a Girl,” “By His Own Might,” etc. (See Our Monthly Gossip.)]

IRON BRIDGES, AND THEIR CONSTRUCTION.

[Illustration:  “Assembling” Bridge under shed.]

In a graveyard in Watertown, a village near Boston, Massachusetts, there is a tombstone commemorating the claims of the departed worthy who lies below to the eternal gratitude of posterity.  The inscription is dated in the early part of this century (about 1810), but the name of him who was thus immortalized has faded like the date of his death from my memory, while the deed for which he was distinguished, and which was recorded upon his tombstone, remains clear.  “He built the famous bridge over the Charles River in this town,” says the record.  The Charles River is here a small stream, about twenty to thirty feet wide, and the bridge was a simple wooden structure.