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CHAPTER LV,
•
Reginald Henson had had more
than one unpleasant surprise lately
hitt none so painful as the sight o
Lord Littimer seated in the Long -
dean Grange drawing -room with the
Mr of a man who is very much at
hone indeed,
Tho place was strangely changed,
too, There was an air of neatness
and order about the room that Hen-
son had never seen before. The dust
and dirt had absolutely vanished; it
might have boon the home of any
ordinary wealthy and refined people.
And ail Lady Littlmor's rags and
patches had disappeared, She was
dressed in somewhat old-fashioned
style, but handsomely and well. She
sat beside Littimer with a smile on
her fano, But the cloud seemed to
have rolled from her mind; her eyes
were cies;, if a little frightened.
From the glance that passed be-
tween Littimor and herself it was
easy to see that the misunderstand-
ing was no more.
You are surprised to see me
here?" said Littimer.
Hermon stammered something and
shrank towards the door. Littimer
ordered him back again. He caro,
with a slinking, dogged air) he
avoided the smiling contempt in
Enid's eyes.
"Siv presence appears to be super-
fluous,'= he said, bitterly.
"And mine appears to be a sur -
prism". Littimer replied. "Como, are
you not glad to see me, my heir
and successor? What has biome of
the old fawning, cringing smile?
Why, if some of your future consti-
tuents could see you now they might
be justified in imagining that you
had done something wrong. Look at
yourself,"
Littimer indicated a long gilt mir-
ror on the opposite wall. Henson
glanced at it involuntarily and
dropped his oyes. Could that abject,
white-faced sneak be himself? Was
that tho man whose fine presence
and tender smile had charmed thou-
sands? It seemed impossible.
"What have I done?" he asked.
."What have you not done?" Litti-
mer thundered. "In the first place
you did your best to ruin Hatherley
Bell's life. You robbed me of a pic-
ture to do so, and your friend Mer-
ritt tried to rob inc again. But I
have both those pictures now. You
did that because you were afraid of
Deli -afraid lest Inc should see
through your base motives. 'And
you succeeded for a time, for the
coast was clear. And then you pro-
ceeded to rob loo of my son by one of
the most contemptable tricks ever
plasma by one man en another. It
was you who stolethe money and
the ring; you who brought about all
that sorrow and trouble by means of
a forgery. 13ut there are other peo-
ple on your track as well as myself.
You were at your last gasp. You
were coming' to see me to sell the
ring for a large sum to take you
out of the country, and then you
discovered that you hadn't really got
the ring.'s
"What -what are you talking
about?" Reason asked. feebly.
"Scoundrel!" Littimer cried. "In-
noceut and puro to the last, I know
all about Van Sneck and those for-
geries of Prince Rupert's ring. And
I know how Van Sneck was nearly
done to death in Mr. Steel's house;
and I know why -good heavens! It
seems impossible that I could have
been deceived all these years by such
a slimy, treacherous scoundrel. And
I might have gone on still but for
a woman—"•
"A lady detoctivet" Hanson sneer-
ed. "Miss Lee."
Littimer smiled. It was goocl, af-
ter ell, to defeat and hookwink the
rascal.
"Miss Chris Henson," he said. "It
never occurred to you that Miss
Chris and Miss Lee were one and the
same person. You never guessed.
And she played with you as if you
had been a child. How beautifully
she exposed you over those pictures.
Ali, you should have seen your face
when you saw the stolen Rembrandt
back again in its place. And after
that you were mad enough to think
that I trusted you, My dear,' what
shall we do with this pretty fel-
low?''
Lady Littimer shook her head
doubtfully, It was plain that the
presence of Benson disturbed her.
There was just a suggestion of the
old madness in her eyes.
"Send him away," she said, "Let
him go."
Send him away by all means,'.
Littimer wont on. "But letting
him go is another matter. I1 we do
the police will pick him up on other
charges. 'There is a certain consola-
tion in knowing that his evil career
is likely to be shortened by some
years. But I shall have no mercy.
Scotland Yard shall know every-
thing;" -
There Was a cold ring 10 Littimcr's
voice that told .Henson Of his deter-
mination to carry out his threat,
The other troubles he might wriggle
out 01,.but this ono tva5 torr b y
real. It was time to try couci la -
tion.
"It will be a terrible scandal or
the family, my lord," he whined.
Littimor rose to his feet. A sud-
den anger flared into his eyes. Ho
was a smaller man than Menson, but
the latter cowed before him.
"You dog!" 'Inc cried, "What
greater emended than that of the
past few years? Does not all the
world know that there is, or has
been, some heavy cloud over the
family honor? Lord and Lady Lit -
timer have parted, and her ladyship
has gone away. That is only part
of what the gossips have said. And
in these domestics differences it is
alwe ys the woman who suffers.
Everybody always says that
the woman has done some-
thing wrong: Por years my
wire has been under this 'stigma. If
sho had chose to keep before the
world after she left the most people
would have ignored her. And you
talk to mo of a family scandal!".
"You will only make bad worse,
my lord."
"No," Littimer cried, "I am go-
ing to make bad infinitely better.
We come together again, but we say
nothing of the past. And the world
sneers and says the past is ignored
for politic considerations. And so
the public is going to know the
truth, you dog. The whole facts
of the case have gone to my solici-
tor, and by this time to -morrow a
warrant will bo issued against you.
And I shall stand in open court and
toll the whole world my story."
"In fairness to Lady Littimer,"
said Enid, speaking for the first
time, "you could do no less."
"You were always against inc,"
Reason snarled.
"'Because I always knew you," said
Enid. "And the more I know of
you the greater was my contempt.
And you calve here ever on the same
errand -money, money, money. From
first to last you have robbed my
aunt of something like 1170,000, And
always by threats or the promise
that you would some day restore the
ring to the family.".
".As to the ring," Monson protest-
ed, "1 swear—"
"1 suppose •a lie more or less
makes no difference to an expert like
yourself," Enid went on, with cold
contempt. "You took advantage of
my aunt's misfortunes. Ah, she is
a different woman since Lord Litti-
mer came here. But her sorrow has
crushed her down, and Chat forgery
of the ring you dangled before her
eyes deceived her."
'I never showed her the ring,
Henson said, brazenly,
"Anel you can look me in the face
and say that? One night Lady Litti-
mer snatched it from you and ran
into the garden. You followed and
struggled for the ring. And Mr.
David Steel, who stood close by,
felled you to the earth with a blow
on the side of your hoacl. 1 wonder
he didn't kill you. I should have
clone so in his place. And yet ie
would be a pity to hang anyone for
your death. Seo lime!"
Enid produced tho ring from her
pocket. Lord Littimor looked at it
intently.
"Harve you seen this before, my
dear?" ho asked his wife.
"Many a time," Lady Littimer
said, sadly, "Take it away, it re-
minds mo of too many bitter mem-
ories. Take it out of my sight."
"An excellent forgery," Littimer
murmured, "A forgery calculated to
deceive many experts even. T will
compare it with the original by-and-
by.'
Benson listened with a sinking
feeling at Itis heart. Was it possible,
he wondered, that Lord Littimer had
really recovered the original? Ile
had had hopes of getting it back
even now, and making It the basis
Of terms of surrender. Lady Litti-
mcr snatched the ring from Litti-
mer's grasp and threw it through
the open window into the garden,.
She stood up facing Henson, her
head thrown back, her eyes flaming
with a new resolution. It seemed
hardly possible to believe that this
fine, handsome woman with tiro
white hair could be the poor dement-
ed creature that the others once
had known.
"Reginald Henson, lieten to me,"
she cried, "Icor your own purpose
you cruelly and deliberately set out
to wreck the happiness of several
lives
For mare money you did this;
for sheer love of dissipation you
committed this crime. You nearly
deprived Inc of my reason, 1 say
nothing about the money, because
thee is nothing' by comparison. But
the years that are lost can never
come back to me again. When I
think of my past, the past of my
poor, unhappy boy I feel that I
have n0 forgiveness for you, If you.
—Oh, go away; don't stay here-
go. If I had known you were com-
ing I should have forbidden you the
house, Your mere presence unnerves
me. Littimor; send him away."
Littimer rose to his feet and rang
the boll,
?'You will be good enough to rid
me of your hateful presence,"- he
said, "at once; now, go,
Iiut Henson still stood irresolute,
lie fidgeted from ono foot to the
other, Ile seemed to have some
trouble that he could find no ex-
pression for.
'1 want to go away!- he murmur-
ed. ."I want to leave tho country,
ll,ut at the present molnent I am
practically penniless. If you would
advanee
Littifner laughed aloud,
upon my word, he said, your
eeelrlese is, coioseal, I am going to
prosecute yeti, , 1 am doing my best
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CONSIDERATIONS FOR EVERY
DAIIIYakAN..
?3oeause we do not 'believe in bac-
teria it Hous not follow that line -
teens du ;rut exist. A man, ;may re-
fuse
Gfuse to believe That elephants exist,
writes Roland Smith,
I ala coneriIlden that bacteria and
bacilli are real and not iitraag'ilrary,
and that they both hate nttuterous
distinct families or breeds; bemuse
"pure cultures" aro sucec.stefully bred
In gelatin, from which the can mem-
late atorilized milk, giving 1t one
taint Or another, a bitter or a choice
flavor fur cream and butter.
Now that the temperature of milk
as it cones from the cow at 102
degrees until it guts chilled to 00 dor
pious, is right to propagate (breed
and grow) these "little foxes" that
rapidly spoil the "grapes," or, ra-
ther, the fruit of the dairyman's ef-
forts.
11 the milker could milk on to an
iced cope and receive the milk in
the pail at 85 or 40 degrees, an
e£
keep it so until sold, there would be
no great grudge against the bacteria
that fall into the pail under ordin-
try ooudittons. The little scamps
could not multiply.
.But this is impossible. Wo milk
in a contfortoble temperature of 60
to 90 degrees, and, unless great care
is taken, (lustloaded with this ver-
min, or drip from hands (if we milk
wet handed), will fall into warm
milk, and then the "yreast is in the
dough," The temperature is right,
and ton minutes, twenty minutes half
an hour,, means generation upon gen-
eration. And what of milk that is
slowly cooling, for hours in some
half -warm room or stable! Ugh!
Wolf, what are we going to do?
Are we not going to live up to the:
light we have'? Our grnn¢hnttthers
of blessed memory clic this. "Plies)"Plies)knew nothing of "gentle." but prac-
tised scrubbing, scalding and sun-
ning their pails, pans and churns. It
was a day of clear consciences and
hard muscles, Can modern 1miners
and dairymen live without the ap-
proval of conscience? Then what
:hall we do but adopt every, cleanly
method?
In milking two must be prompt,'
careful in straining time milk, and
quick in cooling it over iced cones
or other cold surfaces or in cold
water, stirring both the milk and
water until the milk is "dead cold."
Mr. Atkinson thinks so much or
his family that he keeps his own
cow midi sees that the milk con-
sumed is right. First., he is very
careful to have the milk drawl). from
the cow in a cleanly manner. ,lack
Robinson curries her, washes her
udder, teats and flank, wiping them
bre with a clean cloth; then he
scrubs his hands, cleaning his finger
nails with soap and brush; next Inc
leads the cow into a separate room.
where dust cannot penetrate; no hay
and e'traw, and a Moist flim'; well
ventilated, with good light.
Ile milks into a strainer which he
sits on, 1outg the mills out Cram
mother aperture from.from.01m ire tt goes
in; is careful to milk in the iiottonl
of the funnel, and not on, the sides.
This gives milk con'lainin'g a low per-
ceietage of bacteria.
1f busy oiiibore are so careful for
health's sake everybody else should
be. Pine mills is only honest inilk,
and it is not honest unless pure. 011,
the couutlese thousands in cities Who
never know freedom, broad Ilcbds,
height skins, glorious sunsets! They
have a right to pure milk, and to
the butter, cream and cheese made
from it,
Lastly, the paY for a sweet, gond
atticle is better. And part of this
extra compensation is the complac-
ency of a0 honest heart.
CURING PORK.
There is no excuse for any fanner
being without the very best of bacon
and hare, as tho proems of curing it
is neither expensive nor complex,
says Tho Homestead, To begin
with, tie trams should be cut tap and
trimmed so that no looso pieces or
meat will remain attached. The
shoulders aro trimmed of all pieces
that can add to the sausage, and the
to bring you into the dock, And
you ask me -me, of all met -to find
you Money so that you can evade
justice! Have you not had enough -
aro you never satisfied? Williams,
will you see Mr. Ronson off the
premises?'
The smiling Williams bowed low.
"With the greatest possible pleas-
ure, my lord," he said, "Any furth-
er orders, my lord?".
"And ho is not to comp hero again,
you uderstancl."
Williams seemed to understand per-
fectly. With ono backward sullen
glance Monson quitted the room and
passed into the night with his com-
panion. Williams was whistling
Cheerfully, with his 110065 thrust'
deep into his pockets.
"Is that how you treat a gentle-
man?" Henson demanded.
"1 ain't a gentiernah," Williams
said. "Never sot up to bo, And 1
ain't a dirty reseal who ha,s just
been kicked out of a nobleman's
house. Here, stop that. Try that
game on again and I'll call the dogs.'
And don't show any of your airs,
please. I'm only a servant, but 1
am an honest man."'
Monson stifled his anger as best he
could, He was too miserable and
downcast to think of much besides
himself at present, Once the lodge-
ga.toe were. open Williams stood aside
for hint to pass. The temptation
Was irresistible. And 1tenson's back
WAS turned. With a kick of cotton-
tested contempt aid fury Williams.
shot Benson into the road, where ho
landed furi on his face, 7lis cup of
humiliation was eoinplbto,
,(To, be Continued.) .
reason for this will be obvious when
It Is pointed 0111 that limo linins usu-
ally require a longer ti nte fu this
pickle to cure than the sides and
shoulder's, Put a layer of *wilt in
tho barrel and rub each piece well
With stilt on the flesh side and at
the slain, them pack closely in a
barrel and let alone for time days,
when it is lifted and again resulted
In new, clean stilt, The first salting
will have removed all the blood at-
techt'd to tho meat, which if left 011
will induce a little taint. Alter it
Inas been repacked it is then ready
for the brine.
To make a sugar -cure 'brine Itis -
solve enough salt to make a brine
strong enough to bold up a small
pante, and for every 100 pounds of
meat add two pounds of brown sussal'
and one ounce of saltpetre, the lather
being used to neake the stoat hard
anti it i11so adds' a eeddisli calor to
tlfo meat, Sarno do not like salt-
petre and it may he'left out, J)oll
until all is dissolved and skim the
surface.
After the brine lits become thee -
mighty cool it may be poured on tho
meat, but first take the precaution
to weigh it clown, so none of the
pieces will float: Whoa pieces are
permittee) to float on the brine, it
will become strong and give the
moat what is known as a rusty ap-
pearanCo and a bad taste, When
hams have been in the brine for
about six weeks they will. Have be-
come cured sufficiently to keep in 110
weather. If in doubt about this,
however, it would be a good plan
to cut into the centre of one ham.
and try theist by frying a mess of
moat. It should have sufficient salt
to keep in. waren weather ant] should
not be so salted as to necessitate
parboiling to snake it palatable. Par-
boiling removes all the gond taste
from meal. When removed from. tlio
brine it should be hung and allowed
to drip a day or two, when it can
be treated with a coating of black
popper and then it is ready for
!smoking and putting away for the
summer.
Tlfe best way to pack pieces for
curing is to 'roll them into rolls and
pack them in a cask, standing the
rolls on end. When such pieces are
'treated to sugar -cure fickle they
make what is known as breakfast
bacon. All barrels anal caaki should
be made clean and sweet or the meat
will have a rusty lade. They should
also be watched closely about leak-
age. Sour meat is caused by leak-
age And when the meat has liecome
exposed to stir. When pieces aro
smoked they can be wrapped in
paper and each piece put ina mus-
lin sack anti lunig in a a'aric, cool
place.
Iiri't``$. To Pleas: You When
It Pleases Millions
. lite Likely Of Others,
Once Tasted Always Used.
Slack, Mixed or Green. Highest Award St. Louis 1SO4.
Sold only In load Packets. Ely all Grocers,
STOOK NOTES.
TCeop no useless stock to consume
the prof] ts,
in feeding cattle, lino first consid-
eration is to sinal hardy, growing ani-
mals.
All kinds of faun stook should ire
well protected from cold rainy and
storms,
(:round feed is better for the grow-
ing colt the first year than whole
genius.
lilcod, food, caro aid training are
the requisites for producing a first-
class horse.
11 is not a sign of a good feeder to
see titin throw feed out promiscuous-
ly to his stock,
Ine feeding to the best advantage
we must be as careful not to; over-
feed as to underfeed.
In nearly all cams the more rap-
idly the animals are finished ansI fat-
tested the greater the profits.
Economy of production is quite as
important as maximum pro'ditct,
especially in times of low prices.
The good which one para bred sere
of good individual merits will do for
the cattle of a community is incal-
culable.
A little linseed meal given occas-
ionally is beneficial to most kinds of
stock and has a tendency to keep
the system regulated.
Shorthorn, Angus, Hereford" and
Galloway cattle breeders aro each
Properly jealous for the preferment
of his special breed, but they all
unite in common, warfare against the
scrub.
HOGS ARE G001) PROPERTY,
Hogs seem to be about the best
property a farmer can have nowa-
days. '1'hc farmers know full well
that they can get 5 c'en'ts or better,
and when the price drops below that
point, the producers at oleo !told
up and refuse to sell to the country
buyers, consequently prices at mace
rally back to somewhere neer their
former place. There seems to be a
large shortage in the pig crop and
there is no doubt but NOMI prices
will be considerably higher than now,
before another crop of hogs can be
put on the market, Ono rea9Om for
thinking this is, fest, there was a
Shortage in the pig crop last year;
seeoluti, the fait crop of pigs was
largely taken' off by some kind of an.
ornament, which seemed to spread
over tile country; third, the high
price of fled compelled every farmer
to put upon the uttarket everything
Inc could, and just as soon as he
could. Besl'de», the high prices had
a tendency to make the farmers think
that hags might drop, and a great
doal of half matured slue? was rushed
Off to lnaa'ket,
Heavy Bogs now conunancl a pre-
in'ium, acrd the strong demand for
provisions prevents much pork from
accumulating in the warehouses.
4
PAYMENTOF
The members of the Italian Parlia-
ment have just received with enthus-
iasm a proposal that they shall each
be pato a salary of $1,400 per an-
num, though the taxpayers have not
ovinced an equal amount of delight
at the suggestion. England is the
only country in which the public
have not to pay for their members,
for, although the members of the
German Reichstag are not salaried,.
yet they can travel free on all tho
State railways. The French deputies
cost the most, for each of them re-
ceives $1,800 a year, besides .a free
pass on the railways. In Belgium
the deputies got $800, in Holland
$865, and In Greece 5400, Swiss
dopiities are paid $4 a day while
Parliament is sitting, and the Nor-
wegians get about 53,87 all the year
round.
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"MARRIAGE, MONI')Y."
A curious bequest, known by the
above designation, is that which is
attached to the parish: of St. Cyrus,
in Scotland: Under the will of a
parishioner the minister leas to di-
vide the interest of a seem of Disney
between "the oldest, the youngest,
the tallest, and the shortest" ladies
respectfully who happen to lie mar-
ried by him during the year.
tei
nilr f-
.
No Cash to Pay
Until Call, 1905,
are the Best Months to Make Money Raising Chickens
Chicks hatched then grow more rapidly and require less care than
at any time of year, and the knack of running the business successfully
is acquired under the most favorable ciroumstances.
One good May or June hatching will bring out a brood of chicles
that sell about October lst for enough to pay for an Incubator and
another batoh eau then be started that will eeet the chicks out in time
for the Christmas market, The next batch will be ready for the 14Iarch
and April market, "broilers" commanding tho very highest market prices.
A good Incubator is the foundation of real: succuss in poultry raising, bringing the whole matber from guess-
work to cute lily. We furnish you with a
on easy terms. No cash to pay until November, 1905. By that tiine it sllonld have paid for itself.
Nothing else raised on a farm pays like this, and the beauty of it all is that the women folks or children can
easily attend to the very small amount of work there is to be done. Half an hour or so a day is all the time
required.
Getting the.right Incubator is pretty nearly the whole thing. The Chatham is the
safest and surest Incubator made. It does the trick ; 100 per cent. hatches every time
if the eggs are fertile. Rather than go into details of •
construction here, we will print a
few out of many hundreds of tostjnnonials
Brighton, Ont., April 15th, 1005.
The Manson Campbell Co.,
Chatham, Ont`
De4r 81r, - I told you when' received my Incubator
and Brooder that I would let you know what meows
I had with my first hatch. When the Incubotor ar-
rived I wont and goteggs to put in It, and as 1 was
anxious to get it started 1 took all the eggs 1 could
Minn the party, and he had only enough nae I could
not pick turn ovor, Show wore same condi ones and
some long and narrow, and as I alterwards found out
he was keeping twentyeeven ]tens withone 000lcrel,
so they did not loots very gond on the start. I put
flftram eggs Into the Inoubator and followers the in.
structions closely, and I got flay chicles, two having
died in the shell, which 1 think is Oral -class. They
are all strong and lively, I am sorry I diel not ardor
the 100 silo instead of the 50. I have it now filled
with sixty white Wyaudolt eggs 1 wish you could
tell me where I ootid get 4 good poultry paper,
oomothingithab would suit a beginner,
Yours truly,
Il, H. BAI;AOI;dt,
Box Ego, Brighton, 001
p,S.-I would rather attend to an Inouhator than
one hen now. Thera is some satisfaction in knowing
that tf you look after them you will got chicks,
Valens, Ont., April 1515, 1005.
The Manson Campbell 00.,
Chatham, Ont,
Dear Sir, -The incubator tluatwo purohased Sons
you. on bhe ISM ,Inn. last ie certainly n dandy. Oat
of a No, 5 Mediator with 01 fertile eggs .1got 00
0hlmkeno, and they are all strong and healtdty. I
used Lt gallons of oil. I think there is no bettor
incubator in the world.
Yours truly,
5190, 101IN 110135005,
Valens P.O., Ont.
11A11500 0demPa0LL,
We have similar letters from. every State in tate United States, and every Province in tlio Dominion.
Every Inoabator we pub out is the best kind of advertising wo do, for it soils many others for us by its never -
failing results.
Tho Chatham is built on honor, and its construction and workmanship aro as perfect 65
an experience of fifty' years and aruple capital can make thein.
Tho Chatham was the first Incubator made that was good enough to admit of its makers
taking chalices that it would make its test for the poultryman before it was paid for.
Don't imagine for a moment that it is any longer possible to make big poultry profits by
setting hens. As hatchors hens aro as out of date 0,5 stone hatchets.
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BOOK.
A Complete
Guide
to Poultry
Profits,
TFI1E MANSON CAMPB1 LL CO., Limited
Dept. 84 CHATHAM, ONT.
Distributing Warehouses al 141oatreal, Qui., Drandoa, Man., Calgary, Alfa., Now Westminster, 11,0e and ifalifa;, N.B.
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WILL BE A GREAT WORK
THE BRIDGE ACROSS T3'TEt ST,
LAWRENCE RIVER.
Will. Be Constructed in Peu11syl-
vania-What It Will
Cost,
The brain and brawn and steel of
Pennsylvania will have spanned We
chasms through which the St, Law-
rence river flows just west of guebec
wlthia the next three years if the
plans of John Sterling Peens, chief
engineer of the Phoenix Bridge Com-
pany of Phoenixville, do not mis-
carry, ,YPdia tt, A
thousandsawsor9aunenh!laandeiphan learmery Of
draughtsmen are perfecting the mil-
lion and ono details which will make
this $3,800,000 bridge LHe longest
span in the world,
The final formalities for time con-
tract for the supe'structutro of a
railroad and highway beldgo about
eight miles west 0] Qudbee wore com-
pleted In April., 1904, and t}ie bridge
to be open for traffic on December
81, 1908, Already the majority of.
its component parts have been rolled.
TWD HUNDRED FI61>A1` DEEP,
At the bridge side tho elver flows
between sandstone banke 200 feet
high and possesses a bed of cement-
ed strata, practically hard pun, cov-
ered with large glacial boulders, It
is 2,000 feet wide at low tide, has a
maximum depth of 209 Peet for a
long distance each side of tate centro
line, has an averateo tide of fifteen
feet and a maximum current of about
eight Hailes an hour.
To avoid particularly deep Sounder
Mons two channel and two shorn
piers worn placed 1,800 and 2,800
feet apart respectively. The founda-
tions aro IM 111 with gnewmatie cais-
sons, carried down to a maximum
depth 60 feet below low water.
When completed, the bridge will
carry two railroad tracks, two
highways and two electric cur tracks
in a single deck 120 feet above the
pier tops between. the trusses, 67
feet apart, on centres in vertical
planes. Provision has been made
for attaching cantilever brackets to
the outside of the trusses) to carry
sidewallc floors fu the future,
LENGTH or BRIDGE.
The bridge will be 2,800 feet long
between centres of annh'orage piers,
and its superstructure weighs 40,-
000 tons. There are two 500 -foot
anchor arm spans, and one 1,800 -
foot cantilever span over the channel.
The latter is composed of two 5021 -
foot cantilever areas connected by a
675 -foot centre suspended span. Tho
sin -connected trusses are continuous
to the anchorages to the ends of tho
centre suspended span, 1,06244 feet,
and aro 815 feet deep on centres over
the mein piers, 98 feet deep at the
ends of the cantilever 11rn15, and 1110
feet deep in the centre of the Su-
spended spurn. Both top and bottom
chords aro parabolic curves through-
out, and the lower chord has a
minimum clearance of 150 feet above
high water for 1,200 feat in the
middle of the; river,
The weights of the anchor and
cantilever amts and the suspended
span are 12,500,000, 15 000,000 and
6,000,000 Iounds respectively, ex-
clusive of the floor system, whic'li
weighs 8,000,000 pounds. Among
the longest and heaviest members f
be handled In the dell and erected
by the traveler at great heights are
the •13 by 54 feet lower chord pieces,
68 feet long, which !rave a maximum
sectional area of 842 square Invites
and weigh 1110 tons each; the 15 by
24 -inch I -bars, 76 feet long; the 24 -
inch sins, seven feet long; the 13 by
1.17 by 74 -foot 64 -foot main shores,
and the 107 by 00 -foot 80 -ton floor
beams.
HOW IT WILL BE ERECTED,
'Ilio most' important features of
erection will be the methods employ-
ed mit itnnciling and storing the steel-
work;; the use of steel falsewoek; the
design and dimensions of the steel
traveller, which will be 3127 feat
high; the cl'iminatioty of _steam and
use of electric hoisting engines, steel
tlio design of many special 'pnonino-
tic and hydraulic tools for different
parts of the work,
Materials will be delivered in equal
proportion on Doth sides or alae river.
Di some instances tela gauge of the
tracks will hate to Inc.widened to
standard tvidtli to permit of the
special cars traversing them. Tm-
11301150 010005 will travel on a 750 -
foot runway, Special hydroid lc
rates, operated b'y electrically driven
pumps, will be used for driving the
truss pins.
Pneumatic: Hammers, ''irills, roam-
ers, chisels an'd other tools w'!ll be
operated by ail', at 100 -pound pres-
sure, from either of two interchange-
able compressors, driven by electric
motors, All power will be derived
from electricity from the Chaudiero
i'alls power plant ,of the Canadian
Electric Light Company, and the use
of 5teadn will be entirely eliminated
on the work.
WITO T1I1: OWNERS ARE.
Tho midge will be owned by the
Quebec Bridge Company, Limited,
for wliom E. A.. Hoare h) chief en-
gineer and Theodore Cooper consult -
Ing engineer,
lixcepting' suspension bridges, the
longest of Which Is only 1,600 foot
span, the longest span bridges yet
completed Fare the double track
Forth railroad bridge, tvitlf two 1,-
74 o o
1, -740 -foot spans, weighing 1.1.,67111 tons
Ieach, and costing about 516,000,000;
the 820 -foot single-track Lvns(lowwne
bridge, Inlia; the 812 -foot double -
track span of the Monongahela River
bridge, Pittsburg, and , the 7903 -loot.
span 61 the double -track beiclgo`
across the Mississippi itiver. at Vein -
phis, All of 01050 bridges retro cin-
tileve's, with dusponcle'd cehtre toe -
netting spans, but 120120 of thein Is
comparable witlt the 4stebee bridge,
because, except the Forth bridge,
their 8900 lengths are not one -halt
that of the Quebec bridge.
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