Excerpt from Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Convention of the American Railway Bridge and Building Association: Held at Los Angeles, Cal., October 20-22, 1914 I think if you will take the advice of Mr. Platt, and stay over a few days, following your deliberations, you will decide you want to comevback. Other people who came out got the bug and came back. I want you folks to do the same. I do not know of any class of people in the world who could so act in harmony with us, work in harmony with us, and work to the standard of southern California as could the bridge and building people. I wish you gentlemen knew about building bridges what I do not know. I can say to you, however, that 11 had considerable experience last year in spanning that which was caused by the storm. We did not stop to build bridges. We did the next thing, we built as Robinson Crusoe did, and used the available material. I might tell another little story by way of illustrating what you people have to do, and what we did up in Wisconsin. There was a man who had worked for some time in Antigo. Being thrifty he thought he would go into business for himself, but he did not have the equipment necessary to carry on the work as he had in the old institution. 1on one occasion it was necessary for him to use some glue. He sent Mike to the basement for it. Mike was gone some time. When Mike returned the man said, Mike, never mind, I used some clay. SO it is with you bridgemen. You are the class that has to overcome obstacles; you must avail yourselves of the elements. You are of the class that can not use any shoddy on your work, because after you give it to us to operate, it is put to that physical test that determines the value Of your work. For that reason, you of all men working for a rail road company, can least afford to do that which is shoddy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.