Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 2, 1917, Page 6

ry * — WEB STEEL CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY “AUTHOR of “THE CHALICE OF COURAGE,” “THE ISLAND OF REGENERATION,’ ETC., AND CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY JR. CIVIL, ENGINEER. COPYRIGHT S lutent in Abb. SYNOPSIS. > brought to Mes f the progress of the work CHAPTER 1 1 Bertram Me nz just t re nti fore levving, he remarked “nner in the world, atter of little or no im- 1O-R was a trifle out casual the sh bridge young ingworth, pre company, the el’s daughter biggest member the It consisted of four parallel composite webs, each d truss on perth side ou: the river. of ofa efends his father's Hations formed of several plates of st riv- CHAPTER U1 —Meade and Helen go out Sf¢d together, These webs we nan upon the bridge in the 1m ht and) bected across their upper and ver Helen narrowly escapes a fall to the river below. Meade tells his love and to the colonel, who approy c riage when the bridge is fin edges by di ynal latticing mud steel angle burs. C-10-R and its pi companion member, C-10-L, in the Left- hand truss. of the cantile ing on the pier. carried the entire weight (Continued from Y« rspin to the shoe ished for—" egan the girt “I understand, sir,” answered the | sixty feet long engineer, happy at her father’s!) webs were ove consent to make any difficulties over any reasonable conditions he might im pc Ye Helen, it's all right; your father is right. This job's got to te done before 1—" “Oh, don't say before you tackle another,” protested the girl, half dis- ‘ppointed, and yet seeing the reason- ableness of both men, while the col- terday) rest- These members were ind five feet wide. The four feet dee nsibility the g too and in t struts e whole size and resy were the most important of t structure To say that C-10-R was out of Hne meant that lt had buck was s] ging, and had ¢ that rigid rectangularity , or bent, or parted from und purallel- ism which was absolutely necessary to onel laughed grimly. maintain the stability and immobility a Chatisvaboutithe size oft said cones tro. te atreneth Of the the old man, ‘no matter how ou put bridge. To the th t nothing “on t. One thing at a time. Meade, 1. C@tth could be more terribly — por- don’t know anybody on earth I would [MOUS than’ such a statement, rather have for my son-in-law than | 'f Ht were trae, ‘To the prac: a clean, honest, able American with Heal men. who, to do hin justice, had a record like yours. A man who can UCVer dealt with such vast structures— look me in the eye and grasp me Ly and he was net singular in that be the hand, like thi “eanse the bridge was unique on He put out his hand as he spoxe, Count of its size—the deflection noted Meade’s own palm met it and the two “&: men shook hands unemotionally but firmly, after the manner of the self- restrained, practical American, who is alwa fearful of a nd does not wear his heart sleeve. The colonel threw little nothing God!" exclaimed Meade, aflame on the instant with anxious ap- The night was warn and ‘was dressed in his pajamas and had n the bed As if he b Heen shocked into netion he sat up, f rod scene upon away his his cigar, slipped his arm around his daughter's setful of his weakness, “Deflection!” waist, kissed her softly on the fore- he fairly shouted at Abbott, who re head irded him with half-amused astonish “I hate to lose you, Helen. I hate) ment, “a enmber in) C-l0-R4 Why to give you up to any We have didn't you tell been very happy together since your By this time le had got his feet mother died, leaving ou a little yvirl to his slippers and was standing to me; but it had to come, I suppo and perhaps I shall be glad in the end Good night, Meade. You will be : “It isn’t enough to make any differ: | ¥ Abbott om nuswered quickly, per- ing in presently, Helen?” a little disdainfally | He turned and walked away “rps makes All fhe "dliference on} they answered him.) They watch THD catai) WerniOen Gt AIG Gial him go in slowly with ended ne: , ean . | ? ruin of the bridge, They watched a climb, rather a He rencheditorehisdackon haneine ily, up the steps to the car—that CEP SaTONETH ES Ieee iil dsacectke was an old man seemed rather si re RM ah cen tbe te foc denly borne in upon them. He ia a : “| for a moment in the light, smii Don't worry about) It youngster” | remembering, and then turned and “Ul Abbett rather contemptuously, al marched within the car. He switch. ovsh he meant to be soothing. “Tn ed the light out us he passed down | 22!M% to Juck it into Tine and—here, the corridor. he eried as Meade bolted out of | “Wasn't he splendid?” said Heion, | (00% “you'd better not excite y | when she had time to breathe aud ''tt , 2 t a freedom to speak ny | ‘One of the finest old men on earth But Meade was of house, It} He 4 father would make a great AS SUED (the sun had set, but team.” the long twilight o i latitude | “T was interested in the bride be- SUIL lingeres ret the gi fore,” said the woman, “but think | santic structure of Por ally how I shall watch it now. You must. [ts siriness look« 1bs al as] write me every day and tell me every the kK oof Gibralt dit looked inch that you have i.’ even more substuntial if possible, as “Trust me; I'll measure it in mill the seizing a lantern and, for- meters.” getting his kness, ran down be-] ‘And now, sweet love, good night, th the ov rehing steel to the pier- she whispered. 9nd che laughed as d, climbed up to the shoe, and she looked back at him through the wled out on the lower chord as rap- door as he could. Meade needed but one glance to see CHAPTER IV. he deflection the right line in| the important rmaember, For all his years of inexperience he was a better trained engineer than rough-s renly Abbott. What appe to the hitter us a slight deflection, Meade saw in its | true relation, There was a from The Deflection in the Member. Three days the departure of the MWingworth party the young gineer fell iN with follicular which after en- variation FLE!46 MH. REVELL COMPANY 1 ASPER DAILY TRIBUNE the inability of this great member to} carry the stress that young Meade had| deduced by using the formula of! Schmidt-Chemnitz. It was this point, | and this point particularly, that he| had dwelt upon with his father and! which they had argued to a finish. So! strongly had he be with possible weakness of had put himself The e him and now a half to one inches in sixty n impressed structural that t rd in writing to his father. had overbor the little curve. and three-quart« established the aecuracy of his heeded contention. wished he had not let affection and with which he suade him ¢ iber one now he sold h the little touch of awe 1 his father per. inst his reason He stopped, feeling sud¢ y ill, as a very nervous high-strung inan m. feel under the sudden and unexpected physical shock. He was weak still from the tonsilitis. He leaned against the diugonal at the end of C-10-R, clinging to it tightly to keep from fall Ing. Abbott, who had followed m slowly iby him t amused. re somewhat sur- stoppe prised, somewli nant than beth. “Abbott.” sald Meade fier more indig: He Stopped, Feeling Suddenly III. y as the as if humoring the other. | wait, we've got to hurry it There's going to be no “That detl deep now and ction is nearly two inches ery ounce or pound of added weight you put upon it will make {t greater Its limit will be seon If it collapses—" he up his hands—“the whole thing will go.” “Yes, if it eache rexcued a minute,” he explained patronizingly. “There will be a bigger penalty mighty threw another way, in blood. the older man “Why, boy” will at it. Th other more resolute and fi “that bridge | © tion. Lo amount to said Abbott as 1 t t biteh ook here,” temper suddenly br control, “who are you any any- only a kid engineer. in proved of the plan of this bridge. Stand said Abbott, king from doesn't anything. It is only w TI in or trus: corresponding imemly on the bridge. Bet Word to “Don't talk to me. business, [tell you I That member's big enou enough to hold up th “What ure you against?” Meade asked first time a little of Ab Stop work until we can nebody tomorrow morning. like. He'll Martlet and hoy I know my n jack it back, wire Illingworth down a we'll get word tid strong 1d.” to jack ind for the tes contempt appeared in the youager man's voice. ou won't pt the bridge until—" “Not until tomorrow morning,” sale Abbott decisively, “if I don't hear fr somebody at Martlet tomorrow ing the work goes on.” t if my father wires you—” IT take orders from the Martlet com puny 1 morn ott reflected that there was noth- moenough for Jacks and said rat for It Seemed like to serve supp grudging nto the and no one else,” was the shor younger “Well truss and junior engineer T can b on to the opposite in finality, se that the other pull it) back with turn buckles. FRANK HENRY Baggage Transferred te Any Part of the City. 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References: Casper Decorating Company Signs, Automobile Painting, Interior Decorating, Painting, Paper Hanging 135 LINDEN STREET PHONE 608-W WHEN - IN - DOUBT THE POPULAR PLACE TO MEET YOUR FRIENDS that can ti He in the center of the member of an! freited over his en trom ineh and a half at least, although wn | the work snd in the end had to pay for ve to un untrained ¢ Tt had | that very fretting, for li woup feo all come in the last week. hey bad soon and went out tor quickly, and was extended the suspended span fur out | promptly forced to bed weain as a beyond the edge of the cantileys nd, } sequence S lupatience. with the heavy traveter at the end, | Now, after a week's confinement In} the downwa pressure on the great} his cabin, h ture out again and te felt strc ehough to ven- | lower chord members hid sed. | tack his prob- | | | | lems. They were personal problems was a terribly heavy hn at | now, much more intinate thin befere,| best. It hud to be te sustain se long a for he was building nor only the bridge | span, the lon in the workl And but weaving iu its web of steel his own | the load, continuous and increasing, future happiness. | had brought the layman Of course he had en able to get | trifling, to the shty. bend. If his galvan-| it bent that way u out on the rough | 1 of much of a ized iron shack where he had the} load, what would it do when the whole bric in fre View, and the day before. t spun was completed and it bad tre had even walked unsteadily down to} t arry ifs trunsitery loads of trattie the river bank. where he had been | beside? surprised und delighted at the | Abbott) after his own heart. R ‘med to have hout him as if bl equally When two different views meet It is natural that age. experience, reputa- tion and authority shall carry the da: je on just; Although Bertram Meade, Jr. had been | never been persuaded in. all He had not been lonely in| lars of the soundness of his his illness, for all of the ehief men con-| design, and could hot be pers aected with the construction had done | that vast experience, that great repu- thelr best to beguile the tedium of his | tation, that undoubted ability with its hours by visiting hin whenever they| long record of brilliant achievement eould spare the tit | had at last silenced him. He had ac- Abbott had been especially kind in| cepted through toyalty that which he Ais somewhat rough-und-ready way.| could not accept in argument. The big construction superintendent) accepted, he acted accordingly, heurt- wus fond of Mende, although he un-| ily seconding and carrying out the dervalued him. He regarded him more! wishes of the older and, as the world as a theoretical than a practical man, would say, the abler man. and the Inevitable antagonism between, The thing that smote the engineer the theorist and the practical man,} hardest was that this weakness was when they are not combined in one per-' exactly what he had foreseen and pointed out. It was the possibility of en the job. Once Rhinoceros Serves the best meal in town for 36« Short orders, fancy steaks of - served as you like ther [_] EVERYTHING IN BUILDING MATERIAL [_] RIG TIMBERS A SPECIALTY Farm Machinery Gas Engines Wagons Coal Offtice and \ard, First and Center. Phone 62 Cont od Page 7 \ treat < re wcectlne saat Sey it “That will damage the other truss ee eR he aed Bie am, were Bonna for Southern eree me engineer jJoine tim on 4 Ie OOM TACHA HUGE PI ARGnd siretorted <> \« imes when caught by the authori- Tia Vou ttha Le couieeoenl aenETes Se promptly, “It isn't possible.” ; HATCHING EGGS from pure bred, | ties. answerable for the consequences.” “Then Til think up some other! single comb White Leghorn and|rsTRAYED—One dollgng head re- Cai quia cas | scheme,” returned Abbott indifferently, Rhode Island Re¢ “We can't along. ality against us on account of me. I won't stop work if } you don’t do what T say, and paid inj And it will be collapses, that's true,” ae sald Abbott, “but it won't.’ Sure raul es “You're mad.” auld Meade, taking Now both men were angry and in unfortunately the wrong course with their passion they confronted each | than his flery his y? You're Your father ap- | I s th ‘ther truss is perfectly str: * guess we » afford to bunk on hi “Abbott, for God's sake, hear me,’ reputation rather than yours.” plended Meade in desperation, “Draw “Well, le doesn’t know of this.” back the traveler and put no more men “Nobody is on the bridge now, and is going to be on there until | Wire him if you t what to {any men at work on 1 N answer with which Abbott turned away realized | ' | = } | Tribune Want Ads Always | V ULCANIZING the interview was over. Meade wasted no more pleas on a ‘FOUR NEGROES ARE bott. As ill luck would Lave it some- | thing had happened to the telephone JUGGED FOR THEFT, j and telegraph wires between the city i the camp. Meade dressed himself, ARMINTO STATION got a handear, and was hurried to the | nearest town on the railroad’s main ee From there he sent a telegram Four charged with the burglary of the pumphouse at Ar- minto yesterday, have been placed un- der arrest and consigned to the Na- trona county jail for safe keeping, pending a time when the court can dispose of their cases. Two of them were taken off the night freight while their comrades in crime were appre- Douglas authorities this morning on information furnish- ed by Sheriff Patton. Deputy Sheriff Brown went to Douglas this morning to take charge of the prisoners and | returned with them this afternoon. The negroes, it is alleged, broke into the pumphouse at Arminto and rifled a trunk of $20 in cash and per- sonal belongings. Among other things they secured a six-shooter and a razor following which they beat a hasty re- negroes, and tried to get connection with New | York by telephone, but failed. Moved by a natural impulse. in default of |} other means of communication, he | jumped on the midnight train for New York, He would go himself in person | and attend to the grave affair. Noth- ing whatever could be so important. There had been some friction be- tween Abbott and Meade before on oc- } casions, not serious, but several times | Meade had ventured to est some- thing which to Abbott seemed useless and unpe ‘y, and the fact that subsequent events im often than not proved Meade’s su stions to be worth while, had not put Abbott in al- together the best mood toward his | yung colleague. Abbott never forgot t Meade had really no official con- ‘tion with the building of the bridge, hended by the , $1.50 per setting. | ward for any sheep found branded m, Moneta, Wyo. |W. Address X Y Z, care Tribune. 4-19-tf | 4-16-26t Mrs. Edw. 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