The Victoria Bridge At Montreal Canada Who Is Entitled To The Credit Of Its Conception

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ISBN 13 : 9781334179419
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book The Victoria Bridge, at Montreal, Canada written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-05 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Victoria Bridge, at Montreal, Canada: Who Is Entitled to the Credit of Its Conception?, Or a Short History of Its Origin As His Royal Highness, in order to do justice to all parties, will feel it incumbent on him to obtain full and reliable information on this subject, the writer has compiled the following statement relative to the pretensions of his countryman, Mr. Keefer, from documents recently published in the Canadian papers, and which have thus far remained unchallenged as to their accuracy. He has also appended copious extracts from Mr. Keefer's able report on the Bridge question, which was published early in 1853, before Mr Stephenson had even an intimation that his services would be required in executing the intended work. The writer trusts that the length of these documents and extracts will not deter His Royal Highness from making himself thoroughly familiar with the merits of the question. It will be seen by the letter of Mr. G. R Stephenson, the ne hew of the late Mr. Stephenson. Written for the purpose of refuting the c aims set up by the friends of the resident engineer, Mr. Ross, respecting the conception and design of the Victoria Bridge, that the pretensions of Mr. Keefer are full admitted. But independent of these admissions, Mr. Keefer may fair y rest his case on the plea of priority, and the great ability displayed in his report, and on the circumstance that this survey and report were made the basis whereon the contractors undertook to perform the work, as mtgthcr survey and report had been made at the time the contracts were t. The writer desires to disclaim the existence of a wish or intention to detract one iota from the great merit due to the late Mr. Stephenson for the part which he performed in brin g into existence the work which His Royal Highness the Prince of ales proposes to inaugurate. But for the name of this great engineer being connected with the enterprise, the capital for its execution could not have been raised, and the time would have passed by and the work have remained without a commence ment - a mere idea in the brains of Mr. Ymm and Mr. Keefer, and those who were convinced by their arguments t at a bridge could be thrown across the wide and rapid river. The only claim here advanced is, that justice should be accorded to all parties. 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.