Show Great Grat Memory Cleveland Plain Dealer Deler Thirty years ye ago ngo o says sa s an Anglo Indian civil civi engineer to a a London cor eor correspondent cr respondent respondent I traveled out to India on the same steamer as a a Sirs Mrs Mr Lockwood Kipling She had with wih her a baby girl girland and a boy of 3 Ruddy as she called him was a solemn little Itte chap with wih a big hat and frilly trUy around the ends of oC his tiny trousers trouser We soon oon struck up a friendship He would walls walk walkup walt up and down the deck with wih me for hours hour holding on to my thumb In after years year as you know Kipling ob obtained obtaIned tamed the of an Indian paper I was engaged about that time in building a great get railway bridge The editor edior of ot paper wrote to me asking aking permission for one of his re reporters reporter reporters porters porter to come and write a series of or three or four tour articles on the subject of ot the bridge which was wa one of the th big biggest goat gest get undertakings of its It time I replied saying that that if i Ruddy cared cred to come oine he have every ever privilege but I I want anybody else Sure enough Ruddy came cam cm and a great gat time he had We showed him lm im everything and he took everything g jn In His eye for detail deti was wonderful He Hewa was wa like a human camera with wit a maui mem memory me ory for names as well Years or a wel Yea after afterward aft afterward ward he wrote The Bridge Builder and In it he used the information he picked nicked up from me tue and my men then the It I Is all al as a accurate as a possible There is not a technical error eror In the whole thing As far as a I 1 can see every over one of his engineering stories Is Ig absolutely ly r correct rt w |