Show We Vo have all growled grO a little this winter Sometimes Some- Some ti times imes es we have entertained a belief that when the was held last fall for weather we drew about b ut the worst lot i in iy the pack package ge But we wo aye ate disposed to begin to take things back Those terrible terrible ter tel calamities calamities' in northern Idaho that unparalleled overwhelming of two trains on the Great N Northern both came from regions where go good goad d I weather veather i is as a rule expected after the first of February at the farthest And then all allaround mound around us the old Central Pacific out oat on the desert deserts is waterlogged is-waterlogged s wat the the Oregon Short Line is out of f commission Boise isolated from all the time world world all all Ui these hese se in ill Ill our immediate neighborhood while fara farand far far- farand a and ld wide wid there is only recapitulations of storms and ind floods altogether making about the time most uncompromising uncompromising uncompromising un un- un- un compromising winter that the world has experienced experienced in this generation Yesterday the sun shone as is though it had just got back hack after a long absence absence ab ab- ab- ab sence and in some parts of the city the streets ac- ac t needed sprinkling Everybody drew v long breaths o of satisfaction and be beg began n to say Now we can can do something An Al Englishman Mr 11 V. AV R. IlC Waters of London Lon Lon- don lon president of an English syndicate has obtained ob- ob from the Cuban government a concession for fora a steel bridge across the leading from the i bay of Havana to the open sea It is understood some sonic Americans are arc going to bid for the contract It will be an immense structure It is estimated it will vill cost cost- The contract calls for the beginning of the work within six months and it is js expected that it will be under three or four year years years' construction The approach o oZ of the bridge will be beabout beabout about 60 or 70 feet wide The arches will be built on four piers The crest of the time highest span willbe will willbe willse be se feet above high water and it is estimated that hat cubic meters of concrete will wilI be used Mr Ir IrV V Waters explained in New York that Havana Havana Ha Ha- vana is a cit city r with a population of people an arid and it is crowded Just as New York City reached out with its Brooklyn bridge and brought Brooklyn nearer Havana will reach across the time channel and bring nearer Casa Blanca and other places on the thc peninsula op opposite osite S |