Show A STRONG BRIDGE before the gr great greal i vies viez loria bridge at it Mo montreal litreal was was accept edof edW tho the contractors it it toche to the baere severe teai test of a loaded train Iveigh weighing ing the enormous load of one tun to the square foot which it w was as difficult c u it for three powerful locomotives to drag alon aion along while in the first tube only the deflection of that tube was beven seven eights of an inch the adjoining empty tube being lifted in the middle threet three eighths rhe ne load being placed half halt over dyer b botn oth tubes the deflection wan wap the same in each three fourths of an inch and when run wholly upon the second tube tho the result was waa the reverse of that in the first the final test wab wad the long central span three hundred and thirty feet where the deflection was only one ibah and three eighths in no instance was the deflection edtion greater than five eighths what it was expected ex |