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Show Rails That Travel. A St. Louis civil engineer, says the Qlobe-Democrat, says the rails of tha St. Louis bridge were uever stationary, but constantly crept to the east that is. in the direction of the heaviest travel. The rate of progress, he said Was about 360 feet in the year, or would be if the rails were permitted to creep as they pleased, which, of course, they are not permitted to do. It reminded him of a hill in south, west Missohri, over which a turnpike road was constructed, and, do what they would, the people could not keep the road up and down the sides of that hill in good conditiou. The stones would creep to the bottom, and in six months the road would be as bad as ever. They finally had to take up the gravel and macadam and replace them with good-sized blocksof rough stone. |