Show did you ever hear of samuel C lancaster one of the count rys leading civil civil engineers fifty nine years ago he was a poor boy in the P poor little southern town 0 magnolia I 1 mississippi he suffered an accident that resulted in total paralysis of his whole andy country and effy city doctors said that he could never be cured an all I 1 t that t death we was only a A question of weeks tul but sata sam thought differ differently he could hear their ands ant he talk I aa effa als discovered that he could tu i e his lips and hold fast to a pencil encil stuck between his teeth ile he eegan began to practice drawing by moving the pencil with his tn tingue t ingue gue and lips after his mother had prop propped a piece of cardboard up in front of his face after months of rain painful practice he was abl able ic to dr craw nw bridges and highways and plans for both constantly struggling st ru g I 1 ing to move his fingers he ong one day bucce aled gradually he forced strength into them artil he was able to move his arms a trifle after years of effort he was able to balance himself on crutches then he forced his paralyzed legs to move an inch or two moving to jackson pi the city gave him a job as consulting engineer on roadways so well did he succeed that in 1004 he be was oven given the task of drawing plans for a system of country highways in n madison county tenn th this is brought him an appointment a as consulting engineer for the U S government in 1906 he was sent I 1 to the pacific coast where he ha supervised per cd the bull building ding of many of i the present beautiful roads that crisscross criss cross the coast states and ho 1113 built the model system of boulevards in and about the city bicy i if seattle then h b built the lamoin colun bia river highway T lay ay he is almost well and raad as 4 millionaire |