When everything had been done we stole back to Kite Island and
set fire to the log cabin. The next day Mr. Schreiner took us home in a
couple of his wagons. Thus ended our "investigation, exploration and
exploitation of Willow Clump Island." The work of two summers was
practically all destroyed in a few days.
Reddy's Cantilever Bridge.
I believe I have given a careful account of everything that was recorded
in the chronicles of the society. We were too discouraged to undertake
anything new in the two weeks before school opened. I presume I might
mention here Reddy's cantilever bridge, which, however, had really nothing
to do with the S. S. I. E. E. of W. C. I., because our society was
formally disbanded the day before Bill and I returned to school. About a
month after leaving home I received a letter from Reddy inclosing three
interesting photographs, which are reproduced herewith. Reddy certainly
had the bridge fever, because soon after we had left he started to work,
with the rest of the boys, on a cantilever bridge across Cedar Brook. The
brook was entirely unsuited to such a structure, because the banks were
very low; but he made the towers quite short and built an inclined roadway
leading up to the top of them.
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