He was one of the best men and one of the most valuable partners I ever was favored with, and richly deserved the rewards which he did so much to secure.
The Keystone Bridge Works have always been a source of satisfaction to me.

Almost every concern that had undertaken to erect iron bridges in America had failed.

Many of the structures themselves had fallen and some of the worst railway disasters in America had been caused in that way.

Some of the bridges had given way under wind pressure but nothing has ever happened to a Keystone bridge, and some of them have stood where the wind was not tempered.

There has been no luck about it.