luck as to good management; but the experience taught the author a lesson which he has never forgotten, and which he desires to impress upon all young designers, viz., that in preparing any substructure design it is essential to provide liberally for all possible variations from correct position in all parts of the work.

In respect to the designing of pedestals for elevated railroads and the determination of the bearing capacities of soils, the reader is referred to the author's before-mentioned paper on Elevated Railroads published in the 1897 Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers.