If a young engineer of fine intelligence, great energy, unceasing perseverance, and high ambition, who has had during his technical-school course a thorough training in the theoretical portion of bridge designing and has systematically continued to read and study concerning bridgework during a practice of five or six years, devoted mainly to the various ramifications of that specialty in computation room, drafting office, manufacturing shops, and field, wishes to become a bridge expert and carry on an independent consulting practice, he can do so by adopting the following procedure: Let him devote all of his time for an entire year to the reading and re-reading of "Bridge Engineering" and "Economics of Bridgework" and to solving, by the use of these books, numerous examples of all kinds upon assumed data, so as to obtain actual experience in the computation of secondary stresses and deflections, in the designing of the various types of bridges, in the determination of economic layouts for all kinds of assumed conditions, in the expeditious making of cost estimates, in the writing of specifications for manufacture and erection of substructure, superstructure, and approaches, and in the drafting of sound engineering contracts. Such work could best be done as a post-graduate course in one of the leading technical schools; but this is not really essential, because such a young man as the one described should certainly be able to carry on his studies unaided. Again, it could be carried out well, by taking longer time, were the young man in the employ of a consulting engineer, a bridge manufacturing company, or a bridge erector. The author feels confident that, upon the completion of the training above recommended, the young man under consideration would be truly entitled to term himself a Consulting Bridge Engineer. and his success in that capacity would practically be assured.