A Modern Engineering Marvel.

The Australian is a great city-builder. From his narrow lodgment on the coast he has not conquered the interior (it is indeed announced that the Northern Territory and Central Australia carry less population than last century), but he has created wonderful cities in Melbourne and Sydney, the “playground of the Pacific.” In his urban aggregation he sees against

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the blue sky noble structures, and one of the most dominating of these—the Harbour Bridge, uniting Sydney with her North Shore—has just closed its steel jaws with engineering precision, girder meeting girder with perfect alignment at the lofty midway point. There was, of course, a celebration, and it was much more complete than was anticipated, for a whale, in the course of a memorable progress up the harbour and even into the Parramatta River, spouted right under the huge bridge. Meanwhile, there is some argument as to which of two engineers is responsible for the design. Design is a thing people may quarrel about. But no one will claim the overdraft.