The Hamilton Bridge Works Company.

These works, under the management of Henry Szlapka, Chief Engineer, have a decidedly business-like appearance these days. The shops, which are running to their utmost capacity, are under the supervision of A. Phoenix, Superintendent, whose energy keeps things humming. The Co. has been most successful in obtaining large contracts for heavy railway bridges for the C.P. & G.N.R., & other railway corporations. The Queen St. subway, Toronto, was lately built by this Co. The centre girder for the Grand Trunk double track crossing alone weighed 80,000 lbs., length 96 ft. overall, & 10 ft. 6 in. deep, shipped from the works in one piece. The most important & difficult contract ever undertaken by this Co., was the building & erecting of the Stoney Creek arch for the C.P.R. in the Selkirk Mountains, a stupendous task. As for highway bridges wood has been nearly entirely superseded by steel. Steel highway bridges are thoroughly in evidence in these works. Structural work, in which steel has also taken so prominent a place of late, forms a large item in its output, & the Simpson building in Toronto bears testimony to this statement. The Co. does a large business outside of bridge building. It is now busy with an extensive steel roof for the Western Departmental block at Ottawa to replace the wooden roof which was burnt off. The metal work for the Soulanges Canal lock gates is also another large Government contract. The Co. also has a contract for the feeder pipes, about 8 ft. in diameter, & for the power house of the Cataract Power Co., of Hamilton, which proposes to bring electric power from St. Catherines to Hamilton. A large assortment of exceedingly heavy rods for bridges on the C. P. R. Crow's Nest Pass Branch have recently been turned out. There are under way a number of ether miscellaneous structures. The steel hull of the steamer Chippewa, the finest of the Niagara Navigation Co.'s fleet, plying between Toronto and Niagara, was built at the Hamilton Bridge Works. The Co. is under the control cf the Messrs. Hendrie, whose energy & pluck in taking hold of large undertakings is well known.

Railways: C.P.Ry.

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