' Why did the Afton then, after she had come up smelling
so close to the long pier sheer off so strangely. When she got to the
centre of the very nose she was smelling she seemed suddenly to have lost
her sense of smell and to have flanked over to the short pier."
Mr. Lincoln said there was no practicability in the project of building a
tunnel under the river, for there "is not a tunnel that is a successful
project in this world. A suspension bridge cannot be built so high but
that the chimneys of the boats will grow up till they cannot pass. The
steamboat men will take pains to make them grow. The cars of a railroad
cannot without immense expense rise high enough to get even with a
suspension bridge or go low enough to get through a tunnel; such expense
is unreasonable.
"The plaintiffs have to establish that the bridge is a material
obstruction and that they have managed their boat with reasonable care
and skill. As to the last point high winds have nothing to do with it,
for it was not a windy day. They must show due skill and care.
Difficulties going down stream will not do, for they were going up
stream. Difficulties with barges in tow have nothing to do with the
accident, for they had no barge.
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