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 " fact that a competent engineer can make a little money go much further than it would go without his advice and aid is one which the general public is slow to comprehend. The average man congratulates himself upon the dollars he saves by dispensing with an engineer's services, and knows nothing of the dollars lost in exorbitant prices, or work poorly executed."—From an editorial in Engineering News, July 11, 1895.