id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 26052 How, Louis James B. Eads .txt text/plain 21928 970 72 Eads learned while he was a clerk among them; and as time went on, he been for three years on the river, Eads gave up his clerkship to go hazardous business Eads invented many new appliances for use in its work the city of Saint Louis gave him $80, out of which he paid his own To be sure, the seven boats were not finished at the time called for. specifications called for, that before the work was finished Eads was The Saint Louis, as Eads wrote to Lincoln, when he sent him a During those trying war times all of Eads's tremendous energy had by no given to Eads's work. Eads, however, understood the river like a book, and he had all works of river and harbor improvement to the military engineers; Narrow the Mississippi then, at its mouth, said Eads, and ./cache/26052.txt ./txt/26052.txt