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  | | | | | | ______________|________|________|________|____________|____________| | | | | | | I_{3} | 20 | 30 | 50


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  | | Thirty-third | | | | | | / | | Street East R. | | | | | | / | +------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------/


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  | | Thirty-fifth | | | | | | / | | Street East R. | | | | | | / | +------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------/


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  | | Long Island City | | | | | | / +--+------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------/ | Unloading Points


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  | | | | | | / +---------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------/ | | / | Extra Pins


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  day.| Remarks | --------------+------+--------+--------+--------------------------------------+ {| | | | | {| | | | | Rock {


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id: 42149
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  | | | | | | | | | |--------+------+--------+-----+-----+-------+--------+--------+-------| | Per- | |


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id: 42149
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  | | trench | mica | | | | | | | |schist| | | | | | |--------+------+---------+--------+------+------+--------|


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id: 42149
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  | | | | +---------+---------------+--------+-------+---------+ WEIGHTS OF VARIOUS TYPES OF LINING PER LINEAR FOOT OF TUNNEL


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  | | | | | Tunnel | FIELD SURFACE DESPATCH Supts | OFFICE BOAT Tunnel | Foreman | Civil Head Captain Foremen | Engineer Carpenter Engineer


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  Drillers | Timekeepers Blacksmiths'' Foremen | Telephone Helpers Muckers | Operators Foreman Pipe Fitters


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id: 16440
author: Campbell, J. L.
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  solids per gallon; and a branch pipe line takes water from the creek water to Luna Reservoir and the pumps at Mile 171, and the latter lift Where the pipe line passes a water tank on the railway, a 4-in. air-chambers, and open stand-pipes on the line, too numerous to mention _Cast-iron Pipe_.--Beginning at the first pumping plant at Coyote, at specifications of the New England Water-Works Association, the pipe was pipe 21 miles long, a large air-chamber in the form of a closed steel The supply pipe from Bonito Creek delivers water into the basin over the If the pipe line is delivering water faster than the leakage on the wood pipe, between Coyote and Bonito Creek, from the _Velocities_.--The pipe line from Bonito Creek to the Nogal Reservoir line, near the reservoir, as indicated on Fig. 2, which shows the hydraulic grades and the pipe diameters of this

title:
  The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex. American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, No. 1170


id: 19037
author: Mason, Francis
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summary:
  Typical cross-sections of the tunnels are shown on Plate XII.[B] Workings were started both east and west from the Intermediate Shafts, plant in the shafts by the subsequent work in the Cross-Town Tunnels was excavation of the Twin Tunnel in 33d Street was continued westward to Fig. 3, Plate LIX, shows the first section of the concrete lining completed placed, as shown by Fig. 1, Plate LX, the center wall and skewback were STARTED FOR THREE-TRACK TUNNEL IN 33D STREET NEAR 5TH AVENUE] the tunnel, but the lining was placed as soon as the excavation was West of the Intermediate Shaft the tunnel was excavated for full width excavation of the Twin Tunnel eastward from the end of the open-cut shaft, a drift was driven across the street at the crown of the tunnel, heading, and wall-plates and sets of three-segment arch timbering were rock on the center line between the tunnels.

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158


id: 17302
author: Cresson, Benjamin Franklin
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  Station-West is bounded as follows: By the east line of Ninth Avenue; by Terminal had excavated under Ninth Avenue a cut which came to the grade of showing rock excavation and supports of 9th Avenue structures. Fig. 1, Plate XLVII, shows the elevated railway structure and the street METHOD OF EXCAVATING NINTH AVENUE PLAN AND ELEVATION SHOWING VARIOUS STAGES METHOD OF EXCAVATING NINTH AVENUE SECTIONS SHOWING VARIOUS STAGES OF WORK avenue at each column, each set being placed on four concrete piers 6 ft. four concrete piers resting on the central rock core, the excavation on the Center line of 32nd St., looking East from Sta. 183+50, showing excavation under Ninth Avenue, permanent concrete piers feet South of center line, showing underpinning of Ninth Avenue structure Plate LII, was taken inside the concrete form for the lower face wall on Showing excavation of completion of South abutment 9th Ave. and method of Supporting Elevated Railway Column 488.

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad The Terminal Station - West


id: 17776
author: Gregory, W. B. (William Benjamin)
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summary:
  TESTS OF CREOSOTED TIMBER. The timber for creosoting shall be long-leafed or southern pine. _Piles._--The piles shall be of long-leafed or southern pine, not less The timbers shall be subjected first to live steam superheated to from the timbers and the length of time they have been cut. large timbers freshly cut, as long a time as 12 hours may be required. must determine the length of time the oil treatment shall continue, so cast-iron beam of the testing machine, while above the roller, and, directly under the beam tested, there was a steel plate 6 by 8 in. TABLE 1.--SUMMARY OF RESULTS OF TRANSVERSE TESTS OF BEAMS AT TULANE A comparison of the results obtained with tests made on untreated timber TABLE 3.--LOBLOLLY PINE.--BENDING TESTS ON BEAMS SEASONED UNDER D. Longitudinal shear at maximum load, in pounds per square inch. [Illustration: PLATE II.--SIDE VIEWS OF TESTED TIMBERS.]

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Tests of Creosoted Timber, Paper No. 1168


id: 17777
author: Klapp, Eugene
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summary:
  REINFORCED CONCRETE PIER CONSTRUCTION. A private yacht pier, built near Glen Cove, Long Island, has brought out ordinary construction, but with creosoted piles; (_b_) a concrete pier To construct such piers in the ordinary manner behind coffer-dams, and before been called to the successful use of reinforced concrete caissons These caissons are constructed wished to reduce the cost, and every other caisson in the pier head was omitted, so that, as built, the pier contains eight caissons and five the shoal water and the great height of the outer caissons in comparison water pressure would be nothing, but the filling of the caissons would The question of the effect of sea water on the concrete was given much The caissons, after being placed, were filled with sand and gravel from sending in at high tide a powerful derrick scow, many of the caissons The next caisson was then towed out, set against the floating

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Reinforced Concrete Pier Construction


id: 18548
author: Jacobs, Charles M. (Charles Mattathias)
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summary:
  City, and also, as Chief Engineer of the North River Division of the New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to record in a Railroad Company was incorporated in the State of New York to construct the scheme for a tunnel to the Central Railroad of New Jersey for a line State Line to the Pennsylvania Railroad Station in New Jersey. 1899, the New York and Long Island Terminal Railroad Company was Long Island Railroad, Mr. Baldwin organized a new company to construct a Pennsylvania Railroad Company Office in New York, when Mr. Cassatt tunnel lines of the New York and New Jersey Railroads to Exchange Place, tunnels from the east side of Tenth Avenue, New York City, to the on the New York side, on the line of the tunnels near the river line of the tunnels in the yards of the Erie Railroad on the New Jersey

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, The North River Division. Paper No. 1151


id: 18065
author: Noble, Alfred
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summary:
  the rock surface, and profiles along the tunnel lines were plotted from through the tunnel of the East River Gas Company at 71st Street. The work of the East River Division at this site embraced the excavation Street from the west side of Seventh Avenue to the east side of Ninth Street lines from the west end of the three-track tunnel to the shaft in 33d Street to the west line of Fifth Avenue, with a descending grade the tunnel roof at 32d Street and Fifth Avenue showed a thin cover with west of Sixth Avenue in 33d Street; the twin tunnel method was the most suitable for the East River tunnels, and the plans and record in work in any way similar to the East River tunnels, part of the tunnels east of Front Street was built without shields. easterly end of the work near East Avenue in Long Island City to the

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Division. Paper No. 1152


id: 18012
author: Temple, E. B.
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summary:
  The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad diverges from a 0.5% grade, crosses over the tracks of the New York Division and the Railroad, and extends from the connection with the New York Division west of the bridge over the New York Division to a point 300 ft. and round-house in the Meadows Yard of the New York Division, were Railroad Company''s tunnel tracks at Prior Street, Jersey City. Chief Engineer, Meadows Division, Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal _Meadows Division, Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad._--The two _Meadows Division, Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad._--The two over the New York Division tracks, which is the point of beginning of Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Division, Passenger and Newark 0.5% from the Harrison platforms to the bridge over the New York Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and as Chief Engineer of the Meadows Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and as Chief Engineer of the Meadows

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Meadows Division and Harrison Transfer Yard. Paper No. 1153


id: 16938
author: Meem, J. C.
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summary:
  over any given area in contact with the water in the one case or sand pressure required to lift the piston when in clear water alone and in illustrating the pressure due to water on a tunnel buried in sand, If water in excess be put into a cylinder containing sand, and pressure effect on the pressure exerted by the sand with or without water, as When air pressure is used to hold back the water in faces of large area, by the arching or wedging action, the pressure of any water on their The writer believes that experiments will show that in a sand-jack the pressures of subaqueous material--and on his interesting experiments in experiment with sand and water, described by the writer, and is assured theory" in material subject to water pressure, a careful reading of the will find that, if this material is free from water pressure, paper

title:
  Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910


id: 18748
author: Kempkey, A.
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summary:
  construction, and the detailed cost, form the basis of this paper. To form the bottom of this tank, a plain concrete dome is The tank is covered with a roof of reinforced concrete, 4 in. and forms a level base on which the tower is built. Similar construction was used to form the taper base of the tower All horizontal bolts in the lower inside and outside forms were removed, 3.--FORMS FOR WATER TOWER VICTORIA, B.C.] 3.--FORMS FOR WATER TOWER VICTORIA, B.C.] After the dome forms had been put in, the concrete was carried up The tank is the ordinary type of light steel, the lower course TABLE 1.--COST OF HIGH-LEVEL TOWER, VICTORIA WATER-WORKS. writer''s opinion that the steel tank enclosed within the concrete of the inside and outside sheets forming the tank steel be in the form of a thin shell, and in a structure of this kind

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 A Concrete Water Tower, Paper No. 1173


id: 18747
author: Randolph, B. S. (Beverly S.)
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summary:
  the rate of grade encountered in the practical operation of railways. the lengths of grade as abscissas and the percentages of weight utilized grades are light in both cases, this feature of train resistance is larger train on grades less than 10 miles in length than on longer grade (as in Item 15 of Table 1) the resistance would be, gravity Examining the items in the table having grades in excess of 10 miles, it In proportioning grade resistance for any line, therefore, a locomotive a 0.02 grade on which a locomotive may be loaded on a basis of tractive Thus the length of the grade, 2.44 miles, makes the tractive is a grade of the same rate, about 1 mile long, near this hill, and a using heavier rates of grade on shorter hills than 10 miles, and indeed grades for 9-3/4 miles, a 29-ton engine

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Locomotive Performance On Grades Of Various Lengths, Paper No. 1172


id: 18785
author: Various
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summary:
  OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON RAIL SECTIONS.[A] As previously reported to you, the Rail Committee of the American Railway Association to the Rail Committee of The American Railway no specification for Open-Hearth Steel Rails, and in order to "We recommend that the present Specifications for Steel Rails be acceptable they were, as the members of all Rail Committees were present rails rolled, of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, and put in service "SPECIFICATIONS FOR STEEL RAILS.[E] "The percentage of carbon in an entire order of rails shall average The section of rail shall conform as accurately as possible to The standard length of rail shall be 33 ft. (_a_) Drop tests shall be made on pieces of rail rolled from (A) Two pieces shall be tested from each heat of steel. defect, the top rail from each ingot of that heat shall be rejected. "(_b_) For Bessemer Steel the Manufacturer shall, before the rails

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Final Report of Special Committee on Rail Sections, Paper No. 1177


id: 18795
author: Bensel, J. A. (John Anderson)
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summary:
  AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS individual achievements, engineers are behind other professional men in a fact that will be admitted by all that engineers have not as yet done Profession, John Smeaton, first made use of the term, "engineer," and descriptive of a certain class of men working along professional lines achievements of engineers, particularly in the last hundred years. graphic a showing of engineering activity as I think can be found. engineers, but they seem to be diffident and neglectful of human nature very broad lines in admission to membership, classing as civil engineers limiting and prescribing the right to practice in the State of New York, As to the manner in which engineers individually perform their work, no thing, regarded either from the point of view of what the world needs or to be set to the activities of men along lines which concern us, and society as much as possible along its new lines.

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Address at the 42d Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, June 21st, 1910, Paper No. 1178


id: 18408
author: Clarke, George C.
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summary:
  the construction of two double-track tunnels under Ninth Avenue at 33d fan-shaped areas east of the west house line of Seventh Avenue were from east of Seventh Avenue and south of 34th Street. and 33d Streets from Seventh Avenue to a point east of the west end of TYPICAL SECTIONS OF RETAINING WALL IN THIRTY-FIRST STREET] surface, crossing under Ninth Avenue and to the center line of 32d the surface of the street on a timber trestle to Tenth Avenue, which was PLANT FOR DISPOSAL OF EXCAVATED MATERIALS PIER NO. Fig. 2.--East Pit, Steam Shovel Loading Excavated Material on Car. ash-pit, and the south wall and the ends were built of concrete. of the compressor-house formed the north wall of the bin, the section The excavation for the retaining walls in 31st and 33d Streets were in The forms and bracing for the Ninth Avenue walls are shown on Fig. 8.

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157


id: 18722
author: Woodard, S. H.
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summary:
  shafts at the river front in Long Island City, four shields were driven method in Tunnel _B_, where compressed air, but no shield, was used, the shield was re-erected in Tunnel _A_ and was shoved through the soft the end of the work it was evident that the shields in Tunnels _B_, _C_, permanent cast-iron tunnel lining was erected as the shield advanced. iron tunnel lining and the rock. The shields in each pair of tunnels were advanced through the solid rock The first work in air pressure was to remove the shield plug closing the shield, blocked all work at the face of the heading while the former in Shield _D_ are shown in Fig. 3, Plate LXX, while the method of work The shields broke through rock surface in Tunnels _B_, _C_, and _D_, at of the top of the shield; in Tunnel _B_, the rock of the

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159


id: 27632
author: American Society of Civil Engineers
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summary:
  Given Turbidity in Applied Water.~ filtered water for a given turbidity of the applied water is turbidity in the filtered water, a raw water may be applied at 75 deg., having twice the turbidity of the water applied at 35 deg., to produce applied water of given turbidity will produce an effluent at 35 deg. applied and in the filtered water, it is entirely logical to _Hydraulic Replacing of Filter Sand._--The author has adopted a method of replacing clean sand in the filters which will commend method may be applied at other plants where conditions seem to replacing sand by the hydraulic method, and yet, from Mr. Johnson''s hydraulic method would be as satisfactory for other filter plants effluents from filters which have been re-sanded by the two methods The experiment of replacing sand by water, referred to by Mr. Longley, was not considered a success at the time, and the method

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXXII, June, 1911 Water Purification Plant, Washington, D. C. Results of Operation.


id: 18229
author: Raymond, Charles W.
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summary:
  Previously a tunnel designed for steam railroad traffic, to enter New York City near Christopher Street, was partly constructed, but the work to as the New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. to as the New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Sunnyside Yard, in Long Island City, Borough of Queens, New York. The New York Tunnel Extension is essentially a passenger line, although Seventh Avenue in New York City, joining the Long Island System at tunnel railroad into and through New York City. City and cross the North River by ferry or the Cortlandt Street tunnels Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railroad Company. extend the lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad by tunnels under the North River to a passenger station to be erected in New York City and thence the City of New York, the Tunnel Company, and the Long Island Railroad now President of the Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad Company.

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Paper No. 1150


id: 42149
author: Hewett, Bertram Henry Majendie
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  the rock from the tunnels made it necessary to start the shield-driven kinds of ground through which the shield-driven tunnels had to pass. time were much taken up with the progress of the shield-driven tunnels. TABLE 6.--ROCK TUNNEL EXCAVATION UNDER 32D STREET, EAST OF CUT-AND-COVER iron-lined tunnels and the shield chambers. iron-lined pieces of tunnel placed side by side, with semi-circular [Illustration: TYPES OF CONCRETE LINING OF SHIELD-DRIVEN TUNNELS. _Standard Cross-Section of Concrete Lining of Shield-Driven _Standard Cross-Section of Concrete Lining of Shield-Driven and the working faces, extending the pipe lines, and attending to shield of the tunnel with bolting and working platform is shown on Plate XL. TABLE 27.--SHIELD-DRIVEN TUNNEL WORK, WEEHAWKEN SHAFT, RIVER TUNNEL TABLE 27.--SHIELD-DRIVEN TUNNEL WORK, WEEHAWKEN SHAFT, RIVER TUNNEL TABLE 28.--SHIELD-DRIVEN TUNNEL WORK.--TOTAL NUMBER OF RINGS ERECTED AND TABLE 29.--MONTHLY PROGRESS OF SHIELD-DRIVEN TUNNEL WORK. down and re-erected before the concrete work in the river tunnels was

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  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The North River Tunnels. Paper No. 1155


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  1150 THE NEW YORK TUNNEL EXTENSION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA 1 1150 THE NEW YORK TUNNEL EXTENSION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA 1 V. New York Underground Railway Company: Section 1151 39 Plan and Profile, East River Tunnels 1152 71 Tunnel Lining Forms; Placing Water-Proofing; Weehawken Shaft; and Tunnel Shield Showing 1155 159 Cross-Section of Subaqueous Tunnels Showing 1155 231 Duct Bench Concrete Form in River Tunnels 1155 283 Methods of Excavation, Cross-Town Tunnels, 1158 393 Methods of Tunneling, Timbering, and Lining, 1158 399 Methods of Tunneling in Rock, East River 1159 437 Operation of Shields, East River Tunnels 1159 439 Rock and Sand, East River Tunnels Soft Clay Through Shield, East River Tunnels The first construction work of any note on which Mr. Engle was engaged Mr. Engle was a Member of the Engineers'' Club of Cincinnati from the active business, Mr. Deans organized, from the Sooysmith and Company

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  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910, Start/End Papers The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad


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title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, December, 1910
author: American Society of Civil Engineers
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  In 1885 he was elected Assistant City Engineer of New Orleans, which From 1892 to 1896 Mr. Brown held the office of City Engineer of New employed with the King Bridge Company as Assistant Engineer. American Bridge Company, of New York, in charge of railroad structures John Henderson Sample, the only son of Judge William Sample, was born Central lines, working up from Axeman to Division Engineer. Engineer of location and construction of the Missouri Pacific lines in as Assistant Engineer, being engaged on line and grade revision and with the gas companies of New York City for 57 years. The Engineer who was in charge of the work, writes: Engineers connected with that work. In 1893, Mr. Van der Hoek was appointed Division Engineer of the He was elected a Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers on He was elected a Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers on


