. The street railway review . ndred feet beyond the east end of the total elevation gained from the street surface in Herkimer tothe east end of the structure is 41 ft. FORM OF STRUCTURE. The striking design from which Herkimer Bridge is being con-structed was furnished by the Oshorn Engineering Co., of Cleve- arches which begins where the earth fill ends, a point distant about100 ft. from the bank of the creek, and which ends at a point about230 ft. beyond the east bank of the creek. During the ordinarystage of water the distance between banks of the creek is 400 ft.,and the stream
. The street railway review . ndred feet beyond the east end of the total elevation gained from the street surface in Herkimer tothe east end of the structure is 41 ft. FORM OF STRUCTURE. The striking design from which Herkimer Bridge is being con-structed was furnished by the Oshorn Engineering Co., of Cleve- arches which begins where the earth fill ends, a point distant about100 ft. from the bank of the creek, and which ends at a point about230 ft. beyond the east bank of the creek. During the ordinarystage of water the distance between banks of the creek is 400 ft.,and the stream would he included by six spans. The reason fortaking this precaution of extending the bridge beyond the banks wasto insure ample room for the passage of high water as it rises abovethe banks. To one who is at all familiar with the West CanadaCreek, and has seen it in times of freshet with the ice piled up inthe channel and on the banks, checking the flow of water, the reasonFor this precaution is not difficult to AKi MIS READY FOR CONCRETE. 11 J. Watson, bridge engineer. The lines are simple,m before the forms have been removed the graceful pro-portions arc quite apparent from the temporary wooden structures,and as the lines of the plans are carefully brought out in construc-tion, the result is a bridge that is beautiful as well as useful. The road crosses the flat land west of the creek on an earth fill,the material for which has been taken from a piece of land in thevicinit] ven acres in extent, purchased by the electric rail- way company for that purpose. An opening necessary for passingthe overflow water at times of extreme high water through this era- The supports for the arches consist of two abutment-piers withnine intermediate piers. One of the features of the desgn providesthat the intermediate piers shall be of two different sizes, the third,sixth and eighth being larger, so that they may act as abutmentsin case a portion of the bridge should fail. The s
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