Engineering and Contracting . d constructedextensions from McCord to Porter, Ind., andinto the cities of Joliet and Aurora, III. now turned from railway work and from1893 to 1897 was employed on the construc-tion engmeering force of the Sanitary Dis-trict of Chicago, which was then building the Chicago Drainage Canal, and also in privateengineering practice and in contracting. As engineer with the Sanitary DistrictMr. Lee had charge of the field work for thedredging operations for Sections A and B ofthe channel—the two earth sections west fromBridgeport where the canal connected withthe
Engineering and Contracting . d constructedextensions from McCord to Porter, Ind., andinto the cities of Joliet and Aurora, III. now turned from railway work and from1893 to 1897 was employed on the construc-tion engmeering force of the Sanitary Dis-trict of Chicago, which was then building the Chicago Drainage Canal, and also in privateengineering practice and in contracting. As engineer with the Sanitary DistrictMr. Lee had charge of the field work for thedredging operations for Sections A and B ofthe channel—the two earth sections west fromBridgeport where the canal connected withthe Chicago River. He also had charge forthe district of the dredging of the ChicagoRiver, and the construction of the WesternBoulevard Bridge over the main canal. Hisprivate practice during this period, 1893-7, in-cluded the construction of three miles of 8and 10-ft. sewers in Chicago, the construc-tion of some 50,000 cu. yds. of concrete re-taining wall along the rock sections of thewestern end of the Drainage Canal, and the. construction of a diversion channel for theMichiganime River, in the upper peninsula ofMichigan. In 1898 Mr. Lee returned to railway work,being first principal as-istant engineer incharge of grade separation at Kith . Chi-cago, and later appointed chief engineer ofthe Chicago & Western Indiana R. R. andthe Belt Railway of Chicago, the positionwhich he now holds. Mr. Lees work nowbecame, because of the position of the roadsnamed as terminal and transfer lines forseveral large systems, very largely of threeclasses: grade crossing elimination, terminalyard construction and bridge construction. (irade crossing elimination as prescribed bvthe Chicago ordinances is practically conipletetrack elevation; the prevailing constructionbeing embankment fill lield by retaining wallsfor the portions between streets and over crossing streets being steel or concrete solidfloor viaducts or bridges. The programmefor grade elimination on the Chicago & West-ern Indiana an
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