. Public works . .46. Special lightiii- MISCELLANEOUS To Dam the Hudson in Big Pier York, N. Y.—Dock Commissioner R. A. C. Smithhas reported to Mayor Mitchel that the work on the newpiers for the accommodation of the largest passengersteamships is proceeding rapidly. The work necessitatesthe building of an immense coffer dam to keep back thewater of the river while excavation is going on. The struc-tures will be feet in length and 150 feet wide, withslips between them 360 feet wide. The slips will bedredged and excavated to a depth of forty-four feet belowmean low water, all
. Public works . .46. Special lightiii- MISCELLANEOUS To Dam the Hudson in Big Pier York, N. Y.—Dock Commissioner R. A. C. Smithhas reported to Mayor Mitchel that the work on the newpiers for the accommodation of the largest passengersteamships is proceeding rapidly. The work necessitatesthe building of an immense coffer dam to keep back thewater of the river while excavation is going on. The struc-tures will be feet in length and 150 feet wide, withslips between them 360 feet wide. The slips will bedredged and excavated to a depth of forty-four feet belowmean low water, allowing ample accommodation for thelargest and deepest steamships now entering the port cirthat are likely to arrive here for many years. The pierand a half will furnish three berths, and these, it isestimated, will be sufficient for some time. When tlu-terminal is completed. Commissioner Smith says, it willprovide the finest and most accessible wharfage accom-modations to be found in any harbor in the world, and. Courtesy, New Orleans Times-Picayune, New Orleans, ORLEANS NEW FIRE STATION. it will mean that passengers will be landed from the larg-est liners at a point of unrivalled accessibility to thecenter of the city, with the largest hotels and railroaddepots only a few minutes from the terminal. Progressin carrying out the agreement with the Federal Govern-ment as to the situation in the Hudson River proceedssatisfactorily. The city has reached a period in the workwhere engineering skill has been put to a supreme the dredging had been completed, work was imme-diately begun to provide for the blasting out of the bedrock at the inland end of the territory where the 1,000-foot berths are to be. To do this blasting necessitatedthe disposal of the water lying over the rock to be re-moved. To accomplish this a coflfer dam was devised, 30, 1914. MUNICIPAL JOURNAL 149 to dam the waters of the Hudson. The mostiiM)dern and ingenious devices that enginee
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