First-Nineteenth annual report of the Metropolitan water and sewerage board ..1901-1919 . headings to date. Approximately130 feet of masonry have been built in the open cut. The tunnelexcavation has been carried on during the year from the central shaftin Ruskin Road, near the middle of the section, fully described inthe last report, and has advanced about equally northeast and south-west thereof. The single fatality on the high-level sewer construction to dateoccurred on this section in February, 1901. A laborer, attemptingto alight from a moving lift in the Ruskin Road shaft, fell to thebott
First-Nineteenth annual report of the Metropolitan water and sewerage board ..1901-1919 . headings to date. Approximately130 feet of masonry have been built in the open cut. The tunnelexcavation has been carried on during the year from the central shaftin Ruskin Road, near the middle of the section, fully described inthe last report, and has advanced about equally northeast and south-west thereof. The single fatality on the high-level sewer construction to dateoccurred on this section in February, 1901. A laborer, attemptingto alight from a moving lift in the Ruskin Road shaft, fell to thebottom of the shaft and was killed. Section 67, Hyde Park. Division Engineer in Charge. — Frank I. Capen. This section has a total length of 327 feet, extending from theupper end of Section 66 tunnel, across Stony Brook, to near theHyde Park and West Roxbury boundary line. It includes about215 feet of ordinary 9 feet 3 inches by 10 feet 2 inches sewer struc-ture, at an average depth of 17 feet, and two lines, each 84 feet inlength, of 60-inch cast-iron pipe under Stony Brook, with pipe. No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 193 chambers at either end for controlling and diverting the flow ofsewage through the individual lines of pipe. The work is being carried on by day-labor, under the direct super-vision of the Engineer. It was begun October 24, 1901. At thepresent time about 40 feet of pipe have been laid in each line ofcrossing, and the pipe chambers arc well advanced. Section 68, Hyde Park and West Roxbury. Division Engiiieer in Charge. — C. Barton — Beckwith & Quackenbush, Mohawk, N. Y. Commencing in Hyde Park, near the West Roxbury boundaryline, this sewer extends through private lands in West Roxbury,adjacent to Stony Brook, to the junction of Ashland and Canterburystreets; thence along Ashland Street, Hammatt Road and HadwinWay to Hyde Park Avenue, in West Roxbury, a total distance of2,738 feet. The length of 1,735 feet below Canterbury Street is9 feet 3 inc
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