The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-01
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT, SUNDAY, JULY l. 1877.

there, and walking out to the iurn.tablo In the
centre through which the vessels pafs. While
there schooner passed through, and We we're
afforded an opportunity Of seeing the ease and
nicely with which this heavy and ponderous
gateway Is moved by the strength OF two men.
The construction Of these bridges. and OF oil
the waterways on the road. ia very solid and
substantial. All Of the timber used In thir con-
struction 10 creosoted, or saturated by new
tions OF GOAL tar. This timber liz first subjected
TO heating process, by the means Of steam, till
oil she sap is driven out, and then the oil is in
fused into 1t until the wood 10 literally satu rated
with which this is done, it IL only necessary to
say tba' into one cubic foot Of tim
| Der, which is equivalent to seven gallons,
as much as three gallons Of this oil is injected.
The process 10 perfect preservative sgsinst de-
| cay and worms, aud renders the timber as hard
and solid as stone and almost as endurable The
water ways and the trestle work at the east end
OF the Rlg0lets is entirely OF timber so prepared
az is also the wood work OF the iron bridges.
The iron superstructure Of the bridges ia very
strong and elegant, and is from the works Of
CLARK, Reeves Co., OF Philadelphia, and was
put up under the supervision OF Nin jor Rogers,
the engineer OF the rod. They rest on piers OF
entertainments piles, from seventy TO ninety.
FIVE feet long, which are driven from thirty 10
forty feet into the ground. The immense pile
driver, with which this is done, Weighing 5000
pounds, is the invention OF Mr.. j. w. Putnam
the superintendent # bridges, who also erected
and has charge OF the company's creosote WORKS
NJ West Pascagoula.
The bridge at tue Rigolets ia 5000 feet long:
that ct Chef Mentenr $50, and the three at pasca.
goula $780, They have all been submitted to
the severest test, and 30 firm are they that
train running at the rate Of thirty miles an hour
produces upon the m no appreciable effsot. The
work liz well done and no passenger over this
route need feel asy more apprehension in PASS
ing over OF these solid structures than over
the solid earth. The bridges ct Biloxi and Bay
st. Louis will be built during the present year,
and will be similar in construction to the trestls
at the east end OF the bridge at the Rigolets and
of wood prepared by the came process.
The social feature of the excursion could not
have been other than most elegant and sump-
tuons success under the auspices Of Mr.. Carey,
the clever gentleman and genial companion, as
well as efficient official. At Bay st. Louis we
found an elegant lunch prepared for us by Mr..
Howard, the proprietor OF the eating house at
that point. Here, af or hearty meal of cold
fowl and salads, frpits and melons, quite q con-
vivial hour was spent over Verzenay and Krug,
enlivened by many happy toasts to the success vi
the line and the health and prosperity OF its ge-
NAL representatives, to whom the party was in.
debted for their very delightful days experience.
Among other tossts was one to the press, which
was responded to by q venerable r preventative,
aud we are proud TO say that the eoquence Of
his response proved to US that though the old
Tyre mad been strung for many year, it had lost
none Of the sweetness OF it, Tone