The Greenville times., 1888-03-24


BaHk Of 4reanrilie, subject 10 my
Il check f0r tie work. This. with the ap-
FfopFiatioH made by the United States.
n gave total Of S7J.I7Gl0 available for
M tine work.
- do not think It necessary here 10
give technical account of the meth
n ods used nor Of the difficulties that
n attend the prosecution Of the work,
Y but merely history Of It and detailed
y statement Of the cost with q balance
u sheet Of money realized from the sale
n Of 6reenFille bonds.
n The fleet arrived and work began on
: September 18th, 1851; it closed and
= the fleet returned 10 Wilson's Point
; january goth. 1855, occupying a period
oS4 months and days The average
4 number Of men employed was: sep
4 tenber, 81; October, 2l7; November.
d Zs4; December, 250; January, 1870;
E and during the time the following
: plant steamboats,, quarter boats.
z piledriyers, mattress boats. y
barges, ! machine shop, ? yawls. 9
skitls and l grader During September
and until the middle Of October mate
rial was plentiful and labor scarce. In /
, November and December the amount 4
OF brush furnished by the contractor
feil below the requirements and pre-
vented the employment of as large a
force as could be worked to advantage.
as the weather and the stage of water
We're both favorable for pushing the
work. During the latter part of De-
eember and until the close of the work
the weather was very unfayorable. The
various kinds Of work may be divided
INTO, grading the bank, building sink
ing sub-aqueous mats, crib work and
upper bank protection.
dRADING.-Part of the grading was
done by hand, sluice box being used
70 carry the material shovelled into
the river. The water for this purpose
was pumped out of the river by a pile
driver. This being found too expen-
siye, in view of the large amount Of
grading to be done. one of the hydrau- $
nc graders was used for the rest of the {
work. The grader was in service !
about month.
SUB AQUEOUS MAT. - The usual j
method OF construction was employed
IN this work, iron rods and wire
cables being used to give longitudinal +
strength. d
cRiB WoRK.-The method adopted o
ON the Memphis work was used ON o
nine of the dikes. In one dixie tho a
frame of the cribs was constructed of b
sawed gum lumber Ski. in lengths of h
and l6 feet fastened Of haIfincb |.
bolts at each intersection. ei
UPPER BANK REvETMENT. = The in
upper 100 feet was made of two LAYERS Il
OF brush and the lower part of one &C
layer in the usual manner. b.
lt was found in balasting the slope I
curing the low water stage that the tn
WORK was so expensive and the pro- dt
gress made SO slow-the vertical line 81,
to me top of bank being nearly 40 re
leet-by carrying the stone I'M tbe er
slope, as is usually done, that to reduce th
lle expense, plan was devised of th
ltillzlng pile driver for hosting the du
',ohe IN large wooden box CARRYING
lbout three-fourths of a cubic yord
me box was suspended to a traveller fo
!! ,,uhilllg on wire rope l-S inches in of
ilaheter. The driver was placed ON tn,
ne outside of the stone barge to be thu
and the wire rope lead from Tn
he leads of the driver to the ton If TO
ne bank passing over a trustle about no
D ieet high on the top of the bank and
to fastening in the ground
Dout 40 feet behind the trestle, The +,
,iioie apparatus was shifted from ALI
1dee TO place as the ballastinu tvas rec
ompleted. ""' cry
puring the progress of the work tsr =
atlhg occurred at ranges lOI and II. fir,
Doth places it ceased as soon as mat atll
'essed were built and sunk there On h
'ecember 29th, more than month res
Iter the dixie had been finished. A cave ano ano
'ok place Immediately above ranqc "q q
l-2, at the foot of Washington street sun
he cave extended down to the dike D,
roper, the revetment above the dixie at 4
ing undermined. An extra mattress
as sunk IN front of this cave and car ,
ed about half way mn tbe sIono con
nee then no further caving has oc. is
rred. ""' W and
Alter this work was finished A small the
Iiance remained, and decided to don
una an earthern dam or leyee across nea
foot of the chute to prevent IN = our
eat measure the overpour at the foot ,Wor
the island. This has now been bnilt Deel
d sacked. wv" ''ii' mac
i'urlilg the prosecution of the work g,
ouhd 1t necessary many times to in.
1efe with and move persons oecun,, n
the front with boats, RATS etc In best
Try case, all my demands were com. in ST
ea with promptly and cheerfllly beer
y = l ieel this was great assistance to t
ourlng the whole time nv princina, orde
i1'an'' Mr' Arthur llider. was in we /
al charge and to his energy. capac. para
ana integrity the thoroaghness of
WORK Is due | wish also to com.
nu IN this work superintendent of
stfuction Wilson and foreman
Sins. iVi'''iaii NJ
Is now nearly two months since Sprii
WORK ceased and, as vet. there l. open
sign of giving way on your city y leys
IT. During this time the river hos artist
n about and a little above boif Berli
'e. This has been most donqorons has h
'e Tor the Greenville front A6or York
overflow and on falling river Mr.
come still more dangerous time lot OF
TINS we await Even should tbe reaso
X he success, it seems almost spect
osslple TO escape caving entirely
known that in places the bank i II.
undermined and cracks appearlng mil
re any work was done. In otber take
es the banks are 50 stepn tbat 49, u ! least,
'able that they must shelye down from
gentler slope. been
ttached hereto are financial sto4. durin
's' NM. I. RossELL great
Cant. of Fnoineors pal c,
now t
!. II u pr... revisit
Nasoni, 60 ,,ip VI ADerdeen, whom
.Iol, - -. i1ectuTef, spent life ha