Year: 1870

| ing with my men," ne said. He was a big,


ana hearty face and WORE wore blue blue iianHei Shirt
| open at the neck and showing q grand chest and


rS as which bare to h


and nautlcaly, and altogether the man seemed 10 be


.Yoa see ,'I that H 'o Young fellow there with that


thick hose In the ditch fun or water ~ he said
looked, ana saw a man bending over the ditch,


Which was 'AU being drawn into tho hose with


great force by some invisible mechanical power.


river and all this ditchwaer that you see Is fresh


and comes from springs In the clay and gravel.


but 1t Is pumped up through The hose TO the surface.
Look az the force OF iu said Mr. Young, and lie di-


from pipe which projected from the ceiling Of


Georgia pine. placed the open palm Of my hand


under the mouth or me pipe. ana it was drawn up


with sudden ana terrific slap which was astoaish-


..There are six chambers in this caisson, eac, or
which are thirty feet IN width by I0S feet In lie 9Th


have l30 men in a gang and about three hundred
in all under me- The barrow laborers get 81 so
ana the drlers ana blasters receive three dollars
for eight hours work. The men are divided Into
watches, and each gang is at work for eight hours
at a time. The first watch is from six O'Clock in the
morning until hallpast two In the afternoon, includ-
Ing half an hour for lnnc which they take above In
tue open air as 1t is not healthy TO eat it down here
The next watch, OF 1S0 men, continues until half
past eleven at night, when gang OF twenty men
called the midnight watch.-comes on, adm they get
O'Clock ln the morning, when the are relieved by
the morning watch. No man but q healthy one can
+.
'sthey Will catch cold when they go up In tie open
air.


',Now we get along at the rate OF two inches {
day, and we have five feet more TO go when we shall
stop. Then the casson viii be sunk ana filed up
When oil is finished and all these chambers filed
with stone the caissoA VIII be sunk twenty -eight
feet below the bed OF the river, and the top OF the
casson viii be level with the surface OF the water
at high tide, In all about forty live feet below high
water mark There is eighteen feet depth OF stone
ON top OF the caisson Now, to keep 1t down. all the
rock blasted down here and the clay and gravel
have to be forced up to the surrace Tne shafts are
seven feet by six, and have three-eighs OF an inch
OF boiler iron surrounded and fastened by beams or
timber. II fire takes place, here Is boiler with
800 feet OF carbolic gas which let loose at once
and that Will quench the names.


"Do you want 10 hear an explosion down hcre?n
he said, to our reporter. / agreed at once, and I
saw a man creeping through hole on his stomach
and driving fuse into piece OF rock after placing
some powder In the freshly made cavity. When
this was done every one lett the chamber for the
next one, ard moment after there was Il shock
anu report as II two worlds had collided, and our
ears were pierced with Judgment sound. thought
O 1fteen-lnch gun had been fred at my ear and
staggered like sick man.


After this ! got into the boiler, and holding
my nose with great frmness was drawn to the
surface OF the earth, and blessed my luck when l
once more saw tho sky and stars and the Fulton
erry boat, though 1t seemed that had suddenly
been transplanted from the Equator, with Its burn
ing heat, TO the SHOWS or Greenland. This is The Ok
perlence you have LII the calsson Of the East RiTer
bridge. n. e t.s =