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Updated: May 17, 2025
The shore below the landing is a line of broken, ragged, slimy rocks, as if they had been dumped there for a riprap wall. Fronting this unkempt shore is a line of barrack-like hotels, with a few cottages of the cheap sort. At the end of this row of hotels is a fine granite Casino, spacious, solid, with wide verandas, and a tennis-court such a building as even Newport might envy.
On the other, a sheer spur of Sleepy Cat Mountain is thrust out like a paw against the river. It was there that the wall of water out of Dry Dollar had struck the track and scoured it to the bedrock. Ties, steel, ballast, riprap, roadbed, were gone, and where the heavy construction had run below the paw of Sleepy Cat the river was churning in a channel ten feet deep.
The following are, in round numbers, the quantities of the principal materials used: Earth and puddle in embankment ...cub. yds. 148,500 Rock excavation, " 38,000 Riprap, " 6,600 Lock masonry " 14,200 Rubble masonry, " 16,600 Timber in cribs, lock bottoms and gates " 368,000 Wrought and cast iron, lb ................. 173,000 Stone filling cu yds ...................... 45,300 Concrete " 830
There is practically no difference in expense, except that in running to the southward the riprap work will need to be carried about three feet deeper and with concreted walls, in place of being thrown loosely in the trenches as originally planned." "All those things are up to you, Jimmy," said Bobby indifferently. "You must use your own judgment.
On the canal side of it there is a wall of rubble masonry F, laid in hydraulic cement, connecting the two locks, and backed by a puddle wall, E, three feet thick; next the river there is crib work, G, from ten to twenty feet wide and the space between brick-work and puddle filled with earth. The outer slope is protected with riprap, composed of large bowlders.
The shore below the landing is a line of broken, ragged, slimy rocks, as if they had been dumped there for a riprap wall. Fronting this unkempt shore is a line of barrack-like hotels, with a few cottages of the cheap sort. At the end of this row of hotels is a fine granite Casino, spacious, solid, with wide verandas, and a tennis-court such a building as even Newport might envy.
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