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 |1150 |THE NEW YORK TUNNEL EXTENSION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA     |18229 |
 |     |RAILROAD. By Charles W. Raymond                       |      |
 |1151 |THE NORTH RIVER DIVISION. By Charles M. Jacobs        |18548 |
 |1152 |THE EAST RIVER DIVISION. By Alfred Noble              |18065 |
 |1153 |MEADOWS DIVISION AND HARRISON TRANSFER YARD. By E. B. |18012 |
 |     |Temple                                                |      |
 |1154 |THE BERGEN HILL TUNNELS. By F. Lavis                  |21083 |
 |1155 |THE NORTH RIVER TUNNELS. By B. H. M. Hewett and W. L. |42149 |
 |     |Brown                                                 |      |
 |1156 |THE TERMINAL STATION WEST. By B. F. Cresson, Jr.      |17302 |
 |1157 |THE SITE OF THE TERMINAL STATION. By George C. Clarke |18408 |
 |1158 |THE CROSS TOWN TUNNELS. By James H. Brace and Francis |19037 |
 |     |Mason                                                 |      |
 |1159 |THE EAST RIVER TUNNELS. By James H. Brace, Francis    |18722 |
 |     |Mason, and S. H. Woodard                              |      |
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TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

AMERICAN SOCIETY

OF

CIVIL ENGINEERS

(INSTITUTED 1852)

VOL. LXVIII

SEPTEMBER, 1910

Edited by the Secretary, under the direction of the Committee on
Publications. Reprints from this publication, which is copyrighted, may
be made on condition that the full title of Paper, name of Author, and
page reference are given.

NEW YORK

PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY

1910

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1910, by the AMERICAN
SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress,
at Washington.

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NOTE.--This Society is not responsible, as a body, for the facts and
opinions advanced in any of its publications.




CONTENTS


 THE NEW YORK TUNNEL EXTENSION OF THE
 PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD

 NO.                                                             PAGE

 1150 THE NEW YORK TUNNEL EXTENSION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA             1
      RAILROAD. By Charles W. Raymond

 1151 THE NORTH RIVER DIVISION. By Charles M. Jacobs               32

 1152 THE EAST RIVER DIVISION. By Alfred Noble                     62

 1153 MEADOWS DIVISION AND HARRISON TRANSFER YARD. By E. B.        75
      Temple

 1154 THE BERGEN HILL TUNNELS. By F. Lavis                         84

 1155 THE NORTH RIVER TUNNELS. By B. H. M. Hewett and W. L.       152
      Brown

 1156 THE TERMINAL STATION-WEST. By B. F. Cresson, Jr.            303

 1157 THE SITE OF THE TERMINAL STATION. By George C. Clarke       340

 1158 THE CROSS-TOWN TUNNELS. By James H. Brace and Francis       391
      Mason

 1159 THE EAST RIVER TUNNELS. By James H. Brace, Francis Mason,   419
      and S. H. Woodard


 MEMOIRS OF DECEASED MEMBERS
                                                  PAGE

  JOHN FISKE BARNARD, M. AM. SOC. C. E.            479

  ROBERT L. ENGLE, M. AM. SOC. C. E.               480

  CHARLES HERBERT DEANS, ASSOC. M. AM. SOC. C. E.  482

  WILLIAM MEIER, ASSOC. M. AM. SOC. C. E.          485


=This Volume and the succeeding Volume of Transactions (Vol. LXIX) will
contain all the Papers descriptive of the New York Extension of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. A general index covering both Volumes will be
issued in Vol. LXIX.=

  PLATES

  PLATE                                                   PAPER PAGE

  I.       Map and Profile, Pennsylvania Tunnel &          1150   19
           Terminal R. R., North Bergen Tunnel to Long
           Island City

  II.      Map and Profile, Harrison Yard to Bergen Hill   1150   21
           Tunnel

  III.     Plan of Sunnyside Yard                          1150   23

  IV.      View of Tunnel Under Part of Atlantic Avenue,   1151   37
           Brooklyn, N.Y.

  V.       New York Underground Railway Company: Section   1151   39
           Through Surface and Underground Stations

  VI.      Pennsylvania Railroad Extension: Map Showing    1151   45
           Proposed Lines Leading to Those Finally
           Adopted

  VII.     Plan, Profile, and Triangulation, North River   1151   47
           Tunnels

  VIII.    Typical Sections Between Manholes, Bergen       1151   51
           Hill Tunnels

  IX.      Map of Manhattan Island from Twenty-third to    1152   63
           Fortieth Streets

  X.       Manhattan Shaft, Lines A and B                  1152   65

  XI.      Long Island Shaft, Lines A and B                1152   67

  XII.     Typical Tunnel Sections                         1152   69

  XIII.    Plan and Profile, East River Tunnels            1152   71

  XIV.     Map and Profile, Cross-Town Tunnels             1152   73

  XV.      Plan and Profile of Lines A and B, and          1152   75
           Sunnyside Yard

  XVI.     Plan and Profile of the Pennsylvania Tunnel &   1153   77
           Terminal R. R., from Harrison, N. J., to the
           Hudson River

  XVII.    Plan of Harrison Yard                           1153   79

  XVIII.   Details of Shelters and Platforms, Harrison     1153   81
           Transfer Station

  XIX.     Details of Shelters and Platforms, Harrison     1153   81
           Transfer Station

  XX.      Lift Rail and Locking Device for Hackensack     1153   83
           River Draw-Bridge

  XXI.     Hackensack Portal, Bergen Hill Tunnels;         1154   85
           Method of Using Cross-Section Rod; and Belt
           Conveyor for Handling and Placing Concrete

  XXII.    Scaffold Car; Headhouse; and Round Holes in     1154   87
           Concrete Forms

  XXIII.   Record of Drilling, Air Pressure, Mucking,      1154   95
           etc., in Bergen Hill Tunnels

  XXIV.    Belt Conveyor for Handling and Placing          1154  119
           Concrete; Water-Proofing, Portion of
           Completed Sand-Wall, etc.; and Methods of
           Placing Concrete in Forms and Bench-Walls

  XXV.     Telephone and Telegraph Ducts and Mandrels;     1154  129
           Tunnel Lining Forms; Placing Water-Proofing;
           and Section of Completed Lining

  XXVI.    Form of Circuit-Breaker Chamber and Traveling   1154  137
           Gantry; Forms for Storage Chamber; Rock
           Packing Over Arches; Method of Water-Proofing
           in Timbered Tunnels, etc.

  XXVII.   Method of Placing Water-Proofing and Keying     1154  145
           Arch; View of Completed Tunnel; General View
           of Completed Hackensack Tunnel and Arches
           Through Cut-and-Cover Section; and View of
           Hackensack Approach

  XXVIII.  Plan and Profile of Parts of North River        1155  153
           Tunnels

  XXIX.    Weehawken Shaft; and Tunnel Shield Showing      1155  159
           Hood

  XXX.     Yard and Offices at Manhattan and Weehawken     1155  161
           Shafts

  XXXI.    Tunneling Shield                                1155  167

  XXXII.   Thirty-Second Street Tunnels and Shield         1155  175
           Chambers

  XXXIII.  General Methods of Excavation Adopted for       1155  177
           Land Tunnels

  XXXIV.   Plan and Longitudinal Section of Weehawken      1155  193
           Tunnels

  XXXV.    Apparatus for Cleaning and Rodding Electric     1155  205
           Cable Ducts

  XXXVI.   Diagram Showing Lines and Grades in River       1155  229
           Tunnel North

  XXXVII.  Cross-Section of Subaqueous Tunnels Showing     1155  231
           Reinforcement

  XXXVIII. Back of Shield in South Tunnel; and Rear View   1155  237
           of Shield During Erection of First Ring of
           Iron Lining

  PLATE                                                   PAPER PAGE

  XXXIX.   View of Meeting of Shields; and Lowering        1155  253
           Segment into Tunnel Invert

  XL.      Sections of Tunnel During Construction,         1155  255
           Showing Shield, Air Locks, Platforms, Etc.

  XLI.     Placing Key Segment; and Method of Grouting     1155  257
           Outside Iron

  XLII.    Duct Bench Concrete Form in River Tunnels       1155  283

  XLIII.   End of Portable and Adjustable Forms            1155  285
           for Building Side Bench; and Steel Rod
           Reinforcement in River Tunnels

  XLIV.    Details of 20-Ft. Movable Form and Traveler     1155  287
           for Concrete Arches

  XLV.     Traveling Concrete Form for Face of Bench       1155  291
           Walls

  XLVI.    Mechanical Analysis of Sand Used in Mortar      1155  297
           and Concrete

  XLVII.   Views Showing Condition of Work at Site of      1156  307
           Terminal Station

  XLVIII.  Views Showing Excavation and Supports for       1156  317
           Ninth Avenue Structures

  XLIX.    Views Showing Underpinning for Ninth Avenue     1156  321
           Elevated Railway

  L.       Views Showing Condition of Work Between Ninth   1156  325
           and Tenth Avenues, and Progress on Concrete
           Walls

  LI.      Views Showing Box Drains and Tie-Rods in        1156  333
           Walls; the Completed Tenth Avenue Portal; and
           the Disposal Trestle

  LII.     Girders Under the Ninth Avenue Elevated         1156  335
           Railroad; Method of Supporting Elevated
           Railway Columns; and View of Inside of Form
           for Walls, Showing Drains, Tie-Rods, Etc.

  LIII.    Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Plan       1157  341
           Showing Area at Track Level

  LIV.     Diagram Showing Widths of Base of Retaining     1157  349
           Wall Required for Different Batters and
           Pressures, Pennsylvania Station

  LV.      Material Trestle Over N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R.    1157  361
           Co.'s Tracks; and Construction of Pier No.
           72, North River

  LVI.     Material Trestle Showing First Chutes in        1157  363
           Operation; and Views of East and West Pits at
           Terminal Site

  LVII.    Methods of Excavation, Cross-Town Tunnels,      1158  393
           Manhattan

  LVIII.   Views of Parts of First Avenue Plant,           1158  395
           Cross-Town Tunnels

  LIX.     Methods of Tunneling, Timbering, and Lining,    1158  399
           Cross-Town Tunnels

  LX.      Methods of Timbering and Underpinning,          1158  407
           Cross-Town Tunnels

  LXI.     Sections Showing Method of Excavating and       1158  413
           Timbering in Heavy Ground, Three-Track
           Tunnel; and Carriage Form for Side Walls,
           Cross-Town Twin Tunnels

  LXII.    Methods of Water-Proofing and Concreting,       1158  417
           Cross-Town Tunnels

  LXIII.   Methods of Excavation in All Rock, East River   1159  423
           Tunnels

  LXIV.    Tunneling in Compressed Air, Air-Lock,          1159  425
           Caisson, etc., East River Tunnels

  LXV.     Shields Fitted with Sectional Sliding Hoods     1159  433
           and Sliding Extensions and with Fixed Hoods
           and Fixed Extensions to Floors, East River
           Tunnels

  LXVI.    Rear of Shield Showing Complete Fittings,       1159  435
           and Shield with Lower Portion of Bulkhead
           Removed, East River Tunnels

  LXVII.   Methods of Tunneling in Rock, East River        1159  437
           Tunnels

  LXVIII.  Operation of Shields, East River Tunnels        1159  439

  LXIX.    Operations in Shoving the Shield Forward in     1159  441
           Rock and Sand, East River Tunnels

  LXX.     Small Shaft, Breasting and Poling, Shutters     1159  443
           on Front of Shield, and Hydraulic Erector,
           East River Tunnels

  LXXI.    Operations in Shoving the Shield Forward in     1159  445
           Sand, and Final Breasting and Bulkheading,
           East River Tunnels

  LXXII.   Method of Operating Shields in Soft Ground,     1159  453
           East River Tunnels

  LXXIII.  Reinforcement of Broken Plates, and Inflow of   1159  455
           Soft Clay Through Shield, East River Tunnels

  LXXIV.   Methods of Placing Concrete Inside the Iron     1159  475
           Tube, East River Tunnels




MEMOIRS OF DECEASED MEMBERS.


=JOHN FISKE BARNARD, M. Am. Soc. C. E.=[1]

[1] Memoir prepared by W. K. Barnard, Assoc. M. Am. Soc. C. E.

DIED FEBRUARY 6TH, 1910.

John Fiske Barnard was born in Worcester, Mass., on April 23d. 1829. He
was graduated from the Bridgewater Normal School, and from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute.

In November, 1850, Mr. Barnard entered the railway service. He
held various engineering and operating positions with the Grand Trunk
Railway and its subsidiary lines in Lower Canada, and served as Chief
Engineer of the Grand Trunk South of the St. Lawrence River for the
last three years of his connection with that road.

In May, 1869, he went to the Missouri Valley Railroad as Superintendent
and Chief Engineer. During the same year he was appointed Chief
Engineer of the Kansas City-St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad,
and remained with this road and the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad
(both now a part of the Burlington Missouri Lines), as Chief Engineer,
General Superintendent, and General Manager, until 1886. During this
time Mr. Barnard was also President of the Atchison Union Depot Company
and the St. Joseph Union Stock Yards Company, Secretary and Treasurer
of the St. Joseph Depot Company, and Director in various railroad
companies.

In 1886, Mr. Barnard was appointed President and General Manager of
the Ohio and Mississippi Railway, which position he occupied until
1892. From that time until 1893, he was engaged on several reports
of projected railroads and appraisals of industrial and railroad
properties.

From 1893 to 1898, Mr. Barnard was Receiver of the Omaha and St. Louis
(now Wabash) Railway, during part of which time he was also President
of the Alton Bridge Company, and Receiver of the St. Clair-Madison and
St. Louis Belt Line.

In the spring of 1905 he moved to Los Angeles, Cal., where he lived
until February 6th, 1910, when, after an illness of several months, he
died at his home at the age of 81 years.

Mr. Barnard was elected a Member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers on September 1st, 1880. He was also a Member of the American
Geographical Society.


=ROBERT L. ENGLE, M. Am. Soc. C. E.=[2]

[2] Memoir prepared by O. E. Selby, Jun. Am. Soc. C. E.

DIED OCTOBER 16TH, 1909.

Robert L. Engle was born on December 5th, 1846. He was a product of
the time when opportunities for technical training were few, so that
his engineering education was gained largely by contact with actual
work. He began his professional career after the Civil War, in which
he served for two years in the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Indiana
Volunteer Infantry.

The first construction work of any note on which Mr. Engle was engaged
was the building of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, now a part of
the Baltimore and Ohio System, extending from Cincinnati to St. Louis.
Later, and up to 1878, he was connected with the construction of the
Cincinnati Southern Railway, Cincinnati's municipally owned railway,
as Division Engineer, at Ray Springs, Tenn. This work included several
tunnels and other heavy work in the mountain territory.

After the completion of the Cincinnati Southern, Mr. Engle went West,
and was engaged in the construction of the Santa Fé Railroad at
Trinidad, Colo., in the capacity of Assistant Chief Engineer. Under
his direction the Royal Gorge Hanging Bridge was built, and much other
interesting work was carried out. Mr. Engle's forte was location, and
in the mountainous regions of the West he found ample exercise for this
faculty. From Trinidad he moved to Santa Fé, N. Mex. His name is borne
by Engle, N. Mex., now a thriving Western town.

While still in the West, Mr. Engle was connected with the Mexican
Central Railroad, at Chihuahua, Mexico, on construction work, and with
the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. It is thus seen that he played
a part in much of the important pioneer railroad development of the
mountain region of the West.

In 1885, Mr. Engle began work on the location and construction of the
Chicago, Burlington, and Northern Railroad, now part of the Burlington
System, being located at St. Paul, Minn., as Assistant Chief Engineer
of that portion of the line north of La Crosse, Wis. Later, his
jurisdiction included the whole line. During 1887 and a part of 1888,
he had charge of the construction of the Illinois Valley and Northern
Railroad, as Chief Engineer, at La Salle, Ill. In the latter part of
1888 he conducted surveys for coal branch lines connecting with the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, in the mountains of West Virginia.

Beginning in September, 1889, Mr. Engle was Resident Engineer on the
construction of the Louisville and Jeffersonville Bridge over the Ohio
River. During his term of service the substructure, involving several
deep pneumatic foundations, was built, and parts of the approaches
were erected. During his stay at Louisville Mr. Engle was selected as
Arbitrator in a matter of disputed classification between the company
and the contractor for the Pike's Peak Rack Railroad, and effected a
satisfactory settlement. Among other things his later service included
location work on the Tennessee Central Railroad, in 1892; location
and construction work for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, in
Arkansas; and construction work on the Tidewater Railroad, now the
Virginian Railway, at Princeton, W. Va. At the time of his death he was
employed as Engineer for the contracting firm of Carpenter and Boxley,
at Johnson City, Tenn.

With the death of Robert L. Engle, the Profession loses one of those
sturdy, self-made engineers, to whom the country is largely indebted
for pushing railroad construction overland and through the West. In
character, rugged like the mountains with which he was associated,
he was still the gentlest of souls to those associated with him in
subordinate capacities. The writer knew him as Chief and friend for
many years, and cannot recall any departures from the lines of the
highest dignity, rectitude, good habits, and good nature.

Mr. Engle was a Member of the Engineers' Club of Cincinnati from the
time of its organization. He maintained his home in Cincinnati for
twenty-one years, while his engagements kept him at various other
places.

On February 20th, 1879, Mr. Engle married Miss Sallie McQueety, of
Cincinnati, and is survived by her and their son and two daughters.
His family and social relations were most happy, although his enforced
absences from home kept him from much of the social contact which his
qualities deserved.

Mr. Engle was elected a Member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers on September 7th, 1881.


=CHARLES HERBERT DEANS, Assoc. M. Am. Soc. C. E.=[3]

[3]Memoir prepared by Emil Diebitsch and Edwin S. Jarrett, Members, Am.
Soc. C. E.

DIED MARCH 7TH, 1909.

Charles Herbert Deans was born in Chester, Delaware County, Pa., on
November 30th, 1863, and died at his home in Ph[oe]nixville, Pa., on
March 7th, 1909.

His father, Charles Woodbury Deans, was prominent in educational work,
and was active in the early organization and in the popularization of
the Common School System of the State of Pennsylvania.

On his father's side Mr. Deans was descended from the Deans and
Sterling families, who, immediately following the War of the
Revolution, emigrated from Connecticut to Susquehanna and Wyoming
Counties, Pennsylvania. His mother was Priscilla Lyons Williams, of
Chester, Delaware County, Pa., who was descended from the Lyons family
of New Jersey and the Williams and Pennell families of Pennsylvania.

From both his father and his mother Mr. Deans inherited a taste and
aptitude for study. His youthful environment was among books and in an
atmosphere which naturally encouraged the desire he early formed to fit
himself for a professional life.

His education was begun in private schools, but later he attended
the public schools, and was graduated from the High School at
Ph[oe]nixville, Pa., in 1881. He spent the next four years in practical
work, learning business methods, becoming an excellent and accurate
accountant, and familiarizing himself, in the works of the Ph[oe]nix
Iron Company, with mill and shop methods and practice, and the
metallurgy of iron and steel.

In 1885, Mr. Deans entered Lehigh University, well prepared in his
studies, with a mind ripe for the absorption of further knowledge, and
a temperament for enjoying to the utmost the four years of University
life before him. He was a good student, standing well up in the first
quarter of his class. He was elected a member of Theta Delta Chi
Fraternity, was one of the Editors and Assistant Business Manager of
the college Annual in his Junior year, and Business Manager of the
Engineering Journal in his Senior year. He was graduated in 1889 with
the degree of C. E.

As a boy Mr. Deans was fond of games and all healthy outdoor sports.
He was a lover of Nature and of animals, fond of fishing and hunting,
and was never happier than when roaming the beautiful woods and
mountains of his native State. With such tastes it was natural to
find him, in his college days, a participator in, and an enthusiastic
supporter of, athletic games.

Not only in athletics, but in all things pertaining to Lehigh
University, Mr. Deans was a most loyal and enthusiastic son of his
Alma Mater, both at college and after he had gone out into the world.
He thoroughly appreciated the benefits derived from his technical
training, and was so eager that others should share them, that early in
his business career he advanced sufficient funds to two ambitious young
men to carry them through Lehigh.

Immediately after graduation Mr. Deans entered the employ of Sooysmith
and Company, the well-known foundation engineers and contractors. He
rapidly advanced to positions of responsibility with this company, and,
in 1895, became its Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer. When, a
year or two later, Charles Sooysmith, M. Am. Soc. C. E., retired from
active business, Mr. Deans organized, from the Sooysmith and Company
staff, the Engineering Contract Company, of which he became President.
Pressure of business seriously undermining his health, he was forced to
give up temporarily all work in 1900, and to spend the next two years
in the mountains of Northern Pennsylvania. On regaining his health, he
associated himself with the firm of John Monks and Son, of New York
City, and, at the time of his death, he was Second Vice-President of
that company.

While under his executive charge, both Sooysmith and Company and
the Engineering Contract Company, constructed a number of the most
important bridge foundations in the United States, and the former firm
first successfully introduced pneumatic work in the foundations of the
modern high office buildings of New York City, notably the Manhattan
Life, Washington Life, Standard Oil, and Empire Buildings on Lower
Broadway. At the time of his death, Mr. Deans was in full charge of the
building of the piers of the reconstructed Baltimore and Ohio bridge
over the Susquehanna River, at Havre de Grace, Md.

In the early years of his connection with Sooysmith and Company,
Mr. Deans was employed on work in the field, rising from subordinate
positions to that of Superintendent in responsible charge of work.
During this period he acquired an intimate and practical knowledge of
foundation construction, and his subsequent career gave evidence of
the value of this training. Being thus well-equipped, Mr. Deans soon
became notable as a business engineer. His judgment on all substructure
engineering problems was quick and keen, his thorough technical
knowledge being supplemented by his penetrating practical sense. His
business ability was of a high order, and his efficiency was largely
increased by his industry and methodical habits. As a negotiator, he
was in the first rank. His quick appreciation of the essentials in
business transactions, his fertile resource in the most complicated
financial dealings, his patience and persistence in the face of
discouragement or delay, and his inflexible determination when once his
decisions were reached, were qualities which placed him in the highest
rank as a contracting engineer. To those with whom he came in close
contact, Mr. Deans will always be remembered as exemplifying the ideal
combination of technical training with business efficiency.

He lightened the seriousness of his business transactions with a
quick sense of fun, a fondness for a good story, and an infectious
good humor. His genuine interest in the work of his associates and
his unfeigned delight in their success won him many friendships which
lasted throughout his life and which now keep his memory warm in the
hearts of those who were fortunate enough to know him intimately.
Strong of will, keen and clear-sighted in business transactions, loyal
to his friends and to the interests entrusted to him, he was, above
all, a genial, honorable, many-sided man, who loved his fellow men.

Mr. Deans leaves a mother, Mrs. Charles W. Deans, of Ph[oe]nixville,
Pa., a brother, John Sterling Deans, M. Am. Soc. C. E., Chief Engineer
of the Ph[oe]nix Bridge Company, and two sisters, Mrs. R. Barclay
Calley, of Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. Elmer E. Keiser, of Tacony, Pa.

In 1893, Mr. Deans married Miss Helen Arnold of West Chester, Pa., who,
with two sons, Charles Woodbury, aged 15, and Malcolm Arnold, aged 13,
survives him.

Mr. Deans was elected a Junior of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, on December 3d, 1890, and an Associate Member on May 6th,
1896.


=WILLIAM MEIER, Assoc. M. Am. Soc. C. E.=[4]

[4] Memoir prepared by William A. Theodorsen and E. James Fucik,
Associate Members, Am. Soc. C. E.

DIED FEBRUARY 14TH, 1910.

William Meier, the son of the Reverend Jacob L. and Mary Meier, was
born in Muscatine, Iowa, on April 10th, 1878, the family moving to
Chicago, Ill., in the same year.

Mr. Meier received his education in the public schools of Chicago and
at the University of Illinois, from which he was graduated in 1901,
with the degree of B. S. in Civil Engineering.

After his graduation, Mr. Meier was engaged with various firms,
principally in bridge and structural work. For a time he was with
William M. Hughes, M. Am. Soc. C. E., and in January, 1905, he entered
the service of the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company, as Assistant
in the Chicago office; and later was appointed Assistant Engineer and
Eastern Representative, with headquarters in New York City. At the time
of his death, Mr. Meier was employed in the Bridge Department of the
Chicago and North Western Railway.

On February 14th, 1910, in diving from a spring-board, in the
natatorium of the Young Men's Christian Association, he struck his head
against the side or bottom of the tank. When his body was taken from
the water, life was extinct, and all efforts at resuscitation were
futile.

Mr. Meier took great interest in all that pertained to his profession.

He was elected an Associate Member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, on June 1st, 1909. He was also a Member of the Western
Society of Engineers.