Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers

Table 6

Title.	Day.			Night.
	No.	Rate.	Amount.	No.	Rate.	Amount.
Walking bosses	2	$5.00	$10.00
Timekeeper	2	3.00	6.00
Watchmen				5	$2.00	$10.00
Waterboys	1	1.50	1.50
Carpenter foremen	2	3.50	7.00	1	4.00	4.00
Carpenters	14	2.50	35.00	8	2.50	20.00
Pipe-fitters	1	3.00	3.00
Pipe-fitter’s helper	1	1.75	1.75
Wheelwright	1	2.75	2.75
Wheelwright’s helper	1	1.75	1.75
Blacksmith	1	3.00	3.00
Blacksmith’s helper	1	1.75	1.75
Foremen riggers	1	3.00	3.00
Riggers	6	1.75	10.50
Foremen trackmen	1	3.00	3.00
Trackmen	6	1.50	9.00
Machinist	2	3.00	6.00
Machinist’s helper	1	1.75	1.75
Electrician	2	3.00	6.00	1	2.50	2.50
Electrician’s helper	1	1.75	1.75
Lampman	1	1.50	1.50
Pumpman	1	1.50	1.50
Finishers	3	2.50	7.50
Hoist engineers	12	3.00	36.00
Dinky engineers	5	2.75	13.75	1	2.75	2.75
Brakemen	5	1.75	8.75	1	1.75	1.75
Switchmen	1	1.50	1.50
Barnmen	1	2.00	2.00	1	2.50	2.50
Drivers	9	1.50	13.50
Foremen ductmen				2	2.50	2.50
Ductmen				5	2.00	10.00
Foremen laborers	13	3.50	45.50	2	3.50	7.00
Laborers	120	1.75	210.00	20	1.75	35.00
Compressor engineer	1	3.50	3.50	1	3.50	3.50
Firemen	2	2.50	5.00	1	2.50	2.50
Oiler	1	1.75	1.75
Coal passers	2	1.75	3.50	1	1.75	1.75
Totals	334		$469.75	50		$108.25
	Total daily labor expense					$578.00

The water finding its way into the side ditches in the approach, which of course included all rain falling in this area, was intercepted just inside the portal and carried back to the mouth of the cut through 24-in. cast-iron pipes laid beneath the conduits in the central bench-wall, thus disposing by natural drainage of a not inconsiderable quantity of water which would otherwise have flowed through the tunnels to the sump at the Weehawken Shaft, from which it would have had to be pumped to the surface.

About 100 ft. of the tunnel immediately east of the Hackensack Portal was built by the cut-and-cover method, and the arch section used in the tunnel was modified by widening the haunches, the thickness of the arch at the crown being gradually increased from 22 in. at the portal, Station 324, to 34 in. at Station 323, where the regular segmental timbering at the tunnel commenced. A general view of the approach during construction is shown by Fig. 1, Plate XXV.