Word: underground
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most inadequate of all are the toilet facilities in Holworthy and Thayer. In the basement of the former is one toilet room for the whole building. More need not be said. In Thayer there is one toilet in the basement of each entry. "They are all underground, gloomed by high-set, unclean windows, which preclude good ventilation, and lighted by one or two dim-flickering gas jets. The rough brick walls are often dirty and the wood work is worse. Compared to any respectable house or hotel they are Mr. Viles." This description is not overdrawn...
...received the degree of C.E. three years later. In 1898 he went to China, and spent a year there building the Canton-Hankow Railway. From 1894 to 1904 he was chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Commission of New York, and acting in this capacity, constructed the whole underground transit system of the city. In 1904 he was made a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission and in 1905 went to Panama as a member of the Consulting Board of Engineers. He has also been a member of the Royal Commission of London Traffic since 1904, and last year...