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...same, with a view of ascertaining the cause of accident Oct. 20, 1883. The platform I found in a wrecked condition-that is, a certain or central section of same-and at once concluded that the direct causes of accident were from the giving way, or pressure outward, of pile support and improper construction, allowing the second or upper platform to fall, with its human weight combined with the weight of material of construction, which would require more than ordinary construction of lower platform to resist. This style of platform should be built as a wharf, the stringers, somers...
Independent of pile support, the somers supporting each platform, if properly braced to posts of building, and carried into and bolted to girder inside of same-said girder being properly kneed and bolted to posts-accident could not have happened. From further examination it appears, from drawing submitted, that the 3x10 plank that was shouldered into pile and bolted to same, and carried up under 8x10 somer and toe nailed to same, assisted the downfall as soon as any settlement took place, or the washing away of the mud of embankment around and about piles under same. The manner...
...examination was made at the boat house by Messrs. Sexton and Perklns. It seems that the theory of the accident offered in Monday's HERALD-CRIMSON was a mistaken one, and more complete investigation shows that the structure was more insecure than the first account would indicate. The pile on which the structure rested had slipped from its original upright position and had gradually acquired a slant of some twenty degrees some time since. A knotch was cut in the side of the pile about three inches deep and in this an upright brace was fixed upon which the sleeper...
...accident seems to be very plain. The whole affair is due to the careless construction of the platform. The upper platform was supported by pillars running from the platform below which in turn rested on a transverse beam. This beam rested on the top of a strong pile, which was driven into the soft, muddy bottom of the river. In the first place the pile upon which the whole structure rested was never driven in until it struck a solid foundation, but was merely inserted in holes dug in the mud for the purpose. Upon this pile rested a transverse...
Some of us being anxious to see Harvard College, or the group of buildings going generally under that name at Cambridge, and others of us to get to Longfellow's house and garden, we chartered a carriage and took Harvard first, pulling up at the handsome pile called the Harvard Memorial Hall, in the beautiful and lofty transept of which a multitude of tablets commemorate the names of the gallant graduates of Harvard who fell twenty years ago in the civil war. In the same building is a magnificent dining hall, decorated with portraits and busts of eminent Americans...