Stone & Webster Public Service Journal, Volume 11Stone & Webster, 1912 |
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Page 159 - TRAVERSE TABLES: Computed to Four Places of Decimals for every Minute of Angle up to 100 of Distance. For the Use of Surveyors and Engineers. BY RICHARD LLOYD GURDEN, Authorised Surveyor for the Governments of New South Wales and Victoria. ".* Published with the Concurrence of the Surveyors- General for New South Wales and Victoria. " Those who have experience in exact SURVEY-WORK will best know how to appreciate the enormous amount...
Page 126 - AN ACT RELATIVE TO PAYMENTS TO EMPLOYEES FOR PERSONAL INJURIES RECEIVED IN THE COURSE OF THEIR EMPLOYMENT AND TO THE PREVENTION OF SUCH INJURIES.
Page 392 - Miles gross receipts over l/2 and less than $4 million dollars. Company a 2.02 Miles Company b 3.22 Miles Annual gross receipts over '/^ and less than J4 million dollars. Company a 2.16 Miles Company b 2.51 Miles Company c 1.51 Miles Company d 1.21 Miles Annual gross receipts less than y$ million dollars. Company a 2.88 Miles Company b 2.44 Miles Company c 2.28 Miles Company d 1.23 Miles The above figures indicate that passengers may be profitably carried a longer distance in the large cities for...
Page 185 - Institute. no further during his lifetime. However, in the remaining days of his life he increased the endowment fund from time to time by transferring to the trustees the titles to certain of his properties, and in the end made the new foundation his residuary legatee. Upon the termination of the long years of litigation which followed Mr. Rice's death in 1900, the Board of Trustees found the Institute in possession of an estate whose present value is conservatively estimated at approximately ten...
Page 311 - Meter Rates" P. 171, states: The amount of return should be such as to provide for the cost of economical and efficient operation, taxes and depreciation, a fair net return on the fair value of the property devoted to public use and a proper margin for the successful conduct of the business.
Page 188 - ... and continues for half a mile in two heavily planted drives parallel to this axis and separated by a distance of seven hundred feet. Within the extended rectangle thus formed the pleasing effect of widening vistas has been realized. On passing through the sally-port from the fore-court, the future visitor to the Institute will enter upon an academic group consisting of five large buildings, which with their massive cloisters surround on three sides a richly gardened court measuring three hundred...
Page 188 - ... earliest periods of the Mediterranean countries : vaulted Byzantine cloisters, exquisite Dalmatian brickwork, together with Spanish and Italian elements in profusion; all in a richness of color permissible only in climates similar to our own. The dominant warm gray tone is established by the use of local pink brick, a delicately tinted marble from the Ozark Mountains, and Texas granite, though the color scheme undergoes considerable variation by the studied use of tiles and foreign marbles. To...
Page 77 - Concrete costs; tables and recommendations for estimating the time and cost of labor operations in concrete construction and for introducing economical methods of management.
Page 148 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 161 - STONE & WEBSTER CHARLES A. STONE • EDWIN S. WEBSTER • RUSSELL ROBB HENRY G. BRADLEE • ELIOT WADSWORTH DWIGHT P. ROBINSON • JOHN W. HALLOWELL STONE & WEBSTER-SECURITIES DEPARTMENT SECURITIES OF PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS STONE & WEBSTER ENGINEERING CORPORATION CONSTRUCTING ENGINEERS Water Power Developments Transmission Lines Steam Power Stations Gas Plants Electric...