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BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY.

PHILADELPHIA BRANCH, AND

BALTO. & PHILA. R. R. AND SCHUYKILL RIVER EAST SIDE R. R.

OFFICE OF CHIEF ENGINEER

H. T. DOUGLAS, CHIEF ENGINEER

BALTIMORE, March 24th 1888. 188

SUBJECT: Arthur Kill Bridge.

Col. Thos. Lincoln Casey, President Board of U. S. Engineers, Army Building, Houston and Green Sts., New York.

Col. -

As you are engaged in making a survey of the Arthur Kill to determine the current lines at our Bridge site, I beg to suggest that you also determine from observation the following:

1st. The distance from the Bridge to the " Corner Stake Light " at which point the Tows catch the flood tide in the Kill von Kull to take them to New York.

2nd. The time it takes these Tows to go from our Bridge to this " Corner Stake"

My reason for making this suggestion is, that in the "swearing" done by our opponents on the 21st, it was stated, that it took two hours to traverse this distance and that the Bridge was passed at " strong flood tide" about the strongest part of the tide, whilst acknowledgeing that the "Corner Stake" had to be reached on the first of the "flood tide" in the Kill von Kull.

The y also stated, that the distance these Tows were taken from South Amboy to New York was 28 miles, and that it required 9 hours to accomplish the work, being at a rate of 3 11/100 miles per hour. At this rate we claimed that it takes 29 minutes to go from our Bridge to the " Corner Stake", and that the Bridge is therefore necessarily passed practically at "slack water", - As this is important in determining the facility with which the Tows can pass through