Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1883 — New Method of Pile Driving. [ARTICLE]

New Method of Pile Driving.

A French paper gives a description of a method of pile-driving which has been successfully adopted in making the foundations for the Palais de Justice at Brunswick. Instead of the ordinary-pile-driver, a simple framework is erected to hold the pile in position. Attached to each pile by staples are two tubes of about two inches in diameter. These are carried to the pointed end of the pile, where they terminate and turn inward toward one another. Their upper ends are in communication by flexible pipes with the city water-main. When the water is turned on it radpidly excavates a hole, in which the pile sinks by its own weight; but, should any unusual resistance be met with, weights are fastened to the top of the pile. By these means and under favorable circumstances a twelve-inch pile can be sunk to a depth of fifteen feet in ten minutes. Each pile requires, on an average, 200 gallons of water. —London Graphic. The settlement at Moose river is typical of the “plantation” settlement in Maine. It has just two voters, one Democrat and one Republican. Astoria, Ore., has 7,000 population in the fishing season and 4,000 the rest of the year. She has a dozen canning establishments, which yield $3,000,000 a year.