| Show 1 GALVESTON IS SAFE Ga hesion now dafie the ocean waves the storm swept city of 1900 Is now securely sheltered behind a mighty sea wall four and a half miles long sixteen feet thick at the base and seventeen feet high made of mammoth concrete blocks reinforced by iron rods and renting on a foundation of closely driven piling the marine review claims that a repetition of the storm ct 1900 which devastated the island would make no impression on this safeguard concerning the construction of the wall the marine review speak i at length ot the four parallel lows of piling with the continuous sheet piling a foot in thickness alch extends twenty four feet below the surface and continues upon the completed foundation the seawall sea wall is cast in solid molds are placed and tho mixture of cement and crushed granite is poured into them and when the cia s has set the molds are removed so ho work is carried on each part of lie seawall sea wall being keyed and cast ino solid contact with tho next ho na he wall foundation and entire construction ts made into one coherent mass af pf lock formation which hardens age and gradually becomes indestructible within the wall at two fed intervals are reinforcing rods 11 2 inch by 10 feet long having at cither side a 4 inch waher these rods aro placed in sucha way as to strengthen the wall by binding the upper and narrower portion to the broad construction at tho base in the three and a halt miles of seawall sea wall constructed by the city there have been used cari oada of piling C carloads of concrete cars of granite rock six carloads of ing rods in all carloads of material to handle this vast amount of material would require 1003 trains of twenty cars ach or one string of cars beg miles long each car loaded to full capacity tho weight ot te aea wall per lineal toot is pounds the babe of the wall toward the aea is bordered with a granite rip rap as it is called this serves to break the force of the waves and also to give strength to the wall structure and stability to tho earth into which the foundation extends |
