stone and sand and 6,000 car loads of miscellaneous building material
were transferred from scows and lighters to small cars for delivery to
the Terminal work.

All the earth and 570,000 cu. yd. of the rock, place measurement, were
handled through the chutes, and the remainder of the rock, 918,000 cu.
yd., and all the incoming material by the derricks and telphers. In
capacity to handle material, one telpher was about equal to one derrick.
A train, therefore, could be emptied or a boat loaded under the bank of
eight telphers in one-fourth the time required by the derricks, of which
only two could work on one boat. The telphers, therefore, were of great
advantage where track room and scow berths were limited.

As noted in the list of contracts under which the work was executed,
the scows at both the 35th Street dumping board and Pier No. 72 were
furnished, towed, and the material finally disposed of, by Henry Steers,
Incorporated. During the same period, this contractor disposed of the
material excavated from both the Cross-town Tunnels, constructed by the
United Engineering and Contracting Company, and the tunnels under the
East River, constructed by S. Pearson and Son, Incorporated. As stated
in other papers of this series relating to the construction of those
tunnels, the material excavated by the United Engineering and
Contracting Company was delivered to barges at 35th Street and East
River and that by S. Pearson and Son, Incorporated, at two points, one
in Long Island City and the other at 33d Street and East River,
Manhattan.

The total number of cubic yards of material disposed of amounted to:

Place measurement. Total barge