CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7] — Page 424

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Immediately after the event. This drain, which is shown in red on the general plan, was made partly to allay any feelings of anxiety Mr. Browning might have lest the thing should recur again, and to carry off the heavy fall during the excavations and examination of the old drain and house foundation, but principally because this Department of recent years, acting on broad principle, has endeavoured whenever the opportunity arose to substitute all drains under houses by drains under the public streets.

12. In paragraph 5, Colonel Start pronounces the drain poor and of faulty "construction" and not at all adapted to bear any sudden and unforeseen pressure, and that it seems probable that it had been damaged more or less before the date of the accident to "Belmont." The drain is similar to a number in the Colony built about the same time. It would last many years if uninjured by external causes. A glance at the annexed tracing representing the state of the drain when it was exposed to the light clearly shows that Colonel Start is right in his conjecture, and that the cover stones were injured by the careless manner in which...

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420 Immediately after the event. This drain, which is shown in red on the general plan, was made partly to allay any feelings of anxiety Mr. Browning might have lest the thing should recur again, and to carry off the heavy fall during the excavations and examination of the old drain and house foundation, but principally because this Department of recent years, acting on broad principle, has endeavoured whenever the opportunity arose to substitute all drains under houses by drains under the public streets. 12. In paragraph 5, Colonel Start pronounces the drain poor and of faulty "construction" and not at all adapted to bear any sudden and unforeseen pressure, and that it seems probable that it had been damaged more or less before the date of the accident to "Belmont." The drain is similar to a number in the Colony built about the same time. It would last many years if uninjured by external causes. A glance at the annexed tracing representing the state of the drain when it was exposed to the light clearly shows that Colonel Start is right in his conjecture, and that the cover stones were injured by the careless manner in which...

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summediately after the event. This drain which is shown in

red on the general plan made partly to allay any feelings of anxiety DW bouglitice might have lest the thing shouto recur again and to carry off the heavy. fall during the excavatious

and examination

sance

rain

of the

old drain and house

foundation, but principally " because this Department of recent

years acting broad porniciple has endeavoured whenever the opportunity

arose to

““

substituti

a to substitute all drains under

houses by drains unse the public

steels.

12.

In paragraph 5. Colonel Start pronounces the drain poor and of faulty "construction" and not at all adapter

to bear

any

sudden and unvorste

" pressure and that it sums probable

that it has been damages

mare a com

"less before the date of the accient to "Belmont." The drain is simila to

number in the the same time. Iz would last

Colony

built about

of granite and

many years if uninsured by external causes. A glance

at the

annexe's tracing representing the state of the drain when it was exposer to the light clearly shows that folonel Sthwark is right in his confecture and that the cover stones were infures by the careless

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