Show THE NEW NILE t Greatest Engineering Feat Peat the World J Has Bas Ever Seen John Ward P F S A A in Aln Magazine When the Nile reservoirs planned by bJ the great were first made i known to the world rId and it was teas found that he although offering six or seven seve sites for his cyclopean designs really realy only highly recommended one the con eon construction construction o ot of which would wipe Aipe out the th island of Philae the loveliest spot 01 oi on the Nile there was an universal bowl howl of opposition This got to such a height that Sir W Garstin and his engineers may amy have felt a grim kind of when they found that the French would allow them no money from the to realize their schemes for storing th j blessed water and they the had ad for o a time to abandon the whole bole affair So when one fine morning i Mr r John Aird Sir Benjamin Baker er and aM an their friends ui w called at t the om of ot works in Cairo and offered to make any anT amount of ot dams canals and locks wherever Where r they pleased for no present prent cash payment In accepting their won offer the government cut do don i the level of ot the great reservoir by b near nea ly wasted wanted wan to store up feet of water Sir Benjamin Ba Its ker was told to content himself with twenty metres about feet of Nile storage And so the artists and the touris 3 and the general opponents to the drowning of Philae were ap or at least east silenced and the tha greatest engineering meering en work that th the world has ever eer seen was quietly start started started ed and within a year ear men won employed at and at the sup darn dam of Philae Nearly Mearly Submerged When the dam is completed and at its high level Philae will have hae it f tern tm pie pylons and a few of or the higher ruins standing out of the water jus jual justo to mark where here its ancient a were wen but all its loveliness its e it palms several of its temples Its sor stor storIed d l walls and its Kilometer its colonnades its Roman Romen quays will disappear be beneath beneath beneath neath the waters An 11 island will be lest but a continent will be sal For Formy Formy Formy my part I would rather they had mai ma male e cyclopean granite barrier of ot about l O feet where tile the wall cro crossed s d the Bab el and that the whole island had hind been sacrificed The frag fragments fra ments meats left will only serve to reopen the tha I sad affair in hi peoples minds However How e ewe we must make the best of it E Even n wih rh the feet of water in he the res reservoir great advantages will b be gain for Upper Egypt If we lose Philae fol the tourist and the artist and tM tuil archaeologist we will gain millions o Of acres more for the fellah en s agriculture ture t are and the revenue from the T lon t it will afford will double the of annual Income to the finances 5 nc O tie government so much so that if the tha British were allowed a free hand this thi increased i revenue could be made in a C short tune time to clear Egypt from debt |