Show REMARKABLE WRECKING Compressed Aid Aids in Salvage of ofa a Valuable Steamship Technical World Experience gained in the tunnels of New NewYork NewYork York enabled two young American engi engineers engineers engineers to achieve one of the most re remarkable e feats in the annals of wreck wrecking wrecking wrecking ing last April on the coast of Nova Noa Scotia This was the salvage of or the fine 9 steamship Mount Temple valued at at an outlay of or only after it had been abandoned as hopelessly lost Indeed after the vessel had been placed In dry dock It was found Cound to be so fearfully battered and torn tom that the cost of repairs was estimated at more than man half hal the value of the ship so so the owners wanted It con condemned condemned condemned The feat called for Cor daring as well as ingenuity for there was nothing be between between tween us and England as one of the men menon menon menon on the Job expressed It which was his way of saying saing that the wreck was exposed to the full fury of the Atlantic At first glance there would seem to be no connection between wrecking and tunnel building yet et it was the expert use of the theone theone theone one thing that made the digging of the tunnels under the Hudson and East river j possible that floated the Mount Temple and that one thing was compressed air The achievement is all the more Interest Interesting Interesting interesting ing because it was VlaS the second time the same men had saved a wreck by b the same means after all the expedients known knon In Inthe inthe inthe the salvage business had been tried In vain |