Show I 1 DOVER STI STRAITS tilTS john job n bull NOU not bo be content un an tit til L cao can ga go to france I 1 rance dry and for ninny many years the be project of bridging or tunneling dover strait 1131 haa been bonsi considered derea tied and various ord are the schemes that have been brought forward to accomplish the lh objects thi best engin engineering cering skill his been em cm aloyed and the most careful elamin adone and uil estimates have bare leta made with a view to determining its pric and probable cot tho the necessity for such a worl work is more and more felt fell each caca succeeding year and nd the ile enormous traffic now in cassea gers and freight seems to llemar that the work hi be undertaken 1 l t ii ia an enterprise of vast proportions proportion a and will require an enormous outlay and oll somo many years becore it can he be completed the various piano for bridging the channel including that loonry scheme or of iho ahe structure tura on balloons we believe belic Te are au all alan aban dolled and the ilo only practical method or of a railway across to france will i be to go under the sei sea the work therefore of cutting a tunnel has hai at last been entered tod a company las haa been organized and rig in in london for comme commencing nen 9 the work about will bo be first expended in a sinking 1 slid thoroughly testing the feasibility of the pleas plans if tho experimental shafts prove successful books will be opened I 1 lor fur further subscriptions to the stock ind and worl work will be pushed vigorously tho the completion will be only a question of time five yenn years has bog been thought hut but it seems hardly possible pos per sible that to so gigantic an aa undertaking can bo be accomplished in so KO short chott a depaci the cutting culling will be cc pr clail unless tho thi kellog anti inti aitio are at fault for the he orly only resistance is said eaid to be a soft chalk ta that 11 I 1 can be easily bored there will necessarily be great di danger er connected with the work from the liability of deltia in tile sea and I 1 the bellie difficulty lily pro 0 of securing curing te ventilation during the he progress grebs of the excavation ti when to completed mple ted tho the tunnel will be about twenty three miles in len length b and fresh air will probably have to be forcel forced through Us its entire length by artificial milagos if modern engineering is 13 able to provide for this there can le be no DO doubt of tile the rile uc tells cesi of the undertaking both countries are expected to jom joint in the expense of the enterprise but t the be labor la binni titz car wilt kill fall to england i W or I 1 t ant ft i rs ayn all things considered I 1 the b e most gigantic g ti C piece of engineering I 1 that at ever via was lit undertaken derl aleu |