| Show PLANS FOR A BIG TUNNEL UNDER THE IRISH SEA I I tri a 11 WHICH WILL CONNECT IRELAND AND SCOTLAND if I ready and plan are laid I MO i i that will make all lunneli it it Iwlgnlncant I V ieem rather d h II i Identally will bring the r 0 I S and Europe aereral 1 noun t II n believed lhal II will begin n or r Ireland and will I ad ance WM now tips In the cal1 01 lm > I allot m ed to perform all of the In np L L 110011 J by drilling 0 WJMOOO holo trtit n a lhroulh the rock under north part ot the Irish Sea oolh h Passenger could bed be-d by on and could thus travel taA Oalwny or QueenUown t m 1111001 I 1 Inx cars AU that 1In malts for now Is I a Mail the HrlMih government c on tho capital Invested jWC 1 ror that that the tunnel la I In rtnjor on A big Meeting was held commlllee of kr In a room ommoni Presided over 1 iinui the jdaT mil of Londonderry former IAW I nnt of Ireland In which r I nlcn wn boomed Ogorouily I IJ V I i < r the Carl of Bpencer I front ther Important personA person-A j nation was Petit to the I h1 the treasury to talk tier Celli uit 01 ly llm about the S p < r cent orI t d I uilneii t and the govern nltt Idlinit tho question guarnte the In i raiment II f the I llh llmlnary work will begin eipnled that the tun 1 nine 11 1111 l ll 1 < < ml nil Uted III nlwut ten year the 111 the first med ll I turned VIC W14 t liD I ti VDONDIIHIll HIM 01 limo com lo turn that ought lo be I a i in lo do It really JL lundirry whom lowetful In r I to been it for It ever u ippeared that the plan wai iriiUn ItYpTrof Win therefore I ap I into the lulijret i1 1 I i informallon on lhUllh tilde > of high deirive are feet lili all in lo slanting lnterlewi in I 1 lra little I ndondi rrya great low n house or its oil Iark Israel Is I us grant J 1I1ll1ln at II is I spoclous and uluIu uIthin The loIUI was In I ul pected at a flattoPploill k 1 one mUll suppose 10 bo the JII i of all disks for II A AI blit b I 1Ako three or Iou ordinarr L far tllillis 1oung couples bAvA I oarketphig befort noW In I i oll noor surface aPI > c red no 11 u on the lop of that disk It r I with new patera and maps l li the Mnrqula won evidently 1 reste l i U I v he I Paid that the pro l lunnel would bring n great t 10 Ireland and although of III li an undertaking that would I api ailed the engineer of a gen u n ago I am told I thai there standom I hanlcal dimcully today trial Handi I Hi I way of It The imal I length of 1 110 tunnel under the lea would be unit lite mllee and the approarhtl 11 i i it her title would be about me milk h mil-k Ihlrtynve I mllea In ain j4i iun that 11 U about three llmei I ai i 01 any tunnel > el built The Him II l q atout thirteen miles lint liT A rl 1 it 81 nothard tunnel li I total l t L nine mile long Hut II II I 111tilhita what progress the origin alfro have md And It Is I likely that tn the course 01 the ton years It would lake 10 build the tunnel still further pr4 mys would be mod all that tM second hAIl might too lion In lots I limo than th a fire half would Ink UI GALWAY DOWN QUHCNB TOWN However that If I a mater for the I experts to talk about What I am moil sure about 10 I that the tunnel will bo a great moving of time It takes six hours to get from London to CarlUle Jay meana of the tunnel It wuuM I be 1 > oe mble to go from Carllile lu lirirat In from two to three fact With the earproavoineral Ihot ar 10 too I expected In I ten yeara It should be H > llile to get from lleUnxt to lalway Ills three AIMS I That makes eleven or tweh hours Im loon 10 nolwo TIllewhy110 loU montln lIohlT That Is Itt Int especially 1 noted asim I seelessit II In I likely to bo It I the runnel It I buill II I khf I onnlnl port In Sw York and It U I In Ih I Onlml utofl Ireland II 10 tt aetlnmttar Itiettop pine place of Ihe In oollnlloIMIII era and may become ft port for great Importance II would Cut several noun oft Ihe time of penetrate If I the elrameri were to Hop there Instead of going to Queenitown Hut thai pmgramma li I rather dli estrous for queenitown lint 1 Ito It-o Yea rather1 And Queen a town ll I going lo lie hMrd Im on the subject bent hT No doubt but It ll I the voice of llel rl that will carry Wright for that la I she city most directly Interested In the directir ltl tuntiet It ll the chief city of Ireland and diert much Ihe larger I Part if her business llelfait would probably Ile I the I ilroad terminal nf the tunnel and I doubtless the trains would run to Ilel I fast from I he Mailers It without optlng To go from llelfait In nol ay without changing car would 1 re quire an entire nw line nl rAIII owing to the present difference In itnu e between the Hngllih and 11h road but that would come In time I believe the luwenger traffic atone would go a long way toward making the line l iy for It Is I n long dlMgree able trip 1 y lioot acroii the hannel Hut lierhatm I am prejudiced They lay I ani In IAor 01 the Innn1 I ol Us I am auch n notorious bad a atllor Till MONIIY II the government rerarovo 10 us ante the a per cent interest will I the plan fall through for the present 111 I cant My but It nermi hardly like Via I that the salvers mint will rfuw Thli case lint parallel lo that of Sir Hiloda railroad Africa I unknown and the receipt from the rund were problematical but with this tunnel the receipt 1 can be met almost recital tllkally and besides the tunnel would have an Important eftect upon the dr velupment of Ireland 1 It 1 la I tin altalr of national I Importance The money I understand can lie had aj oou ti aa the coierninenl guarantrea the Inlnreit to but Ihe alockholdera t will nnt uk the government lo trip In until Ihv work li I entirely done and Ihe plant la I ready for operation I know little about the Four r for yl the financial 1 port nf the work but I have no doubt American capital would be largely Interested Hut one thing la certain tile effort to Interest Ihe goieminent li I entirely nonpolitical non-political At lie House of Common meeting over which I had the honor of presiding one nt ties alrongeat sup Porters of the plan Wan my opponent at Ihe poll and lor1 Howhery wrote that I he had long believe there were few more pressing objects of policy 1 not only from the Irish print of view but aim from the Drlllili I jot 1 Impeilii 1 I 1 viewpoints Ile still he believed that Cioononoo was cheap cinl lerlng the fall vantorated to be gnlne l A THNVKAIlOII PLAN TIM tunnel plan li not new fifteen liver ago II WM seriously dlieuiied and later 01 the IMfait l Chamber of Com merce look It up And asked ftr i i mme m-me lit assistance In getting pt i i y I soundings and olio for I a guuai t t Interest on the capital Ini I i l it the enlerprlao I looked 1 bigg I i tit t-it now and loo < uoooc > P1111i i i like mom money then than It I i nnd the government visa all ud i g I Into I It About the only danger n iw f m an engineering viewpoint la I th p I li j j Air of niiurei In the rock Th > atrata treat would be cround all 1 k MI tu 1 be Individually waterpm n apre he 10 trAlA J I might ipoll Ihe whole plan I in t i n iku rl = yIthfln r he It necewary to nnd vome other of crossing than that now aelcc l i lose I I nctln 141amintoer on the Pros it Ilq Ith Ntages NsIn Got of BAN Is It This 14 I not the narrowest point in Ih l hon 111 but II 1 to I Ihe most 1lh c o n here the tunnel would ha I oake a detour of two or three mil l underwater under-water to AVoid an eepeclally d p lc 1 preaelon running along pnmll i with the route its at preeent 111 1 oils u la I estimated that the tunnel nt It ikep Mt Point Would too 000 feet un ler the surface of the ae a nml that th m H > pMt 1 p-Mt will be one In a VMI live which la I nothing titraordlrmry Atir American engineer 1 consider con-sider the estimate of ten yean lime required re-quired for this Job to be rath r ni > eral In great progreea haa torn I nmiiu in 1 the = 1 471 = 1 af title In Ih lut twentylive yearn Whon lho HI slash ad tunnel was begun In 1112 Ove hlh all rate 01 progrens In the Arlberg tunnel wrim twelve yards a far 1 Since then the Increase has Imn rapid 1 nnd It I 0 chance Is I given to American contractors con-tractors bill on Me tunnel this StR Iota public will be rather likely lo ills I cover that tn wouldnt take ten year lo tie Hngland I and Ireland together 1 till Heel HeelMOULD IT 1 TNt I T-Nt a 11111 doubt ham been oxisarposomed I about the rinailtiat 1lhllll 01 this 4W 0 ft 044 a to V voo VAST tou ty extraordinary undrtkln Would the government hate to go down Into 111 pocket lo find the I per cent It is I Mid In reply that a large Iart l nf Ire I lauds wrovilloor Commerce would creche Cregland through the lunI Which would poct to comp to with Ih Chars nol steameris In Price and of course Ir outrun them In opened It I I 11 lurthmo that tht 0 I rival late fins vast pOIblI11lmNa AI at undvel oiled and only I IIIIIF I earn hills = I I to come long and illr them up Owing 1 jtv to 1 a c UtcJ ScU HPatoll1olof 4P41 to Id to j A 5 > P a J see fc 4 Al 44 WAF low t Sal so sale I OUrLIM OP TIIH 1111 TUNNEL to the alerts of Irish alalUU 1 tour IU are beffinhillor 10 take a greater hill toramot In the Island the they wyor look Wait nd II II were nol such a dllll cIIII pleo to roo h 1hY Could Ile I to lirct4 i a > there In ahoale Aa the route it Hi ilnnI 1 would b an hurt and title It u liplatell i that trial produce I = would Awl I i now and prolllabli I maiket in lisp 131111hufolturille to i ni of Hcollanl and t Its North uf hnglimd And per hI PI mom import lot l all II la rather MxUr1 bal a liiiinl would Induce aome of the Atlantic transport llMa lo make Ireland their termlnutjalway being the plamosion In mind I uked a repreaenlallv of the White Hlr line I what he had lo May about that F11an Ile alleviated that It I seemed to r 1 tl r Me a net that it would mispoctiolly be worth coiwlderlng wlien the day can that Atlantic linen would be built lo carry only tiaaaengera lln mined lo soon Blink that that I day might i com prell > COIIT1H lllluU |
