| Show II LONGEST TUNNEL IN WOULD WORLD i Twelve Miles of to o lie itO He fbi Switzerland anil Italy Ital Brig an nn Alpine Aliline village llInge has long loni been lieen the terminus of the tho rail railway railway way say system nays Eugene P I Lyle Lle In Magazine Only On twelve kilometers away awny twelve miles mike and a half halt lies lIu Italy But Dut these are lire twenty kilometers of oC if a n towering tumbling mass of or mountain rock rod For many years yeara men inca have havo been how to away with this twelve mid and a halt half miles of ot mountain Borne wanted to go right on up the pass with the tM rails rs would have gone gOM half halt halfway halfway way up find and then dug There Tholo were sev soy several oral cral scores score of ot plans but lout finally the tho most costly eo and meat Imst daring and yet tho the was to go right through So this last and per permanent manent plan la is an nn evolution from rom years of ot surveying drifting calculatIng lag Ing ng correcting The men who did It are arc lost In the powerful corporation for they worked tho the In 1691 the plan was to the Swigs Swie government and tho the Swiss gov gay government government talked It over ove with tho the Italian government Both accepted the pro granted n and In me 99 ratified a it treaty for having the th tun tunnel tunnel Un nel nei between bet wean them Next came cama the question of money Tho rho cost con co t of ot agle a 11 sin single single gle track would be francs trance about Sixty Six millions of If this his was vaa wn loaned by a syndicate of ot Can Canon Canton Canton ton on banks on 33 3 per pr cent bonds guar guaranteed by the tho Swiss Confederation The confederatIon also gave a n subsidy of anti and Italy granted an I annual subsidy of lires Swiss wies parties subscribed 00 franci more and Italian parties At tt t once the let out the contract for Cor building the tunnel to Brandau et Cle Clo who are ore known mown as os tho the enterprise du tIc Tunnel du Only a war Involving SIt Switz Switzerland erland or Italy or an fin epidemic or a astrike astrike astrike strike not the thc fault ta of oC the enterprise can affect the tIme limit of at tho the bar bargain bargain gain rain All 1111 other difficulties and catastrophes whatsoever do not count coun The gigantic hole bolo must bo be de do delivered livered Jive five and a half ears cars after neter commencing The penalty for Cor delay dclay will vilI be 1000 a day with a n bonus of oC ns an much for Cor each day da ahead of ot time The Tho tunnel Is to bu be meters long lon twelve and one quarter miles and there must mud be bo n a smaller tunnel for lor ventilation parallel to the first at n a distance of seventeen meters or eight eighteen eIghteen een cen an a 11 half halt yards Under a 1 future contract the enterprise will make the second tunnel tho the same slime as IS n the firt fir ft for tor a return track Work began In November of nt It should be daub daubed cd ed May 1901 |
