Show Longest Rail T Tunnel to Bore Divide Aim of Washington SEATTLE ATTIE July 27 CAP AP AP 1 S of or Washington led by Judge E. E i. i Griffiths of ot this city SP formed the Cascade Tunnel to effect with national and railroad financing the theng ng of a tunnel thirty miles long rg g the eastern and and western J ves ve's of I their heir commonwealth Ms hIs wo d be the longest st tunnel 1 e In Colorado the i jJ inel six miles long under the Cental Divide to carry trains p automobiles is more than half halfIn u In the Alps the Simplon gel el 12 4 1 miles long for trains 1 iQ ys ha has as one portal in Switzerland the other in m Italy ThOSe two twos ries s 1 built tuilt ft it J I i le e tunnel under the Cascade plains for transcontinental ways v. three of which have FH et Sound termini here her was the ond M great dream of General H. H r who came to Seattle it my district engineer and lived re until i his death in m 1917 V General Chittenden broached the idea of or a ship canal linking Jinking Lakes Union with Seattle SeattIe and Washing Washington V inland margin ton on the city's with Puget Sound and thus through the the Strait of Juan de do Fuca with Pacific and other oceans oceans' of or th the world Constructed with the aid of ot the United States government g the ship canal has Lake Lalta Washington been in service a decade Completion of the canal assured General Chittenden brought forward forward for for- the idea of the Cascade tunnel tunnel tun tun- ward which agitation of The work nel Seath death stayed stayed Judge Griffith has announcing announcing- that to it he taken up U. would devote all his spare time the superior court bench from expenditures for the on Based Canadian tunel of the Connaught through the Selkirk PacIfic raIlway in the Canadian range completed about the time of his of the tunnel tunnel tun- tun cost the death nel net was put by General Chittenden at 9 |