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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1913)
8 Tim BKK: OMAHA, SATrRDAY, MAIK'H 22, 1010. BUILDING TUNNELS IN ALPS TakcV Expert Engineering Skill and Special Precautions. WORK ON THE SIMPLON TUBES THE STORE OF THE TOWti Are You in the Market FOR A Good Piano? If so, you're just the party we want to talk to, especially if you're a judge of piano quality. The first thing that impresses a stranger on visiting our salesroom is the immense number of instruments on the floor. Second, they nre surprised to learn that they are not dupli cates excepting in case of different designs in the same make. Third, they will find the prices much lower than the same or equal quality instruments can be pur-Chased- elsewhere. There's a reason for this; viz: Wo own the Pianos buying direct from tho manufacturer for cash thus wo can afford to sell for considerably leas than tho consignment dealer. Our Great March Sale Ccitiiies Saturday ui All Next Wik Here's some special bargains in New and Used Pianos you should not fail to see Saturday. 1 Steger $175 1 Steiriway $275 1 Wioler $140 1 Emerson $175 1 Cable & Nelson. . .$175 "1 Hardman $175 1 Kimball $125 lBehning $75 1 A Gray .$50 1 Vose&Son $125 HAYDEN BROS. Wo Guarantee Our Customers Complete Satisfaction. Be Arranged to Suit Purchaser's Convenience. BURROWING UNDER THE DEAD lubwnr Under n (Jrnvrynrd la the ttrt Thriller In Ncir Vork, One hundred nnd fifty-three yearn ago December ), 17Q9, to bo exact they burled In St. Paul's churchyard ceme tery, at Vesey nnd Church streets. Now York City, Jamea Davis, "late smith ot tho Royal Artillery." He was a com paratively young man aged 39 years and much beloved by his associates. They placed his body In the grave hftt had been allotted by those who had .ho right of sepulchre arrangement and piously said: "Ashes to ashe and dust to dust, sleep there until resurrection morning, go6d soul. No longer will the noUe ut battle or the tumult of busy life disturb oUr quiet. Vou are at rest forever." That was 153 year ago seven yearn before the Declaration of Independence was signed when colonial gallants and XVH uopjoo 3HX dos Xjuuipjo uu oii.nq Ajuuipio atp ujojj dos x; snf S3XjS 3AIJ3UJJJU 'SJOJOD poo) 'JJUS JO 3J3J JBfJ UOpJOQ 3ip OJ suoj sjsqj dames paraded Church street and verily believed that & burial In St Paul's meant the quiet rest of their clay un disturbed by life's busy hum. How little, they dreamed then ot .ho growth ot New York has been proved again and again by their faded letters and memoirs, showing confidence that their Colonial city, while It might In crease, would not attain the area and mngnlflecnco' that was Its rcstlny. nut even could their Imaginations have pictured the expansion of the won derful municipality, by no sort of nee rornacy could they , have been able to realise the Innovation that will take place within the next few months. This Is whit they would not have'' been able to have understood: "Thundering under pie grave of James Davis and scores of others where they were placed for their eternal sleop there wll shortly speed -great ten-car trains ot the new Ilroadway-Lexlngton ave nue subway line now under construe tlon. "These trains. wU be near a busy switching point and will pass under the graves In two tubes. There will be but twelve feet of earth from the top of masonry to tho coffin bottoms. All day long thousands and thousands of the living wilt pass under the dead. AH night long oven at midnight, tho most solemn hour tho Imagination has for tho In habitants of graveyards the wheels of tho trains will roll their human freight with many a rattle and roar under the bodies of those whose bones mlaht nl most be expected to rattle because ot the constant Jar. New York Bun. Kinrft-ri nn Atrfnt Toll of llnninn I.ttc nnd Thru, Aftrr TnUlnnr Vrnrs of Time, Cost Vnst Sum of Money. A Shootlnir Scrape with both parties wounded, demands Buoklen's Arnica Salve. Heals wounds, sores, burns, bolls, cuts or piles. Only Kc. For sale by Beaton Drug Co.-Advcrtlse-menft. . f Persistent Advertising Is the ltoad to Mlg Ilcturns. "Just Say" H OR LICK'S It Means Orlgtaf and SrMutar MALTED MILK Tfci FiwI-aVWc it All kgu. Mere healthful than Tea or Coffee. Ajree with the weakest digestion. Dwdout, invigorating and nutritious. Rtch rrelk. malted gram, powder form. A sptkk hack frtffl k a MMtt. Tafc m adUitste. A4c it HOftLICK'S. Others arm imitation. Pointed Pnrmrrnnha. A singed cat dreads an open-faced stove. It's a poor road that can't acquire a gasoline odor. An ounce of done Is worth more than a ton of glng to do. 'It doesn't take a very big compliment to swell a small head. r - No great length of time Is required to give a young doctor a wise look. Two young people no ruoner fall In love than they begin to fall out. This Is hustling age and tho lunch counter habit will help you to hurry through. It takes the average man half as long to get hot under the eollar as It does Id oool oft. When a girl meets a young man after her own heart she hopes that he will ask tor her hand. It takes a clever man to sidetrack a widow who has made up her mind to annex him. and he must be hard-hearted, too. Chicago News. titer Notice That You don't need legal knowledga to sue for u girl's hand. You don't -need to be a sprinter to run Into debt You don't need a make-up box to make up your mind. You don't need to be quarrelsome to strike a bargain. 1 You don't need to be a carpenter to nail a He. , ". . You don't need to bq strong to break your word. You d(n t nert a, set of surgical Instru ments to operate on Wall street Boston Transcript II II. II. JUIKP5TONK. The Alps are the dividers ot the Eu ropean nations, separating tho countries of France, Italy and Germany from one another by a ring of mighty mountains, In the hollow of which lies Switzerland. To the railway engineer they presented a formidable barrier, blocking his path with an obstacle that, Until a few years ago. It was thought Impossible to sur mount. Eventually, however, he suc ceeded, and today the Alps are pierced by several wonderful tunnels, the building of which has demanded fio small amount of engineering skill and Ingenuity, as well as much patience and no little hard ship. mltttng a through railway communication between Paris and Turin, In Italy. It Is seven and a half miles long, took thirteen years to make, and entailed an expenditure of about $15,000,000. It at once revolutionized travel from France and England to Italy. Indeed, Its succes was so great that It was decided to build another, the fit. Oothard tunnel, giving direct railway communication between llerlln nnd Italy, through, of course, Switzerland. Although some two miles longer thari the Mont Cenls project, It was built In ten years at a cost ot Jll.CO0.00i). Other tunnels In the Alps Include the Ardclburg enterprise, six and a half miles In length, giving railway access between Switzerland and Austria; the Tatlcern Minnel, five and a quarter miles In length, opened In January, 1909; and the more wonderful of alt, however Is the Slmpion tunnel from Brlgue to Isclle, a dlntanro of twelve and a half miles, the longest tunnel In the world, being more than twice the length ot the Central London railway. Cnlla far Grrnt Skill. No branch of engineering calls for greater skill and more resourcefulness than that of -driving a tunnel through a great mountain. To make: sure of the headings meetings, tho engineer must not put tool to rock until all his calculations havo been made most carefully by com pass and theodolite, and verified time after time. To deal with the water springs possibly lurking In the mountain's heart he must drive the tunnel on a ris ing gradient to the center, a much more complicated feat than a perfectly rectili near course. The Slmpion Is what Is termed a double tunnel. Thcro are two parallel tunnels ftfty-slx feet apart from center to center, one for each track. At present only one tunnel Is finished and In use; but the gallery for the other was driven right through and connected at Intervals with the first by cross headings to assist In the transportation ot the materials and tho ventilation ot tho workings. Ilefore boring operations began, a mo.t thorough survey of the pass and the sur rounding peaks was made, to determine the direction ot the tunnel. At each end was fixed a sighting point from which a project the center line forward. This part of the work was so accurate that the error In direction amounted to but eight Inches In tho twelve nnd a half miles, and tlmt of level, to but three, and a holf Inohes. The calculated length of the tunnel was within half an Inch of the actual length. Must Drill ThroaKh Solid Itock. Cutting through a mountain of this de scription is nothing moro than boring ft hole through solid rock, nnd for this pur pose the very latest rock-drllllng ma chines wcro requisitioned. Mounted upon a trolley .and operated by a muter they were driven forward right up to the face of the rock, or heading, and then set to work. Each drill demanded the services of two men. one to regulate the motor and tho other to direct the tool. Tho drills used were certainly very powerful, capable of making a hole in solid rock thirty-nine Inches deep In about twenty seconds. From ten to twelve holes wero bored In that way, distributed over the face of the drift, work which occupied about two hours. The holes were then carefully cleared out and the dynamite cartridges, fusca and detonators Inserted and the bottim of the heading covered with a nuvahle stiel flooring to facilitate the clenrlirf away of the debris. Immediately alter the explosion five Jets of water wera played upon tho rock to lay the dust am clear the air, and the roof and side walls oxauilned with picks to discover any loose and dangerous fragments. The into of advance In a drift with a section of fifty-nine square feet averaged about eighteen feet a day. Take Special Apparatus. Work hadviot advanced far beforo sps clal apparatus had to be Installed tu In sure proper ventilation. During tho 1on Ing of tho St. Oothard tunnel no fewer than SCO of the workmen died, malnlv .through the lack of proper ventilation und means or Keeping down the dust rain-.) by the drills. In the Slmpion tunnel the ar rangements for ventilation were excel lent, twenty-rive cubic feet of fresh air being supplied to the workmen for ivory foot blown into the Ht. Oothard. The cur rent was strong enough to take a man's hat off, and as for dust, It was kept down In the manner alread described. During the eight years of work .on tho SlrtiplOn only sixty men lost their lives from all causes. Ih the heart of the mountains tu. tem perature Is much higher then that of the outside atmosphere, the heat increasing with tho depth of the rock overhead Tro maximum rock temperature 133 degrees Fahrenheit-was encountered In the 81m plon tunnel, at a point about 7,000 teet below 'the summit of the mountain. This would have made things Intolerable for the workmen hud It not been tempered by huge quantities of cool air driven by tana through largo pipes up to the face and oy water sprays from pipes Jaoketed with charcoal lb provent the water becoming heated during Its passage up the tunnel llorluir nt Moth Ends. Boring, of course, was commenced simultaneously from both ends, the Swiss and Italian sides of the mountain. Work ""mo boh stratum was encount- erec, wnicn gav the engineers consider able anxiety. The heavy Umbering, which was first erected, and which was thought would be sufficient to maintain an open wus crusnea like so much matcijwooa. This was then removed and steel girders and Iron plates erected, but even ihl, yielded under tho heavy pressure of the surrounding; roolc. in the end the dlffl culty was got over by filling the iron plates with a qulck-settlng cement. mm mm mm Easter Raiment Wash Suits for the Youngsters Wo've a grand col lection Just opened to view and the kind that a dip In the tub will brl gh t e n and make appear as fresh and new as ever $1 te $10 IN POINT OF STYLE AND SERVICE Our Clothes "Overshadow All Ofeers" From the sheep's back to yours the various processes of cloth and clothes manufacture receives the critical and ever vigilant inspection of "Our Own" experienced workman in our own modern work shops no detail, however small, escapes them, and with our 60 years of superior clothes making we are today Greater and Grander than Ever Clothes today about make the man because the man who does not make a good appearance in dress is badly handi capped.. Clothes are the all important part of a man's make up, and that's where We Come In t ' . Our English and American models of Spring Suits are splendid speci mens of modern tailoring. Handsome and correct and our Easter display is a rare treat for those who want style and durability at a moderate cost. Our $20.00, $22.50 and $25.00 Suits For Men and Young Men and Prime Favorites. Boys9 Easter Suits . We've fitted out so many boys, and havo hud so much boys' clothing experience that we've learned the trick of hav ing Just the fort of clothes the boys want. Alp the now styles that nre right up to the mark $5 to $15 Easter Hats and Heads WE HAVE THE HATS THE HEADS ARE YOURS. But it will bo to our mutual interests to put them toBother. You'll hear men say and we bollovo It's true that Browning-King & Co. have the only real showing of hats In town. Be it so or not, wo are ready with all the new styles and colorings to satisfy every demand $3.00 to S5.00. Our lint Windows explain the whole story. Boys' and Children's Headwear in Felt, Cloth and Straw. Oar Haberdashery is different from the kinds that staro you in the face the mtjment you enter most stores. Our lines of J50 Easter Neckwear beats anything ovor sold in town for tho money. We've an Easter Shirt for you at SI. 50 S2 S2.50 That will please you to perfection. Come hero for your Easter Gloves and got the best at St. 50 to S2.25 HandBomo new styles in Cotton. Silk and Lisle Hosl .ery. Just the thing for New Oxfords at 25d 35d 50d Anything that's new in fixings will be found at this store. Browning, King & Co. GEO. T. WILSON, Mgr. Douglas at Fifteenth Street further strengthened by thick masonry ' As''a 'result of this delay the fewlss Bot weljjfl.ahead, of Ahelr- Italian (rivals, una reached the center Joint wfille the latter were still working their way uphill. In Ortler to savo time, they decided to drive tho galleries downhill towards Italy to meet the other party. Then they unfor tunately tapped some extremclv lint springs which compelled them to retire auer having-strong Iron doors In tho headings to hold back tho water, csled that the completion of the tunnel wns impossible. Hut the Italians pushed on, and at lust listeners In tho Swiss heading -heard their drilling machines nt work, though half a mile of rock re mained to bo' penetrated. Hopes revived. Then the Italians met tho hot springs that had given tho Swiss so much trouble, and In spite of all efforts to keep down tho temperature by mixing cold water with the hot, work on the main tunnel had to bo suspended. Things certainly looked serious, but the engineers xefuspd to glvo In. They now turned their atten tion to the second tunnel, which runs parallel with the -first, hnnlntr that ihm- would be ablo to gel round the flank of the springs. In this they were successful. After boring the second tunnel for some distance they drove a cross heading toward tho route of the first tunnel, and In this way got behind the springs, and ultimately were able to loosen the pent up water. , The meetings of the heading ai once proved the accuracy with which the work had been executed, hut it lacked the fervor of delight usual on such occasions, ns In this case It was a meeting of miners on nnn nldn nnd hnt water on the other. This last 200 odd ynrus 01 me gallery had occupied nearly six months In execution owing to the un precedented difficulties encountered. .Noteworthy Coincidence. Ily a noteworthy coincidence hie Slm pion tunnel was opened almost exactly 100 years after the completion by Na poleon of tho military road over the Slmpion pass the first to promote tho Interests of peace and civilization, and the second was to make easier the pas sage of Invading armies. The tunnel took eight years to con struct, and cost Ji6.000.000, or $740 per yard run. Home 3,740,000 holes were drilled by hand and machine 1.496 tons of dynamite exploded, and 1,399,000 cubic yards of rook excavated. Hy means of this tunnel Milan has been brought within twenty five and a halt hours of Ixndon. TEST OF ROAD MATERIALS Twenty-Thrc Different Surfaces Tried Out in Knuland In Six tern Month.. When this section of tho corn belt gets ready for real roud-bulldlng some guiding facts can be had from "The Trial of Hoad Materials at Sid cup, Kent, Eng land." a pamphlet report Issued by the road board of Loudon. The report gives the results of sixteen months of heavy traffic over specimen lengths of twenty three different kinds of road surface laid down by- the ' Kent' county council and contractors by arrangement with the road board on the New Kltham-Sldoup road. It also shows a great increase In the proportion ot motor vehicles on this muoh-frequented highway near London since the summer of 1910. Great differ ences in original cost and wearing quali ties developed in these twenty-three con tiguous sections during that period. Borne had to be practically rei M aced before the end of the observations last Novem ber, while others showed little or no wear and required no repairs or those of the most trifling character only. The highest price a superficial yard was 9s 3d and the lowest 2s. The various sur' face materials used were as follows: Ordinary water-bound granite mac alam( tho same tarred by painting, B.lh gle pitch grouted macadam, doublo pitch grouted macadam laid and consolidated In two layers, Durax armored paving, macadam tieatcd with Plascom, "Cpr mastlk," tar macadam, laid in three dif ferent wayb; tar slag macadam, "Tar mac," "Iloadoleum" asphalt, "Uocmac," roadamant, "I.lthomac"' asphalt paving, "I'ltchmnc," natural asphalt matrix, asphalt' macadam, Trinidad asphalt mac adam, three-Inch coating, and the same with a one-Inch wearing surface on three inches of nsphattla concrete. Of these sui'faces, Durax armored pav ing required no repairs from July 8, 1911, to November, 1912. It showed a wear in depth of surface ot .25 ot an Inch ,ln twelve months, was "good nnd not slip pery" In winter and fairly free from dust, but comparatively noisy under lr'on-tlrcd wheels In summer, required llttlo scav enging, and cost 7s 6d a superficial yard. ThW roadway Is composed of granite cubes from seven to nine centimeters In slzo, giving a finished depth of paving of. about three and one-half Inches. The grouting mixture Is composed ot coal tar pitch tempered with crcsote oil or tar, into which has been stirred about 30 per cent offlne dried sand. The section thus surfaced Is not among those termed In the report "quite one of the best," however. Those distinguished In this way are the two forms of Trinidad asphalt macadan mentioned above, one costing 4s 6d per yard, and tho Other 7s Cd, and showing respectively no wear and .1 Inch wear In twelve months, "rithmac," or pltch-groutcd matfadnm, costing Cs Sd a yard, and showing .26 Inch weart tar mncadam costing 4s Id a yard and showing wear of hut .06 Inch, and "Tarmac," costing 3s 8Hd a yard and showing .27 Inch wear. A section described ns "good throughout tho year" Was of double pitch-grouted .macudHm, cost 5s 7',d a yard, and showed nn aver age depth of wear of .08 Inch, and an other similarly described, cost 4s Id n yard and had but .04 Inch wear in twelve months. Tho composition of these lasting .sur faces ot pitch-grouted macadam, such us tho- last referred to, is given as Ilorufell or Klvan from Cornwall, GO per cent of two and one-halt Inch to. one and onc quarter Inches, and 5 per cent of clip pings from the same stone varying from three-fourths to three-eighths of an Inch'. The binder of pitch Is used to the extent of two to two and one-fourth gallons a superficial yard. Tho showing made by several of the road surfaces which gave the best satis.' faction gains significance from mo great amount of traffic passing over this stretch of highway. In August of last year tho nverage number of vehicles a day was 2,292, Including hand carts and animals, and tho average weight In tons tor each yard width of carriageway pjr day was 60S. A comparison ihows tho great Increase In motor traffic In two years. Thus, In September, 1910, the aver, age numbered a day was 322.51, while in August, 1912, It had nearly doubled, be ing 633.5. in the samo period the number of horse-drawn vehicles per day tell from 454.2 to 3S6.6. A comparison In average tons for tho whole width of roidway a day shows an Increase, from 2,618 to 3,bli, or, approximately, 41 per cent. In the body of the report the following reference to the value of the experiment Is made: 'The selected road was one which sub. Jected the trial surfaces to a very Bevere test, and It s evident that tho sur facing under trial on most of the sec tions would not, having regard to Us cost, be suitable for ordinary country roads without considerable modification. But tho behavior of the materials and methods used In these trials gives valu able guidance as to their strength and durability, and their relative vamo, evei for' roads carrying a light volumo of ti attic, can be approximately judged from their behavior under tho severo conditions at Sldcup. It should bo noted that the cost per squnre yard Is the amount paid to tho contractors for small lengths laid under expensive conditions and cannot, therefore, be us.l us Indicating the cost of laying the va rious materials In large quantities under average commercial conditions. The Sldcup scheme as carried out in eludes a total length of carriageway ot 2,490 lineal yards and n superficial area of 18,420 square yards." A Cold, Ln Grippe, Then Puptimonla. Is too often the fatal sequence. I. a Grippe coughs hang on, weaken the sys tem, and lower tho vital resistance. It. a. Collins, Postmaster, Barnegal, N. 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