Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-03-29
Tunnels.

The Romans. who we're great engi-
neere, %excavated some remarkable tup-
nels for aqueducts, but it has been re.
served to the moderns to use them in
bodybuilding. One of the first was that
under the river Thames at London,
commenced in 1926, finished in 1843,
add for q while one of the worlds
supposed wonders. It has since been
ecllpsed by the Severn tunnel (also con-
structed under a river) which is AZ
miles long. The most noted railroad
tunnels are: st. Gothard, 81 miles;
Mount Gents, IA miles, and the Hoosac,
AZ miles. The railway from Bologna to
Pistoga, across the Apprentices (Italy)
has forty-six tunnels in a distance of
sixty-two miles, equaled only by the
Black Forest railway Germany which
has twenty-nine tunnels in fifteen miles,
one of which forms a complete letter
49," The world now has e~ighty-six
canal tunnels, length 66 miles; nine hun
dred and %ffty-seven railway tunnels, 291
miles; eight sub-aqueous tunnels, 81
miles, and thirty-seven aqueducts, 80
miles. North America has one hundred
and fifteen railroad tunnels, several Of
them engineering works of great skill
and cost-but though the Burlington
Route has none of them, it's attractions
in the way Of equipment, speed, safe
ty. and scenery are such that it is the
favorite line with hundreds of thousands
of intelligent travellers between the great
cities of Chicago, st. Louis, Denver,
Kansas City, Omaha, Minneapolis and
st. Paul. For tickets, maps, folders
and any information, apply to your home
ticket agent, or to w. j. G. Kenyon, St.
Paul, MINI.
perhaps There
Is no factor of the present day that so
represents the rapid material progress of
our civilization ns the luxury of modern
travel. For instance, scarcely Is a single
home comfort missing in the completely
appointed North-W Western Limited. Its
equipment embraces every luxury known
to modern travel. It is %vestibuled and
lighted brilliantly with gas from end to
end, and you can walk through it as
through some stately hall or some palace.
Instead of a journey being a hardship,
on q train like this one, it is q fascinat.
ing recreation and treat.-The Times, st.
Cloud, MINI.
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Information of great Importance to
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Notice.
All persons are notified against pur-
chasing lot No. l, in block %, N. P. adj
dition to Bismarck, belonging to Fred
e. Kendrick, there being q claim against
said lot for the value of the Vii. ula man
sion house; that, together with rocks
torn from the walks, driveways and
flower borders, vas recently removed
from Villula without the consent of the
owners and placed on said lot by Fayette
u. Kendrick, the plaintiff in three civil
suits long pending in the courts to de.
termine the title and right Of possession
of the Villula property.
Insurance agents are also notified not
to insure said building.
LINDA w. SLAUGHTER.
Bismarck, March 26, 1895.
Notice.
All persons are notified not to pur-