El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-12

i neering feats ever. attempted IS
soon to be carried out here, it is re-
ported. by which the engineers Of a
tunnel under the East river to accom-
mOdaee a huge gas main will first
create a body of rock hundred feet
below the river BED, and then tunnel
{ through it,
I found necessary to create such an ar
[ tificial obstruction for the sole pur-
I pose of subsequently boring through
Z it and the experiment will be watched
I with much interest The reason for
this novel undertaking is found in the
/ chalky. porous rock which the engi-
neerS have encountered in driving the
| tunnel So FAR as can be aScertained
the headings are now less that 70 feet
apart and they would have been Joined
/ some time ago but for the treacher-
J GUS rock
! The Bronx heading was 500 feet out
Z under the river when the fault was
! encountered. II baffled the engineers
! Astoria shore In the hope of finding
better conditions The same sort of
3 rock was struch Wnen the Astoria
heading was within 200 1eet of the
Bronx heading Wafer poured in and
the WOrkmen say that even small fish
came through the seams. 1t is under
stood that il no other way is found TO
stop the inflow of water the engineers
propose bulkheadiuE both tunnels some
distance back from the present head
lnSs ana ming the aperture ahead OF
. the bulkheads with concrete. after
this sets the engineers Will cut through
the bed Of concrete.
To Celebrate First Ship.
What IS probably one Of the most
remarkable tercentenary anniversaries
on record is to be celebrated here this
year
Just 500 years ago. in 1913. occurred
the first ShlpWreck in New York bay
and the same year saw the erection Of
on Manhattan island. Some time after
the Half Noon had returned to Holland
a company Of merchants in America
sent out i've vessels loaded with
goods to be traded with the indians IN
America for furS. Among the skip
pers Of this fleet was Adrian Block,
commanding a ship called the Tiger.
The other ships having gone to various
parts of the new continent, Block, who
had visited Manhattan island in 1910
or 1911 decided that the lower end Of
the island was good place to land and
trade. Some time in the latter part
OF 1913 the Tiger caught fire and was
completely destroyed
IN order TO continue their trading
and the exploration of the surround
ing country, the. captain and crew I'M
medlaIely started TO build new yes
sci 1t may have been that the neces-
SarV rigging and iron work for this
new vessel had been saved from the
Tiger, for the work progressed so rap
idly that il was finished and launched
early IN the following spring. The ship
but 66 tBe SUPPOSE 5Pte of 70 faYe P 86
Fraunces tavern Not only was this
first ship built on Manhattan island
but ii was the third one built by white
men on the American continent.
Davidson the Dynamic Force.
While New York is still casting
person, if any. is likely to fill or at
tempt to iii the financial shoes of the
late J. P Morgan. the death Of the
great financier has brought into the
limelight one Of the most remarkable
careers that this city has ever seem
that OF Henry P. Davidson
While plenty Of people know Of him
as one Of the Morgan partners and a
smaller number as the dynamic force
Of this firm, very few persons know
/ that the man who piloted the S17O.-
100000 subway deal, although he is
not yet As years old, came to this city
% years ago without a job and pos
sessing only $40 in cash, after giving
up JOB at teaching school Davidson
became man who was given the floor
when men Of money wanted 10 hear
from men of brains, and when the
panic Of 1907 came along and J. Pier
pOnt Morgan scOWled over his long
cigar at his nightly conferences. -Da-
wilson was one of those invited to man
the salvage corps and Morgan saw
quickly that the young man had the
real ring. The panic sessions made him
member Of the Morgan firm. Nor
gan Mixed his style and his ability and
there IS little question but what his
frank manner of expression did more
than anything else to impress his
worth on the big man Of the money
bags
Protecting Maiden Lane.
As result Of the recent 100000 gem
robbery, the greatest in many years,
dealers in precious stones here have
been taking stock of the defences
which safeguard the S500,00O.000 worth
OF gems in the Maiden ane district
In consequence the public now has a
better understanding than ever before
of. the wonderful system which pro-
Maiden Lane concern under electrical
protection Is assigned a box in which
IS deposited sealed envelope contain
ing a key TO the office and the sigma
tuTe Of those authorized to open the
safe When an alarm is sounded and
the key removed to gain entrance to
key is again sealed by the proprietor
or some authorized agent a report is
also submitted each week showing
when the signal for opening and clos
ing the safe was received, with addi-
tiOnal data as the case requires. Thus
IL is seen that the burglar meets OBJ
staeles which are almost impossible to
PROOF Against Flood and Wind.
That New York is hurricane proof
ana flood proof too, unless the Hud-
son river should happen TO cause the
Atlantic ocean 10 overflow is the COM
fortinE assurance which has just been
given out here by expert authorities
as an answer to the feeling Of uneasi-
ness caused by the. great Ohio disas- (
ters..
New York has been told more than
once that it is inviting disaster by the
way in which IT allows buildings to be (
carried heayenward. Inside of some
of these tall buildings are housed dur
ing the busy hours of each working (
day several thousand people. If any of
these were overturned and in their l
downfall buried number of their /
humber neighbors. the catastrophe /
would exceed BY far in its fatalities
the worst that has happened recently !
in the stricken states But the authOri-
ties agree that such a thing is impOs- =
sible.
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