The Emmett index., 1913-10-09

la Trains running 100 miles a.
houri The worlds most gi
gantic engineering feat accomplish
ed at the cost of years of labor
millions of dollars and 5000 human
lives! Mobsl Prisonl Love
Such is the gist of a novel called
"The Tunnel" written by Bernhard
Kellermann. 1t has just appeared in
Berlin and has caused a sensation in
literary and technical circles.
The author writes of a vast scheme
to build tunnel between America
and Europe. The hero of Kellermann's
book is Mac Allan, an American. On
ly one idea is moving Mac Allan's
brain-to connect America and Eu-
rope by an ocean tunnel, so that by
train within "a hours one can get
from New York to the French coast.
The tunnel, to have a length of
more than three thousand miles, is to
run from the coast of New Jersey,
touch the Bermudas, the Azores and
extend from the north coast of Spain
to France.
The writer considers the technical
and discusses the various
engineering and other
problems the gigantic enterprise de-
mands. He is ahead of Jules Verne
N so far that he also portrays the
influence vast army of men needed
% build the tunnel have on the labor
Ind financial market of the world.
After meeting in New York lead
ng millionaires of America agree to
upply Allan with the capital needed
o build the. tunnel Allan, as soon
s he knows this, begins work at once
nd buys land in New Jersey, France,
pain, the Bermudas, the Azores-in
act, at every point the tunnel is to
ouch.
Three days after the capitalists
ave furnished the money to build the
lnnel work is begun on the tunnel :
ty. First one beholds something
ke a mining camp, spades move
lpidly and a week later there is a
ty where 10000 people live.Still la 2
r one beholds a great city. Next =
'pears huge locomotive drawing =
endless train. Then come swarms .
these trains. Soon armies of work :
en- are bus1 at the various oceanic
atoms all over the world. Ii
The work in the tunnel is accom- II
lrd. 1t is a veritable struggle of al
idness, fight for minutes and sec o'
DIS. Allan forces a way through eN
ge stones with machines that would e2
We taken 80 years under ordinary Il
cumstances to build the tunnel. He OF
as much in eight hours III
others would have in "a. There ye
, three shifts of men and every Tn
Ir of each "a is utilized. The men pc
rk Sundays and holidays.
rhework in the tunnel is accom- tn
lied by such terrific noises that ov
st of the men become deaf. Enor- lyi
US searchlights throw their rays. thu
steam bore drill invented by Allan ba
ks its way through the vast rocks the
h shrill sound. The drill laughs fol
man insane, speaks like sick ira
4 and thunders like a waterfall. va,
fter two years the American part an
he tunnel is finished, but the rest :
he work is pushed forward fever MIG
y along the whole line. Hordes nec
nen surround the tunnel to unload thu
materials of wood, iron and steel pro
lers. Allan has spent months in owe
tunnel in order to find more rap "a
'orking methods. In the American spi
of the tube every machine is out
ed before it is used on other work the
places. Allan makes every effort as
expedite the work with the least blir
sndirure of money and strength The
has specialists to study labor con- traj
ms, who establish record of II
K done, and this record is accepted a.
normal working average.