Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-27
eral hundred miles from its mouth at

cral hundred miles from its mouth at
( TIL" Atlantic.
/ lie started this road way back in
the iiftics. but Il never reached the
mountains. ana did little more than
connect the silver mines pr Copiapo
with Caldcra. MciSgs. another Ameri-
can, also had schemes for crossing the
mountains. but his chief work was
done farther northward In Central and
southern Peru. The present road orig
mated with two brothers, Juan and
Matco Clark, who got Il conccs sion
along back in the seventies, ana who
started building on both the Chilean
ana Argentine sides about 1889 The
work went slowly. being stopped again
ana again, but 1t WAS finally completed
as lar as the ends Of the tunnel on
both sides Of the Andes, about 1899
, Then the construction stopped The
! engineers seemed afraid OF the tunnel
and the money could not be raiscl until
w. X. Grace x Co, of New York
look the contract ana began to work
on Doth sides ar the mountains The
/ gangs pushed their ways In from the
frontiers of the two countries. and late
IN 1910 they came together. The plans
were so carefully made that for some
time the workmen in Chile could hear
tn" workmcn in Argentina digging the
way through the thin veil of rock that
| was LETT. Then II dynamite charge was
set on, the wall fell and the noun
/, tainS We're conquered
The tunnel goes through the noun
iains At an altitud. OF 1865 feet, and
1000 ieet lower than the top of the old
pass by which the mule trains now 20.
ana near which stands the famous
statue, The Christ Of the Andes" The
tunnel has Il lcngth Of lO.3S5 feet and
All the way - through rock
The Christ of the Andes is no, visi-
n!c from the railroad, but il is we'll
worth a trip up tn. mountains. 1t is
one OF The wonderful statutes of the
pafcS with II in the nobility Of the SEN
:-1iiheht II commentaries. II is a grcat-
urcW CarncSic'S famous Peace Palace
az me Hague, or that other peace nal
ace winch he erected in Costa Rica,
which the earthquake threw down
indeed, II is Il question whether the
f::mropGan war has not practically de-
rope.
the Andes is bronze figure of thc
E christ placed placed on the boundary be-
menoratc the treaty OF peace made be-
tween the two republics in 1903 II
marks mark, The settlement of dispute
Wnlcn involved 4 territory as large as
our state OF Kansas, or more than one
inlrd as large as either Germany or
h hr..n,,,, Inc statue was cast from old
NrScutli" cannon. II is twcnty-siy
1tct nigh. and ii stands on a gpinitS
nnGeStai one hand of the Christ is
uphoius thc cross. ON the pedestal are
engraved these words:
!, sooner shall these mountains cTum-
bic into dust than the people of Ar
Srntiha and Chile break the peace
winch th"y have sworn to maintain at
the icet OF Christ. the Redccmcr"
me English. the French and the
Germans are inclined TO look at the
countries or lower South America as a
ana some of them are prone TO sheer
a. their lack OF culture and morals.
IN these days, when organized murder
has hecomc n national virtue and w,.ii
ten ohllsa,ions between countries are
merely srrars OF white paper. is il not
the AndcS"p
/ copyrighted. 1919. by Frank 6. Car