The evening world., 1914-01-10
THREE WORKERS KILLED AS TUNNEL WORK FINISHED

tunnei has been injured. Tnis has been
accomplished by building crooked blind
s'oe tunnels from each blasting cham
Der and by closing the opening to the
smart leading to daylight with a wedge
SNAPPED door. Had the whole supply Of
dynamite In any one chamber gone
on at once the shock would have been
absorbed In these twisted side drills ana
the wedge shaped door would have been
uriVen Ike cork into the opening to
the upper air and the busy streets.
mere has not been an explosion, but
mad there been one folks up above ct
least would have been safe.
Thero has not been q human sxplo.
sion. otherwise known a. a strike. Back
In the days when the force was being
organised. Carlton L. Davis, Division
Engineer at Cathedral Gorge. away up
IN the mountains. went to Charles N.
chadwick. the only member of the
original AQueduct Commission who 10
still In office. Mr.. Chadwick 10 really
the father Of the Aqueduct. He began
'hshting for II before Brooklyn came
into Greater New York. and kept IN
hshtins until 1906. when the big work
was authorized; It took ihsps after the
engineers had gone over the ground.
very much along. ths lines he had. st
hrst suggested. The engineers took,
their human troubles to him a. mat
ter Of course. .
Commissioner" said Engineer Davis,
I'll do my best. but Of course Il 10
going to be hard to keep a force Of the
right kind Of engineers together In Q
God-forsaken place like this"
CLUBS AND SCHOOLS PREVENT
STRIKES.
Mr. Chadwick told him to take an old
farmhouse, which was available, and use
1t for a clubhouse. After q little arKu-
ment the Brooklyn and then the New
York public libraries were persuaded
that the Aqueduct was. In New York
City and sent up quantities of books.
The working force Clipped In for a
plano and a pool table; the place was
comfortably furnished-and not an en-
ginser quit.
But how about strikes," asked Mr..
Davis. I'VE are bound to have strikes"
Mr.. Chadwick had q strike preventa.
tive ready. Police? Not q blt--Schools.
He figured that the workmen. Italians
Slavs. negroes and others would have
eight hOurs' work. eight hours sleep
and eight hours play. This, to the
Commissioner. indicated mischief. He
dsvised- IN adult school at which Eng
iish was taught and the principles Of
government OF the United States In q
simple way The men were taught that
the padrone had no power over them
here. They were encouraged To debate.
The hours In which mischief might have
brewed were thus used In education,
which was In itself an antidote to miy-
chisf. The workers lost their suspicion
Of the bosses. Their festivals were en-
couraGed and chapels for interd emoni-
national worship were opened to them.
In ali this work Commissioners Sim
mons and Shaw. who were his hrst
colleagues. and Commissioner Calvin
and Straus. who have succeeded them,
have co-oporated heartily with Mr.
Chadwick. The result has been the
building up Of an esprit do corps which
has kept every man from the chief
engineer to the lowllest laborsr jumping
at the job. Time and again the lights
In New York Offices have been kept.
burning all night a. . group Of engl.
nssrs. young and old. havs wrestled
with an unexpected problem 20 that
WORK might not be halted on the NOR
row.