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Omaha daily bee., 1915-07-18
Auction Bridge and Luncheon.

Mrs. Dan Moore entertained the Fri
day Morning Auction Bridge club at her
aparsSSents in the Harley Friday. The
game was followed by luncheon and the
members present were:
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Wedding Announcement.

The welding Of Mis- Anna Belle '.oudan
OF Grant Ia. and Mr.. George Miller Of
Omaha was celebrated quietly last even
at s o'clock at the home OF the brides
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0mshans Return from Abroad.

sir. and Mrs Lewis 8. Reed and their
sons. Lewis B. and Philip. are az Royat
IN southern France. but expect to sall
from bordeaux for New York on the
stth Of this month. Mr. and Mrs. Reed
haze teen living In Paris for several
years but lind il an undesirable place
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vesta Chapter Outing.

The annual dinner and outing Of vesta
chapter. Order Of the Eastern Star, was
enjoyed at Carter Lake club Wednesday.
The dinner party was followed by dan
cling and the whole affair was voted a
decided success. Among those present
were H. e. Mahaffey, who entertaind
six guests; Dean Gregg, two; Maurice
Garrison, two; d. NJ. BARLEY. two; A.
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At Happy Hollow Club.

Mr.. Al Gould gave a dinner of ten COW
ers last evening at tho Happy Hollow
club, Mr.. A. w. Carpenter had seven
guests, Bedwell. five; T. @. McGilton,
four; DR.. N. II. Rasmussen, two; A.
Brandon Howell. two: Norris Brown.
four: w. q. Fraser. two w. b. Peterson.
eight; c. s. Peterson. six, and c. II.
Smell, five.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. b. Currie entertained
at dinner last evening at the Happy Hol-
low club. Garden flowers were used az
the table centerpiece and covers were
placed for:
Messrs. and Mesdames-
j. r. Williams Currie,
Misses MISSES
Catherine Smith Kinney
Of Tacoma. Wash; OF Elgin, Ill.
Mr.. Lawrence.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. n. Durham will en-
terrain at supper this evening at the
Happy Hollow club. Their guests will be-
MeBsre. and Mesdamea-
Frank z. Clark. Samuel Houser.
byron Hastings,
Mrs. Cox.
Miss Helen Durham.
Mr. Fred Fernald.
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DEBUTAEFES LIFE OF CLUBS
Various Outdoor Clubs Are Filled
with the Gayety OF the
Younger Set
FIVE HAVE THEIR PLANS MADE

SocisI Calendar.
MONDAN-OnCinnl Monday Bridge club.
TUESDAY -Dinner-d dance az the Happy
Hollow. Carter Lake and Sevnotlr Lake
Country clubs. ChildIens day At tho
Happy Hollow club. W. ID. NcHugh. IT,.
dinrcr az the Happy Hollow club. Mrs.
g = Weller luncheon At the Happy
WEDNESDAY, at the Field
and Country clubs: w. w. club picnic
at Miller park.
THURsDAY-I.adies day luncheon at the
Happy Hollow. Field and Seymour
Lake Country clubs; Original Cooking
club. Mrs. Luther Rountze. hostess.
Misses Alice Rushton. Caroline Holm
ouist and Ellen Shepard luncheon nj
the Happy Hollow club.
FRTDAY-Chiidren dnO at the Field
club; dinne--dance at Seymour Lake
sATTRDAY-Dinner dances at Field.
Country. Harry Hollow and Carter
Lake clubs.
Always at this time OF the war ~,
prospective deI.utantes OF tho season %
como loom upon the social horizon.
The clubs ire filled with the raveties,
IN fsct. the life OF the country clubs now
is in their let and spcculations are rife
a. 70 their plans.
As things are now there will I've nnIv n
few this fall. Last year we had twelve
gay buds and their debut parties and
given in honor offsirs kept oil hopping
until the lent DAYS OF ,icietuIe iulled
them.
The five prospective debutantes for
next fan are 'I'ss isabel vinsvnhnIer
daughter u .'udHe end Mrs. Duncan VIM
sonhaler, attended school at Dana Hail.
graduating from there In June.
Miss Marion Towle. daughter OF Mr.
and Mrs Iohn Towie. Miss NarRery
Mccord, daughter o. Mr.. AMI Mrs Hal
Mccord. Miss c'harlotte Callahan and
Miss Gwendoline wolfe.
Miss Callahan IL a little undecided yet
rs % her plaas. She was 10 have beon
a dehutante " last Season. but a death
In the family prevented.
Miss owendoline Wolfe. laughter az
Mrs. Joseph 3aldries. lie another nontoer
OF the younger set who will poSslbiy - elk
debutants nono-s next fail.
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00nN|IOIDGO -
hair ferns was attractively arranged on
the table. and eorsage bouquets OF the
same flowers marked the places Of the
ladies. Those present were;
Messrs and Mesdames-
w n. Wikins ID. v. Sholes,
A. W, scribneE. Frank Judson.
William sehnon W a. p BarnoiA'
a osoT1 II. Kelley. Louis poup,
r. nj Lswis. J. ID. Foster.
n, ]. Dining. ,s.a.u..
w. a. Hemphin OF N. G; Peters.
NVoriand. Wye; Rainbolt
Miss Margaret FOX gave small dane
ing party. Her guests were;
M Ml.si Rulsna. Mary Mecabe.
Ethei Mahoney OF Kathleen o'Brien.
ror.lano, o@ Messrs.-
William oLeary. 2. waters
+. x. Welsh. p I,.d BSIsr su,uvan
| Daniel Mara OF 1lmo1ny SuNeN
h M. Sna Mrs. James Il Il. iTsnIsy, -
D,nsne With Afr. and Mrs. II, l. Pike
Fr,aav evening wers Messra. and Mes
! DANES Frank Roberts. w. A. Rose ana
ciaua orchard; Miss Helen Paterson.
Miss Mary Neal Of Guthrie. OH; Kari
Hopkins and W. II. Cheek
Mias Bertha 'IAchnovsky entertained
Misses GLADYS Ledvicky OF Kansas City.
No. and Helen IAchnovsky; kessrs-
Julius stigge. John stiggee and J. ~
| KopietE.
DR.. ana Mrs Paul Juekiness had
small party. covers being iaid for Mr..
and MrA J. ]. Hinchey. Mise Edna Por-
teons and r. NJ. Juckiness.
Another party was composed OF Messrs,
and Mesdames John urion, j. =. Bednar.
Mrs. c. /. yoilmer and Miss Marguerite
Urion.
DR.. and Mrs. ID L. Delaney enter
tained for Mrs. ID. NJ. Deem and Miss
Shirley Deem OF Harlan, Ia
Mrs. Frsnk f. Amos had as her guests
Measrs and Mesdames George Francis.
Roy n Dennis ana Miss Lulu Raymond.
Mr.. and Mra. Charles l. Vollmer are
chaperonlng a goIfing party this morn
Ing The young people are TO be on the
course AZ an early hour and a three
course breakfast VIII be served at 10
o'clock. Those composing the party are
Mabel sssis sNslehsr. r ss'i Book
Doris Berry. Conner.
Gale hi Current Current W n. pf serry,
James s.I Boyle IA, ~ 4 l. M F,,SsiI
ing by the Keno auartette.
|
At the Field Club.
Mr.. and Mrs~Paul wehrner entertained
Al dinner last evening az the Field clnub
Their guests we're
Mesdames- Mesdemes-
Wayne Hemphili. Clifford Caikins
! MesBrs.- Messr8.-
Lester Drishaus. Twin Wernheg.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Taylor entertained
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LunoheOns Of Past Week.

Mrs. William Gould. jr.. gave o'clock
luncheon Wednesday for her aunt. Mrs.
Anna Wray. OF La Porte, Ind. Covers
were placed for:
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visit Mrs. Mary 1. Credgh, who has a
cottage there.
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A. Seymour Lake Country Club.

Mr.. and Mrs. Everett buckingham u"
tertained at dinner Friday evening
centerpiecO Of roses lilies and maiden
hair ferns was attracuvely arranged on
the table, and eorsage bouquets OF inc
same flowers marked the places OF inc
L. .ai.n nhoan rnrnnnnt were.
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At the bod Club.

Mr.. and Mrs. Paul wehrner entertained
Al dinner last evening at the Field cinub,
Their guests were
Mechanics Mesdames-
Wayne Hemphill. Clifford Caikins
MosBre.- Messr8.-
Lester Drishaus. hvin Wernher.
Mr. and Mrs. w. n, Taylor entertained
eighteen guests At dinner last evening
At the Field club. r. p. Smith. EIGHT;
Oscar Allen. family party OF six. Mrs
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Continued on Page Three-coluT hrse>
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at luncheon at the Field club for Mrs.
Leonard Spalding and her mother and
sister. Mrs. Putnam and Miss Putnam Of
Kentucky. Pink and white sweet peas
decorated the large table which seated
the Ruests OF honor and
The Newark journal., 1915-12-16
OlrrlHttltaa Ututp

hRlSTMAS TIMEl That man O must be a misanthrope indeed. in whose breast something like a toVlal A feeling IS not roused-in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened-by the recurrence or Y Christmas here are people Who will tell you that Christmas is not 10 them what it used to be; that each 4 succeeding Christmas has found some { cherished hope or happy prospect ot
 the year before. dimmed or passed Y away: that the present only serves to
 remind them of reduced circumstan> 1 ces and suaitened incomes-of the 3 feast they once bestowed on hollow II friends. and of the cold looks that | meet them now in adversiY and 4 misfortune,
 ! Never heed such dismal reminis> \ cences There are few men who have I he'd long enough in the world, who I cannot call up such thoughts any day J in the year Then do not select the 1 rerriest of the three hundred and sixty { five for your doleful recollecuons. but J draw your chair nearer the blazng q fre-fll the glass and send round the song-and if your room be smaller J than it was dozen years ago. or if T your glass be filledwith rocking punch { instead of sparkling wine. put a good 4 face on the matter
 \ Look on the merry faces of your ' children if you have any as they sit X round the fire One liele seat may be
 empty: one slight form that sladdened T the fathers heart and reused the
 mothers pride to look upcn, may not | be there. Dwell not upon the past. ! think not that one short year ago, the A fair child now resolving into dust sal | before you. with the bloom of health 7 upon its cheek. and the sayety ot in, Il fancy in ifs joyous eye. Reflect upon 1 your present blessings which every man has many-not on your \ past misfortunes of which all men \ have some. Fill your glass again. \ 2 with a merry face and contented T heart Our life cn it but your Christi 1 mas shall be merry and your New 1i Year a happy one.
 T ---Chafles Dickens
The Newark journal., 1915-12-16

N4nN ring out only in the morn
 ing of the sacred day The other bells ring from morning until night. After which they jangle through ones dreams.
 The Christmas doorbell is a great institution. It is the busiest bell of the lot All day long the doorbell has pressing engagements. When the doorbell rings on Christmas day, every body gives heed to it's sweet sounds And everybody rushes to the front door as If the house had caught on fire, and that was the nearest exit. The doorbell has everyone in the fam fly hopping as If they were so many trained ducks.
 There are two reasons why the Christmas doorbell is a welcome wis itor when it jars upon the ear. In the first place, you know that no bills are going to be presented by the caller at the door. In the second place the doorbell may announce the arrival of a package.
 A sawed-off express wagon driver. with chunky, holly-bound package under his arm, can get more attention on Christmas day than the governor of the state, surrounded by his military staff and preceded by a Chinese or chestra, playing "Tippelaly."
 The package the expressman or mail carrier brings, is seized by a
The Newark journal., 1915-12-16

dozen eager hands Il is strange how ready everybody is to help in reliey. ing the deiiferyman of his 12-ounce burden Then the package is conveyed in state to the inspecting department It Is opened Hith nervous anticipation, and there is great rejoicing when it proves to be a knitted muller for ia ther from Aunt Jessica The muller is as large as a young hammock. and is Hinker than pa s cheeks when We all insist that he try 1t on.
 If there is a grown-up daughter in the family she beats all records get ting Co the door when the bell rings on Christmas day If anybody beats her to the knob it Is not her fault as she slid down the baHister and took a fly. ing leap, which was the best she could do without breaking bones. Sis ex- poets the kind of presents which are not found in freplaces after Santa Claus visit She's looking for bou- quets of flowers, huge boxes of candy and other tokens of regard. Some 'AA44t9t IHCu6E uoL very Oiltut tue utlA ring announces neatly wrapped we'd ding ring.
 The Christmas telephone bell is an important feature of the Yuletide. It rings Christmas tidings which former iy were sent on decorative cards. which, with their imitation snow, made handy match seratchers.
 The Christmas dinner bell-one at time, please. Don't all rush in at oncel
The Newark journal., 1915-12-16
A Christmas Prayer.

Give me the eyes 10 see my brothers woe; Grant me the vision that perceives his eaTe. That | amid my Christmas joys, may go And take some touch of mitigation there. God point the way that l may quickly find
 His acre waiting for the glad relieI. And ope my eyes that I may not be blind To tasks of love that ease the sting of grief.
 John Kendrick Bangs.
The Newark journal., 1915-12-16

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The Washington herald., 1915-05-30
Red Blood Needed for Uncle Sans Hardest Task

the United States paid to Russia for
Alaska. Russia thought she had I'M
loaded a vast stretch of arid land upon
the United States at goodly price and
everybody in the United States thought
SO, too.
But gold was discovered there not so
long ago that there isn't any one who has
yet forgotten the great rush to the fields
that took place and the great fortunes
that were made in them. The arid. Ice
bound land Of Alaska over night became
was paid for it. Since its purchase more
than $820,000.000 worth of products,
represented mostly in minerals and fur,
have been taken from 1t.
Since the discovery Of coal and oil in
great quantities the government has
been making ready to construct its own
railway to tap the richest sections. The
railway will transport not only coal, lum-
Der, gold, silver. copper, coal oil and
furs. but will also carry grain and vege-
tables from the interior for shipment.
Although the summer is very short in
Alaska, 1t is hot and crops grow very
rapidly Enough food can be raised in
Alaska to support almost the entire
population Of the land.
No railroad has been constructed in
Alaska without the overcoming Of ter
rife engineering difficulties and heavy
loss Of life The first line to be built
was the White Pass & Yukon railway,
running from Skaguay to Lake Bennett
a distance of 115 miles. The Copper
River & Northwestern railway fol-
lowed It runs from Cordova to the
famous Bonanza copper mines, and Is
1877 miles long. The Alaska Northern,
starting from Seward and running inland
seventy-one miles. and the Council City
railway, between Council City and Port
Dickson, about forty-ive miles, were the
last two constructed. The last one has
the honor Of being the most northerly
iron road IN the world.
The construction proper began In
June, 1898, and by August S trains were
running over the first fourteen miles of
the line When the news of the gold
discoveries at Atlin reached the camps.
the force. which had reached the maxi
mum number Of 1000. dwindled to less
than 100 in two days. It took until Oc-
tober to restore the original working
strength. BY this time the road had
climbed above the timber line and the
workers were exposed to all the arctic
blasts. Upon most Of this stretch the
WORKERS had = b roped together %
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that they would not be blown from the
faces Of the mountains, where the granite
was so smooth and slippery that the
only foothold obtainable was on logs
chained to iron bars drilled in the rock.
The cold and wind we're SO fierce that
the men could work only in one-hour
shifts. Longer exposure not only numbed
their bodies but also their brains. Many
are the stories told Of workmen who
had not enough sense left to tie knots
securely or to do other simple things.
The men worked in temperatures that
ranged from 20 to 40 degrees below
zero. But there was never a halt, and
by the middle Of February the first train
reached the summit Of the White pass,
2,S65 feet above sea level and twenty
miles from Skaguay.
Work had to be given up until the
following spring, when once more an
army Of brave men set to work to build
the line northward to Lake Bennett. It
was a continuous battle against stub
born and unyielding nature every inch
Of the way. Miles Of solid granite had
to be drilled and blasted away and
every little way tunnels had to be cut
through the mountain Of solid granite.
Men worked from the ends Of ropes
dangling high over abysses. In the first
forty miles OF tQC uu6 IL was necessary
to construct no less than sixty-seven
bridges amounting to 1880 feet. Most
Of them we're built over unbelievably
deep canyons After storms snow to a
depth Of twenty-five or thirty feet had
to be removed before work could pro-
coed.
The Miles Glacier bridge which had to
be built for the Copper River railway az
fords q good example Of the terrific OBJ
stacles that had to be overcome In this
long fight. It is a 1.600-foot structure
of steel consisting Of four spans carried
on massive concrete piers. It had to
be placed across river where 1t makes
a double turn between the great living
glaciers Of Miles and Childs. Both OF
these glaciers have 300-foot. cliR-like
faces running down to the water.
Most Of the engineers who viewed the
problem declared It impossible. But after
two years Of continuous fighting against
ice, wind and water It was successfully
accomplished Immense concrete piers
were driven forty to fifty feet through
the river bottom and there anchored to
the bed rock. Solid concrete and steel
made them practically ~ solid Is the
rock itself. All around these piers
row Of sisatx-nsa1d rails vsrs set foot
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apart, and the whole structure bound
together within the concrete in an
amazingly solid manner. Up stream,
directly in front Of the piers, ice break
ers of exactly the same construction were
built.
Because no falsework could stand
against the moving spring ice. 1t was ne
cessary to connect the piers with the
roadway of steel during the winter
When 1t came to this part Of the con-
struction the elements vented all the
fury they possessed against the workers.
The cold was piercing and bitter.
Nevertheless the men kept to their
work and the last span was almost in
place when it was discovered that the
falsework, which carried it, had moved
a distance Of fifteen inches. The false
work consisted Of 1000 piles driven into
the bottom Of the river forty feet be-
low the surface. The ice covered the
river solidly to depth Of seven feet.
Into this ice the piles were solidly
frozen But unfortunately the spring
breakup had begun and the ice, lifted
twenty feet above its winter level. was
moving.
At any moment the falsework and
the span might be carried away. The
engineers knew that all odds were
against tneIQ, yet tHcy Kept UIdScIy dt
the work Steam from every available
engine in the camp was sent through
small feed pipes and every man in camp
was sent out to steam, blast or chop
the piles free from their seven-foot
thickness Of ice. Through many days
and nights the men kept at work, and
in the awful arctic cold they unbolted
hundreds Of crosspieces and shifted
them while the river rose twenty-one
feet
After this followed the dragging Of
the falsework and the span upstream.
At first the men moved the structure
but an inch a day. The melting and
chopping was kept up day and night.
Above the bridge anchorages were built
into the ice and $50 feet Of towering
bridgework was coaxed inch by inch
into its place. Everybody worked with
feverish and unremitting activity. At
midnight. after an eighteen-hour drive
in which everybody took part without q
moments rest. the span was settled IN
its place upon its concrete bed and the
last bolt driven home. An hour later
the river with q roar and crash carried
away the whole $50 feet Of falsework.
and had lost IT. night b. LEES than IN
hour.
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cember when she was only sixteen. She
made her debut early in the fall be-
cause the war made 1t impossible for
her to go abroad to school as she'd
planned. Her friends were coming
out" and she wanted to come out" too.
That's how she happened to attend q
party that the George Goulds gave in
Georgian court, Lakewood. Young Mr..
Duke and his sister Mary were in the
party. Miss Biddle was visiting her
aunt, Mrs. William Thaw, Sd. on an
estate nearby. Miss Biddle's father was
with the Goulds. Mr.. Gould suggested
a private prize fight between Tony"
Biddle, who long ago blossomed out as
a real pugilist with Jack McAuliffe and
Bob Fitzsimmons as training mates.
The prize fight was staged. a near
professional In training on a farm a
mile out of town acting as leading gen.
tleman. The fight came off in the Gould
casino. Miss Biddle was there. She had
to be, but she vowed it was positively
her last appearance at any of dads
fights" She was tired of the atmos-
phere Of combined pugilism and Chris
tianity that has hung round her home
ever since she can remember-or at
least since Papa Tony" opened his
Drexel-Biddle Bible class movement.
Wherefore, during the course of the
fight. she turned to the melancholy male
sitting next. and said emphatically:
This is my very last fight; after to-
night I'm done"
And the male turned an eye in her
direction and said "Beastly bore, isn't
It? I came because / had to. I'm
guest in the house. but 1 never liked
anything like this"
From that moment, so the story goes,
Miss Biddle enshrined him in her heart.
For the young men she had known in
sisted upon talking of nothing but prize
fights or mission work.
Love followed right along and the
wedding was spite of the efforts of Dukes
aunt. Mrs. James Duke. who endeavored
to marry him to various English titles.
It's even said that Princess Patricia was
considered by the ambitious aunt.
The brides dislike for her fathers
hobbies didn't lead to censoring of the
wedding guest list. Prominent among
New York and Philadelphia society
names appeared those of Lew Bailey and
Jack O'Brien, noted in pugilistic circles,
and Robert ]. McKenty. warden of the
Eastern penitentiary, and George Long,
superintendent of the In-As-Much mis-
sion, representing Biddle's social service
work.
Announcement of the engagement Of
Miss Mary Duke to young Biddle came
as surprise. 1t wasn't so long ago that
Mary was grieving over a noble prince
who wooed her but whom her father
would not let her have. and who Is now
fighting with the allies.
Miss Duke has great ability as singer.
She has studied in Paris under famous
French masters. as well as in New York.
Numerous musicales have been given for
her recently. She 10 twenty-five; Biddlo
IL twenty.
Her share In the Duke fortune will BE-
something like 340.000,0O0 Biddle has
comparatively small expectations, Is his
fathers estate. estimated At $1,000. 00o
VII - divided among three cAildrsa
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|oURAGE and grit and good red
blood-these are the qualities
that Uncle Sam is demanding
Of his helpers in the most
dangerous undertaking he has yet set his
hands to.
In other words Uncle Sam is about to
build an Alaskan railway, feat which Is
not even second in Importance to the
building Of the Panama canal, and which
will carry such a tremendous amount of
wealth out of the topmost end of the
American continent as to make the mil
lions of dollars which has already come
from it in minerals, lumber and fur
seem like mere scratching on the sur
face of a mine of gold.
Already the preliminary work Of sur
veying is under way and the great battle
with nature has commenced. For the
surveyor it is not merely the task Of
the explorer who pushes ahead by the
shortest route to his objective. Instead,
the surveyor must always have his mind
on what is to follow him, must choose
the easiest paths for the locomotive and
valleys, and bridge rivers which at GER
tain seasons become torrential streams
Some of the highest mountains in
North America rear their towering heads
In Alaska, and from their snowclad sides
in spring and summer dash down great
streams OF water that rush seward with
terrific violence. They carry down their
flooded channels with them great giants
Of trees, thousands every year, which
drive along at a tremendous pace when
the channel Is clear, or jam in some
narrow pass and dam the rivers until
they food miles Of country.
These are only the beginnings Of the
dangers that the surveyors and the
workers who follow them must face.
There are the slowly moving but ire
sistibly advancing mountains of ice, the
famed Alaskan glaciers. some of which
have taken possession Of the very val
leys through which the engineers would
choose to carry their lines. good
idea Of the dificulties to be faced II
given by the Copper River 4 North
western railroad In Alaska, which In its
195 miles has no less than 276 trestles.
bridges, tunnels and nils. Some sections
cost as much as 100000 Q mile.
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