. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biograhy, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . , and com-bined with a lack of proper sanitary and hy-gienic regulations, resulted in a great loss oflife. The application of the injector system ofventilation, invented by Signor Saccardo, engi-neer of Bologna, rectified these conditions ma-terially. The force of laborers numbered 3,500,all Italians, while the officers were Swiss andGermans. The men were paid from 3 to 6francs per day of 8 hours work, and had toboard themselves. Lnder thes
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biograhy, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . , and com-bined with a lack of proper sanitary and hy-gienic regulations, resulted in a great loss oflife. The application of the injector system ofventilation, invented by Signor Saccardo, engi-neer of Bologna, rectified these conditions ma-terially. The force of laborers numbered 3,500,all Italians, while the officers were Swiss andGermans. The men were paid from 3 to 6francs per day of 8 hours work, and had toboard themselves. Lnder these circumstancesthe poor food with which they supplied them-selves, contributed greatly toward the enor-mous death rate. Favre (Swiss) was the headof the firm of contractors. The cross sectiondimensions of the boring is similar to that ofthe Mont Cenis, and is lined throughout withmasonry 18 to 20 inches in thickness. It isequipped with a double-track railway, and re-quired 95^ years of labor for its construction,which was commenced in 1872 and completed in1882. Tlie third grcal .\lpine tunnel, the Arlberg. M () ]) K R N M O V N T A I X T U N N R L S. I. AIR l-OMPRESSOHS AT BRIO, THE SWISS END OF THE SIMPLON TUNNEL2. TURBINES AND PUMPS FUR , WA1ER IN NORTHERN HEAIUNGS OF TUNNEL TUNNELS. GREAT MODERN MOUNTAIN forms a part of tlic Austrian railway betweenInnsbruck and Bliidcnz in Iyrol, whicb con-nects westward with the Swiss railroads, andsouthward with those of Italy. It penetratesthe Alpine water-shed between the Rhine andthe Danube, from St. Anton to Langen, a dis-tance of kilometers, about 6jf) miles, itsaxis passing 1,594 f^ under Arlberg eastern and western portals are respec-tively 4,277 feet and 3,985 feet above sea-level,with the stmimit at an elevation of 4,301 construction was commenced in icS8o andcompleted in 1883, at a cost of $7,500,000. Pas-senger trains pass through the tunnel in abouttwenty-five minutes. Many schemes to connect Sw
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