. Review of reviews and world's work. THE SUPERINTENDENT SHOWTNO HOW TO FLOWER SEEDS. (One of the first school gardens In Philadelphia, at the Church Home for Children.) f ■ Switzerland IlALV ■1 6560 ft. Passivakl Frontier T 1 • ^ Volal-ande de V Lac UaVf-ro ^ _ 3280 fc. 5ecVor,oi--j/MPLON ^-^ Bhicu!L- Tun-el Z3,z ahoye sea Jeyef j-^^^^^j fSELbA bove 3eQ /eye/^ 2250 ft 6radiantsin/oo Gradiant / in loo A SECTIONAL, VIEW OF THE REGION, SHOWING WHERE THE SIMPLON TUNNEL PIERCES THE RANGE OF MOUNTAINS BETWEEN ITALY AND SWITZERLAND. UNDER THE ALPS FOR TWELVE MILES. WITH
. Review of reviews and world's work. THE SUPERINTENDENT SHOWTNO HOW TO FLOWER SEEDS. (One of the first school gardens In Philadelphia, at the Church Home for Children.) f ■ Switzerland IlALV ■1 6560 ft. Passivakl Frontier T 1 • ^ Volal-ande de V Lac UaVf-ro ^ _ 3280 fc. 5ecVor,oi--j/MPLON ^-^ Bhicu!L- Tun-el Z3,z ahoye sea Jeyef j-^^^^^j fSELbA bove 3eQ /eye/^ 2250 ft 6radiantsin/oo Gradiant / in loo A SECTIONAL, VIEW OF THE REGION, SHOWING WHERE THE SIMPLON TUNNEL PIERCES THE RANGE OF MOUNTAINS BETWEEN ITALY AND SWITZERLAND. UNDER THE ALPS FOR TWELVE MILES. WITH the explosion of a small dynamitecartridge, on tlie morning of Feb];uary24, seven thousand feet below the summit ofMonte Leone, one of the peaks of the Alps,many thousands of gallons of water from a liotspring in Switzerland flowed into Italy, and thefamous Simplon tunnel had been completed. This longest railway tunnel in the world wasbegun in the summer uf Its importance. THE ENGINEER-IN-OHIEF OF THE SIMPLON TUNNEL AND HISFIRST LIEUTENANT IN WORKADAY DRESS. (Baron Hugo von Kapcer, the one on the right, controls thefortunes of the tunnel from the Swiss side of the range.) had been pointed out half a century ago, butnothing of a practical nature had been done un-til 1893, when plans were first considered and aprovisional contract for the construction wasmade with the firm of the late Alfred Brandt,the famous engineer of the St. Gotliard international commission, consisting of rep-resentative engineers from Switzerland, Italy,Austria, and Great Britain, devoted severalmonths of 1894 to a complete study of the plansand proposals, and in July of that year, tliegovernments of Switzerland and Italy enteredinto a treaty authorizing the construction of thetunnel, and agreed to share the expense, whichhas totaled fifteen million dollars. This tunnel,—or, rather, two tunnels at a dis-tance of fifty feet apart,—extends from the Swisstown of Brigue to
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