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HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH, SEPTEMBER 12th, 1931.

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NEW YORK SUBTERRANEAN WATERWAY. MORE COSTLY THAN PANAMA CANAL.

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BRITISH MADE

A glimpse inside the dark interior of New York's new $315,297,000 subterranean waloway...a soc. tion of the huge aqueduct that will supply water to quench the metropolis' thrisl.

drills

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surface. must be rushed to care for city's ever-growing Breil water. By 1935, the capacity of the present Catskill system will have been rearhed, and for two or three years thereafter the metro- politan millions probably will have to practive conservation,

They're building the world's i preumatic

and dynamite, i faina, sometimes as much as 2,000 most costly waterway into New with shovels, brawn and blue-feet below the earth's York City. I will set back the prints they began the longest con-

tunnel ever

driven taxpayers, ant their children, and tiny their children's children, something through the earth. Foot by foot. like $315,297,000 more than was through The sulid limestone, gran- spent in building the Pagant and schist that permitted the building of the great city above, By hewed a hole that when fins end with a thick layer of concrete, will be seventeen feet in diameter, the calculations So previse were of the engineers that the borings

Canal..

But this waterway is not nas je able.

I fret, New York never For it is only an even will see it.

By 1938 the new aquedart and acquot far anergound, and is

delivering 700, just another piece of plumianz in

tunnel will be 900,000 gallons of water daily. the house of Father Knickerbocker, of each crews met exactly with!

is wing built so that New York thee of the crews who had come caugh to meet the increasing de rands of the city for about 15 may quench its thirat, keen clean, fre meet them.

After that well, they'll its firms, sprinkle the

was stelkrs. past t geraniums and replenish the gold

just go out and dig some more.

The 115-mile aqueduct will be fish bowl.

3272.- A City of Niglit.

constructed at a cust If all this souls simple,

680,000, while the 20-mile come down into City Water Tun

tunnel, nearing completion, have est $12,692,000 nel No. 2, the one that was started in 1928 and will be finished next

than two score lives. year, and sew what must happen before a city dweller van turn a faucet for his evening bath..

Cumbersonne machinery lowere1 through a huge shaft. way to follow the progress of the drillers and the powder men. They dared to use steam, so shovels ) were built to be operated by com- the pressed air. These deposit rock debris in dump cars drawn by eletrie "ules" that run on a double-track rail system through-

at the tunnel.

As far as the city's streets as medium-sized skyscrapers tow-

Are er above them, no work. No in of traffic nor your with

MICR

at

Slew Work,

At the head of each thrust work the delilers labouring for hours

clattering pneumatic ma

of

city

will

and more

Death Always Present, The latter has proved one of the mat hazardous peace-time Projects on record, yet investiga tion has showed that neterly all of The 42 deaths so far have been the result of envelessness, For the number of men employet, and the length of time they have dared the natural perils, the list is not considered alarming.

of trains reaches theas here. They chines to bare the deep holes for

neh the dynamite. Then, with clumsy work around the clock, but

is a night, shift sejlooking, but metienims fingers 8-hour relay

It they insert the charges one cylin far as the then are concerned, is Black midnight in the tunnel, der after another into each open-

A slip from a shaftway, a leap until

pounds have Home 500 Except where electric binbs

pune-ing,

from moving electric train, an been tamped gingerly into place.

The tunnel is cleared to a re. incautious approach to a thecat- ened rock slide these things An spectful distance.

electric charge licks to the detonators, mean death. A drill turned into The eavern is filled with a gust of a boring where lies an unexploded gas and soard.

ture the darknesa,

Hent

The Don't bother Waves

and ongi murkers and drillers 11.

At 500 feet below sea lev. of the temperature is estant

"The men return In sep muurh pengress has been

puude.

55 degrees. 11 is wet work. too. with the jagged walls of the env ern dripping from every seam nne jare, and veins of water frequent-Ten foot is an exceptionally lucky

or thrust. Seven ly encountered.

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charge of dynamite-and a "Drill- hower Wanted" sign goes up on the Hittle offer stop the nearest shaft. Tons of Dynamite. It takes five pounds of dynamite sen one cubic yard of rock. The total dynamite used to date lowered on the elevators, trun- died througie' the cavern, tamped into place and detounted--is up-

7,400,000 food, proximately

prunds. Deliberately placed, that amount of explosive could blow the whole city to bits.

feel is eight They started with exploratory average. brings along the tunnel ronte. Then it's "clear away." "watch which reaches 20 miles from the the tore oues" up above; brace Hi View Reservoir in the City of the weak sjent, spit on your hands Yonkers, through the Bronx, p and drill again. The length of der the East River, and across the the city tunnel is 105,000)

and Brook but there are only a few hundred Borough of Queens Iv. parallet in Manhattan and yarda yet to go, and by Christ Tunnel No. 1 which has been in mas the last shot will, be fired,

Then, however, the hard-rock perntion there for 15 years. a little At intervals of

gangs will not have to join the than a mile, they sunk seventeen milling army of the unemployed big vertical shaffs. With caissons in the streets above them. They of steel they penetrated the earthy, will go up to the north and begin then the 100-foot layer of watery | a seven-year job on the new aque quicksand. At ledrick they blast-duct that will reach from the Lan- ed down and lown, to a distrove nel's end into the Catskill moun of a tenth of a mile.

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Longest Tunnel Ever Driven.

tains, 115 miles away.

Water Badly Needed.

From each shaft, borings were, That great waterway, which begun in two directions. With will run under rivers and moun-

Blue eyed, dimpled.

LAURA INGALLS.

wears feminine' sports clothes when not fly- ing...and white cover-alls when she is.

Orphan. Father dead since she tic effect. was baby. Mother dend for av-¦ eral years, One brother.

thinks she is crazy because ahe Roosevelt. keeps on flying.

Doesn't diet.

Laura ingalls, beir-apparent thing. Wears them on street lon. the feminine "Lane Eagle" title. Wears them big. Black, beige or is 28 years old, stands 5 feet 4. white. Pails them on without weighs 125 pounds--and all of it looking in mirror. Wears rira on outside. Never bothers for artis- is sturdy independence.

Consumed with flying,

Lives who neat field. Spent last winter near Spring and summer at Lambert Field, near St. Louis,,

Not the Hasn't flapper !

least bit domestic figure. More like the rounded Hates to waste time even making

room, short, continental (eminin figure, own bed. In New York stays in

Very suite of bedroom, sitting Tapering arms and legs, very slender wrista and ankles. bath at American Woman's Ax

MEM- Little feeli Firm, hard, strong Rociation, of which she is

Doesn't want little hands that grip and shake her. Can't cook.

to. Throws lace silk stockings chestnut hairway when they get runs. Unruly heavy

Wears one ring. Noj necklaces. Sturly natural wave. Few

KOW-HOWK. Eats hairs over cars. Might be sun- No pins. No turned. Long-short bob. Parts anything. Not fussy. Ents when

Matter-of-fact Looks wind-blown. hungry. it on side. Not letting it grow. Just no timeline habit of not

much. for inurber.

yours like a man's.

grey

Blin eyes. Glint of cold grey in them should anyone ask her about her proposed Paris hop, which she deares nobody's busi ness but her own.

stride. hearty

nac-

anticing food

Might be Irlah. Looks it. Is Welsh, Dutch, Scotch. Welsh an- vestura. lived where sen beat in on thom. Imaginative. Fearless.

Self-reliance comes from self- Worked ILM No make-up except lipstick. support for years. Rather sweet mouth. Dimple in stenographer to pay aviation tui- chin. Contrast to her brusquetion. Vaudeville actress, first, manner. · bard voice, bustling Consumed now with prepara- Healthy sunburned, look. tions. Taut like net ofuels.

-of-doors mlen.

strung wire. But not quivery Wears feminine sports clothes "ike a woman." when not flying. White coveralls Everything subordinated to fly. when she 4. Likes beige, blues, Ing. Comforts, clothes, amuse- brown. Even under overalls ments of two importance naw. Lot Nothing else wears frilly, feminlue blauses. of work to do. known

Phone calls abrupt, busi- Likes lace stickings, Wears them counts. under overalls. Also belge two-ners-like. Nu joking. No tire eyelet oxfords with medium high for trilling. Atlantic must be heel and grosgrain ribbon ties. down by a women. Figures she's

Never without beret when y- the woman to do it!

Instead, the vity has nothing of the potential destru tion that lurked far underfoot. Citizens living above the tunel right-of-way have been awarded nominal "danges" of $ a lat for the tunnel's construction 500 feet below. But they have been completely unaware of the CX- plaive thunder, the tragede and the drama that have passed, so close to them.

PALACE RUINS IN VIRGINIA.

~Those pictures are the first taken ajace excavations were started at Williamsburg, Virginia, Abaya are shown

to uncover the ruins of the former royal governor's palace and surroundings.

the foundationg of the paluce and the marble floor, and in the lasst ls the opening to' a mysterious...

pasangeway.

DOLORES HAPPY.

Mexican Star on Marriage.

On Aug. 4. Dolores Del Rio and her husband of one year, Codric Gibbons, celebrated their first QANIVETHATS. And they're glo-

riously happy over this event doubly so because they have put one over on their friends.

six weeks after 1 met Cedric," Dolores told the interviewer,' "A good many of our, friends oven went so far as to make bets that we wouldn't be together for six months. Naturally we invited them to our anniversary party they could see how wrong they were,"

"How do you like married life by this time?"

"It's the only way to live," re plied the Mexican beauty. "I have tried both and am strongly in favour of married life. The fsellag of freedom right after 1 got my divorce was grand, But 1 soon tired of that freedom. I dis- covered how empty life can be when you are alone. But perhap that is one of the reasons why 1 am so happy now,”

Dolores, completely recovered from her lness of last winter, Is looking more beautiful thun ever these days—which, 'perhaps, is one of the reasons who recently was picked to one of the six most beautiful women In Hollywood. And she is enjoying life to the utmost, dividing her time between her pretentious Hollywood hume and her now beach house design- ed by her husband, who designs. all sets for the Metro-Goldwyn. Mayer Bludios.

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The two houses are about different as it was possible make them. The Hollywood homo, built by Dolores several years ago, in strictly Spanish In design while the beach home is entirely modernistic.

"I was afraid when we started the beach homo that I wouldn't like a modernistic house," Dolores. "But Cedria wanted

"Our marriage was one of those quick affairs, taking place just remarked.

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NEWCOMER TO TALKIES.

LUCILLE BROWNE TO THE FORE.

She won a cake-baking contest at the Tennessee stato fair in 1924 ... took first prize in * Memphis beauty contest...

attended National Park Seminary in Washing- ..modelled for New York and Chicago artistă ........ made her stage debüt in stock in Chicago... won the ingenue lond for the New York production of "Jarnegan" ... received a movie contract, but lost her first chance for fame when another girl. was given the role,.. and now has a new long-term contract and an optimistic future.

She is a charming, vivacious bionde and her name is

Lucille Browno.

it that way no we went ahead around the first of last month so with it."

they moved into town for six At present the Gibbons family weeks. But now the starting date In holding forth in the Hollywood has been postponed so that she home. Dolores was scheduled to probably will commence working start on her first picture, after a just about the time she is ready year's absence from, the screen, to move back to the beach again.

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