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DANZIG3R & COMPANY RAILROAD OVER SEA Florida East Cmt Uns Nearly Complatsd. t:uR3YiuG .oh to haya::a SeA'Going Pullraani Euljr Next Yer Coral IomcU Eelp Build Railroad ' Ma it TJnlqu Feature in Eosineeriag 01 Record, NEW YORK, Oct 26.-In the early dajn ct next January it will be poi lble for the first time for Americana to make an ocean journey br rail From a comfortable teat in a parlor car the traveler will b able to look out on one tide acroee the rolling billowi of the Atlantic and on the other aide, over the bluer atera of the Gulf of Floilk, the two commingling directlj' beneath the track themselves will be invisible, of courae, ao O can enjoy the BOTtl en gallon of going to tea by train. , Here and there the voyager by ocean railway will croa diminutive coral key and at interval be will traverse krger islet thrbugh grove of tangled palm. He will be et down at length on KnigM' Key, the jouthennort point in the United State, reached by rail, and the temporary terminua of the only e&faring railroad ever built. There be may tep aboard a feat iteamer and six hours later land ; in Havana, having traveled all but 115 mile"d7 the aiatance from hi etarting point by tretn.'',.' i.j Tlie elfect, o far s the. traveler 1 concerned, will be the "same a if a wond er-working genii bould pick up the Pearl ato of and into a thriving Industrial Mellon and the inter playground of the country, the only counterpart in the United State of the far-famed Riviera of Europe. 'Hiough omeUme poke of a a hobby, hi development of Ponce deLeon' land of perpetual youth ha xn conducted a a busine enterprise ure and simple. According to Mr. Flagler, himself, the scheme of carrying his railroad line out across the coral island to Key West and of - conveying hi train from there by rapid car f err i directly to the Cuban capital, first took, tangible shape in his mind during the Spanish war. At that time the certainty of closer political and .trade relations be tween thU country and Cuba became evident, a did the commercial : and strategic importance of some mean of quickly reaching the island republic from the United State. The. dream grew in Mr. Flagler mind and he di rected that a survey be made by engin eers to determine whether such a road as he imagined could be constructed. Maps, drawings and blueprints of the engineer were submitted, Mr. Flagler glanced at them hastily and turning to J. R. Parrott, vice-president of ms rail way and his right hand man in all hi Florida undertakings, said: "All I want to know is whether the road can be built." ' ' . "Yesj i can, replied Sir. Parrot. Then'go ahead and build it," Mr. Flagler directed. s ' , That was in 1005. Since then the dirt has bees flying ceaselessly. Immense pile driver have been sinking founda tions, huge dredges'have been sucking up sand from the bottom of the sea to con struct a road bed, and an army of be tween 3,000 and 4,000 men baa been Dushinar it wayi afeadily aouthward from Miami out over the "wave and the tiny island toward Key Wcat.-" - There was no precedent in the history of railway construction for the building of this sort of a, road. Consequently the difficulties were many and the problem . A MID-OCEAN DOCK. Temporary Terminal of the Sea-goingRailroad, from Which Steamers Connect" ing- With Trains Will Ply to Havana, "115 Miles Distant We Offer 44u: : Our Bttllra Otock o2 THmttied and Utitrimmcd E-3ATS At SOc cn&o OI-C3 Plumes Dyed, Cleaned and Curled. I LE PALAIS AIILLINHIY STAB TK2ATX2 UlitKS, 503 COMZiClAt StZZZT. 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 in I t n ti ! t t : tt ::::::: of the Antilles and move it a hundred miles or more nearer to the United States. The journey to Cuba from New York or Chicago or any point in the eastern half of the country will bb shortened in point of time nearly one third. Leaving New York on any win try evening the traveler will be able on the second afternoon to step ashore in the Cuban capital, having made the entire trip ; in less than forty-eight hours. ... This will be made possible by the opening to traffic of a section of the "railroad at sea" 'that Henry M. Flag ler has been pushing out over land and water along the thickly, dotted line of coral islands that curves from s the Florida mainland , southwest to Key West. When, work was ' begun, about two years ago, it was announced that trains would be running in three years, but so rapidly has construction , gone forward that already mors than "two thirds of the di&tance has been covered, and the line is almost ready to be opened for more than 100 of the 154 miles of its projected length. The building of his remarkable ocean highway is regarded by Mr. Flagler as the crowning achievement ' of . the great development he has been carrying on in Florida. Though he has, long been prom inent in other great : industrial ? enter prises Mr; Flagler's real workor, at least, that in which ho takes the keenest interest lias been transforming the eastern half of Florida from a barren to be solved unusual In the first place, it was necessary to assemble a veritable navy, including : steamboats, ; tugs, lighters, hundreds of barges and bateaux, launches, floating derricks, pumps, pile drivers andi repair shops, lor, since this had to be utilized chiefly in its construct ion.. The Florida keys traversed by the line are mostly uninhabited and afforded neither shelter nor support for the army of ' men employed.; It was necessary to establish camps, transport supplies,1 build hospitals for the sick, and establish read ing and club rooms in which the workers could find relaxation from the monotony of their isolated lives. In some cases Mg houseboats or floating dormitories were anchored ir protected spots to serve as living quarters. Even the drinking wat er must be transported in huge tanks on barges a distance of a hundred miles or more. Nearly all. the building materials, in cluding the ingredients of the concrete, kthe timber for, piling, the heavy stone for abutments, and the crushed stone for rip-rap work put in as a protection against the action of the waves, were brought to the points where they were used , on barges towed by tugs -and steamers. Only the ballast or filling, for the roadbed was secured on the spot. On the various islands this Yas obtained by excavating and 'breaking up the coral rock, 'which makes a bed of gleaming white, Wliere the line crosses open wat er filling was' obtained by the use of the bottam and dropped into the fill. huge pumps which sucked up sand from the bottom and dropped it into the fill. 5 Tims the engineer forced Old Ocean to yield not only the right of way, but, a well, the construction material Although this extraordinary railroad will cross many islets between the main land and the Key West, there are tra versed some broad stretches of water where the traveller will be entirely out of sight of laijd. One of these is encoun tered when the line leave Long Key. Here for two miles the track are laid on a concrete j-iaduet, fach. arch of which spans 5$ feet, an trains will run 30 feet above the sea "level of the open sea There are "two other similar stretches Knight's Key, to be crossed in like man ner, but as they present no problem of construction that have not been solved already in the building of the Long Key viaduct, it is certai that no engineering obstacles will arise to prevent the con pletion of the work Knight's Key, which for the time be ing is to serve as the southern terminus of the ocean-going railway, and at which passengers will take the boat for Havana is 103 miles below Miami and 47 miles from Key West. From here to Havana the distance is only 115 miles, or but 25 miles further than from Key Wt- ; It has been selected for a temporary ter minus rot only because it is the point to which the road has been fully completed, but because the construction worliwhich is being done here will provide a safe and commodious harbor for the use of steamers In explanation of the reason for begin ning the operation of the train service from Knight's Key instead of from Key West, and a year earlier than date ori ginally set, Vice-president Parrott said". ?In the middle of the past summer w-e found on taking stock that by concent rating our efforts and our working force on the section of the road "above Knight's Key, we could have this portion complet ed and open to traffic by the middle of January,' 1908. That is, we could put the road in operation andhave it earning something during the coming season in stead of allowing it to remain idle and unremunerative for another year. Pract ically 80 per cent of all the land work on the Key West end of the line has been completed so that' there should be no difficulty in pushing the work forward to completion on its scheduled time.'V ;. One of the peculiar difficulties in the execution of Mr. Flagler's "ambitious pro ject va the 'discovery that tlore was not sufudent space on the island of Key West to provide railroad yards termin als and wharves. Accordingly a vast area is being filled in which will add ap proximately 179 acre to the area of the island. This space will be utilized for the six big piers which are to be built for the ferries plying between this point and Havana. This ocean railway has in one sense been in course of construction far longer than any other line in existence. For thousands,". p"crbaps hundreds of thou sands, of years before the existence of America was known to the forbears of Rs present inhabitants myriads of tire lesg coral insects were rearing out of the depths of the ocean the felelswbich. depth of the ocean the islets which form the stepping stones of this novel railway in its seaward course. For an equal period the wind and the wave have been at work piling 'up 'the sand which forms the abutments of the orig inal .structure. Only the finishing touches were left for the master mind of the American magnate to complete. And it may be added that these tiny insects and the elements are the only partners Mr. Flagler has had in hta unique enterprise. Althougb the road, from the nature of its construction, is. one of the most expensive ever under ' takehv costing approximately $100,000 per mile, the task of financing it is be ing borne entirely by the man who planned and is building it. 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