NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
A Straits of Belle Isle Tunnel.—A scheme is formulated by its promoters for constructing, ^opposite Point Armour, a tunnel, ten miles in length, beneath the Straits of Belle Isle between Labrador and Newfoundland, with the object of expediting railway transit between Quebec and the northeastern coast and of shortening the voyage across the Atlantic. • The Newfoundland Government have authorized the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway Company to make a line between the Straits and Blanc Sablon on the Canadian and southern side boundary of Labrador, and will, it is stated, subsidize the undertaking to the extent of $75,000 per annum. The proposed line will run for a length of 30 miles through the island to Hare Bay, at the northern extremity, which is distant about 1,800 miles from Ireland. The cost of the tunnel is calculated at £1,200,000.—- The Builder.
England s Oldest Christian Building. —On Sunday next evensong will be held on the site of the ancient oratory of St, Gwithian, one of the many Irish saints who descended upon Cornwall in the fifth and sixth centuries. In a waste of sand near the Godrevy Lighthouse, which marks the eastern horn of St. Ives Bay, lie what are regarded as the remains of the oldest Christian building in England. The nave bulges with sand to the level of the plain, and through a grass-covered hillock over the demolished altar protrudg a few rough stones. For ages before 1828 tradition pre
served the memory of the oratory, and during a stormy night of that year the sand shifted and revealed the lines of a structure about forty-eight feet long by twelve feet wide, with a priest’s doorway, a small window, traces of stone benches, and an altar of masonry, now gone as the result of the building being forthwith used as a cowshed.—Western Morning News.
The Brompton Boilers.—Like Topsy, the South Kensington Museum has “growed.” From very humble beginnings in the “Brompton Boilers,” or iron sheds, forty-nine years ago, the museum has imperceptibly expanded into a veritable palace of art. The vast pile at the corner of Cromwell and Exhibition Roads will not be completed till next year, but now that its veil of scaffolding has been removed its fine proportions are obvious. Now at last the unrivaled treasures that have been heaped pellmell in the older buildings or stored away in cellars can be properly displayed. It is universally acknowledged that the collections of the South Kensington Museum are unequaled, whether in quantity or quality. It is also agreed that no collections in any European capital have been so badly shown, for want of room and for want of an adequate staff to catalogue and arrange them. The opening of the new buildings will mark a new era in the history of the museum, and it is to be hoped that the staff will at the same time be enlarged and reorganized.—London Tribune.
Electricity for Paris.—An artificial cataract, to be nearly forty feet higher than
Niagara Falls, is to be constructed near Geneva, Switzerland, at a cost of $12,000,- 000, to supply Paris with electricity. It is the most important work of its kind on the European continent, and has been undertaken by a company under the supervision of the city government of Paris. A dam 210 feet high is to be built across the river Rhone at the town of Syssel, thirty miles southwest of Geneva. This will provide the water-power with which to generate electricity, which will be conveyed to Paris by overhead cables.—Exchange.
Congress Hall.—The Philadelphia Councils’ Committee on City Property has recently authorized the appropriation of $25,000 for the restoration of Congress Hall and $2,000 to restore the clock in the tower of Independence Hall in fac simile of the original. The item for the care of portraits in Independence Hall was increased from $1,500 to $2,500.—Exchange.
The Are,a of the United States.—The United States Geological Survey has just issued Bulletin 302, by Henry Gannett, which represents the result of conference and co-operation of the Land Office, Census Bureau, and Geological Survey in an effort to agree on what constitutes “the area of the United States.” The absence of a standard of measurement for determining the area led to a discrepancy between the tables of the Census Bureau made in 1887 and those of the General Land Office prepared in 1899. The result of the co-operation of the departments is that the area of the United States proper, which is given
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A Straits of Belle Isle Tunnel.—A scheme is formulated by its promoters for constructing, ^opposite Point Armour, a tunnel, ten miles in length, beneath the Straits of Belle Isle between Labrador and Newfoundland, with the object of expediting railway transit between Quebec and the northeastern coast and of shortening the voyage across the Atlantic. • The Newfoundland Government have authorized the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway Company to make a line between the Straits and Blanc Sablon on the Canadian and southern side boundary of Labrador, and will, it is stated, subsidize the undertaking to the extent of $75,000 per annum. The proposed line will run for a length of 30 miles through the island to Hare Bay, at the northern extremity, which is distant about 1,800 miles from Ireland. The cost of the tunnel is calculated at £1,200,000.—- The Builder.
England s Oldest Christian Building. —On Sunday next evensong will be held on the site of the ancient oratory of St, Gwithian, one of the many Irish saints who descended upon Cornwall in the fifth and sixth centuries. In a waste of sand near the Godrevy Lighthouse, which marks the eastern horn of St. Ives Bay, lie what are regarded as the remains of the oldest Christian building in England. The nave bulges with sand to the level of the plain, and through a grass-covered hillock over the demolished altar protrudg a few rough stones. For ages before 1828 tradition pre
served the memory of the oratory, and during a stormy night of that year the sand shifted and revealed the lines of a structure about forty-eight feet long by twelve feet wide, with a priest’s doorway, a small window, traces of stone benches, and an altar of masonry, now gone as the result of the building being forthwith used as a cowshed.—Western Morning News.
The Brompton Boilers.—Like Topsy, the South Kensington Museum has “growed.” From very humble beginnings in the “Brompton Boilers,” or iron sheds, forty-nine years ago, the museum has imperceptibly expanded into a veritable palace of art. The vast pile at the corner of Cromwell and Exhibition Roads will not be completed till next year, but now that its veil of scaffolding has been removed its fine proportions are obvious. Now at last the unrivaled treasures that have been heaped pellmell in the older buildings or stored away in cellars can be properly displayed. It is universally acknowledged that the collections of the South Kensington Museum are unequaled, whether in quantity or quality. It is also agreed that no collections in any European capital have been so badly shown, for want of room and for want of an adequate staff to catalogue and arrange them. The opening of the new buildings will mark a new era in the history of the museum, and it is to be hoped that the staff will at the same time be enlarged and reorganized.—London Tribune.
Electricity for Paris.—An artificial cataract, to be nearly forty feet higher than
Niagara Falls, is to be constructed near Geneva, Switzerland, at a cost of $12,000,- 000, to supply Paris with electricity. It is the most important work of its kind on the European continent, and has been undertaken by a company under the supervision of the city government of Paris. A dam 210 feet high is to be built across the river Rhone at the town of Syssel, thirty miles southwest of Geneva. This will provide the water-power with which to generate electricity, which will be conveyed to Paris by overhead cables.—Exchange.
Congress Hall.—The Philadelphia Councils’ Committee on City Property has recently authorized the appropriation of $25,000 for the restoration of Congress Hall and $2,000 to restore the clock in the tower of Independence Hall in fac simile of the original. The item for the care of portraits in Independence Hall was increased from $1,500 to $2,500.—Exchange.
The Are,a of the United States.—The United States Geological Survey has just issued Bulletin 302, by Henry Gannett, which represents the result of conference and co-operation of the Land Office, Census Bureau, and Geological Survey in an effort to agree on what constitutes “the area of the United States.” The absence of a standard of measurement for determining the area led to a discrepancy between the tables of the Census Bureau made in 1887 and those of the General Land Office prepared in 1899. The result of the co-operation of the departments is that the area of the United States proper, which is given
THE glass top in the ordinary Ventilator
is least valuable when there is most need of it. The light is shut off when the Ventilator is closed during a storm or cold weather. All ventilators are “ordinary” in this respect except
The Burt Ventilator
The Patented Sliding Sleeve damper used in the Burt Ventilator insures perfect ventilation and perfect lighting at all times. It “stays set,” does not collect dust, never deflects air downward, and it makes the ventilator absolutely storm proof.
Because of these features, together with its unusual solidity of construction ; and because of the further fact that the Burt surpasses all other ventilators in pulling power, it is being specified for an increasing number of the most important constructions in the country.
Burt Ventilators can be furnished with either glass or metal top, as preferred. Write for our 64-page general catalogue.
The Burt Mfg. Co.
550 Main Street. ARron, OIxio.
Largest Manufacturers of Oil Filters and Exhaust Heads in the World.