A French Scheme for Bridging the Channel.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2858, 27 March 1888, Page 3

A French Scheme for Bridging the Channel.

As a proof of the interest which Frenchmen take in the success of the 4 Channel Tunnel scheme, every fresh rebuff which it encounters is (the Daily Telegraph's Paris correspondent remarks) the signal for the renewal of i a chorus of groans and vituperation on this side of the water, The tunnel project, however, is doomed, awl meanwhile another plan for the comfort of the traveller, and the development of trade between the two countries is being studied. It is the reverse side of the medal. If trains are not to speedbetween England and France, via the bowels of the earth, why should they uot.steam along in midair, independent of wind and wave ? I need not remind you that this is scarcely a novel idea, but it is returning to the front, and a company is to try to carry it through, if the fates be propitious, The bridge is intended to start from Ambleteuse, on the French coast, running almost due north to Folkestone, a distance of about 22 miles. Rising about thirty five feet ■ Jfom the sea level, and supported on Tpers, each 55 yards long by 30 yards in breadth, planted at intervals of 600 yards from each other. It would be constructed of solid iron, would be 35 yards in width, awl would have four Eailway lines, with paths for vehicles ' and pedestrians. Ships provided with f the highest masts would be able to sail with ease under the bridge, and the risk of vessels coming into collison with the piers would be averted by electric lights, foghorns, bells, and a host of other apparatus. Admiral Clone, formerly Minister of Marine, is enthusiastic over the idea, and in a conversation which he has just had with the representative of a Parisian contemporary, he has expressed the opinion that the scheme is thoroughly practicable. He meets the objection that from the military point of view the bridge might be a source of peril toJEngland, by proposing that at each Aof the gigantic viaduct a swivelbridge should be provided, which, on the first symptom of alarm, could be swung open on either side, thus immediately putting a stop to all communication. When all panic was over, the swivel-bridge could be swung bad into its old position in a trice.

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