MARVEL OF ENGINEERING

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1930, Page 7

MARVEL OF ENGINEERING

FEATS OF PAUL MORANTI TO BORE TUNNEL UNDER SEA SPAIN TO MOROCCO LINK GREAT WORK AT GIBRALTAR ■ By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. New York, Sept. 25. Paul Moranti, who put Wall Street on stilts and dSg a half-mile ditch under the financial district, is preparin<r to start the job of building a railway tunnel from Spain to Morocco at Gibraltar under an appointment to the Spanish Government. He constructed the subway to link the Brooklyn and Manhattan transit system. He was a year ahead of schedule in executing this job, which experts said would be impossible without suspending the operations of the financial markets. Moranti jacked up 35 skyscrapers and shifted the solid maze of electric conduits, gas, water, and steam pipes and passed by the most valuable network of cables in the world. He removed a brick sewer, sank supports in a quicksand, and dumped the excavated mud 12 miles out at sea. Mr. Moranti fought every step of the way against the dense traffic and swarms of pedestrians in the narrowest streets of the city.