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F-—8 Traffic Saf Financial Contribution ety Research . of Industry to Permit Expansion and Reorganization of Harvard ing traffic safety and eliminating the e: Bureau. attack on the 1'Px'oblem of improv- ects of congestion, through the design of better automobiles, the Nation’s motor S UPPLEMENTING its frontal manufacturers now have e mbarked upon a flanking move- ment. It takes the form of a special gift by the Automobile Manu- facturers’ Association to the bur Harvard University. eau for street traffic research of The industry’s gift, the amount of which is not disclosed, will permit the reorganization and expansion of the bureau, recognized for many years as one of the foremost research institutions in the traffic field. ‘While recognizing the fundamental mportance of a contribution to scien- tific research looking toward safety improvement, the terms of the indus- try's gift make it clear its leaders are thinking in even broader terms. They perceive, too, that efficiency in high- way transportation demands the elim- ination of factors contributing to traffic congestion. This is evident in the specification that the money made available to the bureau shall be util- ized in part in an effort to develop | faster, as well as safer, streets and highways. McClintock Heads Bureau. Dr. Miller McClintock, well known In Washington and one of the out- standing figures in the traffic research | field, will continue to direct the new and enlarged bureau at Harvard. In the agency's broader program, he will have the assistance of Maxwell N Halsey, also a prominent figure in the traffic world, who will serve as assistant director. Halsey leaves a position with the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters which he has held for years. Both McClintock and Halsey have been leading spirits in the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety, the agency through which the Federal Government has made its contribution to the improvement of ! State and municipal traffic regulations and their uniformity. “Solution of the traffic problem is not simple,” said Alfred Reeves. vice president and general manager of the iation, announcing the industry’s “Hi ver, our participation in this new project may be regarded as an expression of the indu: confi- dence that tangible re: can be produced through of more scientific methods for the construction of highways and the reg- ulation of motor traffic. Praises Bureau Work. “Over a period of more than ten years, the Harvard Bureau for Street | Traffic Research, under the exception- ally able direction of Dr. McClintock, has demonstrated its capacity for the development of better methods and principles for the control of traffic. | These have been applied in scores of cities and States throughout the coun- try, with resultant reduction in traffic accidents and marked improvement in the efficiency of motor travel. “Since the beginning of autometive transportation, the motor industry has spent many millions of dollars in re- search to develop vehicles of maximum safety and convenience. Justification of these vast expenditures is afforded, we believe, by the current models Vehicles today, by virtue of tieir greater reliability, flexibility and ease of control, have a much higher safety factor. It is the constant purpose of the industry to pursue this policy so that the American people may have complete assurance that vehicles which they purchase will embody the greatest safety and utility attainable by engineering ingenuity. Human Element at Fault. “Although all studies of accident causes are unanimous in their con- clusion that from 80 to 90 per cent of traffic mishaps are traceable di- rectly to some form of human falli- bility on the part of the individual motorist or pedestrian, there is abun- dant evidence that throuzh engineer- ing. safeguards for the greater pro- tection of highway users can be de- vised.” Through the Automobile Manufac- turers' Association, the automobile manufacturers long have played a the development | diana and Ohio, where there are sev- eral plants, and the others in Eastern and Western States. 200,000 To Cast Ballots. When the voting throughout the industry has been completed, the board expects to have canvassed ap- proximately 200,000 workers. In De- troit plants alone more than 66,100 workers voted. Under the regulations laid down for the secret balloting the workers were asked to indicate their labor union affiliation, if any. Of the total voting in the Detroit plants, 50,121 workers listed themselves as not affiliated with any labor organi- zation. Other affiliation figures tabu- lated by the board were: Employee associations, 7,649. Associated ~ Automobile ~Workers, 3,173, American Federation Labor, 2,596. Mechanics’ Education Society, 429. Automobile Workers' Union, 26. Auto Service Mechanics, Associa- tion, 16. Society of Designing Engineers, 11. International Workers of the World, 11. International Association of Ma- chinists, 1. Blank, 817, Void, 1,279. ‘The code and plans for unionizing the industry will be subjects of dis- cussion in conferences to be held soon in various automotive centers by Wil- liam Green, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Lebor. and local labor officials. lans have been worked out #t conf-rences in Wash- irgton for the establishment of an in- ternational union in the automotive industry. of Government Agency Desired. On the result of the collective bar- gaining vote in Detroit plants, Dr. Leo T. Wolman, chairman of the Automobile Labor Board, said recently | that the figures showed that “auto- mobile plant workers want to be rep- resented by an independent, Govern- ment-supervised agency.” I D. Everitt, assistant deputy ad- | ministrator for the code, said here, while attending a conference con- nected with the automobile parts and equipment code, that although the American Federation of Labor had objected to the recent renewal of the code he saw no signs of labor trouble in the ant-mobile industry,” id, “apparenily dses nst want to urions, frem the reports of wobile L-bor Board elec- ~ added that althcuzh the American Fec'eration of Labor was not satisfied with the code, “it was the best that could be done under the circumstances,” and that the auto- | mobile industry is one of the -most important factors leading to recovery. Uncle Sam’s Cellars (Continued From Third Page.) ners with little space to squeeze through. Above our heads, the “Crypt.” Here the catafalque, silent, where the congressional fathers plan- ned should lie the body of George Washington. He foiled their plans in nis will. Now, as it was compleied in 1829, is still here the iittle round : room with the black-draped bier and THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D.' C, FEBRUARY 24, 1935—PART FOUR. Car Maker’s Gift to Aid |EXPERT COUNSELS Airlines, Fighting for Life, MILADY MOTORIST Points Out That Stopping Ability Should Be Test of New Cars. BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. One test of experience in motoring | | is the sort of questioning a prospec- | tive buyer indulges in when she is' shopping for a new car. If she asks how fast the car can go, without| ascertaining certain preliminary facts, | she is quite likely to be among those | who have yet to learn the essentials of driving. Of primary importance in performance is the question how fast a car can stop. Asking for details about speed-ability is merely putting the cart before the horse. An engi- neer first ascertains the braking horsepower the car will stand and then does not exceed the safe pro- portion of motor power. Some be- lieve the ratio should be such that an 80-horsepower motor calls for brakes of 500 horsepower. * %k X K As one woman driver puts it, the jquestion is not merely a matter of safety. A car, she finds, is never more satisfactory than its stopping | performance. i * o kK When the car presents a problem in steering, remember that the manu- facturer’s original specifications as to front-wheel alignment may be incor- rect. Recently three manufacturers have revised their original specifica- tions for camber, caster and toe-in. The way cars are used—and abused— makes such revisions necessary. De- pression of one inch in the rear springs of one late model, for in- stance, was found to change the cas- ter angle about one-half inch. * K ok K Service men continue to wonder why it is that so many motorists resent being asked if the engine needs | ofl. It is not unusual to have an owner declare the crankcase needs no | additional oil when an actual inspec- | tion shows the oil level dangerously | !low. But it 1s the matter of quality | Ask Congress for Relief Financial Losses Mount to Staggering Totals, While Several Firms Have Already Failed. BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. MERICAN air trans?ort lines, fighting for their existence, are seeking relief from Congress as their financial losses under the existing airmail set-up mount to staggering pro- portions. Several of the lines already have failed; others, mong them some of the largest in the country, will exhaust; their resources within a few months, it is said. | During less than eight months of 1934, under the new airmail law now on the statute books, the combined losses of the Nation’s ! domestic air transport lines totaled $2,908,000. One of the leading ! systems lost 25 per cent of its entire capital during this period. Losses continue at an alarming rate. Reports from the largest 10 of 20 air transport companies to the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce place January losses at $632,000. These companies operate 85 per cent of the total airmail mileage. The smaller companies, during January, are estimated to have lost $35,000. This brings the total loss for the single month of January to $667,000. February losses will approximate those of January, it is reported. The situation, obviously, cannot continue long. With several com- Reserve Pilots Leaving. Squadron VN-6R, local Naval Re- | reported, panies already bankrupt and their contracts forfeited, and others on the brink of ruin, immediate Congres- sional action must be taken to avert | financial collapse of the whole air transport structure, the Aeronautical | Chamber has warned the Government. The average direct government aid to airlines in France, England and Italy amounts to $1.17 per mile, as compared with an average airmail in- come of only 18.9 cents per mile in| the United States at present, it was | pointed out. The average rate paid planes for carrying mail in this coun- try is 26.8 cents, but airmail lines fly many schedules upon which they carry mail free, it is claimed. Quantities of Mail Great. The Post Office Department, it is charged, has taken away paid airmail | schedules from contractors and then has loaded them with quantities of mail so great that extra planes must be | flown without pay or passengers, who. bring greater revenues than the mail, | must be rejected to accommodate the extra mail loads. “It is obvious” the chamber has “that airmail-passenger serve aviation unit, is losing pilots to the commercial airlines, four of its flying officers having joined East- ern Air Lines recently. The four are | based at the New York headquarters | of the airline and have been trans- ferred from Anacostia Naval Air Station to the New York Naval Avia- tion Reserve Base. Lieut. R. E. Hess, jr,, 1359 Emerson | street northeast, and Ensign J. R. Richardson, 2115 Pennsylvania ave- nue, have just joined Lieuts. R. C. Young and W. E. Coney, who left earlier, on the Eastern Air Lines coastal run between New York and Miami. The Anacostia Naval Air Station has installed a Link blind flying trainer, which is a miniature airplane mounted on a turntable, The cockpit is equipped with regulation controls and has normal flight instruments and a radio beacon receiver. An outside radio beacon broadcaster can be adjusted to put the pilot in the trainer on any sector, and his ability to locate himself with reference to the beacon and follow the beam can be checked quickly. The pilots | jof the oil in the engine that worries | companies in the United States, which e D n";h:gnvse%‘pm‘:n;?:}: lost $3,000.000 in the last seven and 4 ay of | 5 half months of 1934, and whicl determiining (for themscives I an oll { stand to lose $5,000,000 this year, un- ::\]{.sn;gieou;? lly Lo meeded. To banih!der the present rates, cannot main- e t);am St bavonet 'of tain rEm‘sem, services beyond a few months. the oil level indicator. It should be| «The airlines, in good faith, have a simple enough matter to note dirt, | the ever-burning light, under the crypt A | of the 1793 section, the old dome of and efficiency of highway transporta- | ; b tion. The association’s annual safety | the original building. ~ Assassinated essay and lesson contests have had a | Presidents, those who die in office, are noteworthy influence in reducing ac- fthe only ones who ever use this coffin. cidents among children during the = last decade. The effort to bring about| Outside the crypt, bales of docu better and more uniform traffic regula- | ments, trunks and boxes of dead and tions, which has been sponsored by |forgotten statesmen; the brass rail- the National Conference on Street and | ings that used to inclose the seats of leading role in promoting the safety ‘Highway Safety, has had the con- tinuous support of the industry. In addition, the motor truck division ot( the association sponsors a program for | educating the operators of commer- | cial vehicles to exercise greater courtesy and caution in their use of | the highways. | The new program of the Harvard bureau will be conducted along the same lines as those followed in the past. . Comprehensive researcnes into the causes of trafic accidents and' highway congestion will be undertaken | with a view to developing upon thei basis of factual date sound methods and principles for improving highway conditions. As in the past, the bureau will work in the closest harmony and co-operation with public officials who are confronted with special problems of general significance. The results of these studies will be published and made available to those charged with traffic responsibility throughout the country. Falling within the scope of the bureau's new program are such sub- Jects as rational and uniform legis- lation and ordinances, police organi- zation and enforcement of traffic laws, | efficient traffic engineering technique and organization, and the design of new and basic types of traffic facili- ! Congressmen; the original models from which were cast various plaques and friezes of the Capitol; a marble mantel from the old Capitol. Suddenly we enter a sprawling vault uncér an archway of bricks not 3 feet high. Inside is a room about 20 feet wide and ' deep. - It 1s pitch black. rusied iron stepiadder. A trap door leads into anotaer room, scmewhat bigger, r.iber bare, but cozy in shape, w.th piliars ‘tounc its sidcs, and a great roscwood mantel against a far wall. There is cnly one entrance, besides through the trap door. This is by a door leading directly into a narrow hallway just to the south of the crypt. This room is under the space once occupied by the old Library of Congress before it was removed, back in 1897. Another trap door on the right leads still upward into a third room This one is gloomy, dusty, but retains the crescent, club-roomy shape of the one we have just left. It has no entrance except through the trap door. To the rear and left of it, through another small room, is & third room, with still discoloration, the thinned-out condi- tion of the oil and any smell of gasoline that may indicate dilution. * % ok x Now that vacuum booster brakes are an important factor in the driv- ing picture it is important to con- sider the relation between the motor and the efficiency of the brakes. | Switch off the ignition, shift to neu- | tral and you will find that the brakes 1 becnme surp ngly harder to operate. | This is simply due to the fact that | vacuum power is temporarily released The first time the brake pedal goes {down stored-up vacuum will permit | atmospheric pressure to help apply Ithe brakes, but as soon as the pedal |is let up this effect vanishes. Should the gears slip into neutral on a down | grade, and the motor stall, remember to hold your foot on the pedal and not go up and down on the pedal. * ® ok % ‘The week's safety sermonette con- cerns the problem of trying to get out of an ice rut. It may seem contra- dictory to say that the front wheels must be cut sharply in order to pull out and then to follow this with the statement that most of the difficulty | is due to cutting the wheels too sharp- ly, but that is just the situation. If the front wheels are cut too much the rear ones have too great a job in propelling the car. the result being that they start spinning. Often the ! best way out is to back up. cutting the front wheels first one way and then the other. If the trouble is in your own driveway | some ashes on the ice. * X Xk % ‘Women have been quick to note the trend toward making the interior of the new cars harmonize with the ex- terior. Often color contrasts, rather than matching, have proved more de- sirable, but the harmony extends to the interior trim and the instrument panel as well. There is also a trend toward seat cushions minus those un- comfortable dust-catching pleats and buttons. * K ok ok “Is there any way to be sure that the oil filter really needs replacing?” asks & woman motorist, who questions her service man on this point. “This Iseems to be one of the points in car ‘care where a woman has no way of | | checking up.” ’ | No, you're wrong. First there is car has traveled the 8,000 tol 110.000 miles which constitute the use- | ful life of a filter cartridge. you can take a look at the oil when pulling out the bayonet gauge to read the level in the crankcase. Unfiltered oil will be much darker in color and dirty looking. * k% *x If the car won’t go and the starter seems dead the first step is to switch on the lights and try the horn. If lights and horn are active enough, you will know that the battery is not at fault. Most service men check to see what does work when trying to track down trouble. Gunman Regrets Shooting. CHICAGO (#).—The gunman who try sprinkling | gone ahead and developed for the United States the finest, fastest air- mail-passenger service in the world at a fraction of the cost abroad. We will continue this leadership or many airlines must go into bankruptcy soon, depending entirely upon the enact- ment of emergency legislation, pend- ing adoption of permanent legislation for this industry.” Aviation Art Lagging. That aviation, with its opening of new horizons and the almost universal | appeal it makes to the imagination of mankind, has not had a more pro- found influence on art than has been evidenced so far is a source of dis- | apoointment to many. | Perhaps the most enduring success in Great Britain and Germany. Jn England Capt. Alfred G. Buckham has produced a number of aerial pho- tographs which are as truly indi- vidual expression as paintings and which rank as real works of art. In Capt. Albert W. Stevens, the Army Air Corps boasts one of the finest scientific aerial photographers in the world, but his work is almost en- tirely scientific in character. Clayton Knight, the American painter, is entitled to rank among the world's best aviation painters. He { has done some very good work in oils, water colors snd pencil, and hes | caught much of the feeling of flight in his pictures. An exhibition of on Knight works was held re- in the National Museum There have been some notabie Brit- ish etchings, chiefly those by John MacGilchrist. Sculptors Have Slight Success. Sculptors have had little success with aviation subjects, even alle- gorically. Washington boasts some glaring examples of their lack of success, particularly in- the aviation relief, which assaults the eye and insults the spirit from the wall of the Department of Commerce. The aviation monuments which have been erected, including the memorial to human flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C,, 80, at best, heavy-footed. There has been some effort, most of it abortive, to catch the aviation spirit in architecture, particularly in connection with the designing of air- | port structures. examples is said to be the new Pan- One of the best Key. Fla The lack of distinction in aviation has been commented upon by C. G. Grey, the British aeronautical au- thority. “One would have thought,” said Grey, “that everything to do with fly- ing, the fact of reaching hitherto un- attainable heights, passing over hith- erto unmapped countries and oceans, and man'’s ability to control mechan- ism of his own creation in the air and make it do things which no bird could possibly do—and which, incidentally, no sensible bird would ever want to do—would have inspired every artistic mind in the world to height records of artistic achievement. And yet in { no branch of art has aviation inspired anything worth doing.” in aviation art has been achieved in | *he field of photography, especially This latter rocm has a false celling, ' about it anyway. faise walls and a false window-lke| When his pistol was accidentally another immed.ately behind this one. ! robbed Dr. Waddell Hunter was polite No True Poetic Results. | Aviation, Grey finds, has inspired no | poetry which truly can be classed as have expressed themselves as well pleased with the device and a regular | training program has been laid out for all station pilots. Air Travel Slump Fails, With the usual seasonal slump in | air travel during January, February | and March failing to materialize this year, Pennsylvania Airlines, instead of curtailment of schedules made in past years, this year is increasing its schedules between Washington and Detroit. Beginning March 1, service between Washington and the automobile city will be increased to four round trips a day, with five daily round trips be- | tween Cleveland and Detriot Fre- | quently during the past two months Pennsylvania has been forced to fly extra sections to care for the unusu- ally heavy travel. The new schedules will be so ar- ranged as to give early morning. noon, afternoon and late evening de- partures from the Washington and Detroit terminals. Pennsylvania also has inaugurated tri-mortored transport airplane serv- |ice across Lake Michigan between Detroit and Milwaukee and now is flying one round trip a day over this route. Special flotation gear has been provided for the big planes in case of forced landings on the lake, Glider Club at Work. Members of the Washington Glid- ing Club are hard at work in prepa- | ration for the coming soaring season. | H. B. Henrickson, secretary and | treasurer of the club, has reported to the Soaring Society of America that the club’s Franklin glider is undergoing & major overhaul. The | club 2lso is completing the construc- tion of an intermediate soaring pline which will have a span of 40 feet. The Washington Gliding Ciub, ac- cording to the records of the Soar- | ing Society, probably has contributed more light-airplane pilots than any other group in the Eastern United States. Bert Brooks, a member of the local club, has acquired a Klemm seaplane, with a 90-horsepower Salmson engine. ‘This airplane started as a soaring craft in the early days of motorless flight in Germany and gradually a light airplane of good performance was evolved from the original glider. Don Hamilton, president of the local club, and Larry Marhofer are getting a Berliner seaplane ready for | the Summer season along the Po- | tomac and Severn. The local club is expected to take | an active part in the projected ex- | pedition to the Big Meadows glider On the right is a narrow,|the odometer which tells you when ! American Airways base at Dinner | C2mp on top of the Blue Ridge in | Shenandoah National Park. The | local club was responsible for the Then | art is keenly felt abroad and recently | “discovery” of this site and largely for its development as a national public glider park. Airway Keepers Dig Snow. Snow tunneling in a big way be- came a duty of a Bureau of Air Com- merce airway mechanician after a heavy storm recently at Mount Cath- erine, on the Seattle-Spokane airway. According to a report received here by Rex Martin, assistant director of air commerce in charge of air navi- gation, the mechanician and his helper started for the Mount Catherine beacon site on a routine inspection trip at 7 o'clock in the morning. So deep was the snow on the roads and trails that they were unable to reach | the base of the beacon tower until 5:30 p.m., after nightfall. The snow at the beacon, high up REAL SAFETY COMES ONLY WITH REAL BUICK FOR 1935 SEE AND DRIVE THE SMARTLY IMPROVED SAFETY features abound in the 1935 Buick. Safety is de- pendability—dependability is safety. Buick has the power, the brakes, the weight for safety—each perfectly balanced with the other. It has the steering, the controls, the road- ability for safety. It has the stability, the quality, the staunch- ness for safety. It has complete equipment with safety glass. Come in and take a 1935 Buick out for a real drive. Test its brakes—the finest available—for smooth, straight stop- ping. Feel how its center-point steering holds the road. You feel safe in Buick and you are safe. Buick engineering and quality manufacturing pay thousands of extra dollars to be sure of safety and dependability—without extra cost to you. 795 and up. List prices atFlint, Mich...sub- equipmentextra. G. C. terma. WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT . « - BUICK WILL BUILD THEM Emerson & Orme ties especially for urban arcas. The | opening, now boarded over—but lead- | discharged, wounding the physician bureau will continue its efforts to| ing nowhere! The floor of this rocm | in the leg, he said: (which is the hottest place this side on Mount Catherine, was 24 feet jart and there has not even been an| deep, four feet above the exhaust I didn’t mean ; approach in music. educate and develop traffic experts through the co-operation of the uni- versity’s department of government and its Schools of Engineering, Busi- mness Administration and City Plan- ning. Officials Given Aid. Under the bureau’s plan for co- operation with governmental agencies, provision is made whereby responsible officials of State and local governments may call upon the bureau staff for information and advice bearing upon local problems of safety and conges- tion. During the past week the National Automobile Labor Board neared com- pletion of its collective bargaining elections, with balloting in five more Michigan automotive plants. The | board soon will move into automctive | plants in outside States, planning to | finish its election work in the industry | well in advance ot June 16, when the recently extended automotive eode will expire. Prof. Francis E. Ross, of the Uni- versity of Michigan, directing the plant elections, said the board may operate in several outside States at one time in order to speed the work. The elections force, he indicated, probably will be split into three groups, one to operate in the south- e division which will include In- » of Hades, the writer is fairly con- fident) is littered with refuse, iden- tifiable as broken bottles, ancient gas- lighting brackets, parts of old Holtzer- Cabot fans which have not been used for 40 years in the Capitol, a curious wooden ballot box such as was once used in Congress, and the dust of years. THE story of these secret rooms (David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, did not know of their exist- ence) is partly one of fact, partly con- Jecture, Back in 1903 the long existent bar in the Capitol cellar was abolished and the sale of liquor in both House and Senate restaurants stopped. This bar was at one end of the House restaurant, below the House hall, with | a mahogany tebie running the width of the room backed by large mirrors. Here a trio of bartenders catered to the wet Congressmen. In the Spring of 1903, in a testy moment, Representative Landis of Indiana proposed an amendment to another bill which would effectually stop the sale of liquor in the Capitol. ‘With most of the members absent and not voting, the amendment went through by 108 to 19 votes. How it subsequently passed body knows ta this day, the Senate, no- “Say, boss, I'm sorry. to do that.” Rough Roads Listed In A. A. A. Reports In Nearby Virginia Latest road bulletins issued by the Washington office of the American Automobile Association list six reports on conditions of highways within a 100-mile ra- dius of the Capital. They are: U. S. 15—Rough from Warren- ton to Brandy. U. S. 29—Rough and broken between Charlottesville and Va. 4. Through treffic edvised to go via Gordonsville and Orange Va. 5—Rough and broken up between U. S. 15 and Shadwell, trucks are advised to go via Bos- well's Tavern. Va. 20—Rough between Orange and the Wilderness. Va. 28—Rough between Center- ville and Manassas. Va. 55—Rutted and muddy from Marshall east to U. 8. 15; rough from Marshall west to Lin- den. “In pictorial art,” says Grey, “count- less professional artists have produced innumerable drawings and paintings of aeroplanes—good, bad and indiff- erent, but naturally mostly bad.” Commenting on the results of an important sculptural competition for the Rome scholarship on the subject, “The Conquest of the Air by Man,” Grey observed that “most of the de- signs suggest a mixture of Epstein- cum-Egypt, although some are so un- related to anything that they suggest rather Einstein-cum-Assyria.” “One of us suggests,” Grey concludes, “that possibly the reason for this la- mentable lack of achievement in all i branches of art is that artists are in- herently conservative, although they try to humbug themselves into the i belisf that they are progressive, or even revolutionary, and consequently | | have not yet grasped the possibilities or implications of aviation. And cer- tainly none has yet received its in- spirations. In fact, the only products of aviation which are a joy to the eye are the lines of a few, a very few, aeroplanes.” * Another reason, perhaps, is that the modernistic school, with its abandonment of nature and its con- idealistic, is wholly ine- capable of gauging events that are shaping world thought pipes of the gasoline engines in the beacen shed. Heat from the pipes had kept holes open in the snow and the engines had continued to operate, driving generators to provide current for the beacon light. Snow Blocks Tunnel Again. To get into the shed to inspect the equipment the two men had to dig & tunnel to the doorway, a job which required five hours of hard work, Entering the shed at 10:30 pm., they completed their work in the power house. Attempting to leave, they found that their tunnel.had collapsed and snow blocked the door, so it could not be opened. 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