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+Title: The Undersea Tube
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+The Undersea Tube
+
+BY L. TAYLOR HANSEN
+
+
+Classic Reprint from AMAZING STORIES, Nov., 1929
+
+Copyright, 1929, by E. P. Incorporated
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+If my friend the engineer had not told me the Tube was dangerous, I
+would not have bought a ticket on that fatal night, and the world would
+never have learned the story of the Golden Cavern and the City of the
+Dead. Having therefore, according to universal custom, first made my
+report as the sole survivor of the much-discussed Undersea Tube disaster
+to the International Committee for the Investigation of Disasters, I am
+now ready to outline that story for the world. Naturally I am aware of
+the many wild tales and rumors that have been circulated ever since the
+accident, but I must ask my readers to bear with me while I attempt to
+briefly sketch, not only the tremendous difficulties to be overcome by
+the engineers, but also the wind-propulsion theory which was made use of
+in this undertaking; because it is only by understanding something of
+these two phases of the Tube's engineering problems that one can
+understand the accident and its subsequent revelations.
+
+It will be recalled by those who have not allowed their view of modern
+history to become too hazy, that the close of the twentieth century saw
+a dream of the engineering world at last realized--the completion of the
+long-heralded undersea railroad. It will also be recalled that the
+engineers in charge of this stupendous undertaking were greatly
+encouraged by the signal success of the first tube under the English
+Channel, joining England and France by rail. However, it was from the
+second tube across the Channel and the tube connecting Montreal to New
+York, as well as the one connecting New York and Chicago, that they
+obtained some of their then radical ideas concerning the use of wind
+power for propulsion. Therefore, before the Undersea Tube had been
+completed, the engineers in charge had decided to make use of the new
+method in the world's longest tunnel, and upon that decision work was
+immediately commenced upon the blue-prints for the great air pumps that
+were to rise at the two ends--Liverpool and New York. However, I will
+touch upon the theory of wind-propulsion later and after the manner in
+which it was explained to me.
+
+It will be recalled that after great ceremonies, the Tube was begun
+simultaneously at the two terminating cities and proceeded through solid
+rock--low enough below the ocean floor to overcome the terrible pressure
+of the body of water over it, and yet close enough to the sea to
+overcome the intensity of subterranean heat. Needless to say, it was an
+extremely hazardous undertaking, despite the very careful surveys that
+had been made, for the little parties of workmen could never tell when
+they would strike a crack or an unexpected crevice that would let down
+upon them with a terrible rush, the waters of the Atlantic. But hazard
+is adventure, and as the two little groups of laborers dug toward each
+other, the eyes of the press followed them with more persistent interest
+than it has ever followed the daily toil of any man or group of men,
+either before or since.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Once the world was startled by the "extree-ee--" announcing that the
+English group had broken into an extinct volcano, whose upper end had
+apparently been sealed ages before, for it contained not water but
+air--curiously close and choking perhaps, but at least it was not the
+watery deluge of death. And then came the great discovery. No one who
+lived through that time will forget the thrill that quickened the pulse
+of mankind when the American group digging through a seam of old lava
+under what scientists call the "ancient ridge," broke into a sealed
+cavern which gleamed in the probing flashlights of the workers like the
+scintillating points of a thousand diamonds. But when they found the
+jeweled casket, through whose glass top they peered curiously down upon
+the white body of a beautiful woman, partly draped in the ripples of her
+heavy, red hair, the world gasped and wondered. As every school child
+knows, the casket was opened by curious scientists, who flocked into the
+tube from the length of the world, but at the first exposure to the air,
+the strange liquid that had protected the body vanished, leaving in the
+casket not the white figure, but only a crumbling mass of grey dust. But
+the questions that the finding of the cave had raised remained
+unanswered.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Who was this woman? How did she get into the sealed cavern? If she had
+been the court favorite of that mythical kingdom, now sunk beneath the
+waves, and had been disposed of in court intrigue, why would her
+murderers have buried her in such a casket? How had she been killed? An
+unknown poison? Perhaps she had been a favorite slave of the monarch.
+This view gained many converts among the archaeologists who argued that
+from all the evidence we have available, the race carrying the Iberian
+or Proto-Egyptian culture, long thought to have been the true refugees
+from sinking Atlantis, were a slight dark-haired race. Therefore this
+woman must have been a captive. Geologists, analyzing the lava,
+announced that it had hardened in air and not in water, while
+anthropologists classed the skull of the woman as essentially more
+modern than either the Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon types. But the
+engineers, secretly fuming at the delay, finally managed to fill up the
+cave and press on with their drills.
+
+Then following the arguments that still flourished in the press, came a
+tiny little news article and the first message to carry concern to the
+hearts of the engineers. The sea had begun to trickle in through one
+slight crack. Perhaps it was only because the crevice was located on the
+English side of the now famous "ancient ridge" that the article brought
+forth any notice at all. But for the engineers it meant the first
+warning of possibly ultimate disaster. They could not seal the crack,
+and pumps were brought into play. However, as a month wore on, the crack
+did not appear to widen to any material extent and the danger cry of a
+few pessimists was forgotten.
+
+Finally, it will be remembered, that sounders listening in the rocks
+heard the drillers of the other party, and then with wild enthusiasm the
+work was pushed on to completion. The long Tube had been dug. Now it
+only remained for the sides at the junction to be enlarged and encased
+with cast iron, while the work of setting up the great machines designed
+to drive the pellet trains through, was also pushed on to its ultimate
+end. Man had essayed the greatest feat of engineering ever undertaken in
+the history of the planet, and had won. A period of wild celebration
+greeted the first human beings to cross each direction below the sea.
+
+Did the volume of water increase that was carried daily out of the Tube
+and dumped from the two stations? If it did, the incident was ignored by
+the press. Instead, the fact that some "cranks" persisted in calling
+man's latest toy unsafe, only attracted more travel. The Undersea Tube
+functioned on regular schedule for three years, became the usual method
+of ocean transit.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This was the state of matters, when on the fourth of March last, our
+textile company ordered me to France to straighten out some orders with
+the France house, the situation being such that they preferred to send a
+man. Why they did not use radio-vision I do not care to state, as this
+is my company's business.
+
+Therefore, upon entering my apartment, I was in the midst of packing
+when the television phone called me. The jovial features of "Dutch"
+Higgins, my one-time college room-mate and now one of the much-maligned
+engineers of the Undersea Tube, smiled back at me from the disk.
+
+"Where are you? I thought we had a sort of dinner engagement at my
+apartment, Bob."
+
+"By gollies I forgot, Dutch. I'll be right over--before it gets cold."
+
+Then immediately I turned the knob to the Municipal Aerial-car yards,
+and ordered my motor, as I grabbed my hat and hurried to the roof. In
+due time, of course, I sprang the big surprise of the evening, adding:
+
+"And, of course, I'm going by the Tube, I feel sort of a
+half-partnership in it because you were one of the designers."
+
+A curious half-pained look crossed his face. We had finished our meal,
+and were smoking with pushed-back chairs. He finished filling his pipe,
+and scowled.
+
+"Well? Why don't you say something? Thought you'd be--well, sort of
+pleased."
+
+He struck his automatic lighter and drew in a long puff of smoke before
+answering.
+
+"Wish you'd take another route, Bob."
+
+"Take another route?"
+
+"Yes. If you want it straight, the Tube is not safe."
+
+"You are joking."
+
+But as I looked into his cold, thoughtful blue eyes, I knew he had never
+been more serious.
+
+"I wish that you would go by the Trans-Atlantic Air Liners. They are
+just as fast."
+
+"But you used to be so enthusiastic about the Tube, Dutch! Why I
+remember when it was being drilled that you would call me up at all
+kinds of wild hours to tell me the latest bits of news."
+
+He nodded slowly.
+
+"Yes, that was in the days before the crack."
+
+"Yet you expected to take care of possible leaks, you know," I
+countered.
+
+"But this crack opened after the tunnel had been dug past it, and lately
+it has opened more."
+
+"Are the other engineers alarmed?"
+
+"No. We are easily taking care of the extra water and again the opening
+seems to remain at a stationary width as it has for the past three
+years. But we cannot caulk it."
+
+"Are you going to publish these views?"
+
+"No. I made out a minority report. I can do no more."
+
+"Dutch, you are becoming over-cautious. First sign of old age."
+
+"Perhaps," with the old smile.
+
+"But after all it is now more than three years since we have had a talk
+on the Tube. After it began to function as well as the Air-Express you
+sort of lost interest in it."
+
+"And the world did too."
+
+"Certainly--but the public ever was a fickle mistress. Who said that
+before me?"
+
+He laughed and blew out a long puff of smoke.
+
+"Everyone, Bob."
+
+"But as to the Tube, if I cross under the sea, I would want to be as
+well informed on the road as I was three years ago. Now in the meantime,
+you have dropped interest in the long tunnel while I have become more
+interested in textiles--with the result that I have forgotten all I ever
+did know--which compared to your grasp of the details, was little
+enough."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+But his face showed none of the old-time animation on the subject. What
+a different man, I mused to myself, from that enthusiastic engineering
+student that I used to come upon dreaming over his blue-prints. He was
+considered "half-cracked" in those days when he would enthuse over his
+undersea railroad, but his animated face was lit with inspiration. Now
+the light was gone.
+
+"Well, Dutch, how about it? Aren't you going to make me that brief
+little sketch of the length plan and cross-section of the Tube? I
+remember your sketch of it in college, and it tends to confuse me with
+the real changes that were made necessary when the wind-propulsion
+method was adopted."
+
+"All right, old timer. You remember that the Tube was widened at the
+sides in order that we could make two circular tubes side by side--one
+going each way."
+
+"I had forgotten that they were circular."
+
+"That is because of the pressure. A circle presents the best
+resistance," and picking an odd envelope from his pocket, he made the
+following sketch and passed it to me.
+
+[Illustration:--CROSS-SECTION OF TUBE--]
+
+I nodded as I recognized the cross-section.
+
+"Now the plan of the thing is like this," he added, putting aside his
+pipe and pulling a sheet of paper from the corner of his desk.
+
+Rapidly, with all his old accuracy, he sketched the main plan and leaned
+over as he handed it to me.
+
+[Illustration:--PLAN OF UNDER-SEA TUBE--]
+
+"You see," he explained, picking up his pipe again, "both pumps work at
+one time--in fact, I should say all four, because this plan is
+duplicated on the English side. On both ends then, a train is gently
+pushed in by an electric locomotive. A car at a time goes through the
+gate so that there is a cushion of air between each car. The same thing
+happens at Liverpool. Now, when the due train comes out of the suction
+tube, it goes on out the gate, but the air behind it travels right on
+around and comes in behind the train that is leaving."
+
+"But how are you assured that it will not stall somewhere?"
+
+"It won't be likely to with pressure pumps going behind it and suction
+pumps pulling from in front. We can always put extra power on if
+necessary. Thus far the road has worked perfectly."
+
+"How much power do you need to send it through, under normal
+conditions?"
+
+"Our trains have been averaging about fifty tons, and for that weight we
+have found that a pound pressure is quite sufficient. Now, taking the
+tunnel's length as four thousand miles (of course it is not that long,
+but round figures are most convenient) and the tube width eleven and one
+quarter feet each and working this out we have 3,020,000 cubic feet of
+free air per minute or 2,904,000 cubic feet of compressed air, which
+would use about 70,000 horse power on the air compressor."
+
+"But isn't the speed rather dizzy?"
+
+"Not any more dizzy, Bob, than those old fashioned money-carrying
+machines that the department stores used to use--that is in comparison
+to size. The average speed is about 360 feet a second. Of course, the
+train is allowed to slow down toward the end of its run, even before it
+hits the braking machinery beyond the gate."
+
+"But how much pressure did you say would be put on the back of the
+diaphragm--I remember that each car has a flat disc on the back that
+fits fairly tightly to the tube ..."
+
+"The pressure on the back is less than seven tons. However, the disc
+does not fit tight. There are several leaks. For instance, the cars are
+as you know, run on the principle of the monorail with a guiding rail on
+each side. The grooves for the rails with their three rollers are in
+each car. There is a slight leakage of air here."
+
+"You used the turbo type of blower, didn't you?"
+
+"Had to because of the noise. We put some silencing devices on that and
+yet we could not kill all of the racket. However a new invention has
+come up that we will make use of soon now."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"But I can't understand, Dutch, why you seemed so put out when I
+announced my intention of going to Europe via the Tube. Why, I can
+remember the day when that would have tickled you to death."
+
+"You followed the digging of the Tube, didn't you?"
+
+"Yes, of course."
+
+"You remember the volcano and lava seams?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Well, I do not believe that the crack was a pressure crevice. If it had
+been, we were far enough below the ocean floor to have partly relieved
+the situation by the unusually solid building of the Tube. The
+tremendous shell of this new type of specially hardened metal--"
+
+"And the rich concrete that was used as filling! That was one job no one
+slipped up on. I remember how you watched it--"
+
+"Yet the crack has widened, Bob, since the Tube was completed."
+
+"How can you be certain?"
+
+"By the amount of water coming through the drain pipes."
+
+"But you said that once more it was stationary."
+
+"Yes, and that is the very thing that proves, I believe, the nature of
+the crack."
+
+"I don't follow you."
+
+"Why it isn't a crack at all, Bob. It is an earthquake fault."
+
+"Good heavens, you don't mean--"
+
+"Yes, I do. I mean that the next time the land slips our little tube
+will be twisted up like a piece of string, or crushed like an eggshell.
+That always was a rocky bit of land. I thought in going that far north,
+though, that we had missed the main line of activity; I mean the
+disturbances that had once wiped out a whole nation, if your scientists
+are correct."
+
+"Then you mean that it is only a matter of time?"
+
+"Yes, and I have been informed by one expert that the old volcanic
+activity is not dead either."
+
+"So that is what has stolen away your laugh?"
+
+"Well I am one of the engineers--and they won't suspend the service."
+
+"Fate has played an ugly trick on you, Dutch, and through your own
+dreams too. However, you have made me decide to go by the Tube."
+
+He took his pipe out of his mouth and stared at me.
+
+"Sooner or later the Tube will be through, and I have never been across.
+Nothing risked--a dull life. Mine has been altogether too dull. I am now
+most certainly going by the Tube."
+
+A bit of the old fire lit up his eyes.
+
+"Same old Bob," he grunted as I rose, and then he grasped my hand with a
+grin.
+
+"Good luck, my boy, on your journey, and may old Vulcan be out on a
+vacation when you pass his door."
+
+Thus we said good-by. I did not know then that I would never see him
+again--that he also took the train that night in order to make one last
+plea to the International Committee, and so laid down his life with the
+passengers for whom he had pleaded.
+
+It was with many conflicting thoughts, however, that I hurried to the
+great Terminus that fatal night, where after being ticketed,
+photographed and tabulated by an efficient army of clerks, I found
+myself in due time, being ushered to my car of the train.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+For the benefit of those who have never ridden upon the famous "Flier,"
+I could describe the cars no better than to say that coming upon them by
+night as I did, they looked like a gigantic, shiny worm, of strange
+shape, through whose tiny port-holes of heavy glass in the sides, glowed
+its luminous vitals.
+
+I was pompously shown to the front car, which very much resembled a
+tremendous cartridge--as did all of the other segments of this great
+glow-worm.
+
+Having dismissed the porter with a tip and the suspicion that my having
+the front car was the work of my friend, who was willing to give me my
+money's worth of thrill, and that the porter was aware of this, I stowed
+away my bags and started to get ready for bed. I had no sooner taken off
+my coat than the door was opened and an old fellow with a mass of silver
+hair peered in at me.
+
+"I beg your pardon, sir, but I understand you have engaged this car
+alone?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"I can get no other accommodations tonight. You have an extra berth
+here and I must get to Paris tomorrow. I will pay you well--"
+
+I smiled.
+
+"Take it. I was beginning to feel lonesome, anyway."
+
+He bowed gravely and ordered the porter to bring in his things. I
+decided he was a musician. Only artists go in for such lovely hair. But
+he undressed in dignified silence, not casting so much as another glance
+in my direction, while on my part I also forgot his presence when,
+looking through the port-hole, I realized that the train had begun to
+move. Soon the drone of the propelling engines began to make itself
+heard. Then the train began to dip down and the steel sides of the
+entrance became too high for me to see over. My friend of the silver
+hair had already turned off the light, and now I knew by the darkness
+that we had entered the Tube. For some time I lay awake thinking of
+"Dutch" and the ultimate failure of his life's dream, as he had outlined
+it to me, and then I sank into a deep, dreamless sleep.
+
+I was awakened by a terrible shock that hurled me up against the side of
+the compartment. A dull, red glow poured through the port-hole, lighting
+up the interior with a weird, bloody reflection. I crept painfully up to
+the port-hole and looked out. The strangest sight that man has ever
+looked upon met my eyes. The side of the wall had blown out into a
+gigantic cavern, and with it the rest of the cars had rolled down the
+bluff a tangled, twisted mass of steel. My car had almost passed by, and
+now it still stuck in the tube, even though the last port-hole through
+which I peered seemed to be suspended in air. But it was not the wrecked
+cars from which rose such wails of despair and agony that held my
+attention, but the cavern itself. For it was not really a cave, but a
+vast underground city whose wide, marble streets stretched away to an
+inferno of flame and lava. By the terrible light was lit up a great
+white palace with its gold-tipped scrolls, and closer to me, the golden
+temple of the Sun, with its tiers of lustrous yellow stairs--stairs worn
+by the feet of many generations.
+
+Above the stairs towered the great statue of a man on horseback. He was
+dressed in a sort of tunic, and in his uplifted arm he carried a scroll
+as if for the people to read. His face was turned toward me, and I
+marveled even in that wild moment that the unknown sculptor could have
+caught such an expression of appeal. I can see the high intellectual
+brow as if it were before me at this moment--the level, sympathetic eyes
+and the firm chin.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Then something moving caught my eyes, and I swear I saw a child--a
+living child coming from the burning city--running madly, breathlessly
+from a wave of glowing lava that threatened to engulf him at any moment.
+In spite of all the ridicule that has been showered upon me, I still
+declare that the child did not come from the wreckage and that he wore a
+tunic similar to the one of the statue and not the torn bit of a
+nightgown or sheet.
+
+He was some distance from me, but I could plainly see his expression of
+wild distraction as he began to climb those gleaming stairs. Strangely
+lustrous in the weird light, was that worn stairway of gold--gold, the
+ancient metal of the Sun. With the slowness of one about to faint he
+dragged himself up, while his breath seemed to be torn from his throat
+in agonizing gasps. Behind him, the glowing liquid splashed against the
+steps and the yellow metal of the Sun began to drip into its fiery
+cauldron.
+
+The child reached the leg of the horse and clung there.
+
+... Then suddenly the whole scene began to shake as if I had been
+looking at a mirage, while just behind my car I had a flashing glimpse
+in that lurid light of an emerald-green deluge bursting in like a dark
+sky of solid water, and in that split-second before a crushing blow upon
+my back, even through that tangle of bedclothes, knocked me into
+unconsciousness, I seemed to hear again the hopeless note in the voice
+of my friend as he said:
+
+"--an earthquake fault."
+
+After what seemed to me aeons of strange, buzzing noises and peculiar
+lights, I at last made out the objects around me as those of a hospital.
+Men with serious faces were watching me. I have since been told that I
+babbled incoherently about "saving the little fellow" and other equally
+incomprehensible murmurings. From them I learned that the train the
+other way was washed out, a tangled mass of wreckage just like my car,
+both terminus stations wrecked utterly, and no one found alive except
+myself. So, although I am to be a hopeless cripple, yet I am not sorry
+that the skill and untiring patience of the great English surgeon, Dr.
+Thompson, managed to nurse back the feeble spark of my life through all
+those weeks that I hung on the borderland; for if he had not, the world
+never would have known.
+
+As it is, I wonder over the events of that night as if it had not been
+an experience at all--but a wild weird dream. Even the gentleman with
+the mass of silver hair is a mystery, for he was never identified, and
+yet in my mind's recesses I can still hear his cultured voice asking
+about the extra berth, and mentioning his pressing mission to Paris. And
+somehow, he gives the last touch of strangeness to the events of that
+fatal night, and in my mind, he becomes a part of it no less than the
+child on the stairs, the burning inferno that lit the background, and
+the great statue of that unknown hero who held out his scroll for a
+moment in that lurid light, like a symbol from the sunken City of the
+Dead.
+
+
+THE END
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+    This etext was first published in _Amazing Stories_ November 1929
+    and was produced from _Amazing Stories_ May 1961. Extensive research
+    did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this
+    publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors
+    have been corrected without note.
+
+
+
+
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