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THE OMAHA Sl'XDAY BEE: MARCH 24. 1012.
VxPen Pictures of Work on Panama Canal and of the Isthmus
(Copyright. li, by Frank G. Carpenter.) (
.IVOU HOTEL, AXCOX. Canal I
Zone. Panami I have com- I
to Panama to write eciml
plain, simple letters about th
canal. I want to show you I
how things here look to tho
man on the street, or how they would
look to you it you came down to tho
Isthmus. 1 am not an engineer, and I
shall turn tho figures Into concrete ex
amples. Tho amounts hero are so vast
that tbey cannot bo realised in figures.
And, besides, figures mean nothing but
dixxlneas to anyone but the professed
mathematician and scientist.
You remember the story of the scientist
who sneered at the poet who wrote:
Kvery moment dies a man
Every moment one la born.'
Tho scientist said: -Why. that man is
absolutely wrong- Every on who has
looked Into the latest statistics of the
human race knows that It Is In every
one and one-third minutes that a man Is
born, and that It la In the same time
that one dies." 1 am not sure as to the
fractions in this statement.
Well, in treating of the canal I shall
deal only in round number. A cubic
yard of earth Is roughly a ton. and a
yard of earth and rock Is a big two-horse-,
wagon load. I shall reduce the
amounta of rock and dirt we have taken
out to ditches, a yard wide and a yarj
deep; and the linear length of the ditches
to milts, using 6,10 feet to the mile, for
easy figuring. Tho actual mile Is 5.3)
feet, but the figures of the canal are so
vast that a Uttle thing liko that does not
matter.
W hat the Kzravatlna Ureas.
For example, lM.OOO cubic yards of ex
cavation would equal a illt. h a yard wide
a yard deep and 1'sVW" yards, or 300,000 1
feet, long. Now dividing by J.00O feet to I
the mile our ditch would be sixty miles
long, or better, a ditch three feet wide
and three feet deep to any locality Just
sixty miles from your hump. A million
cubic yards would be ten times the length
of IKl.fOO. It would equal such a ditch
M mike long, and 10.000.OUO would equal
one (MMi miles long, or twice as long as
from New York to ttan Francisco.
. But this canal deals not In millions and
tens of millions only. Its figures run
Into the hundreds of millions. The total
mount of our excavation, when com
pleted, will have been lK.OUO.OOO cubic
yards, or say. SOO.OW.MO for easy flo
uring. That would equal a ditch a yard
wide and a yard deep and 1S0.000 miles
long. It would equal a ditch so big
that the fattest hog ever killed at Chi
cago could walk through it with Its back
level with the top, and the ditch would
be long enough to reach four times
around the earth at the equator, and still
leave 10,000 miles to spare. It would
require enough excavation to make fif
teen tunnels through the center of the
earth from one side to the other, and
each tunnel would be big enough for
that fat hog to orawl through. More,
It would equal a great column three
feet square reaching from here on the
earth Just half way to the .moon. If
the tunnel through the earth was In
creased to ten or twelve feet square It
would not hold the total excavation, and
that tunnel would be large enough to
drive the biggest wagon load of hay ever
hauled by four 'horses.
The above estimates will give you some
idea. Of tha.work Uncle 8am has -dene
and IS doing in. lifting earth here at
Panama,, , .
The canal, as every one knows. Is to
be a lock canal. The ships will be
dragged up and' let down by the Chagres
liver, which Is being harnessed' by the
Gatun, dam to that its level , will be
eighty-five feet above that of the Carlb
bean and the Pacific ocean at either end
of the waterway. How high is eighty
five feet? It la about the height of a
snvea-story flat, or less than one-sixth
the height of the Washington monument
let us make the reduction even more
concrete. Take some man that every
one knows. You have all seen Champ
Clark, the stately speaker of the bouse
of representatives. The speaker is six
feet talL If fourteen men of the height
of Champ Clark stood one on the head of
the other and the last should play the
part of Atlas by raising his hands he
could Just support tho world on the level
of this canal at Its highest point above
the ocean.
, The minimum depth of the waterway is
forty-one feet. Lean out of your fourth
story window and drop a plumb line to
the ground. You might, be In a canoe
sounding the depth of the Panama canal.
" The Caaal In a .Natuhell.
.' But ail this la only preliminary! I
shall describe tho canal In detail as I go
over 1L lit nutshell It Is fifty miles
long from deep water in the Pacific to
deep water in the Atlantic From alio re
(In to shore line the length Is forty
miles. In going through It the vessels
enter Llmon bay, magnificent harbor,
and steam thence through the first At
lantic stretch, which Is over seven miles
long, to Gatun. The ship Is still on the
level of the Caribbean when it gets to
Gatun, hut there It meets the great locks
which, tilled by the Chagres, lift It eigbty
ftve feet Into Gatun lake. I will tell
you later bow it goes through these locks
and what the locks are like.
. In the lake itself the steamer may
pass at full speed to the entrance to the
Culebra cut, and the same level Is main
tained until you reach the other end of
that cut at Pedro Miguel. There the ves
sel enters a lock and drops about the
height of a three story house into
small lake hch Is about fifty-five
feet above sea level. That lake to
yet to be made, but It will be a mlie
and a half long am fifty-five feet above
'the sea. At the end of the lake
there are two more locks, one above the
ether, which successively drop it down
from the height of a five-story flat to
the channel and on the level of the Pacific
ocean. Our ship Is now only eight and
a half miles from the ocean Itself and
is ready to steam off to China, Japan.
Australia, or anywhere else In the Pacific
i laaaraac Abwat the Big Ditch.
; That Is the story of the canal In a nut
shell, but It is one which many do not
understand. During the coming cam
paign wo shall have stump speeches
where the orators will speak ut bringing
the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans together. They do not come to
gether bore at Panama, and If tbey did
they 'would have to flow uphill to a
height of eighty-five feet. The salt
water have but little to do with mov
ing the ship from ocean to ocean. It is
tho fresh water of the Chagres river that
does that work.
' Nevertheless, some supposedly well In
formed mew cannot appreciate this. One
of the chief officials of the Island of Ja
maica visited the canal the other day.
lie was icade much of and was taken
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over it from oae side to the other. At
the close he said to Colonel Goethsjs:
"It Is a wonderful undertaking, but It
seems to some of our people In Englsnd
a dangerous one. for they fear that It
may affect the current of tho gulf stream
and deflect It. '
1 am assured that this story Is true,
although at first I could hardly believe
It. The man referred tifr.Js the com
mander of the British forces in the Wast
Indies, stationed at Jamaica,
A storv somewhat similar was floating
upon this Imaginative Caribbean air when
1 was here In l&w, now fourteen years
ago. The latter related to a Yankee sea
captain and a Mustering son of John tlulL
The lii-iti.her was boosting of the power
of his government, and saying how It
would wipe out the United States in esse
of a war between the two countries.
Thereupon the Yankee tar replied; ,
"indeed, man. It makes me laugh to
heir you Britishers blow. Why. If I'nclo
Sam wanted to clean out "our tight little
island nil he need do Is t.- dig a ditch
through the Isthmus of Panama and turn
the gulf stream Into the. I'aclflc,, The
next winter after that Kngland would be
as cold as Labrador and you Urltishers
would turn into Eskimos."
Many of the tourists, and even some
of the writers about the canal who come
here, show an Ignorance which Is colos
sal. The other day a lady correspondent
from the middle west was sent down to
spend a week and write a dosen news
paper letters. She Interviewed every one.
including the secretary of the commis
sion, who, during the talk,' happened to
mention De Lease p.
"Da Lessepsr' said the girl. "Who was
De Lesser anyhowT Every one Is talk
Ing about De Lease pa. Oh. I' remember
now! He was the man who discovered
the Isthmus of Panama."
A Railroad View of the Caaal.
But let us return to the canal proper.
The great ditch, as it looks today, is far
different from anything ons can Imagine.
RINGS OF ANCIENT ORIGIN
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Syaiioli r:,jUUg'ionj aid Citio
1 Consecration.
SOKE 0? THEIR KAUT.TBST USES
style aad aiBsJtlcaae of ".legs that
Are.Wra by the Pope, Cardinals
. .." aai Bishowa Betrothal sad
' WrMIsi Ring. . . ' ', i
Rings, though now universally worn
by civilised people of all. nations, re
often times characterised as emblems
of barbarism. And yet- In the history
of religion we find thst Christians In
ancient times, like all other people, were
rings. In accordance with their station
In life. Although there are numerous
surviving ancient rings, proved by their
devices, provenence and every charac
teristic to be of Christian origin. H Is,
in most esses, difficult to Identify them
with any liturgical use.. Rings are
mentioned without reprobation In the
New Testament and moreover, St.
Clement of Alexandria says that a man
might lawfully wear a ring on his little
finger, and that It should bear some
religious emblema dove, or a fish, or
an anchor.
On the other hand, Tertulllan. St.
Cyrlan, and the Apostolic constitution
protest against the ostentation of
Christian in decking themselves with
rings and gems. In any case the Acts
of St Perpetua and Felicias, about the
beginning of the third century, inform us
of how the martyr Saturua took a ring
from the finger of Eudens, a soldier, who
was looking on, and gave It back to him
as a keepsake, covered with his own
blood,
"Knowing as we do." says the Catholic
encyclopedia, "that In the pagan days
of Rome every priest specially conse
crated to the worship of Jupiter, had,
like the senators, the privilege of wear
ing a gold ring. It would not be sur
prising to find evidence in the fourth
century that rings were worn by Chris
tian bishops. But the various paaeagss
that have been appealed to, to prove this.
are either not authentic or else are
r
conclusive.
Bias aaa Crosier.
SL Isidore of Seville of the seventh
century couples the ring with the crosier
and declares that tho former Is con
ferred as "an emblem of the pontifical
dignity or of the sealing of secrets.9
From this time forth It may be assumed
thst the ring was strictly speaking, an
episcopal ornament conferred In the rite
of consecration, and that It waa com
monly regarded aa emblematic of the
betrothal of the bishop to bis church.
Besides bishops, many other ecclesias
tics are privileged to wear rings. The
pope, of course. Is the first of bishops,
but be does not habitually wear the sig
net ring distinctive of the papacy and
known aa "The Ring of the Fisherman,"
but usually a simple cameo, while his
more magnificent pontifical rings are re
served for solemn eccleslastcal functions.
Cardinals also wear rings independently
of their grade in the ecclesiastical hier
archy. The ring belonging to the car
dinalltial dignity is conterred by the
pope himself In the consistory In which
the new cardinal la named to a particular
"title," It is of small value and is set
with a sapphire while It bears oa the
Inner !3 of the besel the arms of the
pope conferring It. In practice the car
dinal I hot required to wear habitually
the ring thai presented, as he commonly
prefers to use one of his own.
The plain Tings worn by certain orders
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Many of you have pictures of It In your
minds.- You tee a ragged excavation of
dry rock and earth, cut here and there
by waterways and running across the
Isthmus from on side to the other, with
some elevation at the hills. You may
Imagine the sides walled with stone, and
may even Imagine you can see the great
machinery as It Is working In the Culebra
cut. You probably conceive big locks of
concrete here and there and Imagine
something of the great dam at Oatun.
All this is hasy, but you think you know
how rhe canal looks as It is now. You
are mistaken. The eyes of your brain
are, metaphorically speaking, a thoussnd
milea out of the way. If you could look
at the zone as do the wild ducks which
fly over It you would be greatly disap
of nuns and conferred upon them In the
course of their solemn profession, ac
cording, to the ritual provided In the
Roman Pontifical, appear to find some
justification In ancient tradition. St.
Ambrose speaks as though It were a re
ceived custom for virgins consecrated to
God' to wear a ring In memory of their
betrothal to their heavenly spouse. This
delivery of a ring to professed nuns Is
also mentioned by several medieval ponti
fical from the twelfth century onward.
Wedding rings, or more strictly, rings
given In betrothal ceremony, seem to have
been tolerated among Christians under
the Roman empire from a quite early
period. The use of such lings was of
course of older date thsn Christianity,
and there Is not much to suggest that the
giving of the ring waa at first incorpor
ated in any rituai or Invested with any
precise religious significance. But It la
highly probable that. If the. acceptance
and the wearing of a betrothal ring was
tolerated among Christians, such rings
would nave been adorned with Christian
emblems.
In the coronation ceremony, also. It has
long been the custom to deliver both to
the sovereign and to the queen consort
fln( previously blessed. Perhaps the
earuest example of the use of such a
ring la In the case of Judith, the step
mother of Alfred the Greet. It Is,
however. In this Instance a little difficult
to determine whether the ring was be
stowed upon the queen In virtue of her
dignity as a queen consort or of her
nuptials to Ethelwulf.
Rings have also occasionally been used
for other religious purposes. At an early
date the small keys which contained
filings from the chains of St. Peter seem
to have been welded to a band of metal
and worn upon the finger a reliquaries.
In more modem time rings have been
constructed with ten small knobs or
protuberances, and used for saying Hie
rosary. K- uunovan.
European Mortality
is Due Very Largely
to Consumption
ROME. March a At th International
Exhibition of Hygiene, which Is now go
ing on here, the section concerning th
struggle against tuberculosis is most In
teresting. It appears that one-fourth of
the total mortality of Europe is due to
consumption, Italy alone, which I o
of th countries leas affected, having
sacrificed, up to an average of f.Xs)
yearly lo the disease. This figure now,
owing to the energetic preventive and
curative meastr-cs adopted, has sunk to
less than M.OCj.
Still Italy, chiefly on account of the
fact that most of Its consumptives are
foreigners, has not succeeded In obtaining
the same amelioration as has occurred
in other countries, such a. for Instance,
In Prussia, where In the last twenty
years the death rate from consumption
has decreased from S.I to 8.7 every VJ
inhabitants, and in England where It has
diminished from Is to HI
Russia has still the unenviable primacy
in consumption statistics, the d.-ath rate
there being 4.M for every l.OOI.iOO inhab
itants, followed by Austria-Hungary with
J. 500. France with IJtt. Germany with
f SW. Ho.land. 1.900; Italy, 1.170; Scotland,
I.W. and England, 1.400.
Tho best effect of the open air cure
XT- -how hi Keg land, which with this
years In reducing by half the mortality
through tuberculosis, but If that were
not enough, Italy provides fresh demon
strations snowing how much more coo
rump t Ion aXXectt people who are confined
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pointed. The most of the canal does not
show the work done upon It, and you
cannot realise that more than enough
earth to make a wall nine feet high and
three feet wide clear around the world
has been moved. You are uld Jhat up
ward of a quarter of a billion of money
has been spent and you look in vain for
ths marks of the dollars. You will under
stand all better later on when I take you
through the canal.
Let me tell you In simple words how
Let me tell you In simple words how
the undertaking struck me as I came In
today. As we spproached Colon 1 saw
no sign of a canal. There was a break
water away off to the right, but no evi
dence of any Interior waterway. In fart,
all my Ideas were turned upside down.
within buildings than those who Hv In
the open air.
The death rate from this disease among
nun Is 43L5I ever) 1.00; among weavers,
M.W. among printers, ; among dress
makers, til, while among shepherds and
agriculturists It Is only 41.'
DECLINE OF AMERICAN HORSE
Cavalry Has Urea Hard Illt
tates Kllllaa- the RarlasT
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Th departure of the Billings stable of
famous harness horse for Kurope signi
fies thst ih American trotting turf has
been hard hit by htrt-alghted legislation,
along with Its family connection, the run
ning turf. Indeed, th loss of the best
trotting . stallion this country has pro
duced, together with othera only second
m point of value and usefulness, forbode
an outward movement that may result In
the Impoverishment of our blooded trot
ting stock In a still larger measure than
la true of the decline of the thorough
bred. '
Russia being the destination of The Har
vester and bis stable companion, th
chance of their being returned to this
country I remote. The Russian govern
ment baa been a heavy. -purchaser of the
highest type of breeding stork, and Is In
the market for more. And as all th prtn-
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I thought I was looking toward the west,
and our steamer wss really facing the
Pacific ocean, which lay beyond a range
of low mountains only fifty miles oft.
But kt! the sun rose there right In our
faces and out of the Pacific, snd It
seemed to me It perceptibly winked as II
squinted at me over this the lowest range
of the Andes. .
I hsd to stop and think a moment be
fore I knew why this was. The Isthmus
here runs east and west Instead of north
and south, and the canal Itself runs north
and south Instesd of east and west, I
have a room facing the east at Unrls
Ram's big hotel here at Panama and I
see the sun actually rise out of the Pa
cilia ocean every morning. This part of
the Isthmus Is the only place I know of
clpal countries of Europe maintain similar
establishments, there Is small likelihood
that the pick of America will go busing.
Racing Is everywhere encouraged sbroad.
either through government initiative or
patronage:. It has been found to be the
best source of supply for cavalry horse
of th highest class, an essential to proper
equipment that Is lamentably larking In
our military system, Ths cavalry has been
running down at the heel ever sine actlv
service on the plains came to a stand
still, a circumstance that - passed un
noticed until ft had a painful realisation
on the occasion of sending our crack team
to England to compete with th best
cavalrymen of Europe.
However, the national government Is
not open to criticism a being th prin
cipal offender In th matter. That dis
tinction belongs to state legislatures,
which yielded to misdirected clamor, al
though fully apprised of the consequence
that Inevitably must follow. It Is not
within th province of congress to regu
late racing, but It ha th power to ar
rest th blight that I destined to work
the deterioration of the equine race
throughout all its strains and sll Its serv
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where, stsnding on our hemisphere, you
can note this geographical fuel.
The entrance to the canal at Colon Is
now tavlsilftfte from the aieamet. 1 looked
la vain for dredges and excavating ma
terial. There were no piles of dirt and
roik. Everything is of the greenest of
green. The shore is fringed with cocoa- j
nut tree, and the green grsss grows all I
around.
The st-amers land you at Colon.
ragged ao.ir.by town of low two-story
tram house with galleries running along
the first stories and shading the streets.
The town 1 bordered at on side with
cocoenut trees, and standing on the
steamer at the right you see a great
cecoanut grove In which lie fhrlstobal,
Colon's big American sister. This has
some of the canal administration build
ings and liie homes of many employee.
Thcj- are all veiled in wir netting and
there are no ditch banks or dirt to be
seen.
Rldlaa TTsrvach a llataaleal Garden.
Crossing the isihma on the railroad,
along th line of the canal. Is for the
most part Ilk riding thravgh a botanical
garden. Yon first pass Monkey Hill
cemetery, that horror of the Panama of
th past, but now a beautiful park, and
then com Into a country where nature j
runs riot In the luxurUace of Its tropical
vegetation. There are palm trees i,f an i
hundred varieties, wild bananas and
strange trees in which are to bo cn air
plants and orchid ranging to the lunbs
and nestling at the roots of the branches.
There are great clamps of tar.iuoj with
leaves as feathery as those, which line
the under wlax of an angil. and great
bed of tasselated papvrus, the same
plant as that used In old Egypt to make
the boat-like cradle In which little Moaos
rocked when ho was discovered by Pha
roah's daughter, riven beyond the Gatun
dam the country la still green. You are
told you are on the line of the canal, and
the very dirt over which you are passing
will form its bed. In other places the
woods are a Jungle, and the hunter will
point out th marka of a wild hog. a
deer, or a tapir. This country Is full of
wild game. One of my fellow-liavelera
of today, an American Judge of the canal
son, tells me his chief sport I hunting.
He shoots many deer, snd he recently
killed a tapir which weighed l.K pounds.
He say tin tapir meat lasts hk Chi
cago beef, and that the venison of ln
a ma I a good a that of th Adirondack!
or the Heckles,
stidlna t the Caeal Level.
I shall net say anything her abiut
tb locks nor the mighty Oatun dam
which hold back to C bag re. Th rail
road took s to th top of th level and
then dropped us Into th dam and carried t
urn over Its basin. Already twelve feet i
of water nav been let In and by th time
this letter la published th lake will be
very much higher. The railroad now
skirts th dga of the filled portion at
the twelve-foot level and eventually there
will b titty or sixty feet of water above
that of the present track. Six months
from now th only way t traverse that
track would be In a tube tunnel Ilk that
of the Pennsylvania railroad under th
river on the way to New York.
W wound our way for soma miles
through tb baala, passing little villages
of rude (hacks where negroes and r,u
lattoea are still living, notwithstanding
they have been warned by the govern
ment to move. They can see th wster
com in, but they will hang on until It
emaea to their doorway, which time will
be soon.
Leaving the Gatun baa In, you om to
a region where a great Part of th land
I mad up of th soil that ha been
taken out of th Culebra cut. Neverthe
less you cannot realise It, for th klnl
mother of the tropic has already spread
a coat of vegetation over th rock and
hidden th scars. It I only when you
enter th Culebra cut and cross It that
you realise what baa been done. You
see thousands of men working as th
railway Carrie you flying by, and an
endless river of earth I moving out on
th car to be spread ever the hollowa
In on place I was shown a dump which
contained ICttS.tlW enbio yards of such
spoil. Using our method of calculation
above given, that spoil would equal a
ditch a yard wide and a yard deep s.OOO
mile long. It would fill altunnsl run
ning through th glob and Mill laav
enough to make a ditch of th above stss
from New To to Chicago.
Th railroad from th Culebra out to
Panama now crosses th cut In on place.
Further along It run ac tn oanal bed,
where a year from now there will be
over forty test of water, and shortly
thereafter leave th oanal, and eonwt
Into Panama, at th edge of A noon. This
la th old rallroaa. Th aew line ha
been located and th grading tor It Is
going rapidly on.
FRANK O. CARPENTER.
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