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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1912)
B THE " OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAT 12, 1912. Old French Machinery Bought tCowrtrtt. Mli by Frank a Carpenter.) NOON. Canal Zone. Panama. .w you want a relic of th French machinery at Panama? Uncle 8am Is now closing out tbe last batch. Ha has (old It for over CTO.COO to a Chi cam redan company, and that firm la sow digging It out of the Jungle and carrying It by the Panama railroad dowa to Cristo bal. It Is piled there on a mtgnly dump ana is neing Broken up and classified. xne bolts and nuts are put la one nlac the wheels In another, and other bits of machinery of Tarkms kinds each have their pile. The dealers recognise about titrrerent classifications of Iron and ateei, and every class la found In the crap pile. The machinery Is first taken apart by cutting the rivets with sledces. and much of the metal la broken Into three-foot lengths for convenience In melting. The stuff will be taken to the t-nited States. The finer pieces will probably be sold by catalogue, and the remainder of the steel will go to the foundries to he worked over again. - " ia uiv (vim WBJgni OC the scrap disposed of between M.MO.000 and O.MM00 pound and the value of that old and used In the work has footed np more man tJ.wu.WJe. The sales have all been made by auction and at to much par ton. For this last lot the ton rate wsa Is. and included In the material ota moomotivea, dredges, excavators, dump ears, boilers, cranes, steel rails. copper and brass. The canal authorities estimate that at least U.0OO.4W worth of such scrap baa been used in making ma chinery for our work. Hew JT,eXM),0O .sated Away. When bought the canal of the French for H0.000,000 they gave us an estimate as to tb balance of the machinery and supplies on hand. This balance waa not paid for, but waa thrown la for good measure. I was down here Just after we took possession and went with the engineers over the buildings, machine works and warehouses and saw Just what there wsa. According to the French books the value of the whole was ta. ttt.roa. The above statement accounts for C.OOCOoa. but I doubt not, but that Uncle 8am has realised much more than twice that out of the vast equipment which then en hand. As to the f2s.O30.OW esti mate that was all down on tha French books of account. They were fine book keepers, and among the volumes of canal records are eighteen great ledgers, each as tall as a table, aa thick as a big family Bible and aa heavy as a 10-year-old boy. I am told that some of these ledgers will be ahawa at the Kan Francisco earjoaltlon. I have looked carefully over these books and find them wonders of account keep ing. The writing Is like copper plate at graving and they are a mass at figures from one end to the other. In the eight' een volumes there are about 10,009 pages and in them every Item of expense wss put down, even to the east of the horses. the building of pig pens and the goods In the storehouses. The engineers have teld me that they found the supplies te tally with the accounts so kept. The French, Balance Sheet, Among other things there wsa a balance aheet, the Items of which alone would fill a page of this nswtpepsr. 1 can give only a few of them. There were fifty seven barges, thirty-eight yawls and twenty-one launches. There were 170 steam cranes, 140 steam winches, M big pumpe -of various kinds, IM rock drills nd 150 punching machines. There was floating drill which. I believe. Is now In use, which was vslued by the French at MOM, and ether dredges and drills running Into the millions. There were thirty-four American locomotives, valued at tmooo, and more than m Belgian locomotives, together with hundreds of mailer steam engines. There were el eel rails enough to build over 200 mtlea of track and fcOOt dump cars. . Of this machinery a vast amount of tt was aa good aa when H was made, al though soma had been left In the Jungle and had rusted away. The French watched out for their supplies. They coated the machinery with parafflne and other oils, and painted aome parts of It with white lead. It Is owing to this care that we have beea able to see so much of the stuff. Frearb Ore dare Work for I'ael Sana Take, tor Instance, the dredges. There re French machines working at both ends of the canal. This Is ao of one of the beet dredges of the Balboa dianneL which has been remade and equipped with modern appliances. Another dredge, which lay for twenty years sunk m the mud near the Pacific, was taken up. cleaned and repaired, and It Is now goug ing out and loading all the sand used for the Faetflo end of the canal. Two big dredges were taken out of the mud on tha west bank of the Chagrea and floated down to the dry docks at Cristobal. Here they were repaired and they are sow at work la Llrooa bay. We hsvs eves used tha old dredges of the ladder type, consisting of an end less chain of nineteen steel buckets which scoop the mud from tha bottom of the canal and carry tt out to a chute at the aide Into a barge. Then dredges had good boilers, and the machinery was found In excellent eondltioa on account Young. Mothe Ko young; woman, tn the- Jot of Mtnlnr mrrlherriood. should neflact to prepare- her gyitem tor the- part- csl ordeal be if to andefgo. Tha health of both herself aad tha coming child depends larRely upon the care gilt bestows upon herself daring; th waiting months. . Mother's rrieod ,-tpw tha expectant mother's sys tem for the coming vent, and Its saw makes her comtojrtabls daring sJI tho term. It verks with snd tor nature, and by gradually expanding all tis sues, muscles and tendons. Involved, and keeping tha breasts la good con dition, brlnga tha woman to tha crisis la splendid physical condition, Tha baby, too. Is mora apt to be perfect and strong whera tha mother haa thus prepared herself for nature's supremo function. No better adrica could ha given a young expectant mother than that she as Mothers Friend; tt la a medicine that haa proven Its rata thousand or. book for eroact- at mothers vbJck contains net Taraeble Information, aad many aag geetlooa of a helpful aatnre, WSftLM IKUUVTOt CO Athena, C R5 ta pXiuu Mothers Wrl'f 'frw. CfcfRIDfD -7?t: ' I k of Its careful oiling and painting before It was abandoned. These dredges cost tone of thousands of dollsre. They were brought here la list and they remained ta the mud mora than twenty years. Their tender were silted over by the bey and were closed In by a ant of sand six feet high, la which a tree forty feet tall was growing. , Our engineers had to cut a channel forty feet wide Into the dredges and thea take them but and repair them- It Is a wonder that they could have beea need at all. but I am told that they have done excel lent work. There were four other ladder dredges nearby which have' been put to use. aad on the Pacific aide the hull of a ladder dredge was raised snd prepared for work. The same Is true of excavators of one kind or another and also of locomotives end cars. The French Railroad Material. A vast amount of tha French railroad materiel has beea used, and some of this machinery Is still working. Many of the locomotives left were worth P.000 and upward apiece, and there were XI loco motive cranes, each of which. If ws would neve bad to buy them, would have coat vm Some of the locomotive were right out m uie jungie. i remember when I waa hare in 1M I acsred a flock of bats from one of them and waa attacked by a warm of yellow Jacketa which had mads their nest Inside the boiler of another. Great llaarda. Including Igusnas. crawled bout here and there under the waeeis, and we had te walk carefully for tear of the snake. That waa near Bohlo en ground that la now covered by in waters of Qatun lake. Machinery Drowned la Lake Gate And Just here that lake which we are making by the great dam at Oatua will be mora or leas Impregnated with Iron from the French material which will met away within Its bed. A great deal of the (tuff ha been left In the Jungle,' and I aw, away off In tha tree, a 130, Ho exca vator twice aa big as a threshing ma chine, up the eldea of which the waters of the lake are slowly crawling. There are also score of sue) dump ears which have been overturned along the line of the old Panama canal, now a part of the lake. In one place there a a tre as big around as a good-suwd bay. seek which haa grown over a steel track and carried It op with tt. The metal car Is Imbedded In the trunk of the tree. The old French company had alto gether aver MOM car and to Iron dumping wagon a. When they gave up tha Job they allowed a vast amount of this to go to waste, and when I first ne across the railroad, which waa about fourteen year ago, after the aeo ond French company had taken hold. there were enough oar wheel to equip a trunk line of railway scattered along the canal from one end to the other. There were hundred of car bed which had rotted away. I crumbled some of the woof into sawdust la my finger. Qeeer Tainan Taele Ram Cot. During my stay an the hrthmu tn IPX I visited tn warehouses which had then Juet been turned over to our engineer. Among them were buildings which oov- red much aa tan acres, They were divided Into sections and walled with helves containing all sorts of material, la one place I found 1000 coal-oil torches tied to the rafters snd near them a small haystack of lamp wicks. Along the etd walls were bine of nails and screws and carload of tool handles. Ther were hogsheads upon hogsheads of sine tacks ta put en the galvanised rooting, and ear expert In charge at that time call ma tad that tha value of supplies la that bouse was tt leeet tSM. At another place I waa shown piles of copper plate, each as big aa the top of a library table, aad tons of copper bars for the repair of the machinery. There were great bales of brass and teet wire and tone of sine and lead. Maadred Talrtr Ware-bees Fall. When we took hold of the work we found here 1 stort house and ware house full of supplies, and also forty en parka which contained machinery too heavy to mouse trader cover. The eeev tent of the buildings and park were so treat that one of the engineer estimated that it all the machinery and stuff could be leveled dowa they would have beea enough to cover to the height of your waist a iOVacre farm. I went through these parks. They were covered with structural material. Here steel rails were laid up like cord wood, aad there eheete of sins and plate of Iroa were plied one pea another. At Empire and Colon I saw great ma chine Atop ud at Empire the building covered about fifteen acre. Some of the rrench shops were found in the Jungle but the brush and tree were el; .red way and the aid machinery seed 1 Thl we te at Baa Mataehla, where was un earthed a machine shop wnioo had ta tirely disappeared. It waa f -oad ta cover about a dosca acres, ard te contain a splete equtacaeat of machine toela. It took about three wees for our gangs af a te eat dowa Va Jungle, end within a week or so later the eld French ma chinery waa making general repairs of all kind oa the excavator and drill. and on the rolling stock of the trains. Nevertheless, with aS their cars as j f , cLr2 ' 1 wlli h Ik. .. , n miMmmi ta account and the sprinkling of the machinery with oil. the graft of the French can be everywhere seen. Every thing was done by contract, and the gratters ent their Muff In by the ton. In many case the supplies were fur nkthed at so much per piece, the of ficials getting a rake-off. In the base ment of the administration building at Panama we found two carloads of the finest drawing paper la sheets, each the else of a bedspread. There was more f that paper , than could possibly be need for a dosea eantla, but our drafts men consumed what they needed. In the same warehouse there, were six ton of leal Pens, so rutty that they had to be shoveled cut Into the ocean. There were also bolts made of wood and painted black, to gtv ths Impression that they were Iroa or steel. These Were mads according to sample, but tha model tent was at wood, and the bolts and screws came la that form painted black. Needles to (ay, they were aesleas. All along the line ( the canal are BtonameaU to ths fortune made by the building eon tree tors. Take the con crete work. It was paid tor by the cubic yard, and little two and four-room cottages were erected on costly cement foundations, while warehouse bad great concrete wall uader them. The monu ments of these buildings, the wood hav ing rotted away, are still te be aeen all along the line of the canal. I counted MS cement posts ta on plaos. Cemeat Bathe for Harsee. Among the other costly concrete con struction waa that connected with the tabic of the officials. Here at A neon they made a bathtub of cement tor the hones. It waa fifteen feet wide. seventy-five feet long and four feet In depth and was connected with toe water supply. The French engineers had their racing ponies washed off la- stead at currying them. I remember a pigpen that I aaw when I looked at that boras bath. It baa disappeared now. but I ws told that it must have cost at least (11,000 to make with - the Great Canal After werV years in.&emu.l &is 7 Jtezici tiref CO XZ5C. jretaj cajrimbtddwl ia & trunk e free It covered about half aa acre and was roofed with galvanised Iroa. The bed of the building waa of concrete, divided into pene, each of which had Its cement trough, and It was supposed to accom modate about MO hogs. How He Mode 9100,000. I hear many stories from tha old Msg art at Panama of how money flowed In the first dsvyt of the Preach canal. Ths isthmus was flooded with gold, common engineer took contracts and sot rich, and every one who sold or bought greased hi palm. I waa told last night of a worthless beachcomber who had beea discharged by ala employer, a New Turk contractor, Juet en the eve of the depar ture of the latter for home. A tew months later the New York men returned and saw his old employe dressed In snow white, wearing a Panama hat and having a black valet te hold up hit umbrella. The New Torker said: "Why, man, your circumstances seem to have changed V They have," we the reply. "I am rich now and have made a fort una oa con tracts." "How did you do that?" waa the next question. ' "It wss sasy aneugh. You remember that hill with the big hole at one side of it along ths line of the cans! about eight mile from Colon." "lea." "Well I took a contract to nil that hoi for ttAOOu. A man named Jones bad Just got another contract to cut dowa the hill for HM.OM, and so I charged him tSO.m to put his hill ta my hoi. Tola gave m a clean I1C0, without (pending a cent" Jt la aald that another man measured u a part of the Chagre river aa a Mo tion of hi excavation contract aad got money for It t do not knew a to the truth of these storle. I only know that tt a) pretty well established that th first French company spent aome thing like tMc.0oa,0) within a (pace of tan years, and that th second company spent (t.On.COl or lit, eOfcOO) more. Altogether th French spent Have Your Summer Vacation Include a Tour of Yellowstone National Park The Park comprises the greatest region of natural won ders in the World. Few have any idea of its stupendous grandeur. Many people spend their vacation here each summer and they find new attractions with every visit Many are the advantages of a visit to the Park by way of the Natural entrance at Yellowstone Station, Wyoming. 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