The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-22
sibllity Of supplying the necessary quantity

Of Water u TO 't the summit level.
Of the water ,hs no swppiy sheps Of
lork canal but the time necessary 10 one
lock Z the passage OF one ship. y may %
easily seen that transit OF So.%o; " m H1m
imam liar With such questions, Is far below
the The, C." cap aisi Of o. twin lock canal
Il may be sally a AN s snas now viii
c eepfft'v When the ira! 81 viii have reached
me vn every Very Two hours in each direction the
transit will be 90 900 tons a day. or % 100 Wy
tors year. As the passage through locx
sees .st ca Sly that the canal will have working
capacity Of $4,000. 900 tons year at 'eas N.
ssres, ,Psw oa mat r Il s. sny .tous
the half of its theoretical capacity
ul-For the LARGEST ships Of the Next
Half Century.
The canal would carry the largest ships
likely to be built within dfty years.
The constant increase in the SIZE Or sih npas
be Exaggerated. In 1850. when Col: Ghnds
made his first survey o. the Nssare ese for tbs
there was NJ sh,p plEns eo Ssty ZEE
the Atlantic states AND the raf fees Will
4 because Of all the steamers then hen ahoat
only fifteen drew over seventeen .a ifs', ,o-d.v
The ssry Of a h4,y 4 ees das
a draft is plying between the Atlantio states YES
and hs Pacific Coast, , fd vsrs SSen %
loaded, dull load will never be the case At
Panama. the steamers having always burned
part Of their coal When Sss Hot vet been
% and ri. further sss,ss,s
Genth ~ water in nearly all the haroors OF
It can be. therefore. stated that y IN the
last Atty years the increase OF the oIaIt Ei
proba bly, not reach ten in the next fity:
depth Of thirty feet o, wstsi n, for ali the
come. it would be- however: ad visable TO 90
80 * s as '9 b fts aeR se IN the srS
next fifty years. and. necessitate only supple s.
mentary digging OF the chahhe' "'''
necessary.
Iy.-Transf orma ii IN Into Sea Level Canal
The canal whenever necessary can DC uans-
for med into a sea level passage. 49,,
However distant from us may appear tne
time when the transit over Panama WIZ "a Az
times the transit obtained at Suez alter tniIy
years OF service, any man VINO unoeisAnhs
the enormous, importance Of this great i Msn,
way will not leave aside the question Mha A.
will our sons or our grandsons DO wheh tiis
remote time will be near them' II the loGk
canal with a. four year plan covers ent,fhe ay
the needs of the actual generation ~haI
will be the protection Of the future.
have recently published N la sc'enes nu
zoe Steele an article which THE NEW YORK oCN
r"pu blished on the solution which ! save ID
1857 10 this question of the translormaDlIley
OF lock canal into sea level passage; !
the president OF the Panama Canal COM.
mission. as we'll as 70 different members 6 os
solution consists in q slight altera ton TO the
usual type OF locks which allows the deepening
Of the summit level. the gradual decrease
the transit, and without modifying the opera
ton of the locks, until the level OF the watsr
at the summit is reduced TO that OF the az q.
summit level To explain the system, Jet US
examine the conditions created b. the ordInarv
type Of con struction Of lock in canal with
aunlmit level