The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-27

larger ard Stit hger because or the
 greater bulk of water they are to con- 1 tt,.l At th., Catun locks, as at the
 other points alors the canal where eates are to be planted and manipu- I lated. all the machinery will be in 1 duplicate. Only one system of locks VIII be msed at time, so that if 1t be- comeB necessary 10 make reDairs m l the works is e., l. iete overhaulins may be u.adc Without g moments interrup-
 tion to traffic. The Commission, i1 calling for bias. vIotes the act of Con l g-ess creating the lock type of canal | a 1d specifies that the summit Sf tue l level of water in the Gatun Lake is to be s5 feet above the Atlantic. The level of the Sosa Lake will be only 5S I feet above the level of the Pacific.
 From the Caribbean Sea to the north Of
 the Mindi River the channel is to be l 500 feet wide at the bottom% and is to be 42 rect deep below mean tide. From the mouth of the Mindt to the Gatun locks the 500 feet width and 42 | feet depth is to be maintained. The I top of the Gatun Dam will be 135 feet above the level of the Atlantic Ocean, and it will have a width on top of 100 feet. From the Gatun locks to San Pedro is fifteen and half miles, and l little excavation will be done in this | region. for the lake that will be
 formed by the Hoods of the Chagres will bring the level of the water hlgh over the trees and hills and villages, drowning out all miasmatic swamps 9lla have hitherto been the chief cause
 of the notoriously unhealthy condition of the ist mus. Of course, the inhabi- | tants of the towns to be inundated will ha' e ample notice to move before the water pours in upon them, and with the
 money they collect from the Govern
 ment for their property they will be
 able 10 build themselves better homes, i in all probability. than they now own. Tn the Culebra section, where the hard est and the deepest digging is to be
 done. tItr canal will have width of only 200 feet, but it will widen out again to 500 feet until 1t reaches the
 SoSa Lake. From Sosa locks to the
 deep water in Panama the canal will
 have a width of 500 feet and a mean
 depth of so feet.
 Fresh Water Cities.
 After the work of building the dams
 and locks Is finished and the water
 pours into the Atlantic and the Pacific, history will be in the making along
 the canal zone. Cities like those along | the Great Lakes from Chicago to Buff falo will perhaps spring up on the
 shore of the little fresh water ocean of
 Gatun. for the commerce of all the wCrlc will pass to and fro and leave lts mark and some of it's dollars there.
 Ships hurrying to the Orient from Flu rope tnd our own western seaboard
 will anchor there long enough to get
 the barnac1es from their hulls and stock up with fresh provender for the longer voyage. Vessels from China
 and Japan bound for New York or Lon
 don will be glad to rendezvous fin the
 quiet harbors of the isthmian sea, and
 will leave some of their rich cargoes
 there in exchange for, American cheer
 or goods. All along the route of the
 canal villages will plant themselves to
 reap the harvest of prosperity and progress that is bound to come, and 1 1t may not be many years before the daily papers of New York will be car rying alluring advertisements of real estate booms upon the strip. With the improvements that may be made in
 nav igation, either of the water or the air, by the time the canal is open and
 ready for business, the homeseeker who | to1s in Broadway or Walf Street may find 1t to his advantage to build him a winter home somewhere on the zone. The President's object.
 But gigantic enterprises like the Panama Canal cannot be carried to successful completition without enthu- siasm and eneregy and fidelity to duty. | From the noted engineers whose train ed minds have worked out the techni-
 cal problems connected with the canal
 to the hunlblest laborer who removes
 earth by the shovelful. or who oils the 1 engine which removes the excavated
 material, every man must do his duty, i and do 1t energetlcally and conscien- tiously. and it is largely for this reason | that the President has determined to go
 to the Canal Zone, there to inspire as | well as inspect.
 | Foot by foot the President will go
 over the canal route, and 1t Is a safe
 prediction that every man who sees and i hears the President. whose energy in 1 Washington has made possible the con- 1 struction of the canal, whose states
 m.trslip has procured the necessary | legislation, and even fired those con seTN stive statesmen who are disposed
 to regard an isthmian canal as chimeri- csl, "a sehooboy's dream, the wonder of ar hour" will retain a portion of his | energy. his courage and his determine tion, Nor have the officials on the Canal Zone missed any opportunity to | utilize this inspiring personality pos
 sessed to a peculiar degree by Presi-
 dent Roosevelt.
 Visit Worth While.
 The last night of his stay on the ithmus will be devoted by the President
 to the employees of the Canal Commits
 sion. He will be their guest at a re- ception to be given on a great sbroad l pier at Cristobal. He will have seen their work, their homes and the con dltions under which they labor, and finally he will talk to them in those characteristic terms and jerlxy sem tences which find their destination in the hearts and minds of men with the certainty and celerity of bullet and
 which, when they impinge on his audi tors, leave Impressions certain to stand the trial of weary days and try l ing nights. to serve as the incentive to greater effort intenser will power and more faithful service. even though ob- stables of seemingly superhuman im-
 mutability confront them.
 President Roosevelt expects me to l do my duty" will be the thought which every employe will carry away with 1 him from that reception on the pier at | Cristobal. and that thought will serve | him in good stead as he tolls under
 :he tropical sun, seeking to achieve
 success before the President comes
 again"
 It has been announced that the Pres ldent goes to inspect, and perhaps he l believes that is the chief object of his visit, but the officials of the Canal Com mission, while preparing to afford him 1 every opportunity for thorough inspec-
 ton, expect him to inspire. and that 1 they regard as the chief end of his visit l to the canal zone.
 | But the inspection will also prove of 1 incalculable value When. in the fu-
 ture. the doubting member of Congress