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The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22

onehalf mile wide the base, 100 top
constructed to 135 feet above tide The lake
navigation to Pedro Miguel, where lock of 80 feet
lift carried the vessel down to lake SIS feet above
tide. extending to Sosa h where two locks
the difference of level between the lake surface
Pacific Nineteen and eghthundredths miles of the dis
tance from Gatun to S0sa hill had channel 1000 feet
at the bottom, minimum channel for Az miles through
Cuebra of 200 feet at the bottom. The balance of the
distance varied in width to 800 feet the larger portion
of the entire canal being not less than 500 feet The
depth of water fixed at As feet The lake
perfect control of the Chagres river.
improvements in Original Plans.
Certain changes have been made in the original pro-
ject the most important being the withdrawal the
locks from Sosa Mirafores, which recommended
and adopted in December, 1907 This resulted in a
change in the direction of the channel Panama bay
island which, by cutting off the sltbearing
rent which has always been troublesome protects
channel against sitting.
second change is the widening of the AZ miles
of Cuebra cut width Of 300 feet at the bottom This
was done by executive order and not made on the
recommendation of the commission
third change is the location of the breakwaers in
Colon habor The necessity for these beakwaters
made apparent in the latter part Of January when
storm OF magnitude seriously nterfered with ship
ping AS originally proposed for both seaevel and lock
types, the breakwaters parallel to the of the
channel excavated in Limon bay constructed suf-
dcent area would not be given to disspate the
entering head into the channel and they would not
afford much protection to shipping These break
waters are to built out from Manzanillo island and
Toro point as give sheltered anchorage and also
an opportunity for such expansion to the as
break them up
fourth change is in the dimensions of the locks
AS proposed by minority they were 900 feet by 95
subsequently changed by the commission nstiga-
ton of the president to dimensions 100 feet wide
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22
clllF0RNlA.IExlS LAND co,
ms Schiller BIde, 1888 Randolph St., Chicago, NJ
Complementary Coiors.

Complementary CoIors.
Recent experiments. the results Of
which have been placed before the
Academy of Sciences in Paris, appear
to demonstrate that the true compile
mentary colors of the spectrum have
not hitherto been recognized. Red
was formerly considered to be the
complement of green, yellow of violet
and blue of orange. But according to
Mr.. Rosenstiel, the complementaries
OF red and orange are neither green
nor blue, but two greenish-blue tints.
aud the complement of yellow is
blue, and not violet, which is the COM
plement of green. Mr. Rosenstiel has
accordingly formed new "chromatic
circle" for the use of artists, which
he believes is more correct than its
predecessors.-Youth's Companion.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22

2S feet above tide, extending to Mirafores the
location of the final lock. The ruling bottom width of
the canal prism was fixed at $50 feet increased at the
curves and in the submerged channels In Panama bay
the width fixed at 200 feet and in the artificial chan
mel in Lmon bay 500 feet adopted, with turning
places 300 feet wide The minimum depth IS feet
and the locks to have usabe lengths of 74O feet
and widths of "a feet. The commission assessed the
value of the rights franchises concessions lands un-
finished work. plans and other property, including the
railroad of the New Panama Canal Company, at $40-
100000
BY act Of congress- approved 2s 1902 the presi
dent of the United States authorized acquire at
cost not exceeding $4oo0ooo0 the property rights of
the New Panama Canal Company the 1sthmus of Pan.
ANA and also to from the Republic of Colombia
perpetual control of strip of land less than six
miles wide, extending from the Caribbean sea to the
Pacific ocean.
Pursuant to the legislation, negotiations were entered
into with Colombia and with the New Panama Canal
Company with the end that treaty made with the
Republic OF Panama granting to the United States
troll of 10me strip, constituting the Canal Zone with
the right to construct maintain and canal This
treaty was ratified by the Republic of Panama on De-
cember e. 19O3 and by the United States February
%, 1904.
The formal transfer of the property of the New
ma Canal Company on the isthmus made May L.
1904 after which United States began the oreaniza
ton of force construction of the lock type Of
canal In the meantime continuing the excavation by
utilizing the French material and equipment and such
labor as was procurable the isthmus.
Lock Type I. Adopted.
The question of sealeve canal was again agitated
and such recognition that the president con-
vened the of engineers consisting of
13 members, to assemble Washington on the first day
of September 1906 for the purpose of considering
various plans for the construction the canal that
would be submitted to it.
AS result Of it's deliberations the board submitted
majority report and minority report signed by five Of
its MEMBERS the former advocating seaeve canal and
the latter lock canal with the summit level IS feet
above tide
The 1sthmian Canal Commission, with dissenting
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22

that u.s. sealeve the isthmus 500 or 600
feet wide To accomplish this, however, lock canal
must be built first and subsequently wdened and deep
ened until the ideal is reached There is avail
able for such canal With mountains instead of hills
to be removed estimates of course impossible;
the most optimistic figures, suitable alone the ideal
are offered bait In any event it is also claimed
that Boho should have been selected for the site
dam in lieu of Gatun.
AS between Gaun and Bohio, at both places the dis.
tance from the natural surface to the rock is
that any attempt to found the dam the last named
material will be attended by expense At Bo-
hio the in it's lower strata is filled with
bearing gravel and to make the dam safe the
through these strata would have to BE of by
extending down 165 feet No such strata exist
at Gatun for this alone leaving out of consd
Grafton the advantages in the control of the Chagres
river and to navigation by of the
of lake, Gatun offers the better site.
Both the majority and minority of the board of
sutng engineers considered Gatun suitable location
for dam; the former adopted it for the typical lock
canal used for comparison with the seaevel canal
however, feared the existence of underground flow
in of the higher DAM but investigations failed
to disclose The great of underlying material
is sandy and gravely deposits, supposed
mixture of these materials firmly cemented together
with clay make the strata in which they occur
:mpervious to water.
Foundation at Gatun Is Satisfactory.
the statement, without fear Of contradiction
that the site of public private any
has received such thorough and exhaustive examina
tion and investigation the foundation and
locks at Gatun. There is longer doubt concerning
any of the underlying strata; neither the impermeabty
the ability of the foundations to bear the loads
will be brought them be questioned if the
be carefully and !mpartially examined The investga
tions fail to disclose waterbearng strata
istence of that underground stream with DISCHARGE
equal to the CLagres river ITSELF which recently
asserted as a fact on the floor of the senate.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22

and complete investigation of the 18th
mus of Panama, with view to the con-
structiOn of a canal to connect
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans .
and particularly to Investigate the two
routes known respectively as the Mica
ragua route and the Panama route, with
a view to determining the most prac-
ticable and feasible route for such canal,
together with the approximate and prob.
able cost of constructing canal at each
of the two or more of said routes.
The commission reported on Novem-
Der 16. 1901, in favor of Panama and rec
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22

differences tidal lock near the Pacific was provided
Various schemes proposed for the control of
the the most prominent being the construction
of dam at Gamboa. The dam proposed afterward
proved to be impractcable and this problem re-
mained for the time being unsolved The through
the divide was also abandoned in favor of open
First Change from Sea Level Lock Type.
Work prosecuted on the sea-level canal until
1887 when change to the lock type made in order
the of the canal for navigation as soon
possible 1t agreed at that time that the change
in plan did not contemplate abandonment the sea-
level canal which ultimately to be secured but
merely its postponement for the time being In this
plan the summit level placed above the food line
of the Chagres river. to be supplied with water from
that stream by pumps Work pushed forward until
1889, when the company went into bankruptcy, and
February that year. liQuidator appointed take
charge of its affairs. Work suspended May Is,
1889. The new Panama Canal Company organized
in October 1894 when work again resumed, the
plan recommended by commission of engineers
This plan contemplated sealevel canal from Lmon
bay to Bohio, where dam the valley created
lake extending to Bas Obispo, the difference in level
being by two locks; the summit level extended
from Bas Obispo to Paraso. reached by two locks
supplied with water by feeder from an artif
cia reservoir created by dam Alhajuela the up
per Chagres valley. Four locks located the
Pacific sde the two middle at Pedro Miguel
bined in a flight.
second or alternative plan was proposed at the
time. by which the summit level was to be lake
formed by the Boho dam fed directly by the Chagres
Work continued this plan until the rights and
property Of the new company purchased by the
United States
United States Become Interested
The United States not unmindful of the advantages
of isthman canal had from time to time made inves
LEGATIONS and surveys of the various routes. With
view government ownership and control congress d
rected investigation of the Nicaraguan canal for
which concession had been granted private CON-
pany. The resulting report brought about such dis
cusson of the advantages of the Panama the
Nicaraguan route that by congress- approved
March 3. 1882 commission was appointed to make full
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22
with a thousand per cent. increase in

with a thousand per cent. increase in
excess Of the true increase, hoping
thereby that the public would turn and
rend the legislators. Instead Of which
the public has either quietly reduced
its expenditure on alcohol or boycott
ted the saloons of notorious Offenders
The German cafetiers, too, have be-
gun to raise the price Of cup of cof-
fee by cent in order to recoup them
selves for: an increase in taxation to
the extent Of quarter of cent and
have met with the same fate at the
hands Of the consumer.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22
FOOD QUESTION
Settled with Perfect Satisfaction by
Dyspeptic.

It's not an easy matter to satisfy all
the members Of the family at meal
time as every housewife knows.
And when the husband has dyspep-
sia and can't eat the simplest ordinary
food without causing trouble, the food
question becomes doubly annoying.
An Illinois woman writes:
my husbands health was poor. ha
had no appetite for anything could
get for him, it seemed.
HE was hardly able to work, was
taking medicine continually, and al
soon as he would feel better would go
to work again only to give up in q
few weeks. He suffered severely with
stomach trouble.
Tired of everything had been able
to get for him to eat, one day seeing
an advertisement about Grape-Nuts, 1
got some and tried it for breakfast the
next morning.
I'VE all thought it was pretty good
although we had no idea Of using It
regularly. But when my husband came
home at night he asked for Grape
Nuts.
1T was the same next day and /
had to get it right along, because when
we would get to the table the question.
Have you any Grape-Nuts' was a reg.
ular thing. So began to buy it by
the dozen pkgs.
my husbands health began to i'm
prove right along. I sometimes felt
offended when I'd make something I
thought he would like for q change
and still hear the same old question.
Have you any Grape-Nuts?'
He got so well that for the last
two years he has hardly lost a day
from his work, and we are stu using
Grape-Nuts." Read the book. '.rhe
Road to Wellville." in pkgs. -'.rheree
a reason"
- Evs~z1eaA1s 4hss aASvel letterf "A No.
e1e aD1eeIs 1Fen -tiNe t. tine. ~
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The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22
Can Not Escape Taxation.

Every day fresh instances are COM
ing to light Of how strenuous efforts
are being made in Germany to evade
various forms Of the new and heavy
taxation. The imperial postal authori-
ties tried to escape the new taxes on
gas mantles and electric globes by
getting in huge stock in advance Of
the day from which the altered legis-
latfon came into force. The brewers
In their spite against the government
have attempted to charge the public
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22

cult circumstance that no other man
has equaled in the Andean regions
His modesty and unself1shness were
as great as his courage and his pro-
fessional skill. In all his qualities he
was an honor to the self-sacrificing
profession Of civil engineering, which
has done SO much to place our coun-
try in the forefront of modern nations.
American Review of Reviews.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22

Brooklyn bridges and the consulting
engineer Of the third. His steel-arch
bridges at Niagara Falls are regarded
rs landmarks in the history of that
type Of construction.
( His pioneer work in Peru and Ecua.
dor as the builder Of difficult pieces Of
railroad involving high bridges and
viaducts gave him q. reputation on the
west coat of South America for mar
velous kill and efficiency under dim.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22
A Great Bridge Builder

One of the greatest masters OF the
art of the engineer that this country
of inventive and resourceful minds
has yet produced was the late Leffert
Leflerts Buck, who died at his home
near New York on July II. Mr.. Buck,
among many important engineering
projects, was notably identified with
the linking OF New York and Brooklyn
by great bridges: He was the, design:
O. and builder Of the second Of these
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22
True Representative Of Race.

JTuG HeprSSenIaIIVe OF HdCe.
DR.. Bethmann.HOllWeg may claim
this distinction, that he is the first
German chancellor to wear a beard.
Bismarck hastened to shave his of
when he entered upon diplomacy, and
showed his rivals and enemies a
massive jaw and clear-cut chin; and
he shaved to the end, with an inter.
val enforced by neuralgia in the early
SOS. AS soldier, too Caprivi shaved,
all but his mustache, and so did
Hohenlohe and Bulow. But Beth.
mann-Hollweg is gaunt, rugged, hir-
suite, pan-Germanic.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22
Naviqators' Date Line.

The international date line is an ir-
regular line drawn arbitrarily on the
map of the Pacific ocean near the one
hundred and eightieth meridian of
longitude, marking the place where
navigators change their date on the
,trans-Paciflc voyage. This change is
necessary on account Of the length
'ening of one hour for every Is degrees
of travel westward. By travelling east
ward day will be gained, westward
q day will be lost.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22

AAAAAAS4N.s~SOAJ AOAAO"Au6 tu1S az
tion the Panama Canal Company
was organized under the general
laws Of France, with Ferdinand
de>Lesseps az its president. The
concession granted in 1878 by Co.
1ombia was purchased by the COM
pany and the stock was success
fully floated in December, 1880.
The two years following were de-
voted largely to surveys. examina-
tions and preliminary work. In
the first plan adopted the canal
was to be 1916 feet deep, with
ruling bottom width of 72 feet
Leaving Colon, the canal passed
through low ground to the valley
OF the Chagres river at Gatun,
distance of about six miles; thence
through this valley for 21 miles, to
Obispo, where, leaving the river, it
crossed the continental divide at
Culebra by means Of tunnel. and
reached the Pacific through the
valley of the Rio Grande. The diff
ference in the tides of the two
oceans, nine inches in either d.
rection from the mean in the At
lantic and from nine to II feet
from the same datum in the Pa.
cific, was to be overcome and tha
final currents reduced by a proper
sloping of the bottom of the Pa.
cific portion of the canal. No pro-
visions were made for the control
of the Chagres river.
In the early eighties, after a
study of the flow due to the tidal
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22

'Yce, recommended to the president the
aooptlon OF the lock type recommended
oy the minority, which was also strong
~ advocated by the then chief engineer
Mr.. John F. Stevens.
on June 20, 1906, congress provided
that lock type of canal be constructed
across the 1sthmus Of Panama, of the
general type proposed by the minority
OF the board Of consulting engineers, and
work has continued along these lines. AS
originally proposed, the plan consisted
OF practically straight channel 500 feet
wide, Al feet deep from deep water in
the Caribbean to Gatun, where an ascent
to the s5-foot level was made by three
locks in flight. The level is maintained
by dam approximately Zoo feet long.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22
ORANGE LANDS
FIR

WE are going to give 400 of our best
" ten-acre tracts of Orange grow
Ing lands in the artesian watered belt
Of New California, Southwest Texas, to
IN equal number of live, energetic,
rustling men and women; real estate
agents, bank clerks and others who will
represent US in the towns and cities Of
the Middle West. These lands are
selling at from $50 to 500 per acre,
and have been set aside as our adver-
tising fund. This proposition is original
and genuine. We want only responsible
people, as we make our name stand for
Reliability. You must write today.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22

under the auspices Of Ferdinand de Lessep to consider
the question of the best location and plan canal
Ihis congress, after two weeks session. decided in
1aVor OF the Panama route and of seaevel canal with
out locks De Lesseps' with the Suez canal
made him strong advocate of the seaevel type anc
his opinion had considerable influence the decision
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22
Generalization.

OCHOCdUI8dIIOOs
What makes the parrot so pro
fane?
well, num-" answered the sailor
man, Il s-pose it's part my fault
Every time l hear him speak bad
word it makes me so mad that he gets
q chance to learn a lot of new ones."
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22

! "A. man always. expects his wife to
be lot better than he could possibly
be.-New York Morning Telegraph.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22

commended the lock type of canal The plan
consisted OF sea~level section from Colon to
boh1o' where dam across the Chagres valley
created summit level 81 to 80 feet above the
sea, reached by two locks. The lake or sum.
nit level extended from Bohio to Pedro MI.
guel. where two locks connected it with q poo1
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22

Panama his opportunity for sensational story ana
attributed flood to the dropping of the Gatun dam
into the subterranean lake under the dam and locks
which another aker had previously discovered and the
of the destruction of the Gatun dam cabled to
the United States
The slip did affect the south slope side of the
rock pjle It was entirely local and did not in
interfere with work 1t would not have occurred
had steps been taken during construction to give the
proper slope to the rock pe but economy OF time and
money did not warrant such precauton AS stated by
one of the engineering publications, 1--WE can state from
actual examination that this incident has abso
lutely no engineering significance"
AS a result however, the public is told that dire dis
aste will follow the undertaking unless the present plans
are abandoned and Straits of Panama constructed
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22

H z-7CANAL connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
E-AA oceans has occupied public attention for up
W1k4m ward of four centuries, during which period
IH III various routes have been proposed, each hav
uk~1' ing certain special peculiar advantages It
IL not until the nineteenth century, however.
that any definite action taken looking
toward it's accomplishment.
In 1876 organization perfected in France for
making surveys and collecting data which to base
the construction of canal the Isthmus
and in 1878 concession for prosecuting the
secured from the Colombian government
In May 1879 international congress was convened
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-22

This was the fifth slip that occurred at this
point, the uock settling to some extent but
generally slipping sidewise until the angle OF
repose was reached. In this connection 1t Is
to be noted that the silt deposits in the chan
mel had not been removed. This slip would
probably have passed unnoticed, as did the
former ones but for the fact that at the time
a flood in the Chagres river had attained such
proportions as to cover portion of the Pa
mama railroad tracks just south OF Gatun.
newspaper correspondent, going from Colon to
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-15
Woman
Witnessed a Suicide
At Ndtchez Hotel

Mrs. ]. E. Rocker, who lives on
Bouie street had a very had experience
Friday while a guest at the Corenia
Hotel in Natchez. AS has been pre-
viously stated in the papers, Mrs.
Lewis. the beautiful young wife of
Ed. D. Lewis, a travelling salesman
for N. X. Fairbank, Of Chicago, COM
mitted suicide Friday at Natchez In
the Corinne Hotel and Mrs. Rocker
occupied the adjoining room and was
among the first to reach her and kind
ly administered to the dying woman
until life was extinct. She killed her.
self by drinking carbolic acid. Mrs.
Rocker heard her fall, but not know
ing just what 1t was and being a
stranger she hesitated in going i'm
mediately to the room, when she heard
the husband, who had returned from
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-15
VOTES ISSUED ON ADVERTISING.

IN order to meet the popular
votes advertising
votes which will be
ea
and get them
collect the
we VIII allow
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-15
FIRE LOSSES SETTLED.
Mr.. HaisfieId Fares Well at the Hands
Of Insurance Companies. ..

Mr.. M. s. Haisfeld, whose stock
of furniture was damaged by water
and smoke on the night of February
9th, states that the insurance Com
panies have settled with him in full
for the losses, and the stock has been
turned over to him, at a net cost to
him of about 20 cents on the dollar.
Mr.. Haisfield has taken charge of
the stock and will have it put in the
best shape possible. He has moved
the stock and his office temporarily 10
the Burch building, and in few days
he will be able to put the stock on
sale at prices proportionate to the
cost to him.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-15

out in town, exclaim as he entered
the room, "My God! Hazel, why did
you do that?" Mrs. Rocker states
that the occurrence was the saddest
she ever witnessed, and said she was
certainly most beautiful corpse. Be-
low we quote an extract from the
Natchez Daily Democrat: Beyond
the scar. extending a half inch
below the under lip, small red dot,
about two 1nches to the right of the
mouth, burned by the carbolic acid,
the pretty face was not disfigured and
gave added truth to the inscription on
the casket AT Rest The remains
accompanied by the husband, were
shipped to Ida Grove, Iowa, the old
home, for interment. The cause of the
untimely death was attributed to fam.
lily troubles"