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remains of the fcrtihcations constructed
by the BrItons against the Roman in
vaders, At that period Breptford was
the first place abore London where
there was Il ford o. ..lssage across the
river. tho whole OF tne Thames valley
being covered with forests and swamps.
And today the London county council
officials in building new county hall
have come upon Il Roman barge that
tbey are preserving with close care.
Valuable articles of jcwelry have
sometimes been brought to the surface
by the buckets of the dredger. and even
restored To their owners, as In the case
of gold watch found in llambledon
Lock It was traced by it's number
and although il had been under water
for over a year, il was returned TO the
owner verv little the worse for its
long immersion,
Many years ago thief stole mum
her Of gold watches from a Cornhill
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Completion of Panama Canal at Official Time Set January
BY w. L. WRIGHT.

tricity which also will operate all the
gates and valves. The power will be
generated by turbines from the fall
created by Gatun lake so, in reality,
great problem with which our en-
gineers had to contend in making the
canal Che problem of taking care Of
the enormous flow of the tropical riv.
ers) has been taken care of and the
surplus water which does not escape
over the spillways will be harnessed to
draw ships through the Panama canal
The trip through the canal will prove
marvellous experience TO the stran-
ger in the tropics. Aside from the cx-
great ocean steamer which is lifted
cightY-fyc feet above the level Of the
sea. ono will catch a glimpse Of the
republic OF Panama, one of the most
interesting and tropical countries in
the world. and rs large as the great
state Of Maine \ strip through the
republic is really United States terri
tory. This is the canal zone, strip OF
territory extending for five miles on
each side of the canal and out into the
deep water in either ocean. Our gov
erument administers the laws in this
strip and also has the right to enforce
sanitary regulations in tie cities Of
Colon and Panama
What it Will Cost.
Tho Panama canal when completed
will probably cost the government
$125 600 coo. but il will pay for itself
many times over in increased trade.
Besides this there is an additional $780,
100000 which was paid to French
canal company. also the republic OF
Panama for rights and franchises This
makes n total of S375.0o0,000 By the
| time the canal is fortified it, will have
cost considerably over S400 ono O0fl hut
| IL will be good investment.
Today work OH the Panama canal is
| impressive. In The deep chasm of the
Culebra cut men seem like tiny insects,
| steam sbovels, locomotives and hat cars
seem like toys. Thousnn Is Of duskv
workers swarm under the direction Of
white foremen. In the distance all
look alike. little gray ants, but if you
will go down among the 10000 work
ers you will find that two-thirds are
from the West Indies; one eighth from
Of skilled American artisans and labor
ers. from many countries.
The building of the Panama canal
is colossal task A few years ago
many experts thought il an impossible
achievement. But when the last con-
crete has hardened in the giant locks
and the last shovel of earth has been
removed from Cuebra cut, the whole
world will realize that American pluck,
working al odds with disease, mosqui-
toes and inconceivable difficulties too
numerous to mention has accomplished
the most significant work of the pres
ent century, If not of all time. and one,
too, which rises above and beyond a
mere commercial undertaking for the
men who are building the Panama ca
nal have done the work Of heroes.
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Special Cable 10 The Tribune,
LONDON, Dec. 3.-No river in The
world possesses a history so fascinating
and strangely varied AS the Thames.
In few months. when coronation cere.
monies arc in full swing, it will be
the scene of d pageant widely different
in its character from any Of those
which took place III the days when it
deserved its title of the "Silent High
way" Meanwhile it has been giving
up relics held in its Shiny bosom
hundreds of years, including a barge
used by the Romans when julius
Caesar ruled in early Britain. English
writer's usually refer TO it as "Father
Thames the father of London S
mighty commerce.
1t is of the river S weird and seamy
side that | would tell-the mysteries
and. tragedies which have been hidden
in lis dark waters, the crime which
still flourishcs along its crowded banks.
and the recovery of varied treasure,
lost overheard from craft Of all sizes.
from the earliest times to the present
\ dny
How few people know anything of
the marvellous and intricate network of
organizations by which order is SO
silently and ceaselessly maintained on
/ the river which daily bears on It's
bosom the richest freight In the world
The river police. the customs house
the Port of London and sanitary au-
thoritles. the Thames conservancy and
Trinity House have each their separate
aud well.defned duties, though for
Eighteen months the newly created port
sanitary authority has shorn the
Jhamcs conscrvanvy of lis responsible
Ites east Of TeddingtoD, and incorpo
gated the duties of the ancient and
historic company Of Thames watermen
\ OF all these bodies, the river police
\ are naturally more concerned than the
I rest with what the public regard as
\ The tragic side of life on the river
Y Grimes of violence on the Thames have
7 undoubtedly decreased since the days
i described Ivy Charles Dickens in til,
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canal-ihe digging Of the Culebra cut
us now far along toward completion.
When the work was started on the
cut there was an average of more than
three hundred feet of excavation to
be made along the entire nine miles
of the cut. Today there is an average
of a little over forty feet Of excava-
ton to be done. This varies from lit
tie or nothing at the ends of the cut
to more than seventy five feet at the
highest point. When one realizes that
the cut will be 300 feet wide, it is ap-
parent that prodigious amount Of cx-
cavation still remains TO be done.
Spectacular Achievements
The work on the huge locks-Gstun,
Pedro Miguel and Miraaores-affords
ono of the most spectacular achieve
ments on the entire route of the canal,
and from the viewpoint of concrete
construction, is without parallel in the
world. Viewing the huge pillars Of
concrete at the Gatun locks, where the
men at work seem no larger thau in
sects, one realizes that. perhaps more
than all things else tho construction of
the Panama canal has been rendered
possible in this country through the
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be in duplicate, that is, each lock will
have two channels side by side. Each
lock will have usable length of 1000
feet and a width Of ll0 feet The
huge Gatun dam WILL when completed,
be 9040 feet long along the crest, in
cluding the spillway. The crest of the
dam itself will be l15 feet above sea
level or 80 feet above the normal level
of Gatun lake and 100 feet wide. The
width Of the dam at the normal level
Of Gatun lake will be 375 feet.
Key Pieces to Canal
The dams and locks are tho key
pieces TO the whole canal. The locks
throughout the waterway will be uni
form aud the description of the work
at Gatun suffices for that on the other
locks. Considering the prodigious engl~
nccring achievement, progress through
the completed Panama canal will be an
amazingly simple task. From the At
iantic ocean To Gatuu dam steamer
will be enabled to proceed at full
broad. deep channel. At Gatun the
vessel will be lifted up eighty five feet
by the three successive locks, and per
haps US the steamer is lifted up the
speed for the seven miles over the
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WORLDS FAIR SEEMS TO
AID BELGIAN DISTRESSED
Special Cable to The Tribune.


BRUSSELS, Dec. 3.-Universal exhibi-
tions arc repUted as festive shows OF
industrial undertakings, rather than
schools of experience paving the way for
legislative reform. The Brussels Unl-
versal exhibition just closed is to be fol-
lowed, nevertheless, by most striking
social and political result.
One OF its features was an almost har-
rowing display OF the distress and mis-
cry prevailing in the slunls and abodes
of the thousands of men and women
who perform their labors indoors-weav-
ars. hatmakers. tanors, shoemakers, etc
and who do not belong 10 any trades
union organization. Exact reproductions
OF their dens We're given, with figures
showing at what terrible sweating rates
this class OF workers drudge. the disease
and mortality among them. etc.
This picture OF sordid life has so
startled the king and queen OF the Bel
CLANS and the government. besides the
public. that the cabinet has prepared u
bill to bc laid forthwith before parlia
men. which will extend TO oil indoor
workers ali advantages granted by the
state To collective factory labor such as
improved lodgings, help during illness,
old age pensions etc This is the first
time in the history OF exhibitions that
a worlds fair has served for such u
purpose and led 10 such immediate prac-
teal consequences.
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: Special Correspondence TO The Tribune.
COLON, Republic of Panama, Nov
22.-Whilo the recent visit of Presi-
dent Taft again directed the attention
of the world to the amazing progress
made in the greatest engineering feat
In the history of this country and per
haps of all history. yet few people
know just how the work is being done,
an fewer still realize what wonder
full sight the construction of the canal
affords, nor, indeed, what splendid
scenic trip travellers may have through
the canal when once ii is completed
There is today every assurance that
the great waterway which will divide
the North American and South Ameri-
can continents. and unite the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans, will be ready
for commerce in 1918. Indeed. Colonel
Goethals is certain that ships will pass
through the canal by the first OF that
year. But it will probably be two
years before the canal is officially
opened (January !, 1915, is the official
date set for the opening). because
even after the canal is completed
enough to admit the passage OF ships.
many finishing touches will have to
be added and the matter Of fortifying,
establishing tolls, and thousand ques~
tions of administration must be def
nitely settled.
The big engineering problems are
now overcome. AS a matter OF fact
the work is SO far along at the pres
ent time that the greatest difficulties
arc known TO have been surmouutcd
From the viewpoint Of the obstacles TO
be encountered, the work on the
Panama canal is today down hill
job. II presented IN the technical
phrascology employed by the engineers,
it would be difficult for the average
reader to keep track of the various
phases of the huge undertakings,
which are completed, or nearly com
\ plctcd, or which yet remain TO be
tackled. But, stripped of the tccbni-
chologies. the different features which
i together will comprise the great water
. way are ineligible TO anyone,
On Atlantic Side.
On the Atlantic side the canal will
consist of a sea level channel forty one
Z feet deep and approximately 500 feet
in width, extending from nayigablo
water in the Caribbean sea TO Gatun-
seven miles inland. On the Pacific
ocean side the canal will comprise a
nne-mle sea level channel These sea
level channels. both from the Atlantic
and Pacific sides. will extend 10 the
canal itself. II huge inland fresh water
lake thirty-iwo miles in length, which
will be reached from he sea level
channels by. the Gatun dam and locks
Miguel and Mirahores locks on the
Pacific ocean side. In other words. II
steamer entering the Panama canal
from the Atlantic ocean Caribbean
sea- will proceed at ocean level to
Gatun, seven mics inland. Here it
will be raised to an elevation of
cightyfve feet above sea level by
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Mira1ores dam and, then, the vessel
which has saved trip around the
horn may steam at full speed to the
Pacific ocean.
Wonderful Trip,
The trip viii he marvel. From the
time the pilot is sighted on one ocean
until the pilot is dismissed on the other
it will take hut two days at most TO
negotiate the fifty miles that will cut
off two continents. The actual time
required for the passage of vessel
through the entire canal will be even
less. Ten or twelve hours will accom-
plish the passage, according TO the size
Of the ship and the rate of speed at
which il can travel, SO that the esti-
mate of two days is big one even
when the taking on of the pilots and
the entrance TO the broad, deep channel
is taken into consideration. The time
n boat will spend in the locks is esti-
mated at three hours, one hour and one
half in the three locks at Gatun and
about the same time in the three locks
on the Pacific side. The vessels will
not go through the locks by their OWL
steam. All will be towed by elec
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Old Father Thames Has Record Full of Romance and Tr

bic at lunch time. and when the cloth
was cleared the servant shook the
crumbs overheard and in so doing shook
employed diver who searched the spot
for several DAYS at q cost to the lady
Of $50, but the bottom of the river was
so covered with rank weds that the re-
covery of the rings was hopeless.
A little while ago the finding Of
quantity of red coral In the rivers bed
at Blackwall greatly exercised the
minds of the authorities, no coral reefs
having been suspected to exist In the
Thames. 1t was subsequently discovered
that it had been brought to England
by an officer on the Trinity House yacht
for presents to his friends, but finding
it was not appreciated, owing to ita
rough state, he had thrown it all over
hoard
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Gatun lake the craft will steam
through a comparatively narrow chan
mel. whore the canal cuts through the
range Of the Cordilleras. The Cordil-
Ieras is the backbone of the 1sthmus
of Panama, and they form the connect
ing link between the Rocky mountains
Of North America and the Andes of
South America. The cutting through
of the Cordilleras is the greatest task
the government has had TO face, the
most difficult bit of excavation at this
point being the celebrated Culebra cut.
This cut will be 800 feet wide, and
vessels may steam through il at half
speed.
Having passed through the CuIcbra
cut the steamer will reach the Pedro
Miguel locks. at which point it will
make one descent thirty and onethird
feet toward the Pacific ocean, 1t will
then proceed two miles further over
a small artificial lake-eleyatiop fifty.
five feet above sea level--when it will
reach the Mirahorcs locks aud dam,
and by two successive Cliffs
Greatly drops when going from east to
west) il Will have reached the Pacific
ocean level. From this point it will
proceed out the nine miles OF
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sells in The river, keeping the channel
clear of obstacles. boarding vessels TO
see that no dangerous or explosive
goods are on board, seeing that all
craft carry proper lights, and dredging
the river, in order that the channel may
not be impaired by the accumulation OF
silt
it has been during their dredging
operations at various points Of the river
that the men of tho Thames Conscr.
yancy have brought to the surface many
IN object OF antiquarian or romantic
interest. The vcrtebra Of whale,
drcdged up in Woolwich Beach in 1899,
recalls the fact that whales were fire.
quent visitors to the Thames in pre-
historic times; and relic of the glacial
period has been preserved in an elk
horn, found in the river at Islcwortb
Implements of the Bronze Age. a
spearhead, an old 6int-lock muslet, II
brass. cannon inscribed. with. Clluess
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jewellery store and being hotly pursued,
he threw them over the bridge at Black
friars He afterwards confessed what
he had done, and a diver, who was sent
down at the spot indicated by the thief.
recovered most of the watches. The
proceeds of another great watch rob-
berry were recovered at London bridge.
one gold watch being found by the diver
lodged on the projecting buttress.
The thoughtiess habit, so often in
dulged in by women. of trailing their
hands through the water while being
rowed in u boat, has been responsible
for the loss of countless valuable rings,
the cold water causing tho fingers TO
contract so that the rings slip off easily.
One woman while on houseboat at
Cavcrsham recently lost her rings. val
ued at $1,000, in a particularly annoy
ing manner. She left them on the ia
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deep channel cut through the Cordil-
leras, in which the Culcbra cut is the
most noteworthy piece Of engineering.
Great Progress Made.
Amazing progress has been made on
the work Of cutting the continent in
two. On the Atlantic side the sea
level channel, extending from the
Caribbean sea to Gatun locks, seven
miles inland, is practically completed
and is put into daily use by the
barges which carry cement for the
concrete work at Gatun. On the Pa.
ci6c side the nine miles sea level
channel to the Mirafores locks is also
practically finished In both cases a
lot of dredging has been done through
swamps. and both channels have been
deepened and improved. The work is
not completely finished, however, for
there are moro than a dozen great
drcdgers still employed at both ends,
two of which are Of the latest suction
type. From Gatun dam to the CuIebra
cut there will be very little dredging,
Here the Panama canal will not be a
big ditch at all. but huge inland
lake, twenty-three miles Of which will
be used by steamers In passing be-
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SANDRINGHAM IS IDEAL
PARADISE FOR SP0RTSMEN
Special Cable to The Tribune.

LONDON. Dec 3.-Somc idea of the
enormous extent of the royal game pre-
serves at Sandriugham may he gathered
from the fact that every year now the
total bag has steadily increased until
tie huge figure of 10000 head has been
reached. But the record for the royal
estate is much higher than this. the best
year being in lS3G-91. when II, 900 pheas-
ants, 1900 pavtridses. $50 haros, 4o0
woodcock wild duck. teal and snipe, and
5000 rabbits were bagGed. AS an all
round sporting property Sandrnghnm
holds It's own among the best In the
country. though at the big partridge
drives on the Eeighhorlug estate OF Holk
ham. some nftecn or sixteen miles east
ward. the bags are larger than at Sand =
rngham, Lord Leicester's estate being
Il better partridge manor than the royal
domain,
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just in time, and he WAS pulled back aud

just in time, and he was pulled back aud
taken off to tho depot,
More than once, however. the
" Bridge of Signs, - US Waterloo bridge
has been aptlv named. has been the
scene of sickenlng tragedy owing to the
suicide forgetting the existence of the
projecting massive masonry at the base
Of each pier, and Immediately beneath
tho seat on the bridge,
a special room is provided at the
Waterloo bridge depot for the reception
Of the rescued tho room being fur.
nished with n bed, bath and hot water
bottles of various sizes for applying to
the patient. That the provision of this
room is necessary may be judged from
the fact that some desperate man or
woman jumps off Waterloo bridge on an
average every week IN the year. Only n
day or two ago one of these uDfor-
tunates threw himself over the para
pet, but was hauled out by the police
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BY r. CROSLEY

and was in warm bath within four
minutes of his jump from the bridge.
If the Thames police see more of the
tragic and criminal side OF the river,
the Thames Conservancy-now tho Port
of London authority-are associated in
some Of their duties with its more PIC
turesQue and romantic phases. Their
staff of about sixty inspectors and boat
men are ntrusted with tho supervision
of all the piers aud wharves, looking
after the mooring and berthing of yes.
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characters, the remains of an early
Briton g sword, and bronze Greek or
Roman helmet (now in the British mu-
seum) are among the warlike articles
of various ages which have from time
to time been fshed up from the bed of
the Thames. An interesting discovery
was made during dredging operations at
Brentford in 1906. when the conser.
vancy men came upon a number of
pointed stakes deeply imbedded in the
river bottom. They proved to be the
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gradual ascent which, as one ap-
proaches it, looks like A long sloping
hillside, other steamers will be descend
ing by the twin locks on the other
side. From Gatun dam TO Culebra cut
the vessel will proceed at full speed
and only when the cut itself is reached
aud the channel has narrowed down to
300 feet will the boat steam at half
speed, ard then IT will only have 30
90 al this rate for nine miles through
the back bone of the continent, then
Pedro Miguel locks is reached; then
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amazing advances the world has made
in the various agencies it may employ
in giant engineering problems. With,
out concrete, as they were. the French
would never have been able to build
such huge monoliths OF artificial stone;
without the most modern steam
dredges, the most modern railway and
engineering equipment, the problems
encountered in the excavation of the
Culebra cut would require generations.
ne locks ut Gatun and Pedro Miguel,
aud the fight of two ut Miraforcs will
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means of three lifts, or successive
locks OF the Gatun locks. The Gatun
locks also comprise dam, and they
will back up the waters Of the
Panama canal Oh the Atlantic side.
Having passed through the Gatun
locks the vessel will next steam
through Gatun lake, Il huge inland
waterway which when Gatuu dam
is completed, will have an elevation
;bove the sea level Of cighty-ive feet,
znd which viii be, IN reality, part
nt ffe Pspspa canal itself From
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dredgcd channel to the Pacific ocean,
BY the Miraflores locks the boat will
drop iiftyfour and two-thirds feet.
This, in a word. represents the task
in the building OF the Panama canal.
Channels at sea level arc being made
from either ocean until the locks are
reached. At the locks vessels will be
elevated eighty-6ve feet above sea
level, pass for twenty miles or more
through hIge artifcialy- created lake,
which has good foundation to start
with, when it will finally reach the