The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-06
CANAL SURELY OPEN ON TINE
IT corn ne RE- lDr SOONER,
COL. GOETHtLS SlYS.
nut There Win Ne TUNING 10 10 AFTER
the CSastFuetioa Job Is Finished
NAhy NSFe FsrelEners Than Ameri.
cans Wow the BlK TrSple Spectacle.

4 man 81 the Panama Canal Commission
and chief engineer 81 the Panama Canal.
arrived Yesterday on the Colon for a brief
visit ~. has come up for the marriage
of his son. which n tn take place az Water
town. y. Y. next Tuesday, and he rXT"CtS
to leave New York th" next day for the
lanai 4, me-
! cot GUethals saws that il he still has
anything tu do With It the canal ~ ~ surely
liz Opened GA January l. 1915. He feels
pretty sure that the actual WORK 1T con
strIctinn will have been completed CON
: SislsrablV before that time, hut there
vail be- tuning tn do and lot of ina
chinery To try out. because he doesn I
want anything To break down after the
canal has been declared open. bug
feet will be waiting to go through. and
the builders " ant every ship To do It with
out hitch
We are pushing the concrete work
in the locks along very rapidly. said
I Col GOethAls at the Hotel Wolcott yes
terday. and the excavation n going
along now more rapidly than az any time
I in a prev ious wet season. We have some
5000. eco cubic wards To dig out IN the
Chagres River section north OF Cuebra
cut. and We are work ing AZ that when
the foods " ~ let Us. The river has stayeh
l. up pretty well this season. but the floods
have not been 81 bad IN other wears
| This } OOO co cubic wards ~ scattered
over about eight miles Of the canal route
! As for the Panama railroad. We have
| the relocated tracks 90 that when the
old tracks are drowned out We can read
! ilv switch Ia the new ones The Chagres
! River - now flowing into the future
Gaun Lake and We have raised the sur
| face 81 the lake 20 a height Of sixteen
feet above sea level. As soon a. the
water gets up Ia about twenty-five feet
} II will cover the old line. and then We
! shall take up the old rails as the track IL
abandoned.
We are now running from PAraiso Ia
Corozal over the new line. a distance
of about four miles. and the old line in
that section. which IL double tracked.
We have turned over to the central con-
str,lction district for hauling dirt The
new line from Gamboa 60 Gatun will hs
completed hy January /, 1912 Then
We shall begin 10 raise the lake up to the
fiftv-five foot level above the sea.
We are laying about 5000 yards 81
concrete a day az each end of the locks.
and ws are putting down concrete at
Gatun. Pedro Miguel and M,rahores We
did not have To- invent any devices for
LAYING the concrete. simply adapting the
system m vogue To a much larger scale.
The modern uses Of concrete are OF great
service IN the construction Of the canal.
Il ia an interesting fact that even when
the French were devising a scheme for
the protection of the shore At Chrstobal.
crete blocks with great success.
We have already started on the break
water at IAmon Bay at the Atlantic en-
trance To the Canal. This will run out TO
where It strikes forty-one feet of water,
or a distance Of approximately 10 90 feet
In fact can saw that We ar" nov working
IN every part OF the canal project The
break water on the Pacific side ~ pro
crossing though ! fear We shall not b"
able To- carry ~ "ut a. far a. Nao- Island,
a. contemplated. oWtug e. IN" curious
currents th.reabout Which make n next
Ia impossible to Law a solid Foundation.
-Culebra cut ~lll b. the last thing
finIahah II ~ the most gigantic pt all
tn. difficulties aud ~ by many times th.
biggest pI.C.. IT excavation Work ever
undertaken DR. NaughCornIsh. M" rep
r,ssntatlvs Of an English scientific body.
" no has recently been on IN" canal tpT
his third visit. told me that on his two
prav lo,Is VISITS he had considered IN"
1;a,un dam a. the really great rNp"r,-
mental feature of the canal pro IssCt but
that after saaIng tho dam ~ 10 present
stage ~ was surprised that he had ever
regarded ~ a. an experiment and had
come to tbs. conclusion that the expert /
rneng was really the CIl"hrl cut
-Of course what Ne call our slides m /
the cut will determine the date ~ m"
completJon 81 the cut "" Distinguish
be'ween slides and breaks. break .
occurs where an upper stratum OF harder b
material - undsrmined 4 slid" ~ the ,
falling ~ upper strata on some harder
material l-l0W.
YOU hlv" hoard greii deal e IN. .
increased Dos, ~ living up here. com ,
tinued Col CioathIl- with smile. w"
have llso he Ird abOuf y IN 'h" lsthmus .
The talk led ~ 10 invest ga" and vr find
thu tho cost ~ living VA n" ls'hrlus -
eXici,y ia" same aS ~ VS. m 1901.
-Dut hen those meChanIC~ whom we
can our hourly nlen haird - the higher
cost ~ living up her" AMI Gnd"rs ood
,hqt wages had gon" Up they made de-
", mt FOR an increas" m wages ~ 10 per /
c,ht.. n -"d nn the higher cost - living
In ,h- h1rd times of 1907 and lois "a"
hadn't reduced the pay - our employees
on the canal
No. / do MT find thl' largely IN.
cre,sinc number - Americans visi'
;h., lst linus. We aCtu1ly haNe more
foreign visitors th1n Am"rica ms. Sew
eral % the foreign countries. notably
Germany Austria and Japan. h1v"
sant 60 the IsihrnirS commissions aCcr"d-
ted by their 90, ernTnents In addition
MANY Engineers and others from 'h"s"
and other countries h ~. visi %. IA" cana!
FrHnaa seems 80 b~ the only foreign cpun-
,rv ~ great import anc~ that has not been
largely represented. Usually th@s" Nisi-
tors come to study the methods.
The more Amcricans 20 60 the canal
the battsr II IL for ~ and the canal Tor
every American that sees the canlI now
adays IL a good advertiser for II. There
!. not an American who goes down there
bet comes a~ay proud. But II - not 40
much the work iiself that strikes any
hudy Who knows conditions there a. IN"
spirit 81 the men engaged upon u Every
workman feels that lac ~ h'Iiiding IN"
canal Whatever may be hrs particular
iob ha fecls that IL N the most important
thing ~ the whole construction. and he
IL eager 20 do his part we'll. get letters
from persons | have never seen who tell
me they have visited the canal and are
proud 20 r.
II will b" news 20 many travelling
Americi ns thl' tho Government hotel ~
Ancon. the TiVoli. now has New York
mana ger and n being run along thu lines
~ an up 20 date New York hotel Peter
Gaver who was for several Years as