Gloucester County Democrat., 1911-10-12
MICKLETON.

! tage was taken to the Hahnemann
4 Hospital last week; he stood the trip
remarkably we'll His many friends
i will be glad to know that Benjamin
i is not suffering and finds his asso-
Citations pleasant and attendants most
kind.
i B. Walton Borden was home from
4 George School for the week end. He
was accompanied by his room-mate.
i Walter Conrow, who was formerly a
I resident of our village and has many
warm friends here.
j Theodore Browns family entertain
ed over Sunday Ethel Ball, of Quaker
town, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs Edgar Haines, Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Haines, of our vii
Elage, and Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Redrow,
lof Wenonah, were entertained on the
eighth by Mr. and Mrs. John Ballen-
! ger, of Pitman.
Rachel M. Haines is spending some
time with her son-in-law, and fam
lily, Thompson Steward.
The next meeting of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will be
held in the Mt. Royal Baptist Church
on Wednesday afternoon, the f8th, at
2.30 o'clock The meeting will be of
especial interest devoted largely to
/ reports of the State Convention in ses-
sion at Woodstown this week; all
will be cordially welcomed.
The first floor of the Meeting
House was full for the Friends AS
eighth After the usual opening ex-
ercises two of our young people, Eth
Ell Haines and BENJAMIN G. Heritage,
gave most interesting accounts of
/ B. Walton Borden wa home from the
their recent trip to Jamaica, Pana-
ma and Santa Marta. The last named
place was said by some to remind one
of Jerusalem. The streets were mar
row and had no sidewalks. The
houses had dirt floors and but little
roads belong to the government and
license is charged for horses and
wagons, from $2.75 to $3 for former.
A livery pays a license of $40 for each
wagon and a private individual pays
SIS. Hay in Jamaica is selling at
$45 per ton and corn at twice the
price it is bringing here BENJAMIN
spent one week in the Canal Zone.
The superintendents are nearly all
men from the States, who are most
courteous and glad to give informa-
ton to the few visitors.
! The speakers presentation of his
subject gave evidence that he was an
intelligent student of the enterprise
and knew what he wanted to know
when he asked a question. The
United States owns five miles each
cid do Of no x,sr, aI,,x
tuting the canal. 300 feet is the min
imum bottom width of the canal, the
depth will vary from IS to As feet.
There will be six double locks length
little over 1000 feet, width 110 feet,
to admit vessels 1000 feet in length.
95 per cent of the vessels using the
locks will be 600 feet long. The mas
sive gates for the locks are being made
in Western Pennsylvania and shipped
ready to be set up. The locks can be
filled in Is minutes and it will re-
quire about three hours to pass ves-
sci through all the locks. The time
of passing for vessel through the
entire canal will be about twelve
hours, probably charge 81 per ton.
Electricity will be used to tow all ves-
sells into and through the locks and
to operate all gates and valves. Dur
| ing eight or nine months the rains
! will supply sufficient water and sur
plus will need to be stored for only
/ three or four months. The speaker
] had been asked several times about
the dams and whether there was
possibility o repetition of the Aus
tin disaster; he thought not, very lit
tie concrete is being used on the
dams; they are about 2,1O0 feet at
base and 400 feet at the waters sur
face and 100 feet at top. They are
! mixture of sand clay.
Active excavation work on a large
scale did not begin until 1907 in the
Culebra Cut, and three-fourths of it
is done, almost everything is loos-
ened with dynamite before using the
steam shovels There are $50 drills
for dynamite and about 100 steam
shovels; five or six are used in loading
a car, twenty of these constitute a
train, and from three fourths to one.
hour is required to load. There are
4,300 cars. These are wooden, have
no ends and but one side, and are un-
loaded with plow. 1t costs CSC per
cubic yard to do the dry excavating
and SOC per cubic yard to do the
dredging. There are 10000 people on
the job; these are known as gold and
silver employees. The silver force
represents the unskilled labor; the
West Indian labor is paid 10c per
hour, works nine hours per day and
pays 27c per day for meals. Contract
labor from Europe receives zoe per
hour and if they buy their meals, pay
40c per day. The gold force, high
grade laborers, are practically all
Americans and pay s0c per day for
meals. which are excellent. All de-
partments are creditably managed;
an American feels proud of his cit
izenship. Everybody is on the job to
finish it; this they expect to accom-
plish in 1915.
! Health conditions were excellent,
those in authority thought if the
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