Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-02-21
FACTS ABOUT
PANAMA CANAL
Illustrated Talk BY A. W.
Wyndham Real Treat.

s Past, Present and Future of the
Panama canal was wildly described
before a large audience last night in
the lecture room of Simpson Nj. L,
church ~ A. w. Wyndham, of Canal
Zone fame. MI. Wyndham appeared
iRthis eaAg~-undar the aNsnieas Of IN
lsstxisal ~ aesssrs
before the regular meeting of the
Men Is club of Simpson NJ. f.. church.
The evenings program was opened
with a few remarks by s R. Earring
ton, who told eft the education derived
hy being a member of the club. ID.
r. Olmstead. president Of the Board
Of Trade. introduced the speaker.
10 further illustrate his talks many
stereopticon views were shown. Ed
ward W. Barnes was in charge of the
ste~reopticon machine
The canal, when completed will be
forty4nine miles long, bat ffty-one
miles long from deep water of the At
lantie to deep water of the Pacific.
Mr.. Wyndham called attention TO what
a great engineering task this win be,
and the money that will be expended
before its completion. He said that
with these two ideas firmly fixed the
future of the canal will be a paying
proposition.
a'he speaker stated that at the pres
ant time from the Atlantic side a sea
level canal is completed for seven
miles, then comes the great engineer
Ing feat the .tGatun DAM AT the
entrance to the dam three locks have
been completed, each with q rise OF
twenty-eight feet, four inches. After
j ship takes these three locks, it is on
q broad expanse of water over eighty
ave feet above the level of the sea.
Then the boat stesms on through the
Culebra cut to another small lake and
then il reaches the locks of the Pacif-
ic side. Instead of a rise there as on
the Atlantic side, there is a fall of
two feet greater than the rise on the
other ocean side. The first drop is
thirty feet while the other two are
twenty-eight feet and four inches each
After passing through these locks ths
boat is again in deep water of the
Pacific ocean.
The pictures shown illustrated clear
" the great engineering feat that j:
beiHg accomplished by the American
engineers after other nations have
failed. Mr.. Wyndham added that toe
much praise cannot be given TO Presi
dent Roosevelt, for it was he who
worked for the first appropriation that
secured the canal treaty fer the Uni
ted States.
Outside of the work accomplished
by the construction of the Gatun dam
the feat of removing miles upon miles
of earth from the Culebra Cut Is 0
taking mp their time, for when this
part of the work is entirely completed
then the canal win be the greatest feat
of engineering that the world has evel
seen.
spfiii the canal ever pay after com
plefedfss is cite of the most discussed
questions of the day Mr.. Wyudhan
said. afr. Wyndham's opinion Is thu
tine canal after completion, viii pa,
in twenty years, even if enlv one az
tion shall use ii. namely England. A
ehe rate of one dollar per ton as tol
for the United States government, ans
considering the dangers and time in
cured in rounding the Horn, ever1
eonntry, he says, win use the long
saaght short ent, and instime Amerie:
Mill own what hs called the creates
gold mine in existence.
Esfe speaker declared that Presidenl
Taft and his cabinet are acting ia
wise and ju~dicious manner when the
ara fighting for the right 70 heavili
fegtify the canal. In South Ameriea
rsbeIlions, he said, are 8 eommon ec
sazFence and if some dissatisfied IA
sion should contend that America haI
nc nsera right 70 the canal than the
have they csald enter it aud holl
she canal as lang as they liked "R.
k9s means he said. foFkify tAis eras'
treasure and axhSsFste afterwNrdssss
fAs government, the speaker said
ss0nsd he nraiaad ksr tAa way In vk5sl