The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-24
PaIatial Hotel For Panama Canal
 Zone Is Planned

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 mer's Washington Letter
 Contains Much News of
 Interest.
 Washington, Aug. 24-Everything is easy for Uncle Sam, and nowhere is
 this demonstrated more forcibly than in the Panama Canal Zone
 It is now announced that the Pan- anna Railroad, which is owned by the United States, through the War De-
 partment, and whichs in turn owns about everything along the "big ditch'' from laundry to lodgings, is to build
 a magnificent hotel at Colon. This
 will be in addition to the Hotel Tivoli,
 now maintained at Ancon.
 The new hotel is to be called the
 Washington, and is to cost not more than $500, 600. T. will be situated on
 Colon Beach, close to the waterfront,
 with fine outlook on Limon Bay. In
 the rear, on the city side. it will face
 a large park which is to be enlarged
 and beautified during the construction
 of the hotel. On. the ocean side, inn
 provements are to be made which will
 add to the beauty of outlook and the
 convenience of the hotel guests.
 Among the latter will be an innova- tion in the form of a salt water swim ming pool which will be open to the sea, though protected from wind and a ing beach will be provided in addition to the pool, and a strong sea wall is already in process of construction.
 The hotel building will be 300 feet long and will be constructed almost entirely of concrete. Woodwork will be reduced to a minimum. In the kitchens for the three dining rooms will be installed every known device for convenience, speed in serving guests, and cleanliness. On the first floor will be large reception. smoking and lounging rooms, and ballroom. On the second floor and also the third will be 38 bedrooms, so constructed as to be available for use as suites of as high as fifteen rooms. Shower baths will be a feature of most of the rooms
 In fact, the new hotel promises to furnish accommodations for visitors or residents in the Canal Zone equal, if not superior to anything obtainable in the States, with picturesque features unsurpassed even by those of northern resorts.
 Washington, Aug 24-"Uncle Sam, Roadmaker.'
 This is the title which our paternal uncle will soon be wearing if the plan fostered by Rep. J. Floyd King Oem., La.) and embodied in bill recently introduced into Congress by Senator Cullom (Rep., Ill), obtains the sane tion of the national legislature. This bill provides for the inauguration of seven national highways, radiating from Washington to the farthermost parts of the country. The estimated cost of these seven roads will be $14S,- 600, OOO but it is thought that the great benefits which will be derived from their use will more than cOunterbal- ance the cost of their building.
 According to the King-Cullom bill it is proposed to have these seven roads | have a common terminus at Washing | ton and radiate out over the country l to Portland, Me, Buffalo, N. Y., Se- attle, Wash, San Francisco, Cal, San Diego, Cal, Austin, Texas, and Miami | Fla These will be called respectively 1 the Washington National Highway, | the Roosevelt National Highway, the | Lincoln National Highway, the Jef- | ferson National Highway, the Grant | National Highway, the Monroe Ma tional Highway and the Lee National | Highway, thus honoring seven of the greatest of our heroes of history.
 It is expected that these seven roads will give a total length of 12,00O miles, l which, at a cost of about $12,00O a mile, will bring the aggregate cost to | nearly s150, ,OO0,OO It is proposed that the money for their construction be raised by the issue of bonds as in the case of the Panama Canal and that the maintenance cost of the roads be paid by toll as in operation in many parts of the country today.
 The bill also provides for the ap- oointment of a commission, to be known as the National Interstate Highways and Good Roads Commis- sion, which will determine the loca- ton and cost of the seven roads. An immediate appropriation of g, ,OOO, 900 is provided for the preparation of maps, he making of surveys, and other work which has to be disposed of before the actual building of the roads is com nenced At the head of the commits sion, as provided by the bill, would De the President,-the rest of the com- nittee to be made up of the Secretary 3f Agriculture, the Secretary of War, the chief of engineers of the army, seven members of Congress, five pri- vate citizens, seven engineers from the army and seven from private life.
 According to the present plans the ,nly states which will not be touched oy any of the proposed roads will be Vermont, Michigan, Wyoming, Oregon, and Kansas. It is probable, however, that the present plans will be changed so as to include at least ! part of these states in the routes.
 The march of civilization which has resulted in the introduction of cigar cites and cigars into the mouths of he Chinese people has also had the eff feet of making them acquainted with another Occidental luxury-chewing yum
 While gum was formerly totally to the Chinese, recent re- ports from Hong Kong state that one native firm there sold more than 5000 worth during the past year and that he delicacy has taken a firm hold not only On the Heather Chinee'', but llso on his wives and children and that t is a. common sight to see large