The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-03-19
CARPENTER AT PANAMA
He Describes the Great Canals lie Has visited
and COMPARES Them With Uncle SANS
Big Ditch
Bv FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Big Ditch
Bv FRANK G. CARPENTER.

,,,c ~,pncriaI canal Of China or the
.,ni,a,bcr OF Artificial Water
v,,-Ri,cr, which Make tsie
tnurr.. Look Like Thirty Cents
The Nue1 Canal in 1917 ana no"
II Pay, John Bull-N Trip iiiro"In
u-lhe Corinth SNIP '"hai-
look at the Canal at Nanthc>tef
Which Wa BUTT for \iher'cah .o.-
LONESOME Biz Waterway, OF H"!-
,,rd and Germany. includin" i'f
t.rra. Ditch the Kaiser D"".
tCa,.yrieht 1872, by FRANK U. 'aA-
ptnter.)
an on Hty way 10 lht I
canal. L left New Orleans la5' ""s-
urdav on the good steamer Ao'"
pareI" Of the United trul' 'onhp'hs
md viii land at Colon, or the eastern
end Of our big ditch at a. m. linus
d.v morning next. This Will be my
third visit TO the canal workings.
saw them first in 1927, at the pe6in-
ninr Of my tour around South Amer
la The Frenrsnmen VINO We're thfh
IA charge. took me up over TIE
mountains and GOWN the
They looked sad, for they were ioau-
ed with Il GarsIntuan JOB. Whlch
hung around their necks as oppres-
Eiltiy as did the old Man OF the sea
around that of Sindbad the Saiior.
Thax had three thousand men IN theif
employ. and they were laborlng onlS
with the hope of selling out 10 lhe
United States or Great Britain.
Nv next visit to the sthmuS was
eight years later. when pe had just
taken possession. lhei Sd" th4
first steam shovel installed IN the Gu
lebra cut, and watched it as 1t oeSdn
to go,ge out the heart OF the Andes.
That was when Engineer Wallace
had Just taken charge ana the "ofH
was at its beginning.
Now the mighty construction IS ap-
preaching completion. and go With
my pen and amer to show You JUS
how il looks. BY the time | reach
the isthnus The first water should be
gin to fill in Gatun lake; and, before
| ieaNe it some Of the greatest o
the works will be completed, in prep
~aration for the joining of the waters
Of the oceans which will flow to
gptner on or before Il year from hi:
date.
On the Worlds Great Canals.
Eut first. | Wou!d like TO take yol
on a flying journey about the globe
to show What other nations have done
ine canal building. have gone
through the greatest Of such work:
which have yet been created. ant
during my. recent trip arOund tn
world | traversed the SueZ canal, tn
Canal Of Corinth in Greece. some o
the chief canals of India and tn
Grand canal Of China, which run
from Tientsin for 1.000 miles south
ward. through the most thichly Q
uiated country on earth. This las
on a flying visit TO Europe
| visited Holland, which, as everyon
knows. is cut up by canals, and
have made my way through the bi
ditch that the Kaiser dug to give tn
nr,, ~ -, - l,tIAt f-l -, 10 Do
tic. and also Over the Mancheste
ship canal, which carries our cotto
from the sea right into the heart {
Old England. have obtained ais
recent information as to the plans
some mighty ship canals which tt
Russians rOpoS to build cOnnectir
st. Petersburg with the Black Sc
n of other schemes which wi
ankle almost every part OF German
accessible by steamer or barge.
The Great-Grandfatter Of All Canal
We shall begin our travels on II
other side Of the globe. our Ou
canal will be the newest thing upt
the earth. The canal We shall fir
visit is g~ray-haired with the was
ing of almost 5000 years. II is Il
Observation-Disclosures of all canals.
was commenced long before Chril
and according to the Chinese recOrC
was not finished until more than ,
years before the discovery of Anne
lea. The southern part Of it which
visited in 1900. extending from t
fanStse south to the city of Han
chow, was constructed only a f
years after Jerusalem was taken
NeDuchadntzZer. at about the til
that monarch was chewing grass
the gardens Of Babylon. The upr
part, extending from the Yellow riN
10 1ientSin. was completed by t
Emperor Snitsu of china in the sa
century that King John of Engla
granted the Magma Charta. while I
central portion dates back TO the d.;
when the TarQuins were emperors
Rome.
The Grand canal is 1000 mi
long. IT begins at Tientsin and II
southwark for a distance grea
thar from New York TO Chicago.
crosses two rivers. the Hoangho a
the ianStse, which make the Chag
look like a 3o-cent creek. and it {
It's way through a territory having
population more than twice as gr