The Springfield herald., 1913-07-11
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~ I S4oifT4fIaud aos aoiroE
as Ghagres. 1t isllgs'sSp lined Chan
mel 2sb feet VIDE de egt through hill
Introcke and Hglosa'lfl9} bafit a curved
dam az So61n So61ncFsstts On lfop acy%hilshajs a
row of Iegulat ling gates. aiJpst below,
tie lspillEayr out noS qnro sight isn the
'hSdfoeleGtrtc lRtatioa (which supplies
pow er,ior the e,opeYatjDn,,of theosntire
Icanalhanddthot ltshtins iufl thei W hole
zone. ont 10 eatul ehj 97oled bedi1os'b
Isl Our thanne Ell Through q the lakeizafors
we still must follow a path Indicated
by range towers. on TIE, shores. rs
now thousand feet Vide and leads
US somewhat tortuously through a
maze .sef oislenda.o III 4>ook, down Gas5 NE
near some OF theW and. iyou will see
below the surface the tops OF giant
,trees. For we are sailing over what
but few month"; Ase was oths .ys1!ey
sOfat the Chagres, densAsil;with tropic
vesetation andodotbediwith, native vii
iages surrounded, by banana and 60
'coanut plantations. Close to the
Shores, the; stoutest ofd the, trees, still
stretch, their naked dead limbs above,
the water, but before long these too.i
will have 7rottedi and fallen, leaving
the luxusiant landscape unmarried 70
6Vef the sites of IBonib.
Frijoles and C4agresito, we now come
,ssd to dtha place, EbsIe TabssarpillaB B 1hss, Sc,
ystopd and here both tlab an and GbapPpesll A Ppsl
narrow down, the lattsrx being FIRST.
800, then 700 and finally 600 feet, wide.
On the hillsides to the right stand a
few abandoned houses, all thatio re-
mains of Mamei.' Juan Gfande. IGOR
ogona and Matachin, busy places Willie
the canal was bdiibiAg ho& covered
BY THE spreading waters. Along the
left shore of the channel runs the re-
lo,GGated ,G Pansmfr F9ilXaX aA4dd aA94dd sshrf, shere, at
sGamboa it CROSSES the, Shagres river
(which our vessel .npw tlf9tyess,J9 tllef9atyess, to enter
the far famed. 7CAlebra cut This great
cash through the spine OF the CONT
'nent is 400 feet MLda at the bottfaemF., bo1feF.,
bit. because Of -the tremendous -eAxtA
slides. which cost. Unnle Sam So muGh
money,Andf time jritse width dat, the tnp
ID astonishing being Helfsa mile gust
here opposite atiia 9ownwSf Cuiebra!
sBeyona on our 1eft,s 7tbWersi Go1d iMli:
rAs5 feat above the, bBttofi az the Cd:
nal! Far pp on ~ EoGR stnPea w dis-
cerh streak OF white paint which
marks the level to which the ErenGh
company carried It's yakcayatipn1
Nearly opposite is hill
1854 feet high. AS we move between
these, 1.-The loitiest chiilsa along % the
route, and pass thd ibgahohN " that
notorious "cockroach,," the Cucaracha
slide. the Pedro Miguel lock stands
' This. s. single s} FfSht Il $ issts - !fssSt
high, the highest on the canal 70 Again
We are taken, In tow by elefttFio, mules
and in less than half an hour we have
been lowered those 30 feet aud 1stean,
into another ARTIFICIAL body,of ,wstaE-
bMiFafores lake. onlyi,a smile.1oas,s At
litso southern end we pass, the town OF
Mirafioresl and enter the locks Of The
same name, double flight that ieth
us down once more to sea level "a 81
The exciting part Of the sps ssage ID
over. but there is yet muchIog interest
to see, Down the broad channel we
| look clear out onto the glittering
waters OF the Pacific ocean .oNAarer
at hand, on the left, Ancon hill raises
its verdure-clad summit, and clusteFed
on its slopes we see the n1atiy stfhc!
lures Or the big hospital. the new
administration bpriI y iIdi'pgs q the canal anal
and the barracks of the marines. And
now. steaming between f1lled-in swamp
/ lands, we come to Balboa, which the
government has made into a hfisnaval
station, with an immense dry dock
and. extensive machine shops t@i'Hv
Stretching out from Balboa into the
Pacific is a breakwater.r two miles
long, which protects the harbor from
storms. At its outer end 1871 cluster
I Of little Islands, Naos, Perico, Culebra
| and Flamenco, and here we, pass
under the powerful guns that guard
the Pacific 4end of the canal, They
are mounted high up on the SUBMITS
of these rock islets, ritled cannon, one
| shot from "Wnlcn Wouiu bilh d Ddttle-
ship, and huge mortars whose shells
can be dropped behind Tobago island
12 miles away in the direction Of
Japan. ..-.. ,f- bad. ....rs- b. ,c-,,,,l 81, 70.
Is In ten hours we have crossed
hthrough the, continent and now float
on the broad Pacific. As, We look
back the picturesque city ofePanama
lies bathedu in the light of the swesteF-
| ing sun and on the side of Ancon hill
I. shines the big white Tivoli hotel. The
sudden night of the tropics Is soon to
fall, and already, as far back as we
can see along our route and beside the
ocean channel, are twinkling the
lights that Uncle Sam has set up to
guide the worlds commerce through
this most wonderful of canals which
he has built. '7f sat os sep
Reassurino. 'd'7' '' "-
A woman hired a taxicab. The
door Of the cab was hardly closed be-