The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-02-04

Ion was quite SUFFICIENT where the mo-
tel accommodations are so very poo.
Inc UnLeo states government is
building a ,splenold hotel tnere ana ON
March /, 1915, "Ine Washington Will
De ready Tor guests.
lhe second Gay spent at Gatun per-
mitted visit to Colonel Slbert in
charge Of the works at that place.
Colonel Sibert showed the Hatties- |
burg visitors much kindness. includ-
ing in his courtesies the free use OF
his motor car on which to make an
inspection of the great dam, Gatun
locks and spillway, three full hours be-
ing required for the inspection.
The most impressive scene in any
way connected with the great project,
so wisely enterprised by this great
government, is the Gatun dam, which
is about one and half miles long.
half mile wide at its base, and has a
height of l15 feet and will put under
water 21O square miles of surface.
~ Water supply.
The water supply that will be made
to hitch up for the use of man and that
will be held under control by this
mighty structure will come from di-
verting the flow of the Chagras river,
which will raise the water to level
of eighty-five feet, making canal
thirty-one miles long, the channel of
which is anywhere from 300 to 600
feet wide and with minimum depth
OF forty-seven feet. Entering the ca
nal at Christobal the passage is
through three locks of 1000 feet each,
which will lift a vessel eighty-five feet
and put it into the canal and for thir.
ty-one miles will furnish one of the
smoothest, prettiest bodies of deep
water to be found on the globe.
The CuIebra Cut.
The next point of interest is the
great Culebra cut, which is an excava-
ton 4S0 feet deep for a distance of
nine miles, and with a base width
of 300 feet. The excavation through
this cut has been the most difficult
problem of the entire work. but all
obstacles are being gradually over
come.
Passing through this nine-mile noun
tain ditch brings vessel to Pedro
Miguel pronounced Peter Magill)
where one lock is entered, which drops
80 feet to Miraflores; thence two drops
will take ship to the Pacific level al
Panama.
Panama City.
Panama City is full of interest To-
the visitor with its fine old Cathedra
and churches, remains of the old for
now used as prison, quaint buildings
narrow streets and mixed and poly
glot population. This is the metropc
lis of the Republic of Panama and ha
several fine government buildings,
theatre, school of arts, city hall, an,
well kept parks, also many fine priv
ate buildings. The city is well pave
and sanitated and is kept scrupulousl
clean and is a model for all tropica
cities. The American town of Ancol
: is located on the slopes of Ancon hill
: at the back of Panama City. The An
con Hospital the finest tropical hos
pital in the world, is located here, a
: we'll as the Tivoli Hotel and numel
: GUS pretty flower clad cottages TO
the employees of the canal.
Panama has many other places o
interest, one of which is the grea
sea wall built in the Sixteenth centur,
at a supposed cost of $15,0OO,O0O.
1t is said that one morning thu
King of Spain was seen looking OH
OF a window and was asked by cour
tier what he was looking for. His re
ply was: "The sea wall of Panama
it has cost so much it ought to b,
most here"
Cross Roads of the World.
The isthmus will be the cross roads
of the world, and for a cosmopolitan
oonglomeration it exceeds any othel
place in the world. Police records
show that there have already beer
forty-two nationalities represented
among those arrested. And this, too
when the thing is just starting.
Panamaians are a cross between the
Spanish and the San Bias Indians
They are low of stature and every
one wants to be on the police force
and wear a uniform. ,
The last election demonstrated the
Americans are back numbers in ward
notifies These neonIe are varv Kind