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1T is caused by the disturbance OF
the equilibrium OF the earth's strata
by the digging OF the canal. As long
as the strata lay one upon another
the weight of the mass was equally
distributed bed upon bed. 80 that ii
was not possible for any Of the strata
to move. When the great ditch was
cut, and the material taken out, the
lateral pressure which held the weaker
strata In place was taken away. and
weaker materials far below out into
the canal. l might explain 1t more
scientifically, but that Is q rough, sim
pie idea Of how these breaks occur.
Where they come up through the bot
tom We dig the heaved portion away.
bank settles again, causing another
hump in the same locality. After a
time, however. the weight OF the
broken portion Of the bank is So re-
look for all such breaks and slides to
disappear gradually. They will stop as
soon as the earth has accommodated it,
self to the changes In equilibrium
made by the digging"
/.
How long do you think they will
continue?'
."There will probably be slides until
but they ought to stop shortly thereA
after. The water will aid In preserving
equilibrium. and the vibrations caused
by the firing OF Of charges OF dyna-
mite. and that es the hundreds OF load
ed trains which are passing through
the cut every day will then be re-
moved. The humps which come: II any
should come. after the work Is COM
pleted can be removed by dredging"
when do you really expect to see the
water flow into the cut?"
prior to my departure the chairman
and chief engineer said 1t was his inten
ton to turn the water into the cut early
in October, 1913"
Does that mean that the canal will be
ready for use then?"
IT do not like to prophesy as to that.
There are all kinds of estimates. I see
that one big steamship line is advertis-
ing that 1t will send tourists through on
q sixteen-thousand-ton ship early In Feb
ruary, 1914. will only say, however.
that it seems certain that 1t win be pos
sible to pass ships through the canal
several months before the date Of the Of
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fetal opening. that is, considerably in
advance OF January 1, 1915
What force have you now at Panama.
/ suppose that the men will soon lbs
leaving to find other jobs"
During the past year we have had
more men at work than ever before. May
1, i9l3 the number was 5000 That is
the largest in the history of the canafo
What can Uncle Sam do with the
men he has trained in this work.
II know OF no large public undertake
ing now authorized where they could be
used. You understand that the great
mass of our employees there are com
paratiyely unskilled. That is so of the
Jamaicans and other natives of the
tropics. Our total number of Americans
is only about 5000. Some of them viii
remain on the permanent operating force
of the shops and canal. Others Will
leave the government service, and find
work under contractors or with private
firms. A large number of steam shovel
men and locomotive engineers will be
ready for employment elsewhere"
What will Uncle Sam do with his
machinery?'
''S0me OF il will be kept at Panama,
but q great deal will have to be sold OF
otherwise disposed of. Take the cars
and other rolling stock. We have SO
much down there that If it were placed
as closely as possible on single track
it would take up thirty-two miles. Tire
rolling stock in the central division.
which includes the Culebra cut, wonld
fill q track nineteen miles long. This
machinery will be stored and sold az
fast az possible. Much OF it lie in ex-
cellent condition"
Can you give me any idea OF its
mo. The machinery which we have in
the central division cost us about 81. Geo.
600, but q comparatively small percentage
OF that will be realized on a final sale.
The shoveis, cars and engines are In ex-
cellent shape -
Should not the canal be tested before
ships are allowed to go through it?'+-
Il suppose that will be done. II 10 In
portant that the operating force should
be thoroughly trained. and all the ma
chinery brought UP to the highest pitch
OF efficiency. before commercial and var
vessels are allowed to pass through. This
may be done by experimenting with such
craft as belong to the canal commission
and are no longer needed for other work.
With these vessels we could train the
operating force. and try out the na.
chinery. The safety appliances should
also be tested, and / doubt not they
will be-" FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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Panama canal, now more than a year
arc. i then went with him on foot
through the mighty cash which he was
making in the Andes. We walked to-
Sether: from gang to gang of the thou
sands of men who We're gouging out the
earth. blasting the rocks and carrying
the mighty trains OF spoil down to the
ocean,: We investigated the petty vol
canoea and studied the slides. At one
place In the canal Mother Earth had
bumped up her back and thrown rail-
road half way down to the bottom.
pl1otokraphed the colonel beside this
great hump, and had Just time to change
NV Aim before another hump occurred
and the railroad again went flying. being
overturned under our eyes.
Ny talk with Col. Gaiilard was at
the Cosmos Club. He wore a black
steai-pen coat a boiled shirt, well blacked
shoes. and looked more like club man
than q civil engineer who Is doing one
of the biggest things upon earth. When
we walked together through the canal al
panama he was in his working clothes
His riding trousers were wrapped in leg
rinrs OF leather, his shirt was Of flannel
and ne looked as much the day laboreI
a any steam shovel man or as any
Jamaican handling a drill. When al
Panama he walks miles through the
canal every day, and there is not de-
tail Of the excavation of which he has
nat n practical and scientific knowledge
He knows the work SO well that he car
describe 1t to the amateur in plain Eng
lish and the. iatter,will understand what
Every one knows what the Culebra GU
is II lie that part. OF The canal where
the mountains had to be gouged out Z
make the lock waterway through which
the ships can go. Inc excaVauoi
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to his eyes as he watched it grow. He
become so attached to it that no wan
cud pry 1t away firm him. An money
reciprocated. livery dollar he had
wurruked FIR him. It whit out an de-
coyed another dollar an aven If it
come back ladin' nawthin' more thin a
little chickenfeed Dochney wasn't cross
about 1t. He wud pat a nickel on tn
back an say: 'Ye're small now, but
with little Encouragement we'll make
big sthrappin' dollar out iv We yet
"Dochney lived to an old age, because
as tn pote says, There's nawthin' like
avirice to keep a man young. TIL
Spanyards knew that. whin they
sarched FIR tn fountain Nv perpetchool
youth. They'd heerd tn Indyans had
money Anyhow, Dochney's cheeks
wore tn bloom iv usury long afther
NANNY philanthrophists ARE lookin'
pale But tn time comes whin some
thin in tn eyes iv his financial frinds
told him 'tWud be betther not to go
downtown again unarmed, an he re-
tired He planted his money tn way
they do eyesthers an let 1t breed, sind
in down wanst week to haul out
enough to sustain life an putin TIL
rest back in again
but this was no life FIR wan that had
been an eyesther pirate in his day. an
Dochney begun to pine. / thried to
ammuse him. / had tn congressman
sind him iv'ry hour tn new currency
bill: ] cut out tn reports wanst a
week iv tn bankruptcies in tn United
States an Canady an wurruked thu
cash registher FIR him be TIL hour. be-
cause he liked tn old refrain. But
did him amy good ontil Dock
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make shaft reaching to a height OF
over SIX miles, and il 1t were loaded OIL
railroad trains, at 400 cubic yards to the
train, the cars holding the stuff would
fill one continuous track reaching twice
around the world at the equator Ii
You could put the material into a rail
road emDankment forty-five feet wide at
the bottom, fifteen feet high and wide
enough at the top for a double track
line, that embankment could he stretched
from Washington to many miles beyond
Chicago. and still 1t would not hold all
the earth"
How much more digging have you
mad to do than was calculated at the
beginning?"
Il have shown you that we have al
ready taken out over 100000 cubic
yards more at Culebra than was estimat-
ed when We began work there In the
Mno,e cahal the excavation will be more
imam double the original estimate. The
international board of consulting engi-
neers figured the total excavation for
the completed lock at $4,000. 600 cubic
yards, and it Is now known that the ex-
borhood of 10000. 900 cubic Yards 1 n snme
Of this increase has come from the
widening Of the canal, and a great deal
Is due to the additional work caused nv
slides and breaks" -
what nave the slides amounted to-"
so Ter they have added over % GO ooo
cubic yards to the material In the Culehra
cut alone. A million cubic yards Is eoua,
to solid block 800 feet square and aoo
feet high. Such q block would have a
base of more than two acres. and il would
rise to the height of twentv.tivs nr
thirty story building. Twenty such h,oc,.s
would be equal to a solid block ~ tv.a
acres more than mile high. Tall, ahau,
the pyramid of Ghizeh That is ss,;s
mated to contain 100000 cubic wards
Six or seven such pyramids have cid
down. into the Culebra cut, and We bawa
had to move them out -
What are these slides?'
They are Of two kinds" said Col cot,
lard. "One Is the slide proper, which
consists of the movement of mata,sa,
lying on the bed rock. They are ca,a
posed Of clay and earth. and may hava
great deal of rock mixed with them To-
are masses of earth, moving by gravit,y,
on smooth inclined surface of hardass
underlying material The other class !.
known as the break" 1t comes fron,
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AN all tn time tn wurruld was ta1k-
in about this great binifacthor I'll
Mrs. Dochney cud find in her coold
heart to say was. There's no fool like
an oil fool an whit about her house
wurruk an made poultices FIR him whin
he come home firm tn meetin' Nv tn
society fr pathronizin' tn poor. where
they'd give him a coold in tn chest
firm tn chautauqua salute.
well. sir; all times, good an bad.
has got to come to an end an wan day
says he, TIL go home an go to bed
an stay there. I've finished me will
an me life is no longer safe firm tn
binihcyants. There's a prisidint iva
colledge comm to town. He's an eager
idjacator, an as / don't want to die
with me boots on / think 1 won't see
sas-prilly.' he says. An he whit away
an niver set eyes on him again. He
left q will in Ave lines. .givin' all his
money to tn good woman. an sayin'
that he thought he'd done enough fr
iv'rybody else by heepin' thin in hopes
all these years, which is tn only
pleasure in life
IT niver cud understand a man like
Dochney maxim money" said Mr.. Hen
messy.
.He made it, said Mr.. Dooley, be
cause he honestly loved il with an inno-
clint affection. He was thrue to II. tn
reason We have no money is because We
don't love it FIR itsilf alone. Money
won't liver surrnder to such flirt."
Copyright. 1918, by Finley Peter Dunue)
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I'll show ye whu's tn boss here"

O'Leary advised him to alther his will
TIL dock says he always thrys this
prescription on aged millyonafres afther
tn oxygin fails. Wan mOrnin' Dochney
come in lookin' as cheerful as an ad-
vertisemint Nv a. breakfast food an
jinglin' his key ring in his pocket, fr
he niver carried annythin' else to
jingle, but made a practice Nv EXTRACT
in car fare out iv tn gran'chi1dhern's
bank with q penknife iv'ry mornin'.
"'Ye're lookin' well, me OF buccaneer,'
said I. It's feelin' well I am says he,
film his pocket firm tn cheese bowl.
I've been with me lawyer all mornin'
revisin' me will I find I've left out q
good NANNY oil frinds. We haven't a
middle inityal to y're name. have We?
That's what I told him. Give me q
glass iv sas-prilly.' he says. Well, sir;
though I knew tn crafty oil pirate.
tn thought suddenly lept into me head
that maybe his heart or his brain had
softened an he'd put me in tn will.
In that fatal sicond bought two auty-
mobills, a yacht an a goold watch an
chain an shook me OF frinds, an whin
l come to me sinses he'd gone an
hadn't settled fr tn -prilly.
well, tn fun he had afther that All
day long he whit around maxim delicate
inquiries about peoples circumstances
an in tn mornin' he was downtown
putin somethin' new in his will. He
hadn't been a popular man. He had
cashed in tn affections ivF his neigh
bors arly in fife:. An prejudicis ar-re
hard to overcome. But grajally-that
is to say, within week or ten days
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copyrighted 1918. by Frank G. Carpenter,

HAD a long chat
some time ago with
Col. David ID.
Gailiard, the engi-
neer commission
er, who for the
past six years has
had charge Of the
mighty excava-
tions of the Gu
Zebra cut. I first
met him when ]
w r o te up I h c
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how an If amy
wan thried to file it he'd be lible to be
locked up fr contimpt iI tn probate
coort Besides, 1 wuddint like to cause
amy onseemly wrangles AM maybe
lawsuits among me heirs about who
wud pay FIR tn express wagon to carry
tn. estate to tn city dump. An amy
how I've always thought that-iG there's
.geia. to be ayether cheers or tears at
me obsekees they shud spring firm tn
heart. not firm mercinary motives. IT
amy fellow feels like cillybraAin' me
departure let him do it out iv his own
pocket Thin I'll know he's sincere.
.Twud grieve me if some wan broke
into song at tn news iv a stranger
was to ask: is that wan iv his inni-
miesT An tn reply wud be- No. It's
wan iv his heirs.
so FIR wan reason or another I've
nivere made a will, but I'll not deny
1t must be considerable spoort FIR thin
that has tn names an tn imagination
into tears whin tn lawyers wrote down
tn directions FIR somebody else to set
in me rockin' chair, an can't think
iv anything that wud, brighten tn
wurruld with me out Nv it. But that
wud be because I wuddent go at it in
fh right way. To be injyeable q will
must be at wan an tn same time
practical joke on tn heirs an an ad
vertiaemint iv tn wan that made 1t.
Nanny a man niver has his own way
tn he has it through his will. Afther
he's dead an gone. he shoves his hat
on tn back Nv his head an stalks up
an down through tn house sayin. TIL
show we whu's tn boss here. FIR tn
fu'st time in me life, now that I'm
dead I'm goin' to be obeyed.' No
wondher that nanny meek millyonaires
comforts their declinin' years with this
amssemint 1t is as Hogan says. tn
iast sinfrmary rr their noble minds.
it's chance fr THIN to tache tn
family their proper place. an blow
their own horns without havin' amy
wan interrupt tn solo.
ct was readin' q fine will tn other
day niver see tn lad that made it.
INIT think Nv him. walkin' up an
down tn lawyers office as he dictated
IL whackin' himsilf OF tn chest an
sayins 'bedad' afther iy'ry paragraph.
Invent somethin' like this: i, Ephraim
Snivyy, bein' in a sound mind no mat
tf1Ar what may come 'out-fn coort later.
6ufzFealizin' that tn reputation Nv me
enraralleled SUCCESS In: business has
sn2kad SO far that L am lible to be
ca1lad elsewhere. do make this me last.
viii an testymint. All me money I
lave to me faithful frind. tn Conf
dintyal Chattel Morgedge Comply,
which / command to disburse as fol-
lows
ITO me devoted wife. Belinda Ann
ssaiyvy, shall be paid tn sum iv four
hundhred dollars per annum. undher
tn, f0llowin' conditions: That she shall
nfysr marry again; that she shall wear
a. black veil fr tn rest jv her life In
me honor; that she shall 60 to me
grave wanst a week an dew 1t with
her tears; that she shall be sorry that
she aften spoke to me tn way she did;
,tat uba sb.n Ea,r St,s6ipaed fr'r n, her
neck a photygraft Nv me framed In
rhinestones; that she shall keep tn lie
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to be known as 9TH Gin'rous Eph
snivvy Foundation FIR Indygint Daugh.
ters"
"'To me faithful frind an nurse, Be-
dalia O'Br1en. who has sarved me de-
votedly fr twinty years. an who is
now too old f'r other implymint, I lave
me collection Nv old medicine bottles.
"'To William Waldorf Aston l lave
me sthraw hat on condition that he
changes his name to Snivvy.
ITO tn mayor Nv Venice. Italy. 1 lave
two dollars to erect a monymint to me
an alter tn name Nv tn town to Sniv.
vyville.
9th rest Nv residoo iv me splindid
fortune l lave in thrust to me on'y
frind, tn Confdintyal Chattel Morg-
edge Bank, an direct thin to let 1t
acummylate ontil 1t amounts to four
millyon dollars. This sum they will
expind In erectin' a chimbley In white
marble an goold on tn Snivvy glue
wurruks. said chimbley to be at Taste
thirty feet higher thin amy in tn
neighborhood. with an electhric sign,
which shall be kept constantly burnin'
with til motto: "Snivvy. he done it,
Eyes, sir: 1t must be fun maxim a will.
Think Nv tn throuble We can cause an
tn insults We can hurl at ye're innimies.
] often thought 'twud be a fine way iv
gettin' aven with a man l didn't like.
Supposin' Hogan an me had a quarrel
an didn't have time to write frindly
biography about him, or was afraid /
might go first. Nawthin' wud be mater
thin to put him in me will. Hereby
cancel all requests to me frind Ter
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he'd wish he cud have me back again
fr while.
X x
Il niver see amy wan that enthred
into tn spirit Nv maxim a will so thruly
as our OIL frind Dochney. Ye didn't
like him. but did. liked him because
he was so simple an sincere. Prudent
fellows like y'rsilf. that spind y'r lives
pilin' up CRATE stores Nv good will an
affection an a comfortable conscience
fy'r old age don't appreciate a spind-
thrift like Dochney, who threw all
these things away in tn pursuit iv his
pleasure, which wus maxim money. Ye
thought he was a bad man, but knew
him FIR a single minded, innocint oil
a-ad who niver harmed amy wan ex-
cipt FIR gain an was incapable Nv false
hood outside Nv business. To those who
see him In tn rough battle Nv life at
home or among his neighbors, he
him in tn quiet seclusyon iv tn bank
among his recreations, found another
Dochney. a cheerful soul, who always
had a smile on his face, wrote little
verses to tn promissory notes an
cudden't keep his feet still whin tn
goold coin clatthered on tn counter.
If Dochney had wan fault it was he
was too sintimintal about money. Men
like We ARE tn ra-ally rapacyous
vans. Ye have nawthin' but desire FIR
money. Ye don't want to give it a
home an take care iv it, But Dochney
had tender feelin' fr it. Tears come
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people begun to see that a gr-reat
injustice had been done to him. He
didn't say annythin' about . will But
he had a way Nv askin' people did they
spell their name with an aitch or q
zee an putin 1t down in q notebook
that was very consolin'. His relatives
begun to show . gr-reat inthrest In
him an some Nv thin como firm ~ fas
as San Francisco to cheer his declin-
In years an form vigilance comities
to protect him firm fortune hunters. He
was niver alone, but always had tn
most agreeable society. Twas Uncle.
that's fine cough ye have; wudden't
We like to set In this cool draft Or.
Cousin Andrew. tell us that joke We
made las night I nearly died laughin'
at 1t, but no wan can tell it like y'r-
siIf.'
He niver took a meal at home. He
stopped pawn ali bills. He insisted on
all babies born in tn ward bein' named
afther him. He insulted people an
challenged thin to fight. BY an by
tn pa-apers got hold Nv him an alwaye
spoke Nv him as tn eccentric philan-
thropial. Rows Nv carredges sthud al
hfs dure an inside Nv his house he de-
batedF with tn thrustees Nv binivolint
institutions an prisidints Nv coiledge.
about their plans fr new buildin's
Wan iv tn ladin' universities stint tn
giee club down to serenade him. He
was ilicted vice prisidint iv Andrhew
Carnaygie's peace comity. thrustee Nv
tn art musum. director in tn. Home Fl
Wan Eyed Owls an L. L. d. in Show
hogan University. ft
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paintin' iv me in tn parlor in good re-
pair; that she shall not attind amy
dance. bankit. theatyre, wake or other
frivolous intertainmint. II she fails
to comply with amy Nv these condi-
tions or II amy man undher tn age
Nv eighty is discovered In her neigh
borhood. or II she is iver seen to laugh
In public, I direct me executors to cut
her OF firm me bounty an turn her
out on tn wurruid rr tn heartless
dirt she IL.
"'Totm son Silas / lave tn use iv
me horse an buggy an two bags Nv
oats until he has arrived at tn age
iv forty-Ave. II at that time ne has
showed a proper appreciation Nv tn
thrust, tn said property shall pass to
his ownership undher condition that
me name shall appear in letters a foot
high on tn dashboard.
".Me sicond son. Ephrain, 1 have
provided fr already b. 1ettin' him get
himsilf a good job in a blacksmith
shop.
"'Me son Elias, havin' affinded me b.
goin' to a base ball game. I desire that
he shall get nawthin' firm me estate.
"'To me daughter Eliza I lave tn
kitchen range in thrust. In this age
Nv fortune hunters q father cannot be
too careful. hinse I direct that she shall
not marry ontil she arrives. at tn age
iv fifty. At that time II she sees fit
to bestow her hand on a worthy young
man who shall be acciptible to tn loan
comfy Nv me bank, / direct that she
shall be paid three dollars week out
Nv her mothers allowance. tn said fund
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NINER made a
will" said Mr..
Dooley. II didn't
want to give me-
silf a headache
thinkin' iv some
thin to put into
it. A will Nv mine
wud be a puny
little thing amy
how an IL amy
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-02-13

Go w. Van Buren, st! Martin es-
capped.
Chas. Anderson, 81, 64s w.
Madison St., stabbed and severely
wounded by unknown man at
Halsted and Madison SITS. Assail-
ant escaped.
Frank CoquilHon, 10 S. Canal
ST., attacked and beaten by two
men from whom he had won s.
in dice game. They escaped.
Jos. Flick, elevator operator in
Patten bldg, and Henry Clay,
porter Steinberg Tailoring Co.,
arrested charged with theft.
M. E. Robinson, 4616 Drexel
blvd, arrested for not having rear
lights on his auto.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-02-13
KILLED IN FALL DOWN
ELEVATOR SHAFT

NJ. Edwin Rubel, public &C
countant associated with his faith
er, S. L. Rubel, and his uncle,
Nathan w. Rubel, was killed to-
day when he fell nineteen stories
down an elevator shaft in the Nc
Cormick building, 332 South
Michigan avenue.
Rubel was "a years old. He
lived at 1921 South Michigan
avenue. His Offices were in the
Mccormick building.
The exact manner of the &C
cident is still in doubt.
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New York.-Plot

New York.-Plot to poison
Capt. Walsh, police official whose
confession extended graft trail to
headquarters, has been discover
ed. Trained nurse and doctors
ordered to inspect ali the sick
captains food. Under double
guard by District Atty. Whit
mans men,