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and leave it complete. The men will
soon be removing the debris, and with
in half year these mammoth con-
structions of concrete will look like
monuments of marble cut out with
chisel. Today one can walk along the
tops of the locks through an avenue
lined with concrete columns of Won
derful architectural beauty. They up
hold the lights of the locks, which will
make the whole structure as bright at
midnight as it is at midday ON each
side of these columns are the cog-rail-
road tracks upon which the towing
locomotive will run: and between them
is another railroad for moving machin-
cry back and forth. Each vessel will
have four locomotives to move 1t from
from one lock to another. Two Will
go ahead to pull and two behind to
hold back, so that the vessel may be
steady. while moving. These. towing
locomotives will run on a level except
when passing from lock to lock, at
which time they climb heavy grades
In coming back they take another
track. made especially for the return
OF the cars after the towing.
/ shall not attempt to describe the locks
nor the methods by which the ships are
taken through the canal. The most in
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been so changed as to disguise the Tue
tonic or gin.
One such was the late Senator Rayner
of Maryland who told Count Won Bern
storff on one occasion that the name
was originally the German Rauner. but
was changed because of difficulty in pro-
nouncing.
To the fact that so many American
university professors have been educat-
ed in Germany was attributed many OF
the tendencies in American thought
While the older American universities
were very evidently replicas of English
institutions of higher learning, on them
in many instances has been erected a
superstructure pure Germanic, and in
the newer universities, such as Johns
Hopkins and the University of Chicago,
the influence of German universities is
still more apparent.
1t is inevitable, then, that the modern
Americans, educated under these intiu-
ences and instructed by German-tra ned
compatriots. should have their thoughts
directed in channels Parallel with CO.
temporaneous German thought.
Studious Germans who have observed
political tendencies in this country
sert that the ideas of state socialism,
now SO pronounced under various names
in America, in reality were made in
Germany" The popular demand that
the government extend its arms of serv-
ice and multiply its activities in behalf
of the people is simply Il reflection of the
earlier demands of the Germans.
TIE theory of Birmarck was that no
political agitation of protest could long
continue uniess it had some foundation
in truth. People do not keep on agitat
ing unless there is at least a germ of
justice in their complaint Bismarck
found the German people demanding
larger service from the state and some
leaders acquiring power by preaching
that only through socialism could that
service be obtained. Thereupon he took
the steps to provide the governmental
services demanded. but took them in the
name of the monarchy. From these
pre- minary steps the empire has gone
on until now it is in realty great cor
poration itself.
=
The results have been 4 minimizing of
revolutionary socialism in Germany.
Soca. ism there, a German will point out
is now far more academic than revolu-
tionary At the same time, the cost
of government necessarily has risen and
taxes are high.
From this point the conversation swung
into distractions concerning American
and German characterize 'cs. Count Won
Bernstorff pointed out that one of the
admirable traits in the American char
acter is generosity. The prodisal giving
of American rich men to educational
and other noble purposes is unmatched
in Germany or other European country.
True educational institutions In Ger
many do not need such giving, since they
are state-endowed. it being only recently
that a single privately endowed col eye
was established in Berlin; but there are
many purposes of semi-public nature
txrni o1,
man might contribute if he would. In
excuse he, pleads the prevailing income
tax.
The question that naturally occurs to
the German mind, then, is. will the new
American income tax curb the tendency
of American rich men to give muniii-
Gently? If it does. from what source will
come the money necessary for UNDER
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demand of their employees in Legations
and embassies abroad that they have
familiarity with the language of the
county in which they are serving. a 1T
tie thing. perhaps. but little things
count
Count Won Bernstorff's ease in English
and his ability to make public speeches
in that language are distinct assets 10
him n his position. And an American
who has to do business with his en-
hassy Is eratified when he finds that even
the man who answers the telephone there
has a perfect understanding not only OF
the English language but of the Amert-
can idiom as well.
j:
Through a white-tiled, speckless hall
way one is ushered, on entering the EN-
bassy, up a flight of stairs and into a
spacious reception room. 1t is an old
fashioned. high-ceilinged chamber. with
high paneled, white wainscoating and
white walls above. One wall is nearly
covered by an ancient German tapestry.
The furniture is gilt with brocaded up
holste1ing In a green tint. while the fioor
is covered by great. dark-sreen rug;
the whole color scheme OF the room -
white, green and gold and admirably
carried out A few good pictures and
MANY intimate photographs atoP iiiS
wainscoating are In evidence.
You wait a few moments. and then
the ambassador himself comes to usher
Won into his own workroom. 1t is an
other huge chamber-huge by compar SOP
with the size of rooms as constructei'
today-at the southeast corner of tho
building. A large desk, bookcases flleH
to overlooking, p ctures. magazines. PERI
odica S. file cases-these are the things
that meet the eye first. giving to thu
place the appearance of cultivated
gentleman's study rather than an office.
But as the ambassador talks as he
opens up his file cases in search of this
or that document. you get the impress
sion of a pal ticularly keen Amerirap
business man handling rarticu!arly bif
and comp ex job and handing 1t well. ~
this room is assembled a vast deal q
information about this country. its tariff
its industries, its activities: here you maj
learn by word of mouth or from cares
fully clipped and filed articles and rel
ports a vast dea' about the pc itics and
the industries not only of the United
States and Germany. but Of the world
as well.
The master of this information sits
and chats easily and gracefully. az
though he had not care in the world
But you know he has. So. when your
errand is completed, you make yout
ad;eus and are escorted flattering to
the door. And all the time you have
been in the house you have ~ot heard
word of German. ASHMUN BROWN.
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will be connected by great pipe lines
which will run across the isthmus, with
pumping stations so that the oil can be
transferred from one to the other.
AS to the commercial aspects of the
case. the government is instituting these
supply depots for the protection of the
ships which will go through the canal and
also for the force Uncle Sam will keep
on the isthmus. 1t has been Sue
cessfully carrying on a similar business
during the construction. 1t has run the
big TivoM Hotel at n profit which
amounted last year to $4,000. and 1t has
served food to the men on the work at
what Is practically cost prices. In one
year the commissary department gave
out 2,OO0.NOO meals at 30 cents each. and
In the height Of the construction II was
doing a business of about $I,OOOOCO per
annum. During that time 1t supplied
about 10000 people with food and house
hold necessities. I believe the commits
sary was run at profit. and nave no
doubt but that the coaling and supply
business can be made to pay its own
way.
I have asked Col. Goethals something
about the operating force which will be
required to run the canal. He puts the
limit at z DIV, OUT III duultioh " tAAi'
there will be a force of from 5000 to
5000 troops kept here at the various sta
tons of the Notifications and other de-
fenses.
The matter of 70 tifying the waterway
is one that the officials here refuse to
discuss. They. will not allow photographs
to be made near the forts. and so far but
little accurate information has been given
outside that in the proceedings OF Con-
gress of what will be necessary to pro-
tect the canal.
The evidence. however. is that the work
is going rapidly on. The Pacific Islands
have been cut into shape. and the work
sof installing the big guns at the At
lantic entrance will soon be unde- way
Congress has already appropriated more
than 81 100000 for the Qualifications. and
1t has been decided to erect them on the
islands of F amenco. Perico and Naos
out in the Pacific. facing Balboa: and on
Toro point and on Margarfta Island, In
the Atlantic. There will also be forts
on the mainland. There will be COAST
defense camp on the Naos breakwater moi
far from the shore, and there Will be
other camps scattered over the isthmus
along the line of the canal
:. y
The land forts will be SO made that tins
locks will be amply protected, and sc
that any invading army could be kept
away from them in case of war. AS a
protection against invasion the whole OF
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try is a coming together of the combined
forces of capital and the combined forces
of labor. to treat together and reach a
mutual understanding. And in this he
has the same vision as Secretary Will
son of the Department of Labor What
the German ambassador has said on the
subject in broad terms is wholly in har-
mony with what Secretary Wilson has
said IN detail.
Any conversation with Count Won Bern
storff makes plain why 1t is that the
intellectual men of this country seek his
society: why the educational institutions
make such demands on him for addresses
and speeches.; why American periodicals
of the more thoughtful cast go to him
for special articles on questions Of inter
national Importance. He has the true
Teutonic thoroughness in mastering q
subject, and an extraordinary facility In
expressing his thoughts. He makes
things clear and luminous. He can even
make a discussion of the American tariff
interesting-and. by the way, few public
men know more about that particular
tariff than he does
Imagine German mind, with It, ca
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akings heretofore supported by private

takings heretofore supported by private
gifts?
from wide knowledge. acquired by study
and research. on the problems of the
trusts in this country. 1t is but nat
ural in i man who is In reality part
of the German government and who is
in hearty sympathy with the att tude
that that government assumes to trade
combinations to hold that 1t will be
found impossible to prevent trusts and
combinat ons. The tendency of the age
as viewed from German eyes. is toward
combination. The uniting of effort is
apparent in all lines of human endeavor
To fight against 1t is futile Regulation,
not destruction, is the remedy.
1t must not be assumed that the Ger
man ambassador is proferr:ng the Ger
man system as a model on which to
erect an American system. No man rec
ognizes more clearly than he the radical
difference in conditions in the two coun-
tries Broad principles and not programs
are the subject of his conversation both
in public and private.
What he sees in the future in this coun-
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Poets Today.

nUTLER GLAENZER. poet and essay-
D list, listened with his calm SIN e, at
the Players Club in New York. to SON,
neteer who lamented that magazine.
had paid him only a cent line for a!
sonnet cycle.
Mr.. Glaenzer did not seem at all perH
turbed at these starvation rates. He
bIinked his eyes rapidly behind his pince-s
nez. smiled his calm smile, and sad Ia,
his calm voice: -
my dear fellow, don't you know thst
the only successful poet nowadays Is he
who is able to make living at soms-
thing elser'
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Diplomat Who En-
joys Great Popularity
An Up'to-Date Repre-
sentative of His Sover-
eign - Says There Is
"A Bond of Sympathy
Between the German
and American Peoples"
What He Thinks of
Trusts "A Business
Representative of a
Business Nation.
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locks. there is now a clear stretch OIL
water from ocean to ocean, and within 4
month or so after this letter is published
the mighty steamers of the Atlantic and
the Pacific will be climbing up and down
this waterway from one great ocean to
the other.
1t is difficult to realize that the great
job IS almost done. Still, this conviction
fills the air. and with it comes the thought
that the people of the future will never
appreciate the enormous labor and cost
OF the work. That for which We have
spent hundreds of millions of dollars is
now under the water. The Culebra cut
looks much like an ordinary river flowing
between the banks of living green, and
Lake Gatun seems to have been there
since the subsiding of the waters of
Noah's food. The only real work going
on in the canal just now is the dredging
of the channel at Culebra and the put
ting on the frills at the locks. The centers
IF industry have been transferred from
the canal itself to the terminals, where
docks, machine shops and warehouses of
enormous dimensions are being con-
Structed.
About the busiest part of the isthmus,
compared to that of the past, is Balboa,
the new port the Pacific. Here they
are excavating the mighty dry dock which
will hold the largest ships that float the
seas. They are constructing foundries
and machine shops. covering acres. and
are putting up mammoth planning mills
that are already filed with lumber from
Puget sound and our eastern coast. At
this point there are tens OF thousands of
men working. Trains Of cars go
flying along loaded with spoil as they
Of op3iy inn
Of Culebra. large force is erecting the
framework of structural steel and glass,
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AK at Il W ash
ington dinner table
on one of these
mid winter nights
ran to a discussion
of the notable fig
ures In the diplo-
matte corps. It
finally centered on
t h e pers on of
Count Johann Helm
rich Won Bernstorff,
the German am
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HE Panama canal
is practically COM
pleted. The waist
of the new world
has been sliced in
two at the middle,
and North Ameri-
ca IN d South
America have been
changed from pen
insulas to islands.
With the exception
of the gates of the
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The Mighty Terminal
Shops and Supply De-
pots Now Going Up
The New Admins
tration Building and
Uncle Sans Govern
ment Town-How the
Locks Look in Action
The Coaling Stations
Where 100000 Tons of
Fuel Will Be Kept
Under Water The
Fortihcations Rapidly
Building Big Guns
Which Will Shoot Pro-
jectiles Weighing a Ton
and Send Them Twenty
Miles at a Shot.
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bassador, who was seated safely out of
hearing at the other end of the table
ITO what" asked one, do you attribute
Won Bernstorffs remarkable popularity in
this country? He seems to be in demand
as public speaker on all notable occa-
sions, our universities vie with one an
Of intimacy with the chief figures in this
administration. as he was with those In
the administration preceding-what is the
secret?"
There is no secret about it, was the
nlunt response. The man is a good am
bassador: that is all there is to it. He
knows his business.
The business of diplomacy the speak
IT went on, lis one of the most exacting
businesses in the world. Personality is
one of the large factors in the equation.
In other words, your good diplomatist
must be temperamentally fitted for his
task. He must have that nexibiity of
mind that will permit him to obtain un-
Outstanding of and sympathy with the
PEOPLE of the nation to which he is ac-
credited, and those qualities of character
that will win the regard and respect of
that people for him and for his nation.
Any intellectual man may acquire dex-
,erity In what may be called the mechan-
les Of diplomacy-a knowledge of state
craft, familiarity with diplomatic usages
and precedent and abundant information
about the politics and progress not only
Of his own country and of the country to
which he is accredited. but of all coun-
i-ies as well. But without personality
he is not a success.
What is the business of an ambassa-
dor? 1t is popular fiction that in these
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and farther out near the ocean they are
building the piers and docks at which the
steamers will lie. These piers will be
1000 feet long. and have slips 800 feet
wide in which ships can anchor.
The new railroad across the isthmus
has been completed. 1t winds its way
around the enlarged Lake of Gatun and
takes the passenger far away from the
line of the canal 1t is now run by OIL
burning engines, and in passing from
one side of the sthmus to the other one
travels through a tropical garden with
out cinders or dust. From the Pacific end
OF the railroad, about halfway across.
the structural steel arms of 4 great
transmission line have been put up on
both sides of the track. These arms are
! Judge thirty feet high. They are bolt
ed to cement columns and are joined by
bridges running across the track from
post to post far overhead. On each end
of these bridges are Appliances for carry
ing the cables of copper wire that will
convey the current of electricity gene at
ed by the overflow of the Gatun dam. The
electric plant for this current is now
being installed, and the buildings are
almost completed. Ihey are mace OF
concrete and steel.
At this electric plant there will be
developed by the water falling on tur-
bines force of $500 kilowatts, which
will be sent by cables to the locks to
the range towers and to the other cleo
trio light plants.
The current will be strong enough to
furnish al the power needed for oper-
ating the canal. for lighting the towns
at either end and also for the great
machine shops. foundries and other
works connected with the canal The
electric cranes of the docks and piers
will be moved by it and there will be
enough electricity left to keep all the
rolling stock of the Panama railroad
in action. The transmission line to
which l have referred runs above the
tracks and it is so constructed that a
trolley could easily be connected with
the bridges that join the steel posts.
If an extensive transportation business
should develop. which is not expected.
the road will be electrically equipped.
The movement of the vessels through
the locks will be by electricity and
they are now putting up buildings in
the top of the center wal 5 from where
the current will be controlled.
In each of these buildings one man
can sit and direct every operation. in
the taking of vessel through from
the ocean to Gatun lake or from the
lake down to the sea. He can open
the gates or close them by throwing q
switch and can cause the water to
rise or fall by the press of a button.
The machinery of the locks is now
almost all in shape and 1t will take
but d short time to polish the whole
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copyrighted. 1914. by Frank G. Carpenters
WASHINGTON HOTEL. Colon, Panama
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The land forts will be SO made that the
locks will be amply protected, and SO
that any invading army could be Kept
away from them in case of war. AS
protection against invasion the whole or
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The Washington herald., 1914-03-15

Then its more :han you can expect
Us 10 risk"
Say three thousand if you succeed"
-Four is our figure, Mr.. Alden
brooke
Then I think it should be nothing
if you fail
Doubles or quits" cried Raff1es.
We'll, .that's sporting. DoneT
Addenbrooke opened his lips, half
rose. then sat back in his chair. and
looked long and shrewdly at Raffles-
never once at me.
'Damrne, ] believe you're my very
man" he said
The bargain was clinched at the Cafe
Royal, where Bennett Addenbrooke in
sisted on playing host at an extravagant
luncheon. | remember that he took his
whack of champagne with the nervous
freedom of man at high pressure, and
have no doubt / kept him IN counten-
ance by an equal indulgence; but Raf-
fes, ever an eSemplar in such matters,
was more abstemious even than his
wont, and very poor company to boot.
/ can see him now, his eyes in his plate
thinking thinking. AT the close Raffles
apologized for his preoccupation, called
for a timetable, and announced his in
tention of catching the 3 'o2 to Esher.
you must excuse me, Mr.. Alden
brooke" said he, "but / have my own
idea, and for the moment | should
much prefer to keep it to myself. But
speak TO Sir Bernard ! must, so will
you write me one line to him on your
card? OF course, If you wish, you must
come down with me and hear what
say; but / really don't see much point
in it."
And as usual Raffles had his way,
though Bennett Addenbrooke showed
some temper when he was gone, and I