The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-19

In plan. sixteen by twenty. and ten feet
deep. The building to serve as quar-
ters for operators has been practically
completed and will be provided with
furniture by the Navy. New radio sta
tions fer relatively local use as COM
pared with long distance stations are
TO be erected at Colon and Balboa aad
win supblant the ones now in service
At these points The towers resemble
the ones at Arlington Virginia. and
each station will have two three hum
dred fest towers SIX hundred feet
apart. The present wooden ruasts at
Colon. about two hundred feet high.
and the antennae of the present Pal
boa station aro suspended at an eleTa-
;i-n II about one hundred and ten feet
above the ground between the steel
tower and the power plant.
The Panama Railroad has recently
completed new passenger station IT
Panama city. This is q spacious con-
crete structure with a covered carriage
entrance. The first aud second class
passengers have different waiting
rooms Atted out with wash~rooms.
Heretofore. both first and SECOND class |
passengers purchased tAcT tickets al
,he same window. THIS proved dis
agreeable feature OF travel, as ire
auently white woman was compelled
To get In llne with q lot Of negroes. In
accordance with the Panama Rail.
roads long established custom OF pro-
viding quarters for employees, the sec
ona story Of the building is divided
up into rooms for bachelors, maAinS
delightful. airy quarters. All the seats
in the station are either upheistereh
cane or wooden Stats. Other stations
are IN course Of construction oai the
ono at Panama CITY wiil be tho fness
and will contain the general otfaeea
Worlmen Leave With Regret
Several of the schools which now
embrace twenty or more natonalities
win be closed as the necessity for 50
many no longer exists. As each sec
ZION is completed the employees be-
come fewer. and the ones who ara
dronned usually leave the Zone at oncd
many of them with the greatest res
luctance
Working for the Americans sure dc
nav" SAID A Jamaica negro as he
dragged an old steamer chair up the
steeraee Eang-p plank OF d steamed
hound for Kingston. Il sure am sorry
dat Canal am fln!shed~-I never vii
make SO much money anywhere"
This is true OF the white rs we'll al
the colored, for there were hundredd
of Young men on the Zone doing cler1
ieal work AT II salary OF s125.o0 I'd
$4,000 per month who would receive
from se00 90 to $500 for the same
service in the United States. Coupled
with this they had free medical atten
lion. no house rent 70 pay and a 81,
weeks vacation. Every boat brings
some of these men North. and alread,
same of hem have secured positions
+ in many lands. Their fa!niliafity will
+ the work at the canal has opened new
fields for them all over the world. A
to the headslof the divisions they, tos
are scattered. Those who belong &
the Army will be sent TO other posts
President Wilson Likely To See
Opening.
Very little remains To be done on tn
e,irantic contract and before many
months the great parade OF SHIPS WI
nass through the locks and the grea
waterway will be declared open Il
the world" Secretary of the Nav
Daniels will stand on the bridge or tn
first American battieship to 81
n,
bv many that President Wilson wi
stand beside him.
Opinions differ as to whether or no
the canal will be a financial success
To pay interest on the investment an
operating expenses approximately
/ s15,00O,000 revenue per year will b
needed. Tratiic experts estimate tha
+ for the first two years the averag
/ tonnage will be 100000 tons, NO
4 enough at s1.2o per ton to make tn
canal self-supporting from this alone
/ The Government will. however. mo
uopolize the business OF supplying Goa
and provisions and operating repai
facilities which will. of course. ad
materially to the canal income, Stor
age of 900 tons of coal. maximum
capacity is provided. and 10000 bal
/ rels of OIL
The Interstate Commerce Commia
sion has Jurisdiction over the CAM
/ traffic.