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in plan, sixteen by twenty, and ten fooe
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
tons for relatively local use a. ,cora-
pared with long distance stations aTo
to be erected at Colon and Balboa npd
will supplant the ones now In service
at these points The towers resemble
the ones. at Arlington. Virginia, and
each station will have two three hun
dred feet towers six hundred f1St,
apart. The present wooden mASeSf At
Colon. about. two hundred feet hiSt.
and tide 1ntennae Of the present sRAl-
boa stAHapA ere. suapended at an .alsY1E. :!
tlon Of about ono hundred and IL, t8te
abovs the ground between the stGS1;
tower and the power plant. es--& ~
The Panama Railroad has recently,
completed new passenger station 1t
Panama City. This is a spacious COZ.
crete structure with covered carria3s,
entrance. The first and second clAanI
passengers have different waiting,
rooms fitted out with wash-roomS. /,
Heretofore. both first and second cla8a
passengers purchased their tickets AZ
the same window. This proved dis
quentiy a white woman was compelled
to get In line with a lot At negroes. In
accordance with the Panama Rait-,
roads long established custom OF pro-,
viding quarters for employees. the ssc-'
ond story OF the building is dividS6
up into rooms for bachelors, makiniE,
delightful. airy quarters. All thessextA
In the station are either upholstAf66s
cane or wooden STATS. Other statiotsS|
are in course Of construction but tn
one at Panama CITY will be the hnsoei
and Will contain the general othceaA,
~ Workmcn Leave VITA ReGret.,q
Severa! of the schools which now
embrace twenty or-more natiorfAlitieA
will be closed sathe necessity for SO
many no longer exists. AS each SEQ
ton is, completed the employees BIZ
come fewer, and the ones who are
dropped usually leave the Zone at orsoa
many of them with the greatest n
luctance. asF-
Working for the Americans sure 40
pay" said Jamaica negro as he
dragged an old steamer chair up the
Storage gangplank of a steamer
bound for Kingston. II sure am sorry
dat Canal am finished--I never will
make so much money anywhere!"
This is true ofsthe white az we'll h
the colored, for there were hundreasI
of young men on the Zone doing clef.
teal work at a salary OF $125.oO. tt
$4,000 per month who would receive
from $4,000 to $500 for the sAinA
service in the United States. Coupledi
with this they had free medical attst1.
ton, no house rent to pay and a six
weeks vacation. Every boat brings
some of these men North. and alreAd1,
some OF chem have secured positioif4,
in many lands Their familiarity with
the work at the canal has opened nov
fields for them all over the world. ~
to the heads of the divisions they, tdo
are scattered. Those who belong -
the Army will be sent to other posse
President Wilson Likely To SEQ =.
Opening. 10
Very little remains to be done ON ~
gigantic contract and before many
months the great parade of siaips Ws1i
pass through the locks and the great
waterway will be declared "opan, u
the world" Secretary, of the NAVY
Daniels will stand on the bridge of us
first American battleship to -
through, and 1t is confidently expsctsa
by many that President Wilson VIII
stand beside him.
Opinions differ as to whether or net
the canal will be financial suocsse.
To pay interest on the Investment add
operating expenses approximately
Sl6.Oo0.o0o revenue per year Will b
needed. Traffic experts estimate that
Tor the first two years the ayarats
tonnage will be 100000 tons, not
enough at s1..0 per ton to make ,tiss
canal self-supporting from, this alunA
me Government will. however. mos
hopolizc the business Of supplying coal
ana provisions and operating repair
lnciilties which VIII. OF. conrse. ada
materially TO thescahal income.. Stoxe
age OF 10000 tons OF coal, maximum
capacity is provided, and $4,000 ibazF
rcls of oil. l.
q The Interstate Commerce CommiE
sion has Jurisdiction over the eea8
train, ~ q