The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-18

N pan, piNIeen py LWeuIys anu Ten 1eeI
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 as COM
pared with long distance stations are
to be erected at Colon and Balboa and
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 feet
apart. The present wooden masts &c
Colon. about two hundred feet high.
and the. antennae OF the present Bal
boa station are suspended at an eleya-
tfonsof about one hundred and ten feet
above. the ground between the steel
tower and the power plant.
The Panama Railroad has recently
completed q new passenger station at
Panama City. This is a spacious con-
crete structure with covered carriage
entrance. The hrst and second class
passengers have different waiting
rooms fitted out with wash-rooms.
Heretofore, both first and second class
passengers purchased their tickets ct
the same window. This proved q dis.
agreeable feature Of travel, as fre-.
quently a white woman was compelled
to get In line with a lot OF negroes In
accordance with the Panama Rail-
roads long established custom Of pro-;
viding quarters for employees, the Sec
ond story Of the building Ii divided
up into rooms for bachelors, making
delightful, airy quarters. All the seats
in the station are either upholstered
cane or wooden stats. Other stations
are In course of construction but the
one at Panama City will be the dnest
and will contain the general Offices.
Worlmen Leave with Regret. K
Several OF the schools which now
embrace twenty or more nationalities
will be closed as the necessity for 10
many no longer exists. AZ each Sec
ton is completed the employees bee
come fewer. and the ones WAC are
dropped usually leave the Zone at once
many of them with the greatest rec
luctance:
working for the Americans sure do
pay, said a Jamaica negro as. he
dragged an old steamer chair up the
steerage gang-plank OF q steamer
bound for Kingston. "Isure am sorry
dat Canal am fnished-I never wiz
make so much money anywhere!
This Is true Of the white as well a.
the colored, for there were hundreds
of young men on the Zone doing cler.
ical work at q salary of $4,000 to
$4,000 per month who would receive
from 10000 to 1880 for the same
service In the United States. Coupled
with this they had free medical alton
ton, no house rent to pay and sir
weeks vacation. Every boat brings
somesof these men North, and already
some OF them have secured positions
In many lands. Their familiarity with
the work at the canal has opened new
fields for them all over the world. As
TO the heads of the divisions they, too
are scattered. Those who belong 10 /.
the Army will be sent to other posts
President Wilson Likely 10 See
Opening.
Very little remains to be done on the
contract and before many
the great parade Of ships viii
pass through the locks and the great
will be declared '.open 70 Z
the world" Secretary Of the, Navy
Daniels Withstand on the bridge OF the
first American battleship to 50
through, and It Is confidently expected
by many that President Wilson will
stand beside him.
Opinions differ a. to whether or mot
the canal will be financial success.
70 pay interest on the Investment and
expenses approximately
s15, 000. eco revenue per year win be
needed. Trafac experts estimate that
for the first two years the average s
tonnage will be 10000. 900 tons. not
enough at $40 per ton to make the
canal selt-supporting from this alone.
The Government win. however. mo-
nopolize the business Of supplying coal
and provisicns and operating repair
facilities which VIII, Of course, add
to the canal income. stcr-
lge Of 46o. 900 tons OF coal, maximum
'apacity u provided. and 100 ,ooe bar
els OF OIL 3 q {
The hibernate cemEneree :ccmnsits
don has Jnfisdictlen over the canal