The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-08-04
WILL Be AMONG
! VERY FIRST SHIPS
Kentpckian and Pepnsylyanian
viii Be at Balboa When
First Lock Turns.

Possibilities Of the sugar eargoes
on the American Hawaiian steamers
Kentuekian and Pennsylvania being
shipped through the Panama Canal arc
borne out by recent advices received
here BY the local ofRee Of the company,
Both the Kentucltiau and Pennsylva
MAN have received orders 20 proceed
to Balboa with their sugar cargoes, and
in the event OF the canal not being
IN readiness for these vessels TO pass
through, the sugar will be shipped
across the isthmus on the Panama Rail
road 10 the Atlantic seaboard, where
il win be transhipped to waiting steam.
ers.
According to latest adviee4, however,
Il seems highly probable that Hawaii
sugar win be among the first cargoes
TO pass through the big ditch.
A Washington dispatch Of July 20
says:
Opening Of the Panama Canal to
the world commerce on August ID
next was announced tonight by Score
tary Garrison. Probably the first yes
sci 10 pass through the great waterway
Will be the Gristobal, war department
steamer now az Colon.
There will be no formalities in the
epoeh-making event, all ceremonies be-
ing left for the official opening when
the international feet passes through,
the canal in March, 1915.
Qarrison's Announcement
Garrison 3 announcement was made
in this brief statement:
The Panama Canal will be open
for commerce to vessels not need
ing more than thirty feet Of water
ON aud after August 10, l914.
The official opening OF the canal,
as heretofore announced, will be ia
the month Of March, 1915, An aP-
propriate announcement wdl se
made when a greater depth Of
water than thirty feet has been
secured
On the fifteenth day OF August
Colopel Cocktails will ipaugurate
the commercial service by sending
q government boat through the
canal. There viii be no ceremo.
mics incident to the occasion, but
american newspapers who desire
to have representatives present
may do so. The others who will
be present ON the boat will be de-
termined between now and the
time mentioned
End Of Engineering Task.
When the Cristobal steams from its
slip to the Atlantic entrance Of the
canal it viii mark the conclusion by
American enterprise of the greatest en-.
gineering task ever undertaken and the
elimination Of ten years of the hard
est kind of work against physical OBJ. !
staeles which have severely taxed tho
abilities of the Army engineers under
Colonel Goethals.
Some things remain to be done TO
perfect the waterway. The channel
through the Culebra cut must be doep.
ened and widened so that II will not
be necessary for the great liners and
hattIeships TO pass through the tricky
slide at Cucharacha and Bold Hill
in single fle. Much excavation must
be done in both approaches, aud many
Of the buildings which will house the
Office forces, the mechanical depart.
ments and the supply division remain
TO be completed.
Thirty Feet OF Water.
While, with thirty feet of water in
the canal, some Of the great dread
thoughts might pick their way through
after August Is, yet Secretary Daniels
said tonight that he would not be likely
to order any such movement except in
an emergency. He will wait until
there is more water in the great ditch.