The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-03
PANAMA CANAL To
BE FOOL PROOF
In Every Way Possible Safe
Navigation of Great Water
way is Provided.
tBy the Associated presS-j

Thy the ASsociated PresSj
Panama, Feb. 21.-When the Pan
m Canal is completed and the first
ship is piloted through from Cristo-
bal to Balboa or the other way, it
Will he as neal "fool-proof'' as it is
possible to make it. In every posi-
bic way has the safe navigation OF
the great waterway been provided for |
by the construction of almost count |
less aids to navigation.
Inc first thing the pilot of an in |
coming vessel sees ahead of him as
he reaches the entrance of the canal
is a huge light tower which in con-
junction with another points the way
toward the first set of locks at either
end. On either side OF him as he
proceeds he finds innumerapIe light
ed and unlighted buoys and beacons
that indicate the limits Of the chan
mel.
The locks themselves will be as
brilliantly lighted as the Great
White Way itself and the passage
of a large ship, herself brilliantly
lighted from stem to stern with cleo
trIclty, is expected to become one of
the most spectacular features Of an
ltlCt OCCdH Voyage. linen comes the
passage through the canal with it's
numerous range light towers on eth
er bank, its beacOnS and bouys all Of
them showing either a white, red or
green light.
There are along the canal 20 acyt-
elene lighted range towers, IL cleo
trio lighted ones. As electric lighted
beacons. 3 acytelene lighted beacons
and about 81 acytelene lighted bouys
h range lights mark a line 125 feet
on either side Of the middle Of the
channel forming a lane $50 feet wide
) Floating on the water along the side
lines Of the channel are the acytelene
bouys and on the shore marking tn
) various tangents Of the channel ar
the lighted beacOns.
. The approach to Colon harbOr, OF
the Atlantic side, is lighted by tn
main light on Toro Point which i
visible Is miles or more on a clea
night. Then there are the beacon
s on the seward ends Of the 2 1-2 mil
breakwater that protects the harbo
: from the high seas that usually ri
+ in the Atlantic.
On the Pacific end Of the cana
there are numerous bOuys and bea
cons besides the range lights that il
. dictate the canal channel. BY day til
channel is not only marked by ca
bouys. but also about 60 spar-bouy
r. and the many concrete tripode
painted a. brilliant white they al
.c painted.
- Nor is this all. Captain Hugh Roo
N man. T.. S. N, superintendent of OF
- Grafton, has just completed estal
fishing the locations for a number
= signal towers along the canal rout
h They are to be used in signaling fro
~ station to station the coming and e
!. ing of steamers and to arrange NEE
ing places. The signalmen will pra
~ tically functionate on the lines
. the railway train dispatcher.
o. Canal workers are a%nxiously wal
" ing to hear definitely from Washin
ton as to whether they will have
pay an income tax. There is no OF
within the zone who is prepared
give official information on the poiI
&c not even the Law Department
Col. Cook, collector of customs f
rs the zone. The Law Departme1
~ however, points out that h can
81 territory has been declared, by
less an authority than the Unit
m States Supreme Court, as not a pa
IL of United States territory. Fra
al Feuille, chief legal officer of t
zone, has told many inquirers tn
ne the canal zone is not mentioned
the new Income Tax law.
ere With March LIST set As the date +
making returns to income tax cole
W tors in the United States, the car
his worker is impatient to learn his st;
us. If he is to be required to p
10 the tax he is also wondering whett
ers it will be withheld at the sour
cal which in most cases is the War I
on partment.