The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-03-09
FOG may PREVENT
MORNING PASSAGE
IiR0U('HPANANA
Much Danger Flor Midnight Uatii
Seven or Eight O'clock
Every Morning.
WILL USE EIGHT PILOTS
CLEANUP IN FULL SWING
Col. Goethals Victim of Own orders
Machinery Used in Canal
Work Being Moved.

Fanama. March S.--Na'fgation
of the Prnaml Canal will have 10
be recilariy suspended during pie
early morning hours or else string. |
ent regulations must be enforced II
insure safety on account of fogs IN |
Culebra cut, according 10 Cap. !
Hleh Rodman. L. S. ~. who is
! slated TO become superintendent 1T
operation.
1t has been found that from mid |
night until seven or eight O'Clock
every morning heavy mists and fogS |
hang in the cut. which even with
out the menace of fog. will be one |
of the most difficult part of III.
canal for the pilots.
Captain Rodman has recently
made number of trips Trough tls
cut during these hours. He says
that nearly always the mist was so
heavy that even his small launch
Md ito slow down and feel its way
iffssgexplanation of the fogs is the
difference between the temperature !
of the Chagres river as it flows OFT
through the cut and the surround
ing atmosphere, causing heavy con
.densation during the late nigh.
hours.
Canal operation will start OF,
with not more than eight pilots on
the payroll. according to Capt, Rot.
man, who has been besieged with
applications for pilot jobs There
seems TO have been a general belief
that sixty or more pilots would be
engaged upon the opening of the new
gateway OF oceans, but Capt. Rcd
man declares that six or eight pilots
will answer all purposes for som i
time, and II there is not enough
pilot work for that many men the
pilots vii be kept busy at some other
duty,
The cleaning-up process is in full
swing. The big scrap heap at Mt.
'aIope is assuming such proportions
that it is one of the sights of the
Canal Zone. Rails from the con-
struction tracks are being .orn NJ
and dumped there, while the old
railroad ties are being stacked up
and burned. Scows, barges and ma
cMnery no longer needed are being
removed, and the canal in many
places has every appearance of be-
Ing completed.
The points of greatest activity
are now at the Cucaracha slide in
Nniebra cut and at the site of the
permanent town of Balboa on thu
Pacific end Of the canal. The dredges
are gaining on the slide and it is
believed the angle of rest will sooa
be reached. At Balboa most of The
new houses for the permanent force
viii De ready by the first of April
A few Of them are already finishes
and occupied.
Col, Charles r. Mason, superlE-
aenuent OF Ancon Hospital, mas CON
10 De regarded as the best informC 4
man in the Canal Zone on the sub
Ject OF natural history. For severai
months past DR.. Mason has he,n
classifying the native woods and -
Is making a collection of several
hundred specimens. He also has .
large collection of the native phi!lp-
pane woods which he made dur,ne
his long residence In the islands
Col. Gosthals recently became a
victim CT his own orders. As presl.
dent Of tho Panama railroad com
pany 10 ruled that no canal wor.or
no matter how high his rank, Shout,
ride FREQ on the observation ears
Tor the FIRST time the Colonel him
Self took seat in orc Of tho obse,
walton sars tho other day. The nc
gr., porter followed orders ard nal
tila foionel pay his fare.