Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-11
FOG PERIL MAY TROUbLEPANAMA
Navigation Will Find Danger
 from Heavy Mists Over
 Canal During Early Morn- ing Hours-Crave Trouble
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 PANAMA, March 9.--Navigation of 1 the Panama canal will have to be reg. ularly suspended during the early morning hours or else stringent reg. ulations must be enforced to insure safety on account of fogs in the Gu lebra cut. according to Capt. Hugh Rodman, T. s. N.. who is slated to become superintendent of operation.
 It has been found that from mid. night until seven or eight o'clock every morning heavy mists and fogs hand in the sut, which even without the menace of fog. will be one of the most difficult parts of the canal for the pilots.
 Captain Rodman has recently made a number of trips through the cut dur. ing these hours. He says that nearly always the mist was so heavy that even his small launch had to slow down and feel It's way. His explana- ton of the fogs is the difference be. tween the temperature of the Chagres River as it flows out through the cut and the surrounding atmosphere, causing heavy condensation during the late night hours.
 Canal operation will start with not more than eight pilots on the pay roll, according to Capt Rodman. 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 gate way of oceans. but Capt Rodman declares tha. six or eight pilots will answer all purposes for some time, and if there is not enough pilot work for that many men the pilots will be kept busy at some other duty.
 The cleaning-up process is in fnn swing. The big scrap heap at Mt Hope is assuming such proportions that it is one of the sights of the Canal Zone. Rails from the construc- tion tracks are heinz torn up and dumped there. while the old railroad ties are being stacked up and burned. Scows, barges and machinery no lonper needed are being renewed anI the canal in many places has every appearance of being completed.
 The points of greatest activity are now at the Cucaracha slide in Culebre cut and at the site of the permanent town of Balboa on the Pacific end of the canal. The dredges are gain. ing on the slide and it is believed the angle of rest will soon be reached At Balboa most of the new houses l for the permanent force will be ready by the first of April. A few of them are already finished and occupied.
 Col. Charles F. Mason. superintend- ent of Ancon Hospital, has come to 1 be regarded as the best informed man ! in the Canal Zone on the subject cf natural history. For several months ! past Dr. Mason has been classifying ' the native woods and he is making ' collection of several hundred spec imens. He also has large collection of the native Philippine words which he made during his long residence in the Islands.
 1 Col. Goethals recently became a victim of his own orders. As presi dent of the Panama railroad company he ruled that no canal worker. no mat ter how high his rank. should ride free on the observation cars. For the first time the colonel himself took 2 seat in one of the observation cars the other day. The negro porter fol lowed orders and made the colonel pay his fare.