Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-26

completed and many employees nave been dismissed. It has been the most gigantic effort ever undertaken by the hand of man. The excavation taken out of the canal. said MT. Brown, put into entertainment and fill and carried into the sea would cover my 100-acre farm most 2,0O0 feet deep. Concrete used would cover 30 feet. The canal zone needs a permanent operating force of 5000 men or more. It needs 10, 900 soldiers. A new city is building at the Pacific entrance near the city of Balboa, after the Spanish discovered
 The immense piers, drydocks. dwell ings, electrical and machinery halls are like a worlds fair structure, for every need and supply of the worlds com merce eventually.
 Not a Simple Ditch. The canal is not. as often popularly supposed. a canal or ditch simply. It is not ditch at all. as they conceive it, except eight miles in the Culebra cut, and that is really an arm of the great interior lake FiguraGvely speak ing, the oceans are united, but their waters will never blend. Vessels sail Jwo-thirds the way across on fresh water-32 miIes-S5 feet high a0ove the sea level.
 Fresh Water Lake. This fresh water is an artificial lake
 
 large interior tract of lowland jungle. Il will drain 1,200 square miles and the water will cover 164 square miles It IS practically a high water level bridge g miles across and seven miles sea level at each end, with three rises or locks g I-2 feet each to top, S5 feet. These vast systems of locks, all light ed. moved and controlled by electricity, is the eighth wonder and admiration of the world. Every locking of a vessel Nea1l vol system will enable one man to overlook 4.0O0 feet of locks. With one turn of the lever he can move TOO ton gates in two minutes.
 In Mir. Browns visits he has seen the canal both before and after compile ton. He has seen the 10000 men at work in the spectacular work of the eight mile cut, the drilling. blasting, loading, carrying, dumping, all thls Titanic work which seemed over Wheiming, spelDlnding. Now In lsl9 all is finished and quiet, a serene and completed task. 9 finished work prac- tically
 Said Mir. Brown: Though I had walked over it, into and around it. had not seen the canal until I sailed through it on our ship Panama of the Panama Railroad and Steamship com pany.
 When had crossed had sailed 5000 miles on that beautiful trip in nine HOurS around cape 1OTn IOnI T A1dEAdL to Colon, or what was practically its equivalent, 90 miles. Panama to Colon.
 In the Old Days. The Mauritania or Vsterland former ly would sail 5000 miles, sail IT days, use r ,000 tons of coal, to get 47 miles in 10 hours. Many vessels are now passing to and fro through the canal, slowly.
 The canal is not t-alune of interest on the isthmus: there is a world of beau ty in Panama
 In transit, you first sail in the beau tiful harbor of Colon on the Atlantic side, up the sea level seven miles to Gatun dam and locks, then three locks lift you up to the top of & great inland lake, then on 24 miles through s para disc of islands and Vernal beauty. a tropical sea garden, green wooded hills and vistas at every turn. Then on through the deep canyon Of Cuiebra cut eight miles The viRw is charming and transcendant, it is a memorable trip.
 Wonderful Electricity.
 Again, if you wish to see the canal, go visit it by the electric blaze or the pale moonlight