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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-05-13

towcd into inc lock and the gate closed
behind it. The water is then let in
lifting the vessel to the level of the
lock above.
Gate Machinery.
The machine used for opening and
closing the gates is a simple and pow
erful machine. 1t is the invention Of
one Of the mechanical engineers in the
employ of the commission, who de-
scribes 1t in the following manner:
1T consists essentially of n crank
gear to which is fastened one end Of
a strut or connecting rod, the other
end of which is fastened TO a lock gate.
The wheel moves through an arc of
1917 degrees, closes or opens the gate
leaf. according to the direction in
which it is turned. One operation
takes two minutes. The crank gear is
a combination of gear and crank. is
constructed of cast steel, is 10 feet, .
Inches in diameter, and weighs ap-
proXimately $4,000 pounds. 1t is
mounted in a horizontal position on
the lock wall, turns on large center
pin and is supported at the rim in four
places by rollers. The center pin is
keyed into a heavy casting anchored
securely to the concrete. The crank
gear has gear teeth on it's rim and is
driven through n train of gears and
pinions by an electric motor in a con-
tiguous room. The motor is remotely
controlled by an operator who is sta
toned at a center control house near
the lower end of the upper locks. A
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$500 to $4,000 candle power, the most
powerful being those marking the sea
channels at the Atlantic and Pacific
entrances. which are visible at least
twelve miles.
AS vessels may pass through the
locks in the night a peculiar kind of
illumination has to be used about the
locks. The glaring brilliant unshaded
light would blind the vision of the
pilot and be almost as bad as no light
ing at all. After many tests OF lamps
large Tungstin bulbs 600 Waltz were
selected. These are placed inside
concrete hood which serves both as
shade and reflector. Clustered under
the concrete hood the lamps are sus-
pended from brackets which are
placed near the tops Of heavy con-
crete columns twelve sided and tap
ering from three and one half feet at
the base to one foot at the top. Their
total height being about thirty-four
feet including the two foot concrete
ball at the top. They are so arranged
that on moonlight nights they will
burn with only half their power.
Electric Driven Tools.
All the machinery at the big ma
chine shops will be operated by cleo
tricity and the oil pumps will have
this same motive power. Many OF the
levers used in the repair shops will
be driven by individual motors. Every
conceivable kind Of work is being done
in these shops ranging from the hand
ling Of a most delicate watch spring
10 tho overhaulng Of locomotive
Two powerful floating cranes made
in Germany" are to be used for Canal
requirements and general wrecking
purposes. They each have a capacity
of $50 tons.
Barges. lighters and harbor tugs
will always be on hand when needed.
tender for passengers and mail Is
also contemplated. Big dry docks are
in the course Of construction, the main
one being large enough to accommo-
date any vessel which can pass
through the locks. Wharves and store
houses with all the necessary equip
ment for handling freight are already
in working order. Everything has
been done on large scale and ships
can he handled without loss of time.
Nowhere else does one find such gil
gantic machinery yet so perfectly ar
ranged that accidents are practically
impossible. Safety" is written all
over the mechanics of the Canal
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vice Is the huge chains which stretch
across the locks. They are placed
there for the purpose of preventing
vessel which might enter the locks too
rapidly from tanning the gates. The
chain weighs 24.09S pounds and is cap
able of stopping a 10000 ton ship
while it is moving at the rate of four
miles per hour. The chain Is operated
by hydraulic machinery in the walls
and plays out slowly by automatic re-
lease until the vessel is brought to a
stop. When ship Is ready to enter
the locks and has come to a stop, the
chain IS dropped into its groove in
the bottom OF the Canal. In case the
chain, the first gate might be damned,
but this would not affect the lock as
the first gate is merely a safety device.
Electric Mules"
When all Is ready for passage, the
electric towing locomotives. known as
electric mules" are attached to the
ship; two in front, one on each wall
to pull the vessel, and two astern to
keep it in a central position and to
bring it to rest in the lock chamber.
The powerful machines are equipped
with a slip drum towing windlass and
hawscr which permits the towing line
to be paid out or taken in without
actual motion of the locomotive on
the track. The mules" when towing
operate over center cogs and climb
from lock to lock on rack rails. When
the gates swing open the vessel is
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simple pull of small switch is suf-
ncient to either close or open a 1870
ton gate, the operation being perfectly
automatic"
A strut anchor connects this with
the lock gate at the top. The great
gates weighing from $50 to 100 tons
are opened and closed with as much
ease as the opening and shutting of
an ordinary gate or door.
Another safety device is what is
known as an emergency dam. 1t
looks like a big cantilever bridge and
is so placed that it can be swung
across the lock entrance in a few min
utes. This would only be used in case
the chains should break and the out
side gates fail to hold. From this
will be seen that safety first" has not
been neglected along the Canal.
Hydro Electric Station.
All the workings Of the locks will
be manipulated by electricity, the cur
rent for all being generated at the
hydro electric station at Gatun Spill
way. The gate control house at the
spillway, the four substatons Of the
transmission system at Gatun. Mira
flores, Cristobal and Balboa and the
three-lock control houses comprise the
prin cipal buildings connected with the
actual operation of the canal. The big
station at Gatun Spillway shelters the
turbines which will generate the power
for the operation Of the machinery al
the locks. machine shops. dry docks
pulnping plants and coal handling sta
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Of this board, the man throws the
switches, and In response to his action
II has been 30 arranged that he sees
the fender chains rise and fall upon
the models before him, the gates open
and close and the water rise or fall
Just as he may desire. He knows the
exact position of the ship as 1t climbs
the stairway in It's trip from the At
lantic to the Pacific.
A system of interlocked levers Will
prevent him from doing the wrong
thing In handling his levers. This Is
arranged in such a way that certain
levers will not work except in connec-
ton with others and they must be
pulled in rotation. This makes it next
to impossible to err but in case some
thing should go wrong near by
switch will cut off the power entirely.
During the passing of n ship through
the Canal it will be necessary to lower
and raise twelve fender chains and to
shut and open dozens of valves weigh
ing several tons. Twenty-three lock
gates must be opened and closed, an
aggregate weight of more than $4,000
tons.
one man IN Il DullulllC vi lIlt w
Of the center wall of the locks directs
and controls the operation in the pass
age Of a ship except the movements
of the towing locomotives. He sets
in motion no less than eightY-two mo-
tors at Gatun alone twice during tho
lockage of ship. Yet so completely
has the system been worked out and
each movement is so perfectly dove
tailed into the other that an accident
seems well-nigh impossible.
Lighting.
The lighting of the Canal IS an
! important item and this like every
thing else is on a gigantic scale.
Electricity from the Gatun Spillway
Hydro electric Station lights up every
part of the Canal where electricity can
be used but in towers and beacons in
! inaccessible places compressed acety-
lene, dissolved in acetone, is used
| White lights are used throughout and
in order that there may be no con-
fusion of lights with one another and
with the lights on shore. the beacons
buoys and range lights will have indi-
vidual chara cteristics by certain kinds
! of combinations of flashes with dark
intervals.
The range lights vary according tc
the length of the range. from about
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tons. In addition it will furnish light
for the Canal and the Zone Towns and
if desirable the power for the electr-
fication of the Panama railroad. The
building on the inside has four prin
cipal elevations. pit for the three
$500 X. V. A. turbines, main floor
and two galleries. The turbine pit is
about six feet below the level of the
main floor and is reached by an iron
stairway. Everything around the ma
chinery must be kept clean. so enamel
ed bricks are used and the least dirt
is soon shown and will be removed.
The main floor is devoted to the cleo
trical equipment. The hydro electric
station receives its energy from the
water taken from Gatun Lake and dis
charged into the lower spillway chan
mel and has a power Of 5000 kilowatts
The substations are almost as interest
ing as the parent station with their
mysterious looking buttons and levers.
Here again we find the safety first as
there is a steam plant at the Mira
flores Station which can be used In
| the event of a failure of the hydro
electric station.
Lock Control Board.
| These great electric houses contain
the very latest and best electrical in
struments so far devised by man and
are controlled by expert electricians.
At each Of the locks n man has before
| him on n table a control board about
sixty four feet long and five and one
| third feet wide. Standing in front
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tables are on sale as well. The China
man is especially fond of cucumbers
and white radishes. and these seem to
predominant at the green grocers
Sticks of green sugLr cane are sold
TO the children Just as stick of
licorlce root used to be a favorite
"chew" for the American school chill
dren.
Best Time To See Town.
Night is the best time to visit the
town for then the streets are unusually
crowded and the lights from the Ian
terms hung from the balconies add a
weirdness to the Oriental scene. There
is the sQueaking of the Chinese violin
and the sound of the high pitched
voices of children singing, and one has
an Irresistible desire to follow the
sound and find out what is behind
these doors. The guides who take
parties through the town at night are
sure to crafty this desire for they
always take the visitor down a pair
Of steep steps into a basement where
Chinatown's most famous musician
gives concerts nightly, The old China
man plays IA number of queer instru-
ments and his music is delightful,
The joss house, too, is at its best
at night. The houses of worship have
no external beauty. but once inside
ono revels in gorgeous carvings. brass
bowls, splendid embroidered altar
cloths and paraphernalia which makes
1t Q place OF wonder.
Theatre Unique.
The theatre is unique as all the
characters are taken by men and their
attempt to impersonate women Is a
perfect burlesque although they con-
slider it serious work. There is no
scenery. A table Will serve for n
mountain and a piece - wood for a
forest. All plays have ,auA character
who must ride horsebsAN ana he usu-
ally comes in astrido = broomstick.
Frequently one of ~ 06)fS is beheadod
laftar which he ND and solemnly
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walks off the stage. The play some-
times continues for days and even
weeks. The music which continues
from the beginning to the end OF tho
show is a clatter of brass and clang-
ing anvils, accompanied by a squeaky
violin.
American Women Interesting.
No write-up of Chinatown. either
the old or the new, would be complete
without the mention of Mrs. Wong Sun
Yue Clemens. the American woman
who married a Chnaman several years
ago while she was doing missionary
work in the old Chinatown. The writer
met this lady a few days after the
earthquake and fire Of 1906. She was
a fair haired, we'll educated woman OF
refined tastes and sister of katherine
Clemens who was at one time the wife
Of Howard Gould. She did excellent
work during those dark days, for had
it not been for her good offices many
of the Chinese would have starved to
death. They have a remarkable coll
lection of relies Of the San Fran.
ciso fire. The collection, many of them
freaks of the fire, forms an interesting
study OF the erect OF the various Oe-
grees of heat on different objects
one of them is a milk bottle-the one
delivered at tho door on the morning
of the fire. 1t sat on the doorstep
filled with milk and became prey
to the flames. Somehow the milk and
glass mixed during the great heat and
it came out of the fire perfect speci.
men of Tiffany glass.
The new Chinatown, built at the
cost of millions of dollars, is practically
complete. The structures while erected
on modern American plans still pre-.
serve all the features of Chinese archi-
ture in their queer shaped roofs, balus-
trades and lantern lined balconies.
The underground passages and the
opium dens of the old town seem to
have vanished. OF course, gambling
goes on to certain extent, but the
sitting subterranean dens of the old
town have not been rebuilt. The white
slave traffic which used to flourish
there has been weeded out. 1t Is a
cleaner. better Chinatown and Is the
most fascinating section of cosmopoli-
tan San Francisco, for it Is like a bit
of far away China transplanted upon
American SOIL
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With Its Oriental Architecture and Coloring It Forms the
Most Interesting Section the City of the Golden Gate

of yellow paper covered with Chinese
letters resembling a huge laundry tic
ket. The Chinese are deeply interested
in the European war situation. and al
most any time during the day groups
of them can be seen gazing In silence ut
the long yellow papers which futter
in the breeze outside the quaint look
ing newspaper Offices.
Street Scenes Interesting.
II is not the business OF Chinatown,
however. which attracts the visitor
1t is the Chinese themselves. The
writer has sat for hours at the win
dow Of ono of the quaint tea houses
of the town and watched the endless
throng off celestials with never end
ing delight. The women and children
are, as usual. the most interesting,
Few Of them have adopted American
clothes and with their loose black
pantaloons showing below the shiny
black gown, the effect Is rather start
ling at first but one soon becomes used
to the garb. The Chinese matron Is
usually a roly-poly sort of person who
wears her shiny black hair brushed
back over the tops of her ears and
neatly rolled up in knot at the back
Of her head and fastened with gold
pin or Jade ornament. Great pendant
swing back and forth In her
ears as she steps along on her high
rocker shoes. Her face Is serious as
she picks her way through the crowd,
and her pantaloons swish together.
Finally. she darts into a narrow street
and disappears.
The children. many of whom look
as If they belong to the colored picture
books Of the days of Aladdin. play In
the streets just like little Americans
and learn slang and bad words" with
the same alacrity as do our street
urchins. Many Of them are gorge Gus
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little creatures with their yellow silk
Jackets fastened across the breast with
silk loops and their lavendar panta-
looms tightly bound around the ankles.
Sometimes one sees several Of these
little Acknowledged creatures toddling
along after their Mothers perfect
picture of unconscious contentment.
The little girls. too, with their funny
broad fiat noses and narrow eyes run
about the streets and talk in queer
little piping tones. They are dressed
like their mothers except their clothes
are of gay colors and they wear silver
bracelets on their ankles. The men,
too, lend a picturesque touch to the
scene so uncommon to the average
American. They are CARRIED accord
Ing to the nature of their business.
For instance, man wearing dark
trousers. blouse and thick soled felt
shoes wends his way through the
crowd with a big wooden tray filled
with boxes balanced on his head, while
behind him walks little withered
man with thin lips and sharp cheek
bones and prominent ears. He wears
"a little black skull cap with n little
red pon-pon on the top. His long
coat Is lined with lavender silk and
white silk stockings and low shoes
show from beneath the black silk
trousers. He is one Of the well-to-
do residents. All about him arc coolies
carrying huge baskets of vegeta bles
uncommon TO American eyes. Their
coarse clothes and bare feet in straw
sandals are contrast in clothes as
we'll as in features. for the coolies
have dun. stupid faces.
Intermipgled with these are the
tourists who come up "to do the
town." and when one of them opens
IA camera the women and children dis
appear as IL by magic, for the Celestial
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tempt the taste Of the American.
Tea Houses Delightful.

The tea houses, however. are de-
lightful in their wealth of carved teak
wood and their odor of incense. There
one revels over real tea. rice cakes,
preserved kumquats, ginger. candied
cocoanut strips. lichi nuts and all sorts
of Chinese sweets. Coming out Of
these places the visitor is sure to en-
counter the sidewalk shoe cobbler who
sits on a little bench on the sidewalk
and mends shoes while you wait. The
Chinese letter writer. too. plies his
trade on the sidewalk and writes let
ters of all kinds for mere song. He
is Chinese institution and exists
wherever Chinese reside.
Across the street is fat Chinaman
trying to sell another Celestial a string
of dried shrimps and the two seem to
be haggling over the price. A closer
examination Of the store shows strings
Of notified brown and white sausages,
glazed roast duck, cakes of bean cheese
and meats prepared in ways uncom-
mon in America All sorts at vexs-
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has a positive fear of the camera.
big Bazaars

The big bazaars have marvellous dis
plays of bric-a- brac. silks, embroid-
cries antique lanterns, lacquer ware.
carved worries, sandal wood fans
China ware of the most exquisite work.
manship, camphor wood chests, Cloi-
some, Satsuma, Canton ware, XII
monas and Mandarin coats which send
the female shoppers into ecstacies.
The drug stores are sure to attract
attention for they display such ar
ticles as sharks eggs, dried toads,
sliced deer horns and other uncanny
remedies for diseases and the casting
out of evil spirits-more. perhaps, for
the benefit of the tourist than for
medicinal purposes, for Chinatown has
some really excellent medical men who
use the same remedies az the Amer
lean physician even If they do dis
play the Chinese panacea for all ills
At one shop pills are advertised to
cure the opium habit or course, one
finds the Chinese restaurant with it's
chop suey, yellow cakes and noodles
made Of ingredients which do not
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cTT EHIN the disaster of 1906
n swept over the City of the
AN Golden Gate 1t wiped out
WV Chinatown so completely that
many people declared this bit of the
Orient was gone forever. These proph-
cts were from the East. for the native
OF San Francisco will never acknowl-
edge himself beaten no matter how
great the calamity. Nor was he beat
en- in this instance. for Chinatown was
rebuilt On the same spot and on a
mucIl grander scale, yet without losing
any of the exotic coloring for which
| the old town was so noted. Always
mysterious, with its weird sounds com
ling from behind closed DOORS 1t pos
sesses a charm for the tourist not to
be found elsewhere in this country
There is an ineXplicable fascination
about this odd corner Of the California
metropolis where several thousand
Chinese live just as they did in far
away Canton or Shanghai.
Banks, Telephone Exchanges and
Stores.
They have their own banks which
have connections with tho banks in
China, and the reports of these insti-
| tutioIlS SNOW tleill 10 ne III excellent
financial condition. Their telephone
exchange Is one of the most artistic
buildings in San Francisco. 1t is typi-
cally Cantonese both in structure and
workings for the switchboards are OPP
Grated exclusively by Chinese girls
who speak English as huently as they
do their own language. About ten
pages Of the San Francisco telephone
book is given over to the Chinatown
Exchange, the names and addresses
bong printed in Chinese characters
Four Chinese newspapers are print
Cd in the town, and they put out bull
letins several times day--queer strips