The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-06-30
SLIDE IN PANAMA
CANAL IS COSTLY
Cost To Government Nearly Four
Million Dollars - Honolu-
Ian Through Ten Times

The slide in tho Culcbra cut in the
Panama Canal cost the government
more than $4.OOO.OOO The cost Of ex.
caVatiOn, plus the regular cost of oper-
alton and maintenance, WAS 1894 ,3g3 n
month, and the canal was closed six
months and twenty seven DAYS. The
canal was just beginning 10 pay its
monthly expenses when the slide came.
In July the tolls exceeded the expenses
kll7,57O. During the six months. from
October ! to April l. while the excava.
ting was being done; there was taken
in in tolls $l2,733, in March, when the
| dredging had been sufficient to allow
few small boats to pass.
Expenses For Six Months
The expenses while the dredging was
going on follow: October, &546.7G0;
November, $Gd2 a45; December, $780,
254; January, 595.7l3: February, 5000.
254; March, $500. ABS The total for
the six months. from October ! 70 April
/, was $35G6,36l. To this is TO be add.
| ed the work done in the twelve DAYS
| Of September, and the fifteen days in
April, when the canal was again open
| cd. The loss in the account for the
fiscal year, ending April |. amounted
to $3,64S,Sl2. The loss the year preyi.
GUS was $l79.S96.
Acajutla In Lead
Since the opening of the Canal to
commercial traffic August Is, 1914, many
ships have made repeated passages
through it, principally in the mainten.
ance Of regular services. or lines. To
May 81, 1916. the number Of ships
which have pass"d through the Cana,
| rs many ms ten times is eighteen, saws
the Canal R"cord. The following il an
alphabetical list of them, with the nun.
Der Of transits, and the services in
| which they have been operating. ~ . 80.
AeRjutla 10 times salvador Railway
Co. and Pacific Steam Navigation Co.
Advance. 90 times. Panama Railroad
Line. Allianen 1S times, Panama Rail.
road Line. Carolyn, II times, Lucken-
bach Line. Colon. " times, Panama
Railroad Line. Guatemala, l9 times,
Pacific Steam Navigation Co! Harry
Luckenbach, 10 times, Luckehbach
| Line. Hon olulan. 10 times. American
| Hawaiian line. Jamaica, SO times, Pa
cifc Steam Navigation Co. Iimari, 10
times. South American Steamship Co.
Manavi, IL times. Pacific Steam Nayi-
ShtloH 70. Iulenh, 10 times, south
American Steamship Co. Panama, u
times, Panama Railroad Line. Peru, IL
times, Pacific Steam Navigation Co.
Salvador, 10 times, Salvador Railway
Co. and Pacific Steam Navigation Co.
Santa Catalina. 10 times. w. r. Grace
4 Co. Santa Clara, IL times, w. r.
Grace q Co. s. V. Luckenbach, 10
! times, Luckenbach Liney IT,
/ Are Complete Transits e..
The above are complete transits In
addition, some Of the ships entered the
canal at the time traffic was cut OF
by the slides, in September. 1915, but
withdrew from the canal after making
only part of the trip.
The ships which have been through
the canal most frequently were en-.
gagged on relatively short runs. between
the Atlantic terminus and the West
Coast Of Central American or north.
ern South America, for instance, or be-
tween the Pacific terminus and New
York, as in the case of the Panama
Railroad ships. On the longer voyages,
rs between San Francisco and New
York, none of the ships had made over
eleven tranSits, aud for ships plying to
Austrelia and New Zealand or the Far
East the highest number of passages is
vel below ten.