The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02

opened up it's two great swinging
doors" We steamed in and behind
us the doors" were closed. We were
imprisoned in a deep chamber, the
walls Of which reached over the mast
top of Karl Marx" Suddenly the
water began to bubble and surge at
the next gate. At an unusual speed
Karl Marx" was lifted up until the
water stood only a couple Of hand
lengths from the edge of the quarry
We had now taken the first step up
the Povenets Staircase" from the top
of which we had a wonderful view
over the new port Of Povenets.
A Lamp and a Telegraph Wire
At the second sluice we met with a
little accident. The captain, before
all the overwhelming festivities, the
many greetings, the masses Of con-
struction workers crowding on the
piers, music, songs, huraas-had for
gotten to hoist down the mast. Across
the canal are strung telephone wires
and the mast got caught in these.
1t was bent like a bow, couple OF
wires were torn off, but the topmast
held,
The captain ordered the engines to
back, but for a few minutes it con-
tinued to move forward. In tug
of-war fashion there was a pulling
and straining between the telegraph
wires and the metal encasement OF
the lantern, The mast, bent like a
bow was Victorious-bu the top lam
tern was ripped from the mast and
thrown couple Of hundred meters
astern fell with bang against the
pier and sank. The mast was hoisted
down. At once workers climbed up
the telegraph poles and repairs were
began. We continued from chamber
to chamber, from sluice to sluiee,
higher and higher up the water
| steps" of PovenetS.
| Night Becomes Day
Our top lantern was ripped OF. How
should we get along during the night?
l looked at my watch. 1t was al
ready 10 o'clock in the evening,
thought it was about or q The
sun was up and shone warmly.
was in the north, not in Moscow. The
photographers worked until IL mid
| night. The sun was away hardly two
hours, and during this time we had
both morning and evening glow in
the sky. On our canal tour we did
not know the difference between night
and day, once we even ate supper
at 4 o'clock in the morning.
When we were finally lifted up into
the fourth sluice, we saw sight that
none of us will soon forget. In COM
parison Switzerland pales, so does
Crimea, the Caucasus, the most beau
tiful places 1 have seen. A sunny
summer night, = marvellous colorlng
over the magnificent stretches, that
mile after mile extended in every
, direction.
Below us Lake Omega, with its ar
! chepelago, glittering like silver RIB
bons, as they fade away afar off at
the horizon. To the West, Bear Hills,
grandiose. forest clad hills, rolling up
ward. downward, far off in an end
less chain. In the east, hills, forests
, and forests and forests. 1t was Can
S ada's greatness and beauty and bal
] ance.
: 1 thought we have already seen the
| loyeliest. but little by little we ap-
: preached the fifth sluice: greater
. mightier more majestic yet! In COM
= parison the beauty of our Southland
!, sank to smaller, timer dimensions
c the eye of a tourist cannot behold
e anything mightier than this North
land has to offer in untouched wild
4 ness and power, sky and forest ano
:, sea, with opaque distances burning II
. silver and crimson and finally sink
: ing deep into the violet Of the distant
forests.
n Beautiful Construction
: How finely constructed the cana
It wasl
?. 1t was made with such precision
e the architecture Of the cleanest, sim
S plest lines on sluice gates and piers
v in American style, but simpler. TIT
v wooden construction work OF tn
V sluice gates and the walls OF tn
It sluices resembled the work Of mould
: ers. The whole canal is built of stone
n timber and cement. The sluices ar
t, mainly Of wood. Not size piec'
a is imported, even the iron frames 10
the sluice gates are Of Soviet make
being made at the Omega Iron Work
e of Petrosavodsk.
ITO be continued