Document 6456901
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Document 6456901
1 he Madrid Heraid Page 6 The Americans In Panama French and kept by the Americana since their occupation show that thisriver discharges enough water to fill the proposed Gatun lake one and onehalf times. It is not expected that any lack of water for the lock type canal ever will be experienced. INCORPORATED ISBS Except for the beaten paths and cleared spaces constantly maintained the Jungle ts king In Panama. One Capital & Reserve $8,800,000 PuMldied by th« Statler Publishing company, season's growth will cover an abandoned clearing with the luxuriantl Bl Fifth avenue, New York city. 86 Branches in Canada By WILLIAM R SCOTT tropical vegetation. When the AmeriCopyright, 1912 and 1913, by William R. Scott. General Banking- Business Transacted. cans entered the canal zone most of the EVench machinery and even wholetowns were covered by the jungle. CIRCULAR LETTERS OF CREDIT There are the usual troplqu.1 fruits, TRAVELERS CHEQUES • Issued GATUN LAKE 3 2 Mil bananas, cocoanuts, alligator pears, BANK MONEY ORDERS 8 5 FEET A90VE SEA LEVEL euuiiw cur ' papayas, mangoes and other less well known varieties. The vegetatioa inc {WAKE 1'/I MILES cludes the royal polnciana. palm and I other stately trees. The rare orchid F PEDRO MIGUEL Is at home on the isthmus, about sevU)CKS 3EA LEVEL CHAHNEU enty-five varieties being found, a dozen O\ SEA LEVEU CHAN NO. 7 MILES 7 MILE3 of which are of the most beautiful at all Branches. interest allowed at 3 percent, from date MtRAFLORES « »ex w l 0 « 600 FEET WIDE GATUN kinds. A dry season of four months of deposit, compounded half yeany. LOCKS PROFILE MAP OP THE PANAMA CANAL. LOCKS does not pnrch the growth, but the Accounts may V>n k«pt in tlif name of twn persons, in case of death of rainy season gives it the most brilliant (Continued from last week) afford the descent to the ocean. either of them, the survivor can draw it without delay or coata green coloring. The area to be excavated in this lake Minister Concha drew up a treaty, Business may be transacted by mail channel, .thirty-two miles long, was None of the big animal life of Africa which wns presented as a memoranfrom Gatun to Obispo, following the Is found anywhere in South America, dum to Secretary Hay on April IS, Chagres river in general and requiring and Panama has even less dangerous 1002. This treaty, as well as the Heronly about 12.000.000 cubic yards to be species than the mainland. The taran treaty that succeeded At had a removed in twenty-three miles. Then rantula, coral snake, tiger cats, deer number of impossible provisions, viewW. WALLACE, Manager. the mountains began, forty-five feet nnd other larger though not so daned in the light of our canal experience. above sea level; and reached their gerous animals are found, and alligaIt authorized the French company to highest point, in the center line of the tors abound In the rivers and bays a s sell its property to the United States well as sharks. The insect life Is wonand authorized the United States to canal, at Gold hill. 312 feet above sea derfully varied, the birds are in infinite build, operate and protect the canal, level, thence sloping toward the Pa- variety and most beautiful, while wild the concession to run for 100 years and cific to the proposed lock site at Pedro flowers of dazzling colors are in probe renewable at the discretion of the Mignel. a distance of nine miles. The fusion. The canal zone, where occuUnited States. The canal was to be average depth of the cut would be 120 pied in the canal operations, long since finished fourteen years after the adopfeet throughout the nine miles, and the was freed of dangerous animal life. tion of the treaty, with a possible exdeepest point of excavation at Gold hill Nothing more acceptable can be offered than tension of twelve years, everything to Distinct but inconsequential earthwould require going down 272 feet attractive silverware, combining good taste with a revert to Colombia if the canal was not quake shocks have been felt In PanaThe Culebra cut, as this channel quality of endurance which assures lifelong service. begun within five years and completed ma for centuries. The San Francisco through the mountains was called, was earthquake in 1906 was not recorded within twenty-five years. Colombia Such characteristics make to be 200 feet wide. In 1880 the was to receive $7.OU0,000 in cash. on the canal zone seismograph. In the French had begun work there, and seventeenth century a violent shock ocColombia sent a new minister, Thomthey removed 18.646,000 cubic yards curred, but none in the eighteenth and as Herran. In 1903. who negotiated a that were useful to the Americans. nineteenth centuries, nor has any been treaty along tbe same lines, except Their machinery was used the first recorded in the twentieth century, althat Colombia was to receive $U>.000,000 Instead of $7,000,000 for tho canal First Range Light at Pacific Entrance year of our occupation. though In Costa Rica, the republic adware most desirable for gifts. To-day this renowned At Gatun, on the Atlantic side of the joining Panama, a severe shock in zone. Had the treaty been adopted it to the Canal. trade mark assures the purchaser not only of securing proposed lake, there would be locks to 1910 caused a considerable loss of life Is n safe conclusion to draw that inthe original brand of Rogers, but the heaviest grade terminable and exasperating friction gress") originates "m fnfe r>an THa's moun- lift ships to the lake, and at Pedro and property. So far as past performplate guaranteed by the makers to give absolute would have developed between the two tains and drains a basin of 1,320Miguel and La Boca, on the Pacific ances can Indicate, the canal should satisfaction. countries. Only an extended visit to square miles. After running parallel side, the locks would lower the ships not suffer from earthquakes. the isthmus can give an adequate idea with the coast line nearly midway be- to sea level again. The remarkable durability of 1847 ROGERS BROS. The Atlantic and Pacific oceans are of how essential It has been to the tween the oceans it turns sharply at The Americans came to the canal Silver has won it the popular title United States to have absolutely a freo right angles and empties into the Car-'zone in 1904 with tbe question of the on the same level, but the tide on the Pacific side has a maximum lift of "Silver Plate that Wears" ibbean sea a few miles west of Co-' hand in the canal zone. kind of canal to be built unsettled. feet, while on the Atlantic Knives, forks, jpcons and fancy serving pieces may President Jose II. Marroquin of Co- Ion. The point where the Chagres They were to be there more than two twenty-one side the maximum lift is only two and be procured in numerous designs, come fancy, some makes this turn is within the canal lombia in this year, 1002. asked tho years before the violently discussed is- one-half feet. Allowance for this vaBmplc and chaste. zone and about thirty miles from the United States to maintain uninterruptsue was to be settled. Meanwhile, was made by providing a deepSold by leading dealers everywhere. Send ed passage over the Panama railroad Caribbean, running through the canal however, it was recognized that there riation lor catalogue "C[.," showing all patterns. er channel for the canal on the Pacific during a serious revolution in the prov- zone for that distance- From the Car-'was a vast amount of pioneer and side, so that the passage of ships will INTERNATIONAL SILVER CO. ince and promised in return to give ibbean sea to Bohio, about seventeen preparatory work to be accomplished not be Successor to Meriden Britannia Co. affected by the tides. The shape miles, tho bed of the river Is only tbe United States a treaty for a canal that would absorb the activities of the MERSDEN, CONN. of the bay of Panama causes the high slightly above sea level, and from Bo-i zone. As a result of American interorganization pending the solution of tide on the Pacific side. hio to about the entrance of the Culevention and good offices peace wa$ this problem. patched up between the insurgents bra cut it rises to forty-eight feet What kind of country as to tem- As there is not a favorable geographiand Colombia on Nov. 21. 1002. Weabove sea level. perature, rainfall, vegetable and ani-cal arrangement at either end of the had performed our part of tho agreeEngineers were divided on the utility mal life and healthfulness had we se-' canal in the way of harbors the dement and now looked to Columbia to of this natural geographical situation. ] cured? As to the first characteristic, fects have been supplied by breakwaperform her part. Those who favored the lock type canal Panama Is only nine degrees from the ters. At the Atlantic entrance a breakPresident Miirroqnln wns In good believed that tbo Cbagres river could equator. But it is far from being as water more than two miles long runs faith, b u t factional fighting in t h e con- be dammed up so as to form the longest hot as that proximity might suggest from Toro point to shield ships lying gress nf rVilniiiliiii. with l''s enemies in part of the canal and thus save a vast Throughout the year the temperature In the entrance from the violent norththf* ascendancy, shower] thi* phuDfvs uf amount of excavation that would be averages about 85 degrees. The high- ers that occasionally sweep the coast required In a sea level type. While est recorded temperature in the canal Another breakwater a half mile long a treaty to bi* dubious Always Loaded. On Aug. 12, 1d'">3. thi* spnntf* of Co- not denying the saving in excavation zone is only 97 degrees. At night the running out from the Colon water front Apropos of a septuagenarian mil- Irimbia killed thi- tn—TV after t h e hmi^e in a lock type, the engineers who fa-atmosphere falls sharply until, usual- will protect shipping in that harbor lionaire win? harl married, at Atlantic had passed It P r u d e n t Miirrmjuin vored a sea level canal believed that ly, light covering is required on beds, from storms on the east At the PaCity, a buxom manicurist, a widow had exerted Mm""'?' to t h e utmost to the fixed limitations of the lock type and the hot, sweltering nights of Amer- cific entrance storms are not dangerwith frmr children, a noted divorce snve thi* treaty, il njlitlcss sensing the made it Inadvisable when the expan- ican cities in the summer are unknown. ous, but the currents deposited silt in lawyer wild: quality of thi* mun in t h e White Hmise, sion In the size of ships was consid- j The northern mind, too. considerably the channel in such quantities as to ' has overestimated the effects of themake a breakwater advisable, and this "I thonjtfit the old boy was only but t o m> avail. iinO imother w a y utit ered. one runs from the mainland to Naos flirting with her. I. guess be thought for the ennui project was already talcAt Gatun the natural formation of rainy season at Panama. During T&Ka ing form. so too." the mountains permitted the Chagres January, February^ March and April Island, three miles out in the bay, and One Then, with a smile, the attorney In tbe summer of 1903 Rome loading add<->]: Panama citizens conceived the idea of connects with the fortifications. I t Pain PHI, "LOCH rif people piny •with love as If a revolution from Colombia and the was built from material excavated in then— forming of an independent republic. It wasn't luniled."—Buffalo Express. the Culebra cut, whereas the Atlantic T&Ke it Tho revolution was Btorted on Nov. 3 breakwaters were built largely of rock In the city of Panama, and troops Kent quarried at Porto Bella The Cheerful Thinker. by Colombia to put down the rebellion Panama and Colon are cities of great I'ij ivV* tiJ J»M> ill'-' income) tajC. 7 were noj allowed to cross tbe isthmus T'Jl r-ay it with flellprht. Interest to tbe tourist The former has For Neuralfia, nothing ia I'd pile the htulT In precious stacks. by TAilted States marines. about 50,000 population and the latter better than I'd sit up Iini-f thu nljjht; On Nov. 6 President Roosevelt recog20,000. Panama is the capital of the I'd try u> bithe firet tn pay. Dr. Miles' nized tbe independence of Panama, I'd r»- It If I c u l d . republic and has a handsome national And tht-n I'd ^fj my chferful way— xrar] on Nov. 18 the new republic conAnti-Pain Pills theater and institute, a street car sysAt li-at-t I think I would. cluded a treaty with our government tem, and a number of old cathedrals Used by thousands granting ns a strip of territory teo Of course I'd w.-mt an Income big. ire interesting sights. The canal emfor a generation So I rnultl pay th'i more, ployees travel for half fare on tho Thosr who have "jffercd from Thf 1df'tpw down I hiui to 'Us miles wldo across the Isthmus as a carailroad and are often In evidence In Th' rli h ' r strf-MTj I'd rK:iur. m'UTulcic jirmib w J ri'it hr t o l d nal zone. The United States paid Panthe quaint little victoria carriages that If I had cuui.i'iris pllfd In racks, how ri'-. '--,' :<ry it i-, 1" secur? reama $10,000,000 in cash and, beginning With rnllllnriH tn tho ftriod, handle the street traffic at 10 cents a lief. 'J he ea«-.ic>t w;iy our of in 1S13, an annual rental of §250,000 1 How JuyouKly I'.] pay the tax— ride In the two cities. neuralgia i . t o U',' ]>r Mjlci' At least I think I would. for this territory. It was not until Anii-I'iiiji j ' t;-, 'j ],{y have re "What this nation will Insist upon is —Cli.vela.iid Plain Dealer. May 4, 1004. that the American flog lit-vcd .\ufiYn-rr. f> <r «.o many that results be achieved," wrote Preslwas raised over the canal zone. year?, lb;it Ui'-y have become '•> lont Roosevelt in his order creating Such Ingratitude! household n'-ct-*.ity. the first Isthmian canal commission Brlsors— So Mudso t; KettluK better? "I have tidi'-n l«r. Mller' Antl-Paln CHAPTER VI. that he appointed, on March 8, 1904. Braj;p+- Yes, IK* will soon bfl all right P t l l f t f u r Iiv> v i ' : :• » ,<i t i n y a n - t h e The Geography of Panama. md that remained the keynote of his o n l y IJ:lri>.* t h a i ' ( " I " H i ' :»'<>• K " " i l . now. But talking about sells, you r area the republic of Panama Is T h ' } ' J i » - , ' P I ' I ••••H r . i ' i i i l i ' i . I n n-iV attitude toward the canal. He anknow wv< had nearly ?100 raised to put l i m ' i l i i tlfti-i-ri m l i i . " • 1 l . i m <•!•••" ubout 32,000 square miles, slightnounced its full personnel as follows: up a iilfe ujimunieut for him, as no one t t i k ' - n t l u r u f ' i r t i n .ifimtlt rn. l i m l ly smaller than the state of InAdmiral John G. Walker, U. S. N., a o l i " , jmifiK Iri ilift t . r i i i i . ' , I •••fhrn l i ' \ thought he ''duid recover. And now 1 diana. On the Atlantic side it 1H e a r a c h ' n i n J j i n l m It; M e I">v.i;-4 vtul chairman; Major General George W. he form* round and wants to boiTow 870 mljes king and on the Pacific side ItojljfJ. I h l i v i ' f n u l i ' j ti-iU l t i | ; t n Da-via, TJ. S. A.; William Barclay Parit Ui help pity hi« doctor's bill. What 074 miles by tho coast line. Tbo popue«ual tbem and tru-y are all that lH sons, 'William H. Burr, Benjamin M. do you thluJt of tliat?—Stray Stories. olttlrnsd f'ir thr-m." lation, native and foreign, is 400.000. Hxirrod, Oarl Bwald Gninsky, Frank J. W. SBIXjB, Blun Bprlnr;B. Mo. VIEW 0E THE PANAMA 0AHAL. Our treaty with tho republic of Pan1. Heclcer. At all drug[jl«tb—2B donee 25 centg. Suocoss? ama ceded us a Btrfp of territory ten This commission held Its first meetNever uold In bulk. i Hn workod all iluy. miles wldo from deep water In tho AtAnd h<i worrU'd all ulgbt; MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. there 1« pruotlimTTy ho fulnTaTl. £f;v ing In Washington on March 22, when He iibattcrnd hlu n«rv««, lantic to deep water In tbo Pacific. Tho river to escape Into the Caribbean sea the tut of May light tshoweru occur preparations were made for a vkit to And 1M) ruliu>d hl« ulfcht: area of tho canal zono ifl 443 square through a gup less than two miles dally or e%ry few toys und through the iutbcius, which It reached on Ho nooldod his ehlldrnn, miles. White within the limits of the wid& Tbo lock type advocates yald June, with an occasional gusher. A.pril 6. After throe weeks of lnresAnd he rallod n.t his trite; canal zone, tho cities of Panama and this gap couid be filled In and do er/> From then on to December tho rains ttgailonu it decided that fiuch eaHo lout all hill frionda And bartered MB life Colon, at the toratlnala, remain under s t s a buiiin to bo filled by the stagnat- become moro frtxjneot und heavier and finooriag records as tbe French left You can buy old nmrnpupetv ten For a pile in tlio txuiic the eovtwelgDty oC tho republic of Pan- ed water ot the Chagres river. The have a xray of coming up about the satist be supplemented by fresh ex«all p«rpo»«« at Us per poturf »ftl»» And a swell block ai brlrft» ama. idea wo« to build a dam high enough oaroe time every day, sometime* In plorations und Borveya. that the sanitaAnd ho now muk&> hlo homo TBorald oMctt. Borne canfuKkm ts caused by tbo tnct to bock tho accumaluted rlvor water the afternoons, aometimos In tbo morn* tion of tho canal zone and the cittira of In a holo two by nil. OJ B that the tethrrran of Panama runa near- toward tho Pa-ffflc for a distance of inga. Construction operations have to Do!on and Panama was of tbe first imly east and west instead of north und thirty-two miles aad at an average be aaspeoded during the rlolent rainu. portance and that" a period of preparaBelief for the Kidneys. 8»ro*»tlo Doctor. south, oa might bo lmugined. at the depth in the canal channel of fortyOn tbo Atlantic side the rainfall av- tion sreuerally ranut precede effective MS", mai. 3. Calkini, 248 afoUto-n..., "too shouid novor take medldjie iu point wlwire tbe canul trarerses i t five foet throughout A not hoc dam erage* between 180 aad 140 inches an- .•ouomictlon operations. Surgeon ColoPanama city la almost duo uouth of would prerent the lake so f*rroed from aualJy, on the Pacific side from CO to nel W. C. Gorfirug accompanied the HOirtfocpcJ/Jonii^Bayi: "After having tlw> daric," said tho doctor. "Why not, door Buffalo and 1H noutbouHt of Colon, tho spllUnfl; down the Pacific 8toi>e. Thus •doetorod for more than a year with inchea. At time* It rains so furl* :onimlfwlor) oil this trip and made the bmtt1 physician* In Hartford aWi get- "Woll, It encourages tUo Sool Idllcr Atlantic tonnlnal. Tho canal route, all but ubout fifteen mileo <vf the canal 70 preliminary plans for cleaning up tho ting n o relief. I was advii»ed by a to neglect nla Job."—Kimsus City Jour- therefore, runs in a southeastern direc- would b» made by an Inland, urtlficiul ously that it appears to bo one contlnu- afchmiiB which, when worked out, »ms sheet of water falling. For one draargist in Floinville, Ct, t o try a nal. tion from the* Atlantic to the Pnflflc, lalce, 104 equnre miles ] n extent hour the record full in 0.80 Inches; for ivoro to make him famous, The comteottk* of I>f, David Kennedy's Favawl. to tho nHtoulxhtnent of the titurorite Rfifmir»d.y. I Was very nervoue one day, at Porto Bello, lO.Ofl incb.ee; uission returned to the Onttod States Unoo to (Lnughtor) ! lnt, Mn< unu rifles In tbe'Puel0e and Ht'ts Kind had a eotarplleatioo of rlin<*aepi3, Bill ov«n In h "Ifiils lypv lucre would in throe tuitiutos 2.40 Inchon full ut >n April 20. O f t e n w h o r i I ' V I I m-i-ti v r m r n l n t n d iri t h f Atliinti". •especially Kidney trouble. Jfltartpri hare to ho nil JmprwNlvf iimnunt of thrs same place, uud at Ptujumu ou At a mwtlua: hetwiiprj ropt'fwntaT h i m , I n liriii-l'i.f)!, f L i i u c h i i r J ton so Favorite Rrinpdy andrthr- fit-fit IVI urn jmt huJMInr nnr fnmil a t t h e oxfuvutUiu. Not only wmtid thf w»» May 12, 1012, 0 inr-liPB fell In two I n t'.'in'iTujiliy t l m t l i t r i i n i of the rfnllBtJ Htntm anil tho gave imo jyraat relief, I eonnurrnuTut iniint "ii thi' IHUHUIIH Tills level r l m n r i i ' N nprirriMi-lilric this- Inke hour*. The yi>nw lOnu mul ]{KI(» were M a i n 'if m l i i r i f n l dii'1-..ii l l ^ n i r h f r - r l — i Parml f<mii>a)iy In I'nriM fin l it.H use* for noun** timr> nn-d 1 Ji!i\n v . u r r l n l 11, m i iiii'i i, v . - i m V r p i l [ilillit i'.: f. •Illli I Hi I h l * I'llll' n f tfilli lilllH. on cHlier I lilt, erf ( l i e IsfhrmM IIIIVM t o (hi' ivorrpMt filijce tin* Arnw'lr'afi owuin flic wiif «f the ofirnpfiny'H r»c«WManoritly rmrcirl', I f l i n r w l y It l l n - j i M n i i ) luiiln'l | , I n n . I , . , , .1 plVt »• l i l l l e i I M i l <if I ' l i l i / l l , W h e r e ( h o irr)r;O(r)itn.r>nil it to HdffwfTH who art" In* drt-'lC'il. b u t t!i"- iniiiititu'ii hniTli'i". piili'in mil] 1!il'»" the <1H»"'.t jrntii-rt.v f o r S-KUioo.riNO wnn xljriii»rl W i n ri I • :iv. i ..,„!<,,i: , f t , i 1 i ' t h i i i i i M ] i o n l y t h i r t y t u l l c i i w j ' l e , iff«d in thinking •fhwJs w> K o i m f l i l r i • liilJu-r , | t , | | „,,.( v.lKi'KV, rttfililji;.' li'iirlhwlKf w i t h ( h e I s t h i m w , Tlii< hi'iivj firi'fl|iifii(l«ti tmiki-M thp Ind WIIH I'fiflliiMl 1 iv flu* ihuri-'hiilili'rB • V. h ' T l H M fit I'.'llHltllll I t 111 f'it'ly-fil'VeJI r th« Ha," ioy^ai-Hof mic'can in fir/ni i l i l f i r r ' l i u , , | v l.rlj-iit n r linnjuv, w i i u k l h;ivf t o h e [ilcivi'il w i t h n rbjiri HviT.H ui' I'aiiMinii I'lrreiifhil MlviiriiH. n thi* enmpir'i.v mi April 2.1 . .. „ Uid Liv«r rliBordta'H. Wrile I'llr t v . « y . I n S"Ur I»ti>--li< f.i r L » i J | ' l i l i - r l r i d no mi t o ftirijiit t-lic wiitei'K o f t h e The f'hiitfiiM l'lvcr JJHM ri'-'i-u twcntyI h ' l h i ; 'Inltjitii ' . f ( h i . O I H H H f j i i i u j r l i l i * ] ' l)r, David KatOKwry Co, Rondotft, (To Be Contmuoa) Outun Juki* to reach (he point mi the llve foct lii twi'juy-fot/r him™. Inirlng A n d tiulltl">il ri't'»rti [ f j n u r l i ( « ' r j . J •" •" fojp frae a ample, Pi l tlie itcfen would overy utsason the rpcordu loft by tho —New York Hun. i£XX>0-000 <»<><><><><><><><><> O O O O O O O O O O O d < X X > * 0 Story of the Panama Canal From Start to Finish s ..SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT... MORRISBURG BRANCH Gifts of Sil verware 1847 ROGERS BROS. J Subm-lbe lor tbo Madrid Herald, - ^ ir.'XKXzrt&zx&uMiiNm '•J