Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-22 | Page 4 | This is Unusual

I 4 t 1 Thi S I Is s U J t t. J h m j The terrific speed with which th the thc world changes may have slowed down somewhat within the last decade or two Nevertheless one mans man's lii me can still span ama amazing ng developments J Between boyhood and manhood on oncan one J i ican can still watch a great rearrangement of at the scenery There died in Panama the other day one Basil Burns Bums Duncan said to be the oldest American the on leth- leth I k mus mus-he mus he was 88 and BS-and and a surviving vet vet-i eran cran of the old French attempt to dig tug the Panama canal Duncan went to Panama Just after the railroad had been completed The Isthmus then was one stage of the road to California Pas Pas- came down from New York by sea ea crossed the thc narrow neck of 1 land by train or wagon and took ship r ron on the Pacific side for San Francisco Francisc The canal was still only a dream dream i Cape Horn far to the south was still stilla a surf-fringed surf terror for a 1 Then the French started to dig th the canal and Duncan was one of tb the tho j four men chosen to turn the fI first t sods The four stood face to face with lifted picks At a signal they A Adrove drove them into the ground and work on the Panama canal had begun What Duncan saw during the next decade or two was a new world epic Disaster beset the French at every i F hand Yellow Jack made Panama 4 notorious throughout the world The s' s French finally quit leaving cry ery to be overgrown by the jungle jungle- ti Then after years of quiet the Americans Americans Amer- Amer leans came and the canal was finIshed fin fin- in and there all the time was VIM Duncan a a. part of the whole thing soldier in the army that Joined t two o seas fl 4 Already the era looks re- re rei i mote The day when ships to the Pacific had to round dreaded Cape f j 1 Horn Is fabulous dim with the mists of ot a time that is very far away Yet this man who died only the other 4 day saw it all He went to Panama when it was a pest hole and saw it become one of the worlds world's busiest places 1 An oyster of f average w will drink for forc about 20 hours a da day consuming consuming con con- suming 15 gallons and extracting 90 I per percent cent of the minute food particles s J from the water waler French textile experts have developed devel devel a a. method for pulverizing cotton silk and wool the product being used in fine tapestry wall paper and for decorative effects on paper or cloth Four Pour steel columns weighing 1200 pounds to the foot the largest ever fabricated In th the south recently were shipped from Birmingham to Baton Rouge for the new Louisiana state house I I