| Show DR Do BRYAN GIVES OIES BRILLIANT I i TALK TALI ON TIE THE PANAMA CANAL Those of oC the the community who attended attended at at- tended the lecture on ors the Panama canal Saturday night given by Dr Harry B B. B Bryan th the noted cleric from Crom the east who has has' been in the basin the past several weeks listen listen- e e t to one tono one of of- of the best and most molt S n discourses in the tile history of oC the community The Tile trip from rom New I York to and through the canal Wa was 9 vividly described ed by Mr 1 Bryan and held and fascinated t the le attention o othe of oC f the audience This great achievement achievement achievement achieve achieve- ment Is described ed as the greatest mil mil- military military undertaking of oC the age age the the eighth wonder of the world as expressed ex expressed pressed by y the speaker It was done at a cost of nearly four hundred millions millions millions mil mil- lions of oC dollars to the United States and was wholly in charge of the war department The Tile dr dream am of oC civilization to connect connect connect con con- the waters of the Atlantic with those of the Pacific for more than titan five hundred YO years was finally accomplished by by the newest of oC the great nations of the world the two greatest greatS greatest great great- est S o obstacles to over overcome ome being the fight i against dise disease yellow disease yellow se-yellow yellow fever and malaria malaria and and the slipping of oC the I formation of the country in into to tb the canal anal The mosquito was the real I enemy memy of the lri laborers Its extermination extermination nation was finall finally and today men melt work wort in the hot sun j I healthy and happy with no fear of the he sickness richness that formerly meant al almost almost al- al I aI-I I most certain death cath I j Through the series of locks a vessel vessel ves ves- sel el entering from the Atlantic side is raised 87 feet a above ove the sea level evel into the artificial Gatun lake and through gh another series of locks is lowered lowered low low- ered red into the waters of the Pacific I which are thirteen feet lower than those hose of the Atlantic I k The lute ruins of the old Spanish city of oC Panama may still sUll be e seen Five hundred years ago it had a p population population pula- pula tion of and was the big seaport sea 1 I i port for the ships that sailed tho the thoI I Spanish Main Bain The output of oC the tIlE gold and silver mines of oC South America Ameri Ameri- ca were loaded on the vessels of oC Spain from Panama but butone one one day the famous buccaneer Morgan who had hadeen been een made gOv governor of the island of Jamacia with but ut six hundred men II j I appeared before the tho city Morgan I captured it tacked sacked ed and burned t- t It 0 probably bly the tho most remarkable le cal cap capture cap cap- ture turo of a fortified city in history A q quartette f from Q n. n the th lo local al glee lee plu club club P. P. P. P W. W Billin Billings g gOrrin s L L. L W W. Dean Orrin Smith and W. W L L. delightfully delightfully de de- entertained the audience before the opening of the lecture and the full club in two selections atthe at atthe the close E. E W. W Schon Ian pleased as usual in his very accomplished accomplished playing on the mand mandolin and the listeners refused to let him oft off with one piece Dr Bjornson acted as asp I chairman of the evening The proceeds proceeds proceeds pro pro- wont went toward a payment on a now organ for St. St Pauls Paul's chapel Receipts Receipts Receipts Re Re- were 1 1625 out of which was paid 50 0 for tor tile tue hall ball |
