Show th amy ainee B ul aw it 6 11 CULF CUT IN PANA MA CANAL t 4 C L gro V 41 1 4 q AP 41 jakl flo 11 A 0 IV 1 V y HE LINCOLN fAE MORIAL iak P WILSON DM DAM sy by ELMO SCOTT WATSON ROM the earliest days of the lie he in apt akin of some great con project to say flint the army engineers built it has haa been equivalent to saying saving chrt here was a piece of work with 1 the he utmost in efficiency eln clency economy and honesty during tile the sit SS wit a when hen it N was as pro ls posed to trang transfer fer river and ami harbor js 4 improvement projects froni from the vs corps of orgin pers in the nar d department L part ment to a dIv division Islon of public works in tin nn other executive there was nn an im ine diate protest from those who had the lust reason to know inov I 1 low ow valuable were anere the sern sen ices fees ot of the army artely engineers in tilts this work and what lint the result of 41 kiich il it a tring fr might be upon 1 those very factors factor of flici ency economy nn ail 1 horn sty 10 many americans rivers and darho s la Is synonymous with pirk blind baril by congress hat they alo to not really Is that hint for more than a quarter of it century the corps of engineers of 0 the united states army lias has bell tile watchdog which lias has ept rivers and harbors arbors li projects from being just that its blaid of engi engineers rs on rivers and harbors tune tons as a sort of supreme ourt in waterway mattere submitted to them by from tune june 11 1002 1902 to marili 31 1029 1924 tills this board of engin engineers pers lias has reported on 2577 waterway rrok eels of these only reports were faNo favorable rable as ia compared to 1572 that vere unfavorable morable in other nords these army engineers turned down two ait oit of every three broj projects ta submit ted led to them and tile the degree of con jenio jene which congro conpra s line has in the integrity find and judgment ot of the army engineers la Is shown by the fat that during tile the last 10 enra in logs than lhnn half hair et dozen cases cages has congress authorized the broj ecta upon which the board of eni engineers ou on river risers s and harbors had presented ed nn an adverse report perhaps one reason why the chips of on benl enl I 1 beers stands so BO high lu in tile the estimation of both government officials anti and the public lies in tile the fact that t f ie ofTe efficiency loncy anti and the honesty of the arroy engineer lins become proverbial millions and millions of dollars of public money have hale been expended under their direction without Nit hout the slightest breath of scandal ann dal or quoi tion ns its to their ability and perhaps another reason for this confidence lies in the close association of tie corps of engineers iiii with the united stabs military academy at NN ost est point where N here the mot if 0 Is 1 1 duty honor country duty the bod bed rock aock upon which their character la Is founded ard their carters are hullt tile the barrier in visible but invincible halil sets tho the lounda to their activities country that august angust gl g l like niN ml to i whose hose bernice their lives are dedI dedicated rated and for N safety they would lav ian down their lives la in engo caso of need the academy at vest pant vas anas founded it in 1802 as a school for engineers of the alie united states army artely it being the first engineering school in this 3 country and from the beginning it ila has been those who vilio have won mon I 1 nors tile the crenin cream of the crop of now new officers rg who have been glyen given tiu privilege lego of entering the corps of engineers in the army so there has grown gronn up tilt a set of traditions find and an esprit du corps that Is difficult to duplicate anywhere in the narl I 1 of the corps it 11 lins has been said one co f the most mond wonderful erful records in the history of the hil humin race Is that out of all the tho thousands of men who have served in the corps of engineers i dur ing its ita century of existence only one man has ever broken through that invisible barrier of lionor the contribution of the corps to pubic arv ice covers a multiplicity vf ot things mapping ex pl orations and surveys public buildings building and cit engineering roads railways ageg works explosives camouflage and decora decorative L girts art ch chem emIca cal eng engineering mechanical and elee dec t 0 5 4 r J x vv washington MONUMENT amder construction IN N 1867 7 power plants field ell engineer ing arid shipping marine de sign rind and op operation cration of bo boat a t I 1 lines ines and waterways it would b bi within the space ot of this article to list hat nil all of 0 the projects lits which nelch stand as 03 enduring to the engineer corps 0 the artely artily but lapie are some of their out standing nil leici iha ibe amania ia mania canal at first it was under the con control trot of challan engineers but the men who nho con quoted which seemed almost in and pushed through to n R triumphant conclusion the greatest engineering project the corll artl has hag ever seii bien were army engineers in the winds of Areri cani there will forever bo be associated with the name of tile the ganima Ia niina canal the name ot oc an annly engineer col george W Goot goethals hals who organized the work solved cow corn engineering problems arid and problems of r supply ul lly onnel and finance and completed the of tile the canal ahead of the e etl eti ti watell matoil tin till e ilia work akas organized in three divisions as fo follow lloNa the Itla atlantic tille division under tinder sibert where was vas built tile the galun gatun iani am the world a largest earth luro dara and the aartun gatun locks also alao the worlds largest the division donl under Ill lamson three locks of the same alya hut but requiring less concrete and the central division under tinder gaillard Gall lard which included tile the culella cr r 11 gaillard cut the worlds largest single f rhe ille tot dottl A tot coat or of t tie to canal was N as j jo the amount of concrete to placed was nas BOX cubic jard the equlla equivalent le n t of a N wall 11 P F feet high find 3 feet wide ulde running clear across the farcin new lork to 1 san Iran I 1 francisco cisco ulie total excavation work was 2 10 cubic vardi big JOI job the army engineers did find III with jtb their accustomed thorough ness waa in connection with the american I 1 x force in tile the orld war under the leadership of langfitt taylor patrick and jad alu in here are sanie of tho the normous norin en engineer ginzer ing letus of c construction 0 n S tru C tion and supply which the corps anas as called upon to solve the build arg of ast tulles miles of rat railways lays the construction of COO nilles lips of light rall Mays ind the operation ot of 2000 more lilles of the same class claca the maintenance and repair of 1750 miles of roads building and operating lumber mills rollas producing tl UPS s pile ollile ard card v wood and ov over er I 1 W board feet of lumber lini iker per lay day ere erection alon of barrac barracke bar ls to 11 miles and pro providing space pace for ari wa beds in hospitals of which aich miles allea of wards were ere new construction build ing storage are houLes covering the equivalent of AO 00 acres roof building NIi arNes the of iven i iv in all miles 4 of bor berthing thing tor for ships ranking milling improvements anti and additions to existing water nater sull supplies lles and see sewerage rage among 1 ga 1 4 UTA g VAS HINGTON dashington AQUEDUCT CABIN JOHN BRIDGE aas ft cattin supplying gallons of f waitr per daa recoiling att ing and issuing 3 20 torn tons of englener gliner en supplies auppl leg the famous epitaph of sir christopher wren builder of st I 1 iguls bill s cathedral might well be tor for the he chips of and the visitor t ti tho the rational capital might well nell be told it if iou would see their look around sou the city ot of washington was laid out ly major L lenfant of the I 1 rench engineers but it was surveyed by andrew allcott 1111 cott pr professor of mathematics at west point and the development of the city plan was continued thereafter by army engineers one of them na was nas s T L cases who in found the washington monument ICO feet and unfinished by chil tans ians in charge lie ile put a new foundation under the existing monument an intricate and difficult job albeit and finished it to its full height of feet but the washington logton monument la Is not the only work of the army engineers tn in washington the public buildings thre th re which they constructed include the capitol the library of congress the government printing office the state war and navy building the peat office building and the lincoln memorial moreover the water supply of washington the washington aqueduct was nas built and Is now being operated under the of army engineers engineer in the vicinity of nna washington are ahr three ee bridges which fire are outstanding engineering accomplishments till an hullt by this corps they are tile the cabin john bridge completed in 1855 by meggs NIi which lIi was mas the mildge la in the world single span feet for nearly 50 years tile the 1 rands cott R kes 3 bridge built in 1920 1020 by tier T ler to replace the old aqueduct bridge connecting georgetown georgeton with kith mriln a and the arlington Ile memorial morial bridge which Is being constructed under the direction of 0 1 mehaffey which Is to cost and which will connect the mail with nith the Nir virginia ginta side loading leading to the arlington memorial the imprint of the army engineers la Is strong upon both ahn md railway systems of the counters tile the famous old cumberlan Cumber lai d road from cumberland md to st louis t ie e first national highway aay was mag constructed aid maintained by off leers of the corps of engin engineers verg from 1124 to 1840 the alaska road commission consisting of tilt three army officers has constructed and maintained 1100 miles of wagon magon roads wiles miles of isloa roads and 4 miles of trails Ile mention of artor and harbor work nt at the beginning gin ining of this article recalls the fact that this work wits was begun by the corps of engineers in 1824 when ahen west point was nas the only engineer ing school in the country on this recount account and also because there was then no continuing civil service and bec because tinse fortification construction construct lA v AS already an oy anizel service of the army thee the works were vere put under tile the charge of army from that time to this they have becia in charge of the development ot of this work nork and up to the present time the ine ini estment of the in these projects la Is over 1 their upkeep requiring cx a ear tha corps of engli engineers leers now ila has bharga ot of 2 harbors rivers and 53 can annala is 9 4 by western Now naper talon |