Show ZH i MAOAZiVK SECTION il THE & -- MAGAZINE SECTION SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY APRIL 8 1917 HERALD-REPUBLICA- N AMA BESIDES Vast Improvements Progressing MB rr BY HAMILTON M WRIGHT ('ristolml Panama Canal Zone April 7 — I'milii'ious works of steel and concrete have not alone made possible the Panama canal the greatest engineering achievement of all time but have entered into the construction of the huge piers wharves Of supreme interest are the two huge coaling plants located at Cristobal and Balboa respectively The plants have a total emergency storage capacity of 700000 tons of coal Their normal capacity is 500000 tons The Cristobal plant on the Atlantic side covers nineteen acres It can unload and coaling stations break- coal brought in for storage at the waters and other comjioneiit parts of rate of— K00 tons per hour It can the Panama canal zone ranking both reload at the rate of 2400 toys per Cristobal and Ilallion ns among the hour Ships can discharge and retine ports of i lie world and the en- ceive coal at the same time at this tire area as the most stupendous of plant the unloader wharf being at show places beneath the stars and one side of the pier and the reloader wharf being at the other side The stripes mile Hundreds of thousands of tons of plant has approximately one-ha- lf of berthing space for vessels to moor concrete npd vast supplies of steel AT with a depth ot water of liave been iised in the construction of VSA HILL e foet at mean sea level Giant accessory equipment to the Panama M°rty-onknown as stocking bridges canal that in its nature is as monu- - moving and reclaiming bridges span the vast and the huge concrete piers mental as the canal itself coal over 200 feet in piles and are visible a long dis-- i about lWO feet The equipment is constantly being I Bal-tanee he 1 away added to and improved coaling plant at width and over 800 feet apart extend boa is approximately one-ha- lt the size from the mole Five of the commer- An entire battleship Meet of that at ( ristobal The unloader jeiaj piers are now comoleted Com- enaled here wharf is M0 leer long: the re loader mereial piers and locks Nos 7 tf f) The largest dreadnought w !u 0 feet long A feature oMami world can go into drydork cost $8 ui)i)d Pier No Jo canal of llie Panama railroad and of The huge foundries am fortifications but they ean make berthing space of 2)8S teet is occupied by tin coaling plant (any repairs re pi i red by the United shops can restore any broken or Pier No G is now under const met ion States navy or merchant ships Fn damaged part of a warship or merU hen it is completed the total spate addition tiiei chant vessel aie subsidiary build-a- t The commissary department which which vessels may berth will be 11- - lings main metal working ops feet or more than two miles (hine erecting and tool shops forge purchases $12000000 of supplies anPier No has 2540 feet of berthing and pipe boiler and steam fitting nually could outfit a navy with food The vesand other necessaries for a eruise chant shipping mile: pier No shops space almost one-halargest war sel in the world could enter the great 8 2:508 feet: pier No 0 1150 feet: around the world Lat year the canal almost paid its The entire canal zone is in a con- iir dock at Balboa at the Pacific ter- - pier No 10 421 feet At the oud of 'operating expenses That it will make stant state of progression and the ininal of the canal This drydoek is the long slips between the piers are a profit when normal traffic ou tlie largest in the worid and five jetties where launches lie leok-th- e seas is resumed cannot be doubted many improvements are a tremendous the It is addition to the wondeis of a trip to largest in the Amerieas The canal expenses in 191G were 1000 feet long 1 10 feet wide and has handsome building of the Panama Panama the total revenues were The effirient work of the Panama a depth of ‘15 feet over the blocks at railroad Still laii her is s i ml in- canal organization touches upon every mean tide The dock at Cristobal is! lined drive that leads into the city phase of human activity Libraries 800 feet long and 48 feet wide with! Beneath the piers which are mo feu schools foundries railroad yards a depth at mean high water of 18 feet jire their supports giant pillars o! i t clubs hotels playgrounds lighting li inches over the blocks Both dock3 concrete sunk deep into th bottom of J and water systems military barracks are closed by mitre gates similar to But back tor a inomcn 1o the dry- - j plantations a penitentiary cold stor- those used on the Panama canal locks Coinin'? into Cristobal today the vis- docks those hospitals ibr wounded age plants are administered by the is beneficence Private greyhounds or bulldogs of th sou or government sanitariums for tlioe that need physialso present and in tiiis res peer a The great main recal sprucing up marvelous work is being done at BalSt Louis Alo April - 7 -- Monetary uot are boa by the Young Women's Christian only ae signed to and matrimonial affair:pair shops hind in make all the lock spillway and power hand with the suit of Mrs Jesse association which maintains a buildIt widBacon and entertain water and land food rest and where and wealthy machinery plant witty pretty ing who Is suing Michael J Hurley to Tuent are provided equipment Br the maintenance of the ow recover on in dry-doc- sides of the wharf The lines reach every fieri of any size on the wot coast of South America which are ks thus brought into direct touch with" our Atlantic and Gulf ports The trip to Buenos Ayres saves time over the old way and is infinitely more interesting More and more is the Panama canal becoming an objective point for tourists Thrice have the Shriners been here in force The steady influx of small parties is constantly increasing Those who desire may stop at the fine hotels operated by the government the Hotel Washington at Ancon r the Tivoli at Balboa In all Unde Sam operates about twenty hotels mi j P-’ii- g j j I j I : ie -- I ma-d8- !) lf j j j sei-un- $29-827504- 22 $2758988889 Tiic exc -- s in ex- penses over revenues was milv $1987-0154- 8 One hundred and fifty-liv- e ships went through the canal in December 191 tV? 82 from the Atlantic to the Pacific 78 from the Pacific to the Atlantic Their aggregate net tonnage was 488814 tons The canal reopened on April 15 191G In the first six months from May to November 1 the traffic averaged 143 ships a month or 85G ships in all They carried 8498105 tons of cargo A new trade is developing through the Panama canal it has become a j WOMEN SURPASS MEN AT WORK IN WAR PLANTS 350000 WOMEN LABOR IN FRENCH FACTORIES : " I LOVED AND TRUSTED HIM TOO j point of transit for passengers between the United Slates the Pacific coast of South America and even Buenos Ayres and the River Plata an country on the Atlantic Through I nited the arrangement made by Fruit company whose fleet is the canal zone The commissary and largest flying the American flag the hole department supplies aliout with three steamship companies operating along the Paeitic coast of jOiiu jeople daily with food clothing South America a man is able to make and other necessaries There are about the trip between New York and But- - p000 white employees on the canal nos Avres going bv way of Yalpnrai-- ! zone and 19000 West Indians There rail-- ! are 5000 soldier lads here but ulti- so Chile aud the Trans-Andea-n than travel less 1000 miles inately there will be 25000 way with Toil ay the Panama canal zone i iie between look a steamer straight if A ride ocean spic span and orderly the two points via the Atlantic locks by ship and then Today the steamers of the three throngli the lines the Pacific Steam Navigation back by train along the line of the company the Campania Sud Ameri- huge waterway with glimpses of tin cana de Vapores and the Peruvian shipping or of great forests of dead and covered Steamship company come to the Pa- trees half submerged cific entrance of the canal and go with orchids as a vision of a prithrough the canal to the wharves at meval world is a popular way There lliev meet the seeing mankind's greatest engineerCiislobal United Fruit steamers on opposite ing work ! i INNOCENT AIAN LONG IMPRISONED FOR OTHER S CRIME GUILTY ONE CONFESSES j MUCH’ SIGHS WIDOW IN COURT! ! which securities $70000 she alleges Hurley loaned her SStfltO and then sold them Being’ sued is nothing new in Hurley’s old life He was defendant once in a $2500000 breach of promise suit brought by a German baroness described as “Baroness Bal’’ Now comes Airs Bacon with a story that she and Hurley were engaged to be married and that her belief in his “friendship” prompted her to turn over her securities “We met at the Continental hotel in Paris” Mrs Bacon said "Jlc waiter! outside of the reakfnst room and when 1 came out he said ‘Goul morning’ I never would have reamed of answering him if he hadn't looked like a good American business man We had coffee together that evening and he told me all about the baroness He called her ‘E’rineess Bab’ “You plighted your troth to ’dear Mike’ at the tomb of Napoleon and then rechristened ‘dear Mike’ ’Nap' didn't you?" asked Judge Hiram X Moore “No sir It was Mr Hurley who called himself ‘Nap’ and asked me to call him that" Asked if she loved Mr Hurley Mrs Bacon replied "I did” "Did you wish to compel him to marry you?” Mrs Bacon's eyes flashed angrily Then she laughed a silvery little laugh and reached into her reticule from which she drew a powder puff She dabbed the end of her nose and answered: “No woman wishes to compel a man to marry her” Mrs Bacan said she had called on the "Baroness Bab” when the latter came to America to ask the baroness what kind of a man Mr Hurley was "And if he was that kind — the kind that fool women” said Mrs Bacon ”1 was determined to show him up for the good of the women of America and 1 1 MRS JESSE R II A CON Europe” It has cloth diluted with water and boiled Again it is strained and the milk poured into bottles and distributed to This milk has a specific purchasers of 1020 and a fat content of gravity S125 compared with a specific gravof 1029 and a fat content of 30 ity for average cow’s milk CHINESE TRANSFERRED PEKING April 7 — Kuel Chih Chinese consul in New Zealand is to be transferred to the post of consul genKuel eral in the Philippine islands Pley-ang Chih was formerly a professor at university in Tientsin GERMAN DOLLS PAINTED German dolls are now being madj heads it is said owing with to thepainted off of supplies of Bradcutting ford wool from which the "hair” has hitherto been manufactured CANALS IN RUSSIA been decided by the Russian government to reconstruct the waterway system between Petrograd and Archangel so as to enable vessels im-of large size to navigate it The proved waterway may be ready if the plans are carried into effect during the 1917 first half of the navigation season of CANARY’S EARS A canary’s ears are at the back of and a little below its eyes There is no outer ear such as animals have but simply a small opening which is covered by feathers It is quite surpristhat birds should possess the very ing acute hearing which they do while the fleshy flap which enables lacking to catch sounds animals the now are the Great of successful factories women and in Britain in workers have been the That being tried PRODUCE MILK great workshops of Canada is evidenced in the accompanying pictures which show some of the 200 women at The DEANS are manufacturing milk Chinese KEEP DOOR LOCKED present employed in the shops of the Canadian Pacific Railway company at Montreal These women workers have from small yellow beans of the In many Dutch villages and towns been organized and work under the supervision of Mrs J W Bell who is shown above She is the wife of the from which bean curd is madevariety The the chief door of a house is never j Ju"hedabetrwe(fn1sfonesen ThakjSipa superintendent of the Montreal Windsor street station building and is very enthusiastic over the success of opened except on the occasion of a efforts of those intrusted to her charge run into a tub strained through cheese- - funeral or of a marriage 1 Savannah Ga April 7 — Unable to longer stand the strain upon his conscience AV O Bradley a middle-age- d man has confessed to the HI Paso police that he was the murderer of Mrs Maggie Hunter in Savannah on December 11 1909 His confession also involved his partner Frank Harwell who he says beat Mrs Eliza GribLle an aged woman and her daughter Mrs Carrie Ohiander to death with an iron bar at the same time Bradley was placed under arrest in El Paso on a charge of burglary several days ago having beeti caught in the company of several alleged dope venders Later and without being who had not questioned by the police suspected him of a grave crime he openly admitted that the sight oi the face of Mrs Hunter looming up in front of him at all times made him so miserable that he was unable to stand it any longer Bradley claims that the murder was committed by him and his partner to cover up an act of burglary at the home of Mrs GribbleThe two were discovered in the house by the three women and in order to prevent them from celling for the police according to the confession he (Bradley) struck Mrs Hunter with an axe while his partner beat Mrs Ohiander and Mrs Gribble to death with a heavy iron bar The two immediately left the vicinity of the crime and hid on the outskirts of Savannah in a cotton gin house for three days Here they disposed of their bloody garments by hiding them They finally made their way from Savannah to Jacksonville thence to New Orleans and finally on to the southwest where they fell into bad company and drifted from bad to worse until they became addicted to - the ciruf habit which finally brought them into the toils of the police Bradley spoke in his confession of husband knowing that J t limiter of Mrs Maggie Hunter i row serving a life sentence in the Georgia state prison for the triple murder Following the apprehension of infer and tlie voluntaiy confession of Bradley a strong petition has been made to the state prison commission for a pardon for Hunter by South Side Baptist ehurch and AtHunter was Guyton torney T l convicted in the of murder originally first degree and sentenced to haig but this sentence was later comHe was muted to life imprisonment convicted on circumstantial evidence and in the face of a strong' alibi the that the actual murjury believing derers were in his employ Harwell who was captured by tlie police in a tunnel on the outskirts of El Faso contends that he had never seen Bradley before He expressed a willingness to return to Savannah but said he knew absolutely nothing of the crime Bradley also expressed a desire to lie taken back to Savannah immediately t’l-tw- ORIGIN OP CHAIRS o The origin of chairs is lost In the dim past The Jewish legends declare that Abraham made a chair with his own hands from a tooth that fell out of the mouth of Og a huge giant In bis employ There are numerous monuments bear found in oriental countries that howof chairs Most of these carvings The first ever are without backs chairs with backs of which we know are said to have been introduced into Asia Minor by the Persians who in turn got the idea from the Assyrians |