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Show CANAL SLIDES AT LAST CONTROLLED Sunday Work Is Suspended and Eight-Hour Day Is to Be Inaugurated. NOW HAVE NO MISGIVINGS Foreign Stop Owners Satisfied With Outlook Precautions Are Taken Against Passing Vessels With Explosives In Cargo. Punnina. All Sunduy work of the canal dredfee has been stopped for the first time In four yours. The engineer en-gineer in charge considers Huntluy work no longer n necessity. The slides nre so completely under control It Is further planned to work only eight hours a duy on them after u short time. The fuct that no United States coastwise ships are now using the canal proves that foreign world shipping ship-ping has found the canal so safe during dur-ing the last six monthi thai there has boon no fear to come by way of the Isthmus. Prior to the slides that closed the cannl coustwlse United Slates vessels were a very large per centage of the total for the six monthi period that ntUl the greatest number of ships make the transit. If the coaatwtie veaali that were using the canal prior to the sillies had been using us-ing the canal as they formerly did the Dumber of ships going through dining tlie last six months would have been fur greater than during any previous III months since the canal was Brat opined. New Sailing Directions. A now edition of the official sailing directions for the canal Just made pub IP' calls the attention of the shipping world to th' fail that the rise and fall of ships in the canal locks Is so great that what seamen call the "chocks" gf ' 'Vf i ggggggggl gggaaasi i nnd "bltts" on the average ship nre loo light and Inappropriately made for careful ami sale handling of ships hy the canal authorities. "(Mi account of danger to the lock gales resulting I herefrom, the Panama canal reserves the right," the new sailing sail-ing directions announce, "to deny passage pas-sage to ships having Inadequate chocks and hitts as described herein, until suitable equipment can he Installed In-stalled at the terminal ports." Kxplalnlug this subject further, the new canal regulations state: "Experience has demonstrated the fact that most of the chocks and bltts lire too light In construction, and that the chocks In particular should not only be mude heuvler untl stronger, so thut their Jnws nuiy Stand a ver-tlcul ver-tlcul strain, but that they should he of a permanently closed pattern antl not ho made with open Jaws. Pitts should be sufficiently strong to Withstand With-stand the strain of u 1 Vj inch (ilium eter) wire line with u pull of fiO.OOO pounds, und be firmly riveted to the decks, und if necessary whore the deck Is of wood or light plating, they should have an under deck plate, or be secured between two deck frames." The attempts to Injure shipping at son by explosives In among the cargo has iiiade the canal officials strict in applying the regulations for ships known to carry highly Inflammable cargoes. The new edition of the otli Clal sailing directions provides thai "vessels carrying explosives or high I) inflammable cargoes should so notify no-tify the governor and obtain ikvuiU simi before they will lie allowed to enter the canal. In requesting per mission for such vessels to transit the canal the character and approximate amount of explosives should he Stated, the ports of departure and destination, name of ship ami party to whom Consigned, This iimy be done by mail or cable. In general permission win not be refused, hut tins,, precautions are taken to safeguard safe-guard the Panama canal, . . . Vessels carrying explosives consigned to pons beyond the canal one will not be ai-I ai-I lowed alongside the wharves while such explosives uro ou board " JkajBjgaj BJBtHABBggasaBsammgaBBBBBsi ggssi t " |