La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 23, 1913 Page: 3 of 8
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SYNOPSIS.
Agatha Redmond, opera singer, starting
for an auto drive In New York, finds a
stranger sent as her chauffeur. 6he Is
annoyed, but he remains. leaving the car,
she goes Into the park to read the will of
an old friend of her mother, who has left
her property. There she la accosted by a
stranger, who follows her to the auto,
climbs In and chloroforms her.
CHAPTER II.—Continued.
So he remembered Clara Van
Camp’s advice, wrote the whole story
to Aleck, and cast about for the one
successful business chance in the four
thousand nine hundred and ninety-
nine bad ones—as the statistics
have It.
He actually found it in shoes. Foot-
ball muscle and grit went Into the lob
of putting superior shoe on Inferior
foot, if necessary—at least on some
foot. He got a chance to try his pow-
ers in the home branch of a manu-
facturing house, and mado good.
When he came to fill a position where
there was opportunity to try new
ideas, he tried them. He Inspected
tanneries and stockyards. He got com-
posite measurements of all the feet
In all the women’s colleges In the
year ninety-seven, he drilled salesmen
and opened a night school for the
buttonhole-makers, he made scientific
study of heels, and he Invented an
aristocratic arch and put It on the
market.
The family Joked about his doings
as the harmless experiments of a live-
ly boy, but presently they began to
enjoy his income. Through It all they
affectionate and kind, with the
matter-of-course fondness which a
family gives to the members that
takes the part of useful drudge. John,
the pet of the parents, married, and
bad his own eyes opened. It is to
be supposed. Donald, the genius, had
just arrived, after a dozen years or
so, at the stage where he was men-
tioned now and then in the literary
journals. But Jim stuck to shoes
and kept the family on a fair tide of
modest prosperity.
Once, In the years of Jim’s appren-
ticeship to life, there came over him
a fit of soul-sickness that nearly
proved his ruin.
"I can’t stand this,” he wrote to
Aleck Van Camp; "it’s too hard and
dry and sordid for any man that's
got a soul. It Isn’t the grind 1 mind,
though that is bar enough; it Is the
‘Commercial Idea' that eats Into a
man’s innards. He forgets there are
things that money can’t buy, and In
his heart he grows contemptuous of
anything to be had ‘without money
and without prloe.’ He can't help It.
If he is thinking of trade nine-tenths
of the time, his mind gets set that
way. I’m ready any minute to jump
the fence, like father’s old colt up
on the farm. I'm not a snob, but I
recognize now that there was some
reason for all our old Hambleton an-
cestors being so finicky about trade.
"Do you remember how we used to
talk, when we were kiddles, about
keeping our Ideals? Well, I believe
I'm bankrupt, Aleck, In my account
with ideals. I don’t want to howl, and
these remarks don’t go with anybody
else, but I can soy to you. I want them
back again,”
Alqck did as a kiddle should do,
writing much advice on long sheets of
paper, and illustrating his points j
richly, like a good Scotchman, with
scientific Instances. A month or two
later he contrived to have work to
do In Boston, so that he could go out
to Lynn and look up Jimmy’s case.
He even devised a cure hy creating.
In his mind, an office In the biological
world which was to be offered ’ to
James on the ground that science
needed just his abilities and training.
But when Aleck arrived In Lynn he
found that Jim, In some fashion or
other, had found a cure for himself.
He was deeper than ever In the busi-
ness, and yet, In some spiritual sense,
be had found himself. He had cap-
tured his Ideal again and yoked It to
duty—which Is a great feat.
After twelve years of ferocious la-
bor, with no vacations to speak of,
James’ mind took a turn for the worse.
Physically he was as sound as a bell,
though of lath-like thinness; but an
effervescing In his blood lured his
mind away from the study of lasts and
accounts and Parisian models and
sent it careering, like Satan, up and
down the ettrth Romance, which hnd
been drugged during the transition
from youth to manhood, awoke and
coaxed for its fights, and whispered
temptingly In an ear not yet dulled to
fts voice Freedom, open spaces, ,
laughter, the fresh sweep of the wind i
the high buccaneering ptraoy of life I
and Joy—these things beglamoured |
his senses
So one day be locked his desk wlRi
• final click. The business was In [
good shape. It Is but justice to say
that If it had not been, Romance had
dangled her luring wisp o’ light In'
vain. Several of his new schemes had
worked out well, his subordinates
were of one mind with him. trade was
flourishing. He felt be could afforjl
a little spin.
Jlmsy;# radiating fancies focussed
themselves, at last, on the vision of
a trig little sail-boat, "a jug of wine,
a loaf of bread” In the cabin, with
possibly a book of verses underneath
the how, or more suitably, in the
sl^idow of the sail; and Aleck Van
Camp and himself astir In the rigging
or plunging together from the gun-
wale for an early swim. "ADd before
I get off, I’ll hear a singer that can
sing,” he declared.
He telegraphed Aleck, who was by
this time running down the eyelid of
the squid, to meet him at his club in
New York. Then he made short work
with the family. Experience had
taught him that an attack from am-
bush was most successful.
Look here, Edith”—thlB was at the
breakfast-table the very morning of
his departure. Edith was sixteen, the
tallest girl In the academy, almost
ready for college and reckoned quite
a queen in her world—"You be good
and do my chores for me while I’m
away, and I’ll bring you home a duke.
Take care of mother’s bronchitis, and
keep the house straight. I’m going on
a cruise.”
"All right, Jim”—Edith could al-
ways be counted on to catch the ball
"go ahead and have a bully time
and don’t drown yourself. I’ll drive
the team ^ straight to water, mother
and dad and the whole outfit, trust
me!”
Considering the occasion and the
jorrectness of the sentiments, Jim
forbore, for once, from making the
dally suggestion that she chasten her
language. By the time the family ap-
peared, Jim had laid out a rigid
course of action for Miss Edith, who
rose to the occasion like a soldier.
"Mother’ll miss you, of course, but
Jack and Harold"—two of Edith’s ad-
mirers—“.Tack and Harold can come
around every day—stout arm to lean
upon, that sort of thing. You know
mother can’t be a bit jolly without
plenty of men about, and since Sue
became engaged she really doesn’t
count. The boys will think they are
running things, of course, but they’ll
see my Iron hand In the velvet glove
—you can throw a blue chip on that.
Jlmsy. And don’t kiss me, Jim, for
Dorothy Snell and I vowed, when we
wished each other’s rings on—Oh. well,
brothers don’t count."
And so, amid the farewells of a ten-
der, protesting family, he got off,
leaving Edith In the midst of one of
her monologues.
There was a telegram In New York
saying that Aleck Van Camp would
Join him In three days, at the latest.
Hambleton disliked the club and left
it, although his first Intention hnd
been to put up there. He picked out
a modest up-town hotel, new to him.
for no other reason than that It had
a pretty name. The Larue. Then he
began to consider details.
The day after his arrival was occu-
pied in making arrangements for his
boat He put into this matter the
Rame painstaking buoyancy that he
had put Into a dull business for
twelve years. He changed his plans
half a dozen times, and exceeded them
wholly In the Blze and equipment of
the little vessel, and In the conse-
quent expense; but he Justified him-
self, as men will, by a dozen good
reasons. The trig little sail-boat
turned out to be a respectable yacht,
steam, at that. She was called the
Sea Gull. Neat In the beam, stanch
in the bows, rigged for coasting and
provided with a decent living outfit,
she was “good enough for any gentle-
man.” In the opinion of the agent who
rented her. Jim was half ashamed at
giving up the more robust scheme of
sailing his own boat with Aleck; but
some vague and expansive spirit
moved him “to see,” as he said,
"what It would be like to go aa far and
as fast as we please.” While they
were about It. they would call on some
cousins at Bar Harbor and get good
fun out of it.
The Idea of his holiday grew as he
played with it. As his spin took on
a more complicated character, his
zest rose. He went forth on Runday
feeling as 1f some vital change waa
Impending. His little cruise loomed
up large. Important, epochal. He
laughed at himself and thought, with
his customary optimism, that a vaca-
tion was worth waiting twelve years
for. if waiting endowed It with such
a flavor. Jim knew that Aleck would
relish the spin. too. Aleck's nature
was that of a grind tempered with
sportiness. Jim aat down Sunday j
morning and wrote out the whole pro-
gram for Aleck's endorsement, sent
the letter by special delivery and went’
out to reconnolter.
The era of Sunday orchestral con-
certs had begun, but that day, to Jim’s
regret, the singer was not a contralto.
"Dramatic 8oprano” was on the pro-
gram; a new name, quite unknown to
Jim. ' His interest in the soloist
waned, but the orchestra was enough.
He thanked Heaven that he was past
the primitive stage of thinking any
single voice more interesting than the
assemblage of instruments known as
orchestra.
Hambleton found a plaoe In the dim
vastness of the hall, and sank Into his
seat In a mood of vivid anticipation.
The Instruments twanged, the audi-
ence gathered, and at last the music
began. Its first effect was to rouse
Hambleton to a sharp attention to de-
tails—the director, the people in the
orchestra, the people in the boxes;
and then he settled down, thinking
his thoughts. The past, the future,
life and its meaning, love and Its
power, the long, long thoughts of
youth and ambition and desire came
flocking to his brain. The noble con-
fluence of sound that Is music worked
upon him Its Immemorial miracle; his
heart softened, his Imagination glowed,
his spirit stirred. Time was lost to
him—and earth.
The orchestra ceased, but Hamble-
ton did not heed the commotion about
him. The pause and the fresh be-
ginning of the strings scarcely dis-
turbed his ecstatic reverie. A deep
hush lay upon the vast assemblage,
broken only by the voices of the vio-
lins. And then, In the zone of silence
that lay over the listening people—
silence that vibrated to the memory
of the strings—there rose a little
song. Tq Hambleton, sitting ab-
sorbed, it was as If the circuit which
galvanized him Into life had suddenly
been completed. He sat up. The sing-
er’s lips were slightly parted, and her
voice at flrqt was no more than the
half-voice of a flute, sweet, gentle, be-
guiling. It was borne upward on the
crest of the melody, fuller and fuller,
as on a flooding tide.
"Free of my pain, free of my burden of
aorrow.
At last I shall see thee—”
There was freedom In the voice, and
the sense of space, of wind on the wa-
ters, of life and the love of life.
Jlmsy was a soft-hearted fellow. He
never knew what happened to him;
but after uncounted minutes he
seemed to be choking, while the or-
chestra and the people In boxes and
the singer herself swam In a hazy
distance. He shook himself, called
somebody he knew very well an Idiot,
and laughed aloud In his Joy; but his
laugh did not matter, for it was
drowned In the roar of applause that
reached the roof.
Jim did not applaud. He went out-
doors to think about it; and after a
time he found, to his surprise, that
he could recall not only the song, but
the singer, quite distinctly. It was a
tall, womanly figure, and a fair, bright
face framed abundantly with dark
hair, and the least little humorous
twitch to her lips. And her Dame was
Agatha Redmond.
"Of course, she can sing; but It
Isn’t like having the real thing—'tlsn’t
an alto,” said Jlmsy ungratefully and
Just from habit.
The days experience filled his
thoughts and quieted his restlessness.
He awaited Aleck with entire pa-
tience. Monday morning he spent In
small necessary business affairs, se-
curing. among other things, several
hundred dollars, which he put In his
money-belt. About the middle of the
afternoon he left his hotel, engaged
a taxicab and started for Riverside
The late summer day was fine, with
the afternoon haze settling over river
and town. Ho watched the proceaston
of carriages, the horseback riders, the
people afoots the children playing on
the grass, with a feeling of comrade-
ship. Was. he not also tasting free-
dom—a lord of the earth? His gaze
traveled out to the river, with the
glimmer here and there of a tug boat,
a little steamer, or the white sail of
a pleasure craft. The blood of some
seagoing ancestor stirred In his veins,
and he thrilled at the thought of the
days to come when his prow should
be headed offshore.
The taxicab had Its limitations, snd
Hambleton suddenly became Impa-
tient of Its monotonous slithering
along the firm road. Telling the driv-
er to follow him, he descended and
crossed to where Cathedral Parkway
switches off. He walked briskly, fesl-
Ing the tonic of the sea air. and circled
the cathedral, where workmen were
lounging away after their day’s toll.
The unfinished edifice loomed np like
s giant skeleton of some prehistoric
era, and through its mighty • open
arobee and buttresses Jim saw fleecy
clouds scudding across the western
*ky. A stone saint, muffled In burlap,
had just been swung up into his
windy niche, but had not yet discard-
ed hla robes of the world. Hamble-
ton was regarding the shapeless fig-
ure with mild interest, wondering
which saint of the calendar oould look
so grotesque, when a sound drew bis
attention sharply to earth. It was a
small sound, but there was some-
thing strange about it It waa start-
ling as u flash in a summer sky.
Besides the workmen, there was no
living thing In sight on the hillside
except his own taxicab, swinging
slowly up the avenue at that moment,
and a covered motor-car getting up
speed a square away. Even as the
car approached, Hambleton decided
that the strange sound had proceed-
ed from Its ambushed tonneau; and It
was. surely, a human voice of distress.
He stepped forward to the curb The
car was upon him, then lumbered
heavily and swiftly past But on the
instant of its passing there appeared,
beneath the lifted curtain and quite
near his own face, the face of the
singer of yesterday; and from pale,
agonized lips, as If with dying breath,
she cried, "Help, help!”
Hambleton knew her Instantly, al-
though the dark abundance of her hair
was almost lost beneath hat and flow-
ing veil, and the bright, humorous ex-
pression was blot’ed out by fear. He
stood for a moment rooted to the curb,
watching the dark mass of the car as
It swayed down the hill. Then he
beckoned sharply to his driver, met
the taxicab half way, and pointed to
the disappearing machine.
"Quick! Can you overtake ItT~
"I'd like nothing better than to run
down one o’ them Dook machines!”
said the driver.
CHAPTER ML
Midsummer Madness.
The driver of the taxicab proved
to be a sound sport.
Five minutes of luck, aided by
nerve, brought the two machines
somewhat nearer together. The mo-
tor-car gained In the open spaces, the
taxicab caught up when It came to
weaving Its way In and out and dodg-
ing the trolleys. At the frequent mo-
ments when he appeared to be losing
the car, Hambleton reflected that he
had Its number, which might lead to
something. At the Waldorf the car
slowed up, and the cab came within a
few yards. Hambleton made up his
mind at that Instant that he had been
mistaken In his supposition of trouble
threatening the lady, and looked mo-
mently to see her step from the car
Into the custody of those starched and
lacquered menials who guard the por-
tals of fashionable hotels
But It was so. A signal was Inter-
changed between the occupants of the
car and some watcher In the door-
way, and the car sped on. Hamble-
ton,- watching steadily, wondered.
“If she Is being kidnaped, why
doesn't she make somebody hear?
Plenty of chance. They couldn’t have
killed her—that Isn’t done.”
And yet his heart smote him as be
remembered the terror and distress
written on that countenance and the
cry for help.
“Something was the matter.” mem-
ory insisted. "There they go west;
west Tenth, Alexander Street, Tenth
Avenue—"
The car lumbered on. the cab half a
block, often more. In the rear, through
endless regions Rmall shopB and
offices huddled together above narrow
sidewalks, through narrow and wind-
ing streets paved with cobblestones
and Jammed with cars and truck*,
squeezing past curbs where dirty
children sat playing within a few
Inches of death-dealing wheels. Ham-
bleton wondered what kept them from
being killed by hundreds dally, but
the wonder was immediately forgot
ten In a new subject for thought. The
cab had stopped, although several
yards of clear road lay ahead of It.
The driver was climbing down. The
motor-car was nosing Its way along
nearly a block ahead. Hambleton
leaped out.
"Of course, we’ve broken down?”
he mildly Inquired. Deep In his heart
he was superstltlously thinking that
he would let fate determine his next
move; If there were obstacles In the
way of his further quest, well and
good; he would follow the Face no
longer.
"If you’ll wait Just a minute—“ the
driver was saying, "until I get my kit
out—”
But Hambleton. looking ahead, saw
that the car had disappeared, and his
mind suddenly veered.
"Not this time,” he announced.
"Here, the meter says four-twenty_
you take this. I’m off." He put a five-
dollar bill Into the hand of the driver
and started on an easy run toward
the west.
He had caught sight of the smoke-
stacks and masts In the near distance,
telling him that the motor-car had
almost. If not quite, reached the river.
Such a vehicle could not disappear
and leave no tntoe; It ought to to
easy to find. 4 head of him Baring
lights alternated with the steady,
piercing brllllanoe ef the Incandes-
cent a, and both struggled against the
lingering daylight
A heavy poliosmaa at the corner
had seen the car. He pointed west
Into the cavernous darkness of the
wharves.
"If she ain’t down at the Imperial
docks she’s gone plump Into the river,
for that’s the way she went” he In-
sisted. The policeman had the bear-
ing of a major-general and the accent
of the city of Cork. Hambleton went
on past the curving street-car tracks,
dodged a loaded dray emerging from
the dock, and threaded his way under
the shed. He passed. piles of trunks,
and a couple of truckmen dumping
assorted freight from an ocean liner.
No motor-car or veiled lady, nor
sound of anything like a woman’s
voice. Hambleton came out Into the
street again, looked about for another
probable avenue of escape for the
car and was at the point ot bafflement,
when the major-general pounded slow-
ly along his way.
"In there, my son, and no nice place
either!" pointing to a smaller entrance
alongside the Inserts] docks, almost
concealed by swinging signs It was
plainly a forbidden way. and at first
sight appeared too narrow for the
passage of any vehicle whatsoever.
But examination showed that It was
not too narrow; moreover, It opened
on a level with the street
“If you really want her, she’s In
there, thoogh what’ll be to pay If
you go In there without a permit I
don’t know. I’d hate to have to ar-
rest you.”
"It might be the best thing for me
if you did, but I’m going In. You
might wait here a minute. Captain. If
you will."
"I will that; more especially as that
car was a stunner for speed and I
already had my eye on her. I’d like
to see you fish her out of that hole.”
But Hambleton was out of earshot
and out of sight Au empty passage
smelling of bllgo-water and pent-up
gases opened suddenly on to the larg-
er dock. Damp flooring with wide
cracks stretched off to the left; on
the right the solid planking terminat-
ed suddenly In huge piles, against
which the water, capped with scum
and weeds, splashed fitfully. The riv-
er bank, lined wltu docks, seemed
lulled Into temporary quietness. Ferry-
boats steamed at their labors farther
up and down the river, but the cur-
rents of travel left here and there a
peaceful quarter such as this.
Hambleton's gaze searched the dock
and the river In a rapid survey. The
dock Itself was dim and vast with a
few workmen looking like ants in the
distance. It offered nothing of en-
couragement; but on the river, fifty
yards away, and getting farther away
every minute, was a yacht’s tender.
The figures of the two rowers were
quite distinct their oars making
rhythmical flashes over the water,
but It was impossible to say exactly
what freight, human or otherwise. It
carried. It was evident that there
were people aboard, possibly several.
Even as Hambleton strained his. eyes
to see, the outlines of the rowboat
merged Into the dimness. It was
pointed like a gun toward a large
yacht lying at anchor further out In
the stream. The vessel swayed pret-
tily to the current and slowly swung
Its dim light from the masthead.
"They’ve got her—out In that boat"
said Hambleton to himself, feeling,
while the words were on bis lips,
that he was drawing conclusions un-
warranted by the evidence. Thus he
stood, one foot on the slippery log
siding of the dock, watching while the
little drama played Itself out so fi
as his present knowledge could go.
Judgment still hung In suspense, but
his senses quickened themselves to
detect, If possible, what the outcome
might be. He saw the tender ap-
proach the boat He alongside; saw
one sailor after another descend the
rope ladder, saw a limp, Inert mass
lifted from the rowboat and carried
up, as If It had beep merchandise, to
the deck of the yacht; saw two men
follow the Ump bundle over the gun-
wale; and finally saw the boat herself
drawn up and placed In her davits.
Hambleton’s mind at last slid to Its
conclusion, like a bolt into Its socket
"They’re kidnaping her, without a
doubt," he said slowly. For a moment
he was like one struck stupid. 81ow1y
he turned to the dock. looking up and
down Its orderly but unprepossessing
clutter. Dim lights shone here and
there, and a few hands were at work
at the farther end. The dull silence,
the unresponsive preoccupation of
whatever life was In sight made It all
seem as remote from him and from
this tragedy as from the stars.
In fact It was Impersonal and re-
mote to such a degree that Hamble-
ton's practical mind halted yet an In-
stant in doubt whether there were
not some plausible explanation. The
thought came back to him suddenly
that the motor-car must be somewhere
In the neighborhood If his conclusion
were correct.
<TO BE CONTINUED.)
RMUHMOS SCORE OR
GOVERNMENT ON BEHALF OF
COMMERCE COMMISSION.
Met Deflat at Hands of Supreme
Court to Make Rate Without ,
Substantial Evidence.
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Washington.—The government, on
behalf of the Interstate commerce
commission, Monday met defeat at the
hands of the supreme court of the
United States In Its attempt to estab-
lish In the commission a right to
make rates without substantial evi-
dence being presented at a hearing
to show the unreasonableness ot rates
about to be replaced.
At the same time, railroads of the
country won ah important point when
the court decided that in making rates
the commission could not rely upon
Information gathered in Investigations
by the commission, but must base
them on evidence presented in hear-
ings where the railroads would have
an opportunity to present their Bide of
the controversy.
In thus limiting the power ot the
commission, the court decided that
the question as to whether any sub-
stantial evidence had been presented
In any case was one of law in the
courts and was not Intrusted exclu-
sively to the commission.
Justice Lamar announced the
court's decision In a case involving
the validity of an order reducing class
rates from New Orleans to Alabama
cities.
He quoted the government’s position
that the Hepburn law in providing
that rates shoultPbe set aside if, after
a hearing, the commission should be
of the opinion that the charge was
unreasonable, meant that the commis-
sion's findings as to unreasonableness
of rates was not subject to review by>
the courts.
The justice in reply pointed to that
.clause In the law which required a
"full hearing" to be accorded, and to
the universal course of decisions in
this country that an administrative
order by the government was void if
Issued without a hearing or if the
hearing was Inadequate or unfair.
Quoting the government’s further
contention that congress required the
commission to obtain information to
enable it to perform Its duties, and
therefore when it issued an order it
was presumed to have obtained infor-
mation to support the findings, the
Justice said:
“Such a decision would nullify the
right to a hearing—for manifestly
there is no hearing when the party
does not know what evidence is offer-
ed or considered, or is not given an
opportunity to test or explain or re-
pudiate It. The information gathered
may be used sb the basis for Institut-
ing prosecutions for violations of the
law and for many other purposes but
Is not available as such, as in cases
where the parties are entitled to a
hearing.”
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8team for the 8oll.
For a year or two past certain grow-
ers of tomatoes, cucumbers and simi-
lar vegetables for the London marks!
have been injecting steam Into the soli
with a view to destroying Insects and
sings. It Is reported that the plan
works very well for that purpose, but
(he operation brought to light an un-
expected fact—namely, that the soil
thus treated increased greatly la fer-
tility; so greatly, indeed, that the ordi-
nary amount of manor# cannot to
used afterward
This effect has been explained as be-
ing due to the sterilisation produced
by the steam, which kills the phago-
cytes or protoxoa which In ordinary
circumstances keep down the number
of bacteria In the soil whose opera-
tions are beneficent In turning organic
nitrogen Into plant food.—Harper's
Weekly.
Take the Reeponalblllty.
Don’t throw sand Into your own
eyes by finding an ax cnee lor your
mistakes in someone else.
THE WORLD’S GREATEST ENGINEERING FEAT
A Little History of the Panama Canal
and How the 940,000,000 Has Been
Spent—Three Problems Solved.
Washington.—Following Is Interest-
ing history of the world’s greatest en-
gineering undertaking:
Total cost of canal.......$376,000,000
Fortifications and annual
payments to Panama____ 25,000,000
Total ..................$400,000,000
Total excavation by French, 78,000,-
000 cubic yards.
Total excavation by Americans, 188,-
280,312 cubic yards.
Still to be excavated, 24,223,826 cubic
yards.
Canal Is 88 per cent completed.
Dynamite used, 65,000,000 pounds.
Length of canal, 60 miles.
The four divisions are made up aa
follows:
Atlantic sea level to Oatun locka,
eight miles.
Lake and cut, surface of water eigh-
ty-five feet above sea level, thirty-two
miles.
Miraflores lake, surface of water
fifty-five feet above sea level, two
miles.
Miraflores lake to Pacific aea level,
eight miles.
Width of canal at bottom at narrow-
est place la 800 feet In Culebra out
Width of canal at buttom at widest
place, 1,000 feet In Oatun lake.
Width of canal at bottom at other
places, 600 feet
Deep water to deep water, fifty
milee.
Shore line to shore line, forty miles.
Dredged shipway from shore line to
deep water, both entrances to canal,
ten miles.
Tims in transit ten to twelve hours.
United States acquired canal tone,
February 26, 1904.
United States acquired property
rights of French canal and began work
May 4. 1904.
Official date of completion, January
1. 1916.
United States acquired rights of the
Panama canal from the French com-
pany for $40,000,000.
United States bought the canal tone
from the new republic of Panama for
$10,000,000.
-J
1
Mexican Federata Cut to Pieces.
Mexico City.—-A hundred federate
were cut to pieces by rebels near
Antencingo, la the state ot Puebla.
Monday. Survlvora who straggled Into
the city of Puebla gawe brief fietatte
of the attack. They said the fafidMlfi
wore greatly outaumberua.
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