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...looked to be capable of negotiating even a jungle cart trail. On the side flapped a dusty banner proclaiming its destination as "New York, America, U. S. A." At that time no motor road crossed the Isthmus from Panama City (southeast) to Colon (northwest). The Panama Railroad hurdled huge Gatun Lake on a trestle, planes soared from side to side, but the motor road existed only in blueprints. We turned out for the two boys and their rut-jumping car-we hoisted them on to the railroad trestle with one wheel just outside the tracks, and the other inside...
Died. Major-General William Luther Sibert, 75, builder of the Atlantic division of the Panama Canal and of the Gatun Locks, manager of many another important Army engineering job, organizer and director (1918-20) of the Chemical Warfare Service; at his country home near Bowling Green, Ky. Although he quarreled with Goethals and went home before the Canal was finished, Soldier Sibert, unlike Soldier Greely (see below) got his Congressional thanks right away...
Neither the hoariest monkey nor the most venerable boa constrictor on the jungle shores of Gatun Lake had seen such a sight as took place on that cobalt body of water last week. For 48 hr. a file of warships in pairs, by the dozen, by the score streamed steadily westward through the Panama Canal...
Lead ship was the light cruiser Milwaukee. Up she went 85 ft. through Miraflores and Pedro Miguel locks to Gatun Lake. Forty-eight hours later the training-ship Melville ended the procession of the in ships. Canal capacity had been estimated at 48 ships in 24 hr. Admiral Sellers and Governor Schley congratulated all hands on raising the record to 55 ships...
Last week for the first time since the Panama Canal was opened to traffic on Aug. 15, 1914, a ship sank in the canal.* In Gatun Lake, half a mile south of the locks, the Dutch freighter Brion suddenly began to list badly, sank before she could be beached. All hands (23) were saved by canal launches...