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1 1 3 " ' l! : : ! a h BIG CANAL WILL i -J- V : i Great Engineering Peat to be ? A Completed This Month in New York. ... - r. , .'.v:. Albany, N. T, May 12.--We hear so ' much about the Panama Canal, but do ' ; not realize that there is to be opened T ?earlttiSarron7as the one -lnSew York State Barge Canal which is now practically completed ' and ready to be opened to navigation Vf between .Buffalo and Albany, has been called the world's greatest engineering feat, not alone because of the many ' . engineering problems encountered m - ; S construction, but . also an account ' orthe many, peculiar and original structures which are to be found m ' the various channels. The Panama Canal covers only a v district of fifty miles, while the New York canal extends over o30 miles, it has to cross " railroads, skirt cities, make junctions, follow river beds, - climb over mountains and drop down through valleys. Fifty-seven locks have been built in the canal. Then there are ten smaller ' ones. On the Panama Canal there are mi't "six pairs of locks. At Little Falls there is a lock which is the highest - one in the world 40 feet higher than . the lock at the Gatun section of the Panama Canal. At Medina, this can al goes through a gorge 90 feet deep and 500 feet wide. Across this there is an aqueduct built of concrete with a span of 285 feet and width of 129 feetl ' The New York canal has 30 dams, while the Panama , Canal has only three The drop of the new canal to the sea level is 563 feet. The drop of the Panama Canal is 120 feet. The dimensions of the new canal vary ac cording to the locality, but it has a - minimum depth of 12 feet throughout. It is 75 feet wide, with earth sections of the 'land line" 94 feet wide in rock, ctits and has a minimum width of 209 - feet in the beds of canalized rivers and, lakes. -- The new waterway is an enlarge ! maWt Af the nlH Rrifi T!anal. to whio hits been added a number of important llpks and feeders. The old canal, from Buffalo to Albany, is 39 miles I0ng. The principal additions are the Champlain canal, 61 miles long; the : Oswego canal, 23 miles long, and the Cayuga-Seneca canal, 23 miles long, giving, a total length to the new water- ; way of 446 miles. ; Some of the locks on the new canal are the finest in the world, the five at Waterford, the eastern entrance to the Erie, having the distinction of being the -greatest series of high lift locks Jtt. existence, rney nave a comDinea ' lift of 169 feet, which is one foot lessj than the total lift of every lock in the Panama Canal. Other works on thet wow SOU BE hi- f 1 1 - mmmml hi t I OPEI ' SEBI WKL55 Either Include t Quakefs Ffor Service or Eliminate All "Conscientious Objectors" y (By George H. Manning.) Washington, D. C, May 12 The Amrlr.ftn Union Aeainst Militiarism which has been urging the administra tion to adopt in the proposed draft lav the English provisions regarding "con scientious objectors" addressed a plea to the conference committee, urging them either to strike out the present exemption granted to Quakers or else to broaden the exemption clause to cover 'conscientious objectors" re gardless of their denominational con nections. The open letter to the com mittee was as follows: "Both the House and Senate bills recognize the consciences only of there who happen to belong to a wen-recognized sect whose creed opposes partic ipation m the war. Both Dins ian u recognize the right of the individual I -.r, alVimicr'h rrr an ien Of Tinthins' if not. individual. At the re- . quest of a number of organizations and individuals, including the Quakers, who are conscientiously opposed to participation in war, we urge the con ffirpnRp. committee to adopt the Eng lish provisions providing for the ex- animation, ana exemption ui wiist.rji tious objectors' regardless of their re ligious connections. We urge its adop tion: (1) "Because the present provision is grossly discriminatory and should either be stricken out entirely or changed to include any and all persons who have real conscientious scruples against participating in war. (2) "Because the present language in the bill does not even cover Quakers who have no formal creed. () "Because the experience in England demonstrates that few slack ers escape by virtue of such an exemp tion clause. (4) "Because the principle of such exemption from military service is rec ognized in 24 of our State constitu tions and in the statutes of 6 more." The Union urges that direct partici pation in war could be assigned to use ful non-combatant service. new waterway that have attracted world-wide attention in engineering circles are the great dams on the Mo hawk and the great excavations at Cohoes, where the canal terminates in the Hudson river. The waterway is costing the people of the State of New York $150,000,000, and those who have studied it feel con fident that it will accomplish the pur pose for which it is constructed, the opening of a modern waterway for the easy, rapid and inexpensive transpor tation of goods from the Middle West to the Atlantic seaboard. ive'tL Piy school, I'LL B THB rCHEK WILL WE Y 1 international Cartoon Co.. NfV.18T V . 7 THE ERRTH CO 'ROUHO, 0r V or r 5 5 " ' ' ' . , ' ' ' I Am tWLove ol a Ebstlieif! I I m A. A A Mutual Lite I rr- srrrni . 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