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...Varilla, engineer, editor, diplomat soldier of fortune, veteran of the World War, in which he lost a leg, and coworker of Ferdinand de Lesseps who almost built the Panama Canal French private companies, has come back to his first love. He wants to substitute a billion-dollar, sea-level strait, 1,000 feet wide at the bottom for the present lock canal built by the U. S. Government under President Roosevelt...
...opened his campaign for this objective with a notable speech to th. Cincinnati Commercial Club, before which, exactly 23 years ago, he preached the necessity for the Panama route instead of the Nicaraguan. At time he also advocated a sea-level strait instead of a lock canal. The Panama route was chosen but the sea-level program was abandoned on account of expense...
...eliminate these disadvantages he proposes a sea-level strait conforming to the following conditions...
...Construction of the new strait on the site of the present canal without interrupting traffic. This he calculates could be done in about 20 years by setting 50 dredges to work widening and deepening the channel...
...Rupert, B. C., 2,200 miles from Greenland, and later the station of the Calgary (Alberta) Herald, caught faint and fragmentary messages in Morse, reporting the Bowdoin frozen solid in the ice floes of Smith Sound, at about 79° latitude, some 706 miles from the Pole. This is the strait separating northwest Greenland from the large group of islands called Ellesmere Land. Captain MacMillan is not seeking to reach the Pole but will stay in the Arctic zone two years for scientific observations. Winter is now upon the expedition, with its several months of continuous darkness...