Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1925, Page 46

46 SALINA CRUZ AGAIN OPEN T0 BIG SHPS Heopening of “Mexico’s Pan- ama” to Pacific Traffic An- ¢ nounced to Shipping. news t hippt | West Coast Mexican port is en example of how an important hap. pening in world economies can wreck the prosperity of a remote com- munity,” says a bulletin from head- quiirters of the National Geographic Socfety, “and how nature—aided by neglect—can overcome in a few years the millions spent on great en- gineering projects. Port of Isthmian Railway. alina Cruz looks important on a map, ‘sitting pretty’ at the Pacific end of Mexico's 100-mile ocean-to- ocean raflway across the Isthmus of Tehu: Note from statistics that a great British engineering firm spent $40,000,000 constructing there some of the world’s best port facilities, | Salina _Cruz looks important dly. But there is an economic er in the woodpile’ that doesn’t | up in the picture—the Panama | 1,000 miles to the southeast. | n burst Salina z's sperity. works at Salina Cruz| were completed in 1908 and imme- éfately a big business sprang into ex- istence. Thousands of tons of Ha- walian sugar - which formerly had roade the slow voyage of many days around South America poured into Salina Cruz to be whisked across to the Atlantic in & day. Numerous big ships came, too, with miscellaneous commodities. “The wharves were piled high with boxes and bales, batterles of electric cranes bent over and rose like mem- bers of a physical culture class, switch engines snorted, and train after train pulled out for the short trip to the Atlantic. At one time freight trains moved in each direction daily on such close schedules that the locomotives almost bumped into the cabooses of the trains ahead. Once a Commerce Center. “The stable Diaz regime was in con- trol in Mexico when Salina Cruz jumped into activity. The Mexican Trevolutions that began a few years later interfered somewhat with the business of the port, but the traffic still managed to go on in spurts. Then &lmost simultaneously, came the World War and the opening of the Panama and Salina Cruz became a L v little seaside village with the | unused equipment of a city Only a few small ships came in° the cranes stopped their tireless bobbing and be- came gaunt, dead machines, their arms fixed like abandoned semaphores. Rallway equipment rusted on sidings: people drifted away. The population dropped from 10,000 to barely 3,000. “Engineers had known from the first that sand brought in by the coastal current was Salina Cruz's great enemy, and that continuous dredging was the price that must be paid for a port that could accommo- date deep-draft freighters. After the great slump in trafiic, dredging was carried on onl intermittently and sand soon blocked the harbor en- trance to all but small boats. The recent opening of the port to large craft may mean a new growth for the town, for while it can never rival Panama, there is an excellent oppor- tunity, under stable conditions, for building up a business in goods requir- ing such quick transit that the elimi. nation of the extra milage by way of nama is worth while. There is also possible, n the future, the develop- yoent of a considerable business in the exchange of goods between the two Mexican coasts. Healthier Than Most Tropic Ports. “Salina Cruz was a made-to-order town and as a consequence is health- fer than most tropical ports. When the port site was selected a small vil- lage existed on a little lagoon. It was @ deadly fever hole and was com- pletely wiped out. The stagnant la- £oon was dredged into a harbor basin end connected with the sea. A wide, massive wharf was built across the seaward side of the basin with a ship entrance 100 feet wide. On this huge wharf six tremendous warehouses were bullt, each more than 400 feet Railways were built along the and a battery of 18 large elec- : cranes was installed. From the ends of the wharf curving breakwa ters were built out into the sea, almost inclosing an outer harbor of several hundred acres. “Just as the breakwaters inclose the harbor, Salina Cruz is itself inclosed by a semi-circular ridge of high hills whose ends meet the sea to the east| and west, forming a little basin about three-quarters of a mile wide and a| little over a mile long. This basin is a barren dese nd in the middle of i, half a mile from the sea, is the town The climate is very hot and ary, and all of the inhabitants who can do so keep themselves secluded | until after sunset. ‘Northers,” which blow up about twice a week during the dry season, furnish a relief, but they create sandstorms which are a trial in themselves. So prevalent are these port THE EVENI First Scarlet Tanagers Arrive; Other Feathered Songsters Here Brilliant Coated Visitors More Than Week Ahead of Time—One of Finest Singers Among District’s Birds Becoming Rarer as W oods Disappear. The scarlet tanager, the most bril- liant of Washington's bird colony, has arrived in its Summer nesting groves more than a week earlier than usual, bird speclalists of the Department of Agriculture report. s and it is considered certain that the famllies which nest in the deeper thickets of Rock Creek Park and some of the woods which border the District already are here. The tanager with its brilllant scarlet coat seldom fs seen because of its habit of nesting in thickets. It i3 consid- ered_one of the finest sopgsters of the District’s Summer life. The gradual elimination of District woods by buiflding operations gradu- ally is driving the tanagers out, De- partment of Agriculture specialists re- port. They cannot live except in woods, and the hundreds which for- merly flocked about Washington now have been reduced to a very few nest- ing pairs. The tanager usually fiies North in early May and begins to make its nest late in May. It sum- mers from Columbia o Peru. Reports received to date indicate that the local Summer bird life is, on the whole, unusually early in arrival from the South this year, although | bird specialists are loath to say that this indicates anything on which to base weather predictions, since the reputed instinct of birds in sensing early warm weather has largely been discounted. Among the birds reported to have arrived from two weeks to one or two days before their usual time are the hooded warbler, the chestnut-sided warbler, the black-throated grabe, the black and white warbler, the wood thrush, the king bird and the purple martin. These mostly arrive at night and fiy during the darkness from Winter fields scattered from the Southern United States to central South America. The Baitimore oriole, the tanager's closest rival as the best dressed local bird, has not yet been spotted, but is due to arrive in a day or two. Many of the birds already seen may PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese A Phenix "CHEESE Untouched by hands Arrived in Washington That wonderful remedy for NEURITIS Called SAL-FATE SAL.FATE is the most talked of and recommended remedy that has been put on the market in recent years. During the past five ¥ remarkable re. sulta have been accomplished in thousands of cases by the use of this medicine. Contains no opiates or harmful drugs. up in capeules. 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The fact ‘that one is seen does not indicate that the whole tribe has reached its Summer camp. Of the night migrants, it is claimed, there is no means of knowing whether they fly in flocks or whether only two or three remain together during the long flight. e Alaska Fears Quake. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 30.— An earthquake lasting three seconds was felt here at 2:30 o'clock yester- day afternoon. No damage was re- ported. The direction of the tremor was unascertained. FREE! Three-piece Console Set with purchase of $25 to $50. A Wrought Iron Bridge Lamp with purchase of $75. 42-piece Set Dinner- ware or 26-piece Set Rogers Tableware with purchase of $100 or more. NG _STAR, WASHT PORTRAITS ABSENT FROM ART EXHIBIT Landscapes Leading This Year in Paris—Improved Quality Is in Evidence. By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 30.—The annual clas- sic exhibition of the two leading French art socleties, which will open today, will be the smallest in num- ber of canvases and the highest in average quality in recent years. The occupation of the Grand Palais by the International Exposition of Dec orative Arts drove the artists from their usual quarters to a temporary building in the Tuileries Gardens, where space is limited and a finer se- lection of exhibits is required.. The result is seen in the absence of the artistic extravagances which crept into exhibitions of recent years. There is a general soberness of sub- jects and classic technique in exe- “Theoe Jlational” Presents Sensational Furniture Bargains at LOW PRICES AND EASY CREDIT TERMS cution. Restful landscapes, some of which are of exceptional merit, are the leading feature, instead of the numerous portraits which predon: inated in former years, The 'Ame ican exhibits, though comparatively few, show up well with the best of other forelgn and French work. Russian exiles are the most numer- ous exhibitors from abroad, their por- traits being among_the most striking displayed. A few Japanese canvases show a tendency toward European methods. Scuipture, judging from the limited number of exhibits al- lowed in the space avalilable, is los- ing something of the war influence and is getting away from subjects suggesting monuments of the dead. BAIN RETURNS TO U. S. Ends Five Months' Study of Ar- gentine Mining. Director H. Foster Bain of the Bu- reau of Mines returned yesterday from a flve-month visit to Argentina, where, at the request of that government, he made an exhaustive study of the pos- sibilities of developing iron and steel production. 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