Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1928, Page 18

18 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, 1928 —PART - 1. D. C. FEBRUARY 5. TABLET DEDICATED T0 CANAL ENGINEER Memorial Set in Gaillard Cut as Tribute to Builder of Chasm. Set in the wall of the greatest man- made gorge in the world, where it will' proclaim his achievement to every ves- a bronze tablet of ns was unveiled vester- dav in Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal through Culebra Mountain. in honor of the late Col. David du Bose | Saillard. U S A. who engineered the igeing of what was declared the most difficult cut of the vast project The memorial is let into the side ot Contractors Hill. from which it faces Gold Hill. the point in the cut at which Col. Gaillard met and defeated his greatest engineering difffulties Wrought in bas-relief by James Earle Praser. sculptor of the Alexander | & Hamilton and the Ericsson monu- ' proclan A the sculptor has shown two figur represe; which Col. wielded fully in car his plans. sweltering labor, Mrs. Gaillard, the widow of the man ceremonies. whose memory was honored vesterday. | was among those who witnessed the o S exposition for all time of the tablet to her husband's genius. She left Wash- ington some time ago with Mr. Fraser, the scuptor, and Mrs. Fraser, and at that time she declared that the unveil- ing ceremonies would be simple, but 1913 | ympressive. deep in the gorge that Col lard engincered. The military an g out Memorial Inscription Particingied fan Against the background. in which are graven two steam shovels meeting in the center of the cut which now bears the engineer's name, is carved the crypt inscription: In Memory of David du Bose Gaillard 29 Builder of Gaillard Cut In the foreground. in bolder relief, digging between Gatun Miguel civilian population of the Canal Zont including many men who had know: and worked with Col. Gaillard in the thr rocky ridge had been completed, he and his men were to experience heart- breaking and back-bending setbacks. Farly calculations had determined that approximately 53,000,000 cubic yards of material would have to be dug out of and removed from what was first known as “Culebra Cut.” When the shovels dug into the vitals of nature, however, landslides that were actually more like vast earth glaciers, covering at one time as many as 75 acres and again heaving an area of 47 acres of rock and earth into the ditch, laboriously dug, set awry the plans. The original plans called for a cut that was 670 feet acyss its top at a glven point. and throvyh the 26 slides and the series of upheavals of the bot- tom of the ditch itself. the cut today is 1,800 feet scross. Instead of the original yardage of material, approxi- mately 105,000,000 cubic yards were caten from Culebra before its wound could be concreted and flooded to serve the men who gashed it. Culebra cut, which is nine m long and of an average depth of { feet, while at places its walls of moun- ta rise 500 feet above the channel }Ix tom, was designated as “Galllard Cut” by order of President Wilson, who | deemed it just that the engineer be |riven his proper recognition. And so, |in further honor to the man whose |genius contributed so much to the completion of the gorge, the memorial tablet was unveiled yesterday. Col. Gaillard entered the United States Military Academy in 1884 and he was graduated with such grades that he was promptly appointed an officer in the Engineer Corps. He had been in charge of river and harbor im- New Jersey avenue, 7';-minute head- ) ay. ‘The changes were sought by the com- I pany on the ground that a traffic count | |on its lines indicated that the ur\'ice' was unsatisfactory from an operating |and financial standpoint. In its ap- | plication, the company stated additional | rush hour service would be furnished where e base | required on each of th | lines. | Utilities Commission Permits PLAYERS TO ENTERTAIN. | New Schedules Asked i - | St. Peter's Players will present “Peg by Company. | 0' My Heart,” in the Church Hall, Sec- | ond and C streets southeast, Tuesday = | and Wednesday nights. Past successes An application of the Capital Trac- | of gt, Peter's Players are expected to be | tlon Co. for authority to change cer-| syrpassed n the presentation of this italn of its base routes was approved ' popular comedy. yesterday by the Public Utilities Com~ 'fl:e cast mcluMd's Eileen Dugan, Mar- mission. The changes will become SAret Tappan Margaret Eckioff, Ernest | effective upon the completion of the | Guddy, William Bray and Preston necessary schedules. Cnm;;‘bell Rev. J. C. Murphy Is direct- | "« The new base routes are as follows: | ing the players, assisted by Willlam A | *Takoma Park and 14th and Colorado Walsh and Alfred A. McGarraghy. St.| | avenue to Eighth and F streets north- | Peter's Orchestra, directed by Justin east, 10-minute headway from Takoma McCarthy, will present special numbers. and 5-mipute headway from Four- teenth and Colorado_avenue. Fourteenth and Decatur to Peace | Monument, 5-minute_headway. | | “Kensington and Chevy Chase Lake !to Twenty-sixth and G streets, 10- | minute headway. 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