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D E V O T E D,, T O *C.O M'MERCE, E N G I N E E R I IN G A N D S C I E N C E , VOL.V. NQ 17. CLEVELAND, O. APR. 28 1883. 12.00 I'Kit Annum 8INQLB ( OP1KB f> Croiys. LIST OK VESSELS THAT WILL USE THE "PROVIDENCE" WIND¬ LASS THE PRESENT YEAR. The nhlp building by John Currier, Jr„ . Newburyport, Mass., will have' a Provldonoo capstan Windlass. The large schooner build¬ ing by David Clnrk at Konnebuukport, Me., for Ciiptnin C. A. Franklin anil others will Lave n'Provldeneo pump brake windlass. The large bark building by Loring, Clia- dea & Co., at Yarmouth, Me., for Captain, Benj. Webster and others, a Providence cap-' Stan windlass. The brig building by I. J. Southard & Son, at Richmond, lie, will have Frovldenoo Iron pump brake windlass. The largo bark building by John McDon¬ ald, Bath, Me., will have a Providence cap¬ stan ulndlusa. The schooner building by Geo. Russell at Portland, Mo., for Captain A. J. York, will have a Providence Iron pump brako windlass, Hchooner building by Dunn & Elliott, Thomaston, Me., will have a Providence iron pump brake wind¬ lass. Schooner building by George & Cur¬ rier at Newburryport, Mass., for Captain Freeman Gage, Will have a Providence pump brake windlass. The ship of 2,000 tons build, Ing by Gosa & Sawyer for Captain J. Ii. Kelley at Bath, Me., .will havo u Providence capstan windlass. The ship-ol 2.000 tolis bulMlng by Goss, Sawyor & Packard, Bath, Me,,'forF. 11. Smith, & Co., will haven Providence capstan windlass. The ship building at St. John. N. B.,*y J» S, Pucker ■villi h.ivc a Providence capstan windlass. The ship building at'St. John, N. 11., by David Lynch will have a Providence cap¬ stan windlass. Thesteambarge building by George Kounlg, ol Marino City, Midi,, will ^ifave a Providence capstan windlass. Large steamer building by Captain James David¬ son, at Went Bay City, Mich., will havo a Piovidenco steam capstan windlass. The schooner building by J. \V. Abbott & Co,, Mlllord, Del., for Captain Peter Rlggs, will hate a Piovideuce pump brnk'i windlass. Schooner bullillngliy VV. E. Woodall, & Co., Bnltimoro, Md , lor Captain Plllsburj, will have a Piovldence capstan windlass. The Bchooner building by W. F. Ferwald, Ports¬ mouth, N. II., tor Captain 11. O. Benton, will have a Providence pump brake wind¬ lass. Steamer building by John luglis & Sun, Biooklyn, N. Y., lor the Poiilaud Slcain Packet Co. will have a Pi evidence capstan windlass. The schooner building by Win. Rogeis, Bath, Me., lor W. IT. Church, of Taiiutuu, Mass., will have a Puivldencc pump bitike windlass, bchoon- er untitling by N.. P. Keen.Noitli Weyuiouth, Mass., tor Captain Geoigo 11. Hussey will have a Providence capstan w Indians. The steamer building by the Detroit Diydoyk Co., Delrull, Mich.,"will have a Providence enp-tan windlass. The schooner building by Gessnar & Marc, New Haven, Cu, tin Henry button and others will have1 a Piovl- denee pump hi alio windlass. The steam vaulit building by Win. Cramp & Sons, Phllndel pills, Pa., loi Jay Gould, E-q., wlllhniea Piovidenco Hteainyacht windlass. The steamer building by 11 U. Hllliuan A, bon for Wainei & MCiilil, ol Philadelphia, Pa.,, will have a Providence incsnengei chain pump hiake wIiiiIIkss. The linn sleainsb.|M ' No. 211), 2JO.221.4JJ, 22Jaii(l 224, building b\ Jiiliu Hunch & bon, at Chcstt r, Pa,., will have Pimidcnio capstan windlasses and Pin\ideuco steam capstans all. Tile lion steamships No. 2.13 and 231, building by Win. Ci imp & buns Co., will have Piovi¬ denco slea'ui capstan windlasses and Iwo Piovlilcuco steam capstan* each all one on Hie tiuiiliaue (leek and one on tlii1 uppei (Ink. Tlie twollghteis biillillug.nl Paiiaiua for the Paelllc AJall bteainslilp ( o. will halo Fnivldciico (.rank w Indlnsses. The stcnuiei building by rile Lockwood Muiiulaclurlng Co, Uusloii/Miiss., will have a Piovideuce cn|i-tan windlass. The lion sailing ships bullillngliy John Roach & Sou at Chester, Pa., will have a Piovideuce capstan wlndl.i-s. A steam capstan has been oideied In Wesid and UeGiees lor sieuiii (hedge lor Mcxltu. 'l'weniy-slx dicdije liud sua boats tin the MIs-lsslpiil and Missouri llvms will have Pinvldeiii'O steam capslans. The Hchoonel building by Atkinson & Fllinute, Newbniy- port, loi Ca|ililln N. G. IViidlclou, will have a Providence capstan windlass. The sohoon- or building by-George 1. Currier, of Now- burrypoit, lor Captain N. B. Kelley, will linveTr~.Provldenec pump brake windlass. Tho schooner building by George.'IJitssell, of Portland, for Captain Harding Tucker,, will have a Providence pump brake wind, lass. Tho pilot boat Ehen.D. Jordan build. Ing by Abi|ll Gore at East Boston, Mass.. will havo a Providence.,pump brako wind¬ lass. The tJulted State* Revenue steamer .Boutwcll repairing bv Malstcr & Beiinoy, Baltimore, Mil., will have a Providence pump brako windlass. The steamer Ponsa- cola, building by Harlan & Holllngsworth Co., of Wilmington, Del., will have a Prov¬ ldonco pump brako windlass. The steam- barge building at Buffalo by A Mills & Co., will have a providence cjpstnu windlass. Tho large ship building bv Z. H. Blair, lor 1. F. Chapman, of New York, will have a Providence capstan windlass which has been used on all his Bhips since 1837, also a main deck capstan, of same make. The steamer-'building for Bostow & to mir a dam upon an earthquake. The catastrophe not only will Impair tho yallio of the railway1 property for which M. dp LeBsppj,lias paid Birch a handsome price, but It Is likely to shako public cnnllilcneoJn the ultimate miccess of tho canal itself. Even ■before the earthquake the outlook waB not inspiriting, and If tile truth about tho canal were fully known It woulij hardly conduce to tho comfort ol holders of Panama stock. Take, for Instance, the question of alio heartli of the Isthmus. •'Although the rainy season Is very'light thin vear." snya a re¬ cent dispatch from New York,."It has been found necessary to order tho stoppage of all heavy work on the canal. No laborer Is able to work throe days'togcther or he would be stricken with fever." Tho thermometer in the hot season stands 130 to440 degrees In the sun; the maun heat alike In hot seasons and dry Is 85 degrees' Far five months In the year during the rain work is almost Im¬ possible. Yot M. do Lessops declares that there Is hardly a healthier place in the whole Gloucester Steamboat Co. In to have the Piovideuce steam capstan windlass, new style. Tho two sleantyaerits building by .John Rnach & Son, also (lie yacht building at I'lcnton, Mien , lor bnhu Claig, and the yacht building j>y Geinge Law ley and ban, at South Huston, Mass., will have the Piov¬ ideuce patent w Indhcses. The revenue Meainer FLijsendeu, at Buffalo, N. Y... will have a PinviiTctico capstan windlass. THE TIUJ1UI ABOUT THE PANAMA CANAL. A short tiino since, bv an ordinary .coinci¬ dence, the Panama Kalinin was icinpoiaiih destiny ed by an eiuilupnike Ihu verv day on which (he money was-iiti-ciibcil loi lis pin (base In Palls. All coiiiiiinulcalloubetween Aspluiiall and Panama Inn! been lulcirnpt- cil, ilie liildges having been destroyed by the earlhqiuike. The damage dinle to the buildings in Panama is said In he Immense, but the chief Imp'irtiiiNiii ol thu Incident Is the illusliation it nllniilsnf the instability ot the giiiiinil nier which M. De Lc»scps pm- lioHcnlitcam tbegiealesi eiiglm-iulug wol'k ol thlsiciiiuiy. II lalliiiail hi IdgcH cannot stand, whni seemhy is llicic tor this gigan- lie (lain which alonti l« to stand between Ihe swollen Chagios mid llm liiMniitdcsmicllini ol'lhociiuilr' it Is piMveiblully dnngeioils to build a house upuu sail I, but it is woise world than Panama, anil hot so long'ago Is icportcd to have said that "It his family weie 6lck In) would send them to the lstb- iniiHt to convalesie." It must be adiuittid, hnwoici, in justice to the "great Fieneh- iiinn" tluit II the) did go tliele they would Hud hospital iKioiiiiniiiliitinn pioildcil b\ l|ic compnuy on a guuiil slide whlih shows a mote accuiaio nppieeiaUou ot the oxigen- (les (it the climate. "'1 he Caiinl ('(inipaui 's hospital buildings in Panama," we ale told, "will loi in n small city ol eigty-biiu uitllil- ings, and will cusl £10(1,000." Another laige hospital has been established at Colon, with (linpeusiii les along the lino ol the canal; bin iiiiuieious ifs they are die nuiiibei ot sick is in excess ol llieaecoinmnihiiion. At cording lu the olllchil upon, Ihe humlalit) ainoiig those einplii\ed on the canal was no hlglti i than the Eiunpcuii aveitige. In Jul), IBM, only twelve deaths occurred inning 1,118 woikmen, and last Apill only live nut ot 2,(152, This )car the corespondeniso'nthe spot rcpicsent thu mortality as nppnlTliig. '•hi lour ihiysieeeiitlv the cuinpanv lost nine olllccis'tiniii fcici. Instead nt iiiciiiglng IHc to leu dial^in per month, Ihej ate aieraging that nuiiibei-dally. Twool the ahlesl engl- uceis ol the eoiiipany suciceded vadi olhei as cblef-ol-woiks only to be swept oil by le¬ ver, one allet tluee days' Illness, Ihu other only tidily six hoiu»alter scUure. The gen¬ eral seel ulary shared, their late, together with many other ofllcora and laborer* by the hundred." Tho lady superior of tho hos-> pitnl died tho smite night as tho last chlof:of works. It Is difficult to conceive a more sombre picture of a pcst-strlcken district I ban that which is palmed by thote who arc living in M. do Lesscp's sanitarium for con¬ valescents. Smnll-pox has been succeeded by yellow lever and tho health authorities at Jamnlra and New Orleans order all ves¬ sels arriving from tho Isthmus into quaran¬ tine. American observe! s, whether journalists, naval olllcers or consuls, Hgroo in declaring that Httle work has been done on ihe isth¬ mus. The latest testimony on this head Is dated July 10, and declares that beyond a lew wooden villages and a Innq hi>wn through the woods marking the sight of the canal, next to nothing has been done, From one to- two thousand workmen, mostly ne¬ groes from Jamaica, together with some Chinamen, haye been employed since Feb¬ ruary 1881; but ao far the ground has hardly been broken. A ditch line been dug here and there'but excavation must bo begun In earnest befoic any conception can be formed of tlie trusuorthlness of the estimate or tho possibility of its execution. The canal is di¬ vided Into sections, and much satisfaction has. been expressed that in letting the first two contracts the excavation has been undertak¬ en at lllteen pence per iiietroAiistead of two shillings allowed for in tho original esti¬ mate. So far, of course, this is very good. But it remains to bo seen whether the ad- unt:ir.i&> .pucuUto'iii will bo able to com¬ plete their contract at the figure stated. The Hist section, fioiu Colon to Gatun, a distance ot seven and a half miles, Is to be completed in three years; but as the line pusses through a swamp to which Ohat Moss was solid ground, and a broach of contract only In¬ volves the fnrfeitnieol £4,00", It is piema- ture to conclude lliat the work which is not jet begun will bo completed at contiact pi Ice. According to a French correspond¬ ent, tho dredgers aud'yxcavalors seuT~uTi horn Europe are not woiking well, and wilj have to be reconstructed, 'these dlQlcultles will no doubt be speedily overcome, but wo must wait fur a serious beginning to be made beluru Ihu company can bo said to bo fahly lace to lace with thu real obstacles which they have to surmount'. It Is olteii taken lor ginnlc,d that because M. de Lesseps severed ihe Isihmus of Suei he must uKo succeed in severing that of Panama. But tile ditch which bu dug in the sand from Port bald to Suez cannot lor a moment he compared to the channel which lie has undertaken to hew thiougli t.ie rocks and swamps ol Panama. The new canal will only be half as lung as the old one, but as It p.ibses through a mountain range neces¬ sitating!! clean nit J50 led deep through solid lock, [lie ilitlkull\ ot its constiuciiou cannot be estimated by lis lenglh. In Alrlca Ihe liver Nile was ot invaluable scivice to M. l)e Lesseps. In America, utter tho eailhqunkcs, his gieatest eiietny is^he rivur tliagics, whose luiliuleiit ipiiriit, unless cut bed h) a (lulu, the like ol wl\iih has never been (onsti ueted by engineei, is ccitaiuio de-troy ihe canal the llist iiuiiy season. In Sin/he was close to l|ie oveintiuked lahm iii.ukeiol llneo continents, and lu the ini- incillaU' nclghhu!Iiund ol Ihe uotksbops of lilt woild. In Piintinia he has to impoi t ne¬ groes lioiii Jamaica and coolies liniii China. All bU m.(Colony has to bu Unpolled llious/- nnds ol milch fioni Euiope oi Aiitfih'ftT-*Hrrt evdi in bue/ he would piobahly have lulled had it not been tin the lavish siippoit ol the laleJvliedHc and the poweilul patronage ot Napoleon ill. The Columbian t,o\ei nineut lujs no ie*o>nccs to phnc at his difposal, aud the lllidifguif(d jcnlollcy (it [be United blates will piohabl} lead to tlni construction ol a Competing-canal with an Aineilcnn guarantee. Yet, even If we accept the Suez ' piiicudeul.it is tar fioiu reassullug to Ihe hidden, ol Panama stock. When Jl, do Lei.. sep- began to make the Sue/, canal, he esti¬ mated ilsinM.i. a Mule moid than eight millions nieillng. lleloie it was opened it insiliiilc locn than twenty million*. iM.de L(Ssi-ps estimates the cost ol (lining the Paiiania canal lit twcuiy-clx million pounds. Coiitiiiuid lo page a