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TILE BABRE DAILY TIMES, DEC. 1
7. 1906.
PRESIDENT'S PANAMA .
CANAL A1ESSAGE
Continued from first 'page.
ngers"of 'the commissary stores." In
the evening I had en interview . with
the British consul, Mr. Mallet, and the
French consul, Mr. Gey. I saw the
lieutenants, the cbjef executive and ad
ministrative ofTcers under the en
gineering and sanitary departments.
I also saw and had long talks with
two deputation! one of .machinists and
one representing the railway men of
the dirt trains listening to what they
tmd to say as to the rate of pay and
(various other matters and going over
as much In detail a a possible all the
different questions they brought up.
'As to some matters I was able to meet
their wishes; other requests I refused;
as to yet others I reserved Judgment
TblrU Dr.
' On Saturday morning we started at
8 o'clock from the hotel. We went
through t&a Culebra cut stopping oft
to. see the mmrines and also to investi
gate certain towns one, of white em
ployees, as to which iri certain respects
complaint bad been made to me, and
another town where I wanted to see
certain houses of the colored employ
ees. We vent over the site of the pro
posed Gatun dam, having on the first
day Inspected the sites of the proposed
La Boca and Sosa dams. Wo went out
on a little toy railway to the reservoir,
which had been built to supply the
people of Colon with water for their
houses. There we took lunch at the en
gineers mess. We then went through
the stores nd shops of Cristobal, In
specting carefully the bouses of both
the white and colored employees, mar
ried and unmarried, together with the
other buildings. We then went to Co
Ion and saw the fire department at
work. In four minutes from the signal
the cnginos had come down to Front
street and twenty-one two and a half
inch hose pipes were raising streams
of water seventy-five feet high. We
rode abbot Colon, through the various
streets, paved, unpaved and in process
of paving, looking at the ditches, sew
ers, curbing and the lights. I then
went over the Colon hospital In order
to compare It with the temporary town
or field reccrvins hospitals which I had
already seen and Inspected. I also In
spected some of the dwellings of the
employees. In the evening I attended
a reception given by the American em
ployees on tua isthmus, which took
; plaoe on one of the docks in Colon, and
from there went aboard the Louisiana.
Each day from twelve to eighteen
hotrs were spent in going over and In-
. specting alt there was to be seen and
in examining various employees.
Whit the French Left.
At the outset I wish to pay a tribute
to the amount of work done by the
French Canal company nnder very dif
ficult circumstances. Many of the
buildings they put up were excellent
and are still in use, though naturally
the houses are now getting out of re
pair, and, much of the work they, did
in the C'iilebra cut and some of the
work they did in -digging have been of
direct anfl real benefit. , This country
has never made a better Investment
than the $40,000,000 which It paid to
the French company for work and bet
terments, including especially the Fan
ama railroad.
An inspection on the groupd at the
height of the rainy seuson served to
convince' rue of the wisdom of con
gress In refusing to adopt either a high
level or a. sea level canal. There seems.
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Ontlemon: I purchased my Qunltcr. range in Jan", 1883, of Joseph Troiil.-,
.this citj. Its number is 8 20 ami it is in perfect condition. During the
twenty-ono years 1 have had it, it has had but two new grates and has been,
li'.'cl three 'times. It is a first class baker, is very economical oa fuel, aad
Jias given me perfect satisfaction.
I v.-oukl not change it for nnv other make and as far my work ij
concerned, it is as good as a new oil... , . . -
" , Respectfully, ";!
- ' ' Mrs. SaraV.Iler.ney.
121 Olo Street.. ' '
. Wo'waiit In tell you the history of Sirs, lleaney's range, for it is typical of the good service
Eivcn by the (Junker Ranges all over New England.
, Io Juno 1883, Mrs. llenney bought ft Quaker Rano;e for $18.00 and in twenty-one years
of constant use it has only cost her $3.50 for grates and linings. This makes hor total cost for
t;enty-onc years, $31.50 an average of only $2.45 a year less than 5c a week and less than one
cent a day. ." '" , .
Tir'a is pretty cheap for a first 'class range, isn't it? but there's more of the story to follow.
.'At tl'O end of twenty-one years, Mrs. lleaney's range was in, such good condition, that it
was worth J23.00 and in addition to that she was the winner in ono of our recent "Ohlost Quaker
Ji'iM-w Contest a', r-rccciving in exchange for her old range, a new Quaker worth $75.00. s
Therefore after using a Quaker Range for twenty-one years, Mrs. Ilcaney is now tho
ewner of a'" brand new Quaker the finest in the line and is actually $24.50 to the good.
t ."What do von think of that
C. W, Avenil & Company, ! 8. North Mam St., Bamr, Vt
to be a universal agreement among all
people competent to judge that the
Panama route, the one actually chosen,
Is much superior to both the Nicaragua
and Darlen routes.
Preliminary Work.
The wisdom of the canal manage
ment has been shown in nothing more
clearly than in the way la which, the
foundations of the work have been
.laid., :., :.
The first great problem to be solved,
upon the solution of which the success
of the rest of the work depended, was
the problem of sanitation. This was
from the outset under the direction of
Dr. W. C. Gorgas. who Is to be made
a full member of the commission. The
re&ults have been astounding. The
Isthmus bad been a byword for deadly
unhealthfulnees. Now, after two years
of our occupation, the conditions as
regards sickness and the death rate
compare favorably with reasonably
healthy localities In the United States.
Especial care has been devoted to min
imizing the risk duo to those species
of mosquitoes which have been found
to propagate malarial and yellow
fevers Everywhere are to be seen the
drainage ditches which have removed
the breeding places of the mosquitoes,
while the whole jungle Is cut away
for a considerable space around the
habitations, thus destroying the places
in which the mosquitoes take shelter.
, Saw Onlr One Moaqnito.
As a matter of fact, but a single
mosquito, and this not of tho danger
ous species, was seen by any member
of onr party during my three days
on the isthmus. Equal care Is taken by
the Inspectors of the health depart
ment to secure cleanliness in tha
houses and proper hygienic condition
of every kind.
I Inspected the large hospitals at An
con and Colon, which are excellent
examples of what tropical hospitals
should be. I also Inspected the receiv
ing hospitals in various settlements. I
went through a number of the wards
in which the colored men are treated, a
number of those in which the white
men are treated Americans and Span
lards. Both white men and black men
are treated exactly alike, and their
treatment ia as good as that which
could be obtained in oar first class hos
pitals at home.
flratth SHnwtnir rtcmarkably Good.
In October there were ninety-nine
deaths among the employees of t"he
Isthmus. There were then on the rolls
6,500 whites, seven-eighths of them
Americans. Of these whites but two
died of disease, and neither was an
American. Of the 6,000 white Ameri
cans, Including some 1,200 women and
children, not a single death has oc
curred in the past three months, where
as in an average city in tha United
States the number of deaths for n sim
ilar number of people In that time
would have been about thirty from
disease. This very remarkable show
ing cannot, of course, permanently ob
tain, but it certainly goes to prove
that if good care is taken the isthmus
is not a particularly unhealthy place.
Corozal, some four ' miles from La
Boca, was formerly ono of the most
Insanitary places on the isthmus,
probably tb most insanitary. There
was a marsh, with a pond la the mid
dle. Dr. Gorgas had both the marsh
and pond drained and the brush clear
ed off, so that now, when I went over
the ground, it appeared like a smooth
meadow intersected by drainage
ditches. The breeding places and shel
tering spots of tho dangerous nioiqui
toes bad been carapleMy destroyed.
The result is tint Coro'.al t-t the last
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Because H auuoai inva.ia -iy icnas 10
ton. t tha same time. All eaailir rlone I
Avers Haif vigor, new improved for
Cures dandruff. Stops filling hair.
statn or ehaaga J. O. wCa,,
fifth esjr. X.cwU. rt.
kiezney's Quaker. Rirjo Cost Her
a Cent, a Day-For 2 1 Years.
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tQt well children are
& after their holi
days, the confine
ment and close
air of the school
room soon affect
their health
Scoffs
Emutsion
builds new blood
and fat. Keeps
children vigor
ous, strong
and healthy.
ALL DRUGGISTS
50c AND $1.00.
six months ""(lite-La bo-a," which "for
merly also had a -very Insanitary rec
ord) had less than 1 per cent a week
admitted to the hospital. At Corozal
there is a blghotcl filled with em
ployees of the isthmian canal commis
sion, some of them with their wives
and families. Yet thin healthy and at
tractive spot was stigmatised as a "hog
wallow" by one of the least scrupulous
and most foolish of the professional
scandalmonjers who from time to time
have written about the commission's
work. .'. .
In Fanama 00 per cent of the streets
that are to be paved at all are already
paved with sn excellent brick pave
ment laid in heavy concrete, a few of
the streets being still In process of pav
ing. The sewer and water services In
the city are of the most modern hy
gienic type, some of the service having
Just been completed.
In September, 1005, a systematic ef
fort was begun to formulate a general
plan for the proper sanitation of Co
lon, in February last temporary relief
measures were taken, while in July the
prosecution of the work was begun in
good earnest. Tbej'esults are already
visible In the sewering, draining, gut
tering and paving Of the streets. ' 1 ;
The new reservoir back' of tMouut
IIopo has been practically, completed.
I visited 'this reservoir. It is a lake
over a mile long and half a mile broad.
It now carries some 300,000,000 gallons
of first class water. Water mains have
been laid in the town, and nothing but
a cataclysm will hereafter render It
necessary In the dry season to haul
water for tho use of Colon and Cristo
bal. One of the most amusing as well
as dishonest attacks made upon the
commission was in connection with
this reservoir. The writer In question
usually confined himself to vague gen
eral mendacity, but In this case he
specifically stated that there was n-.
water In the vicinity fit for a reservoir
(I drank it, and It was excellent) and
that this particular reservoir would
never hold watr anyway. With typ
ical American humor, the engineering
corps stlil at , work at the reservoir
have christened a largs boat which is
now itsed on the reservoir after tie
Individual who denied tbe possibility
of the reservoir's existence. ;
Colon PatTc-meat.
I rode through the streets of Cotoa
after two days of almost unexampled
downpour, when they -were at their
very worst. Taken as a whole,, tticy
were bad." bad as FennsylTaaia
avenue In Washington before Grant's
administration but through three
fourths of the town it is now possible
to walk, even during the period of tre
mendous ruin. In low shoes without
wetting one's feet owing to, tbe rapid
ity with which the surface water h
carried away In the ditches. Al!
men to.whom I spos were a unit l.i
saying that the conditions of the Colon
streets were 100 per cent better than
a year ago. Complaint was mada to
me by an entirely reputable man as to
the character of some of the material
used for repairing certain Btreets. On
Investigation the complaint proved
well founded, but It also appeared that
the use of the material In question had
been abandoned, the commission after
having tried It In one or two streets
finding it not appropriate.
Complaint Net Well Founded.
The result of the investigation of
this honest complaint was typical of
what occurred when I Investigated
most of the other honest complaints
made to methat Is, where the com
plaints were not made wantonly or
maliciously tJbey almost always proved
due to failure to appreciate tho. utter
inability of the commission to do ev
erything at once.
In addition to attending to the health
of the employees, it. Is necessary to
provide for policing the zone. This is
done by a police force which at present
numbers over 200 men under Captain
Shanton. About one-fifth of the men
nre white and the pthers black, la dif
ferent places I questioned some twen
ty or thirty of these men, taking them
at random. They were a fine set phys
ically and in discipline. With one ex
ception all the white men I questioned
had served in the American army, usu
ally In the Philippines, and belonged to
the best type of American soldier. All
the black policemen I questioned bad
served either in the British army or in
the Jamaica or Barbados police. They
were evidently contented and were do
ing their work well.
Inasmuch as many both of the white
and colored e mployccs have brought
their families with them, schools have
been established under Mr. O'Connor.
For the white pupils white American
teachers are employed; for the colored
pupils there are also some white Amer
ican teachers, one Spanish teacher and
one colored American teacher, most of
them being colored teachers from Ja
maica, Barbados and St., Lucia. The
pcboolrooffis were good, and it was a
pleasant thing to see tbe pride that the
teachers "were taking In their work and
their pupils.
Too Many Saloon.
There seemed to mo to be too many
saloons in the cone,, hut the new high
license law ; which goes '. : Into effect
on Jan. 1 nest will probably close four
fifths of them. Resolute and success
ful efforts ore being made to minimise
and control the salo of liquor.
Cnre of Employ-em.
Next in Importance to the problem
f sanitation and indeed now of equal
Importance Is the problem of securing
and caring for'the men who actually
o the work. This great task has been
tinder the control of Mr. Jackson
Smith and has been well done. At
present there are some 6,000 white em
ployees and some 10,000 colored em
ployees on the lsthmws. I went over
tbe different places where the differ
ent kinds of employees were working.
I think I saw representatives of every
type both at their work and in their
homes, and I conversed with probably
a couple of hundred of them all told,
choosing tlH'm at random.
Nearly fi.OW) of tho white employees
bad come from the I'nlted States. ."o
limn can sp these young, vigorous men
energetically doing their duty without
n thrill of pride in tVm as Americans.
They represent, on the average a high
clas. Doubtless to congress the wages
paid them will seem high, but as a
natter of fact the only general com
plaint which 1 found had any real basis
among the complaints msde to me up
on the Isthmus wp that, owing to the
pecullnr surroundings, thecost of liv
ing and th distance from home, the
wagn wore really not as high a thry
should bo. In fact, almost every man
I spoke to felt thr.t he ought to be ret
celvlns more money, a view, however,
which the nverr.go msa who stays at
home In the United States probably
likewise holds a regards himself. I
append figures of the wages paid, so
that the congress can Judge tbe matter
i for itself. Later I shall confer on the
subject with certain representative la
bor men here in the United ftntes, as
well as gilng over with Mr. Stevens,
the comparative wages paid on the
jione and at home, and I may then com
municate my findings to the cnnal com
mittees of tbe two houses. .
Qnnrtera Com and Stfnr lory.
Koine of the white Americans are em
ployed In offlre work, but the majority
in handling the great steam shovels, as
engineers and conductors on the dirt
trains, as machinists In the great re
pair shops, nsi carpenters and time
keepers, superintendents and foremen
of divisions and of gangs, and so on,
and so on. Many of them have brought
down their wives and families, and the
children when not In school are ron
ning about and behaving precisely as
the American small boy and small girl
behave at home. The bachelors among
the employees live smetlmes In small
separate nouses, sometimes In lurge
houses, quarters being furnished freo
to all, married and unmarried. In one
case, where the house was an old
Trench house with a leak lu the roof, I
did not think the accommodations
were good.- But In every othrr case
among the scores of houses I entnrcd
at random the accommodations were
good, every room was neat and clfan,
usually having books, magazines and
small ornsmenta and, in short, .1nst
ouch n room as a self respecting crafts
man would be glad to live in sthenic.
Tho quarters for tho married pe-iplo
were even belter. Doubtless there
must be here and there ti married cou
ple who, with or without reason, nre
not contented with their bouse on the
Isthmus, but I never happened to strike
such a couple.
Fond RnppUra A Thirty Cent Mel.
The housewives purchase thrlr sup
piles directly or through their hns
bands from the commissary stores of
the commission. All to whom I spoke
agreed that the supplies were excel
lent, aud all but two stated that there
wan no complaint to be made. Thes1
two complained that, the pries were
excessive as compared 11 prices In the
states. On Investigation I did not fed
thnt this complaint was well founded.
Tho. warded laea ate ut homo.. The ua-
What to Do -What
It Is
What Inflammation Is
How Anti-Itis
Cures Inflammation
These Druggists Carry Anti-Itis
Barre : E. A. Drown, Kickert
& Wells. v
Plainfield : Elroy F. Iavitt.
WiUiamstowa : Crescent Urug
Store, Geo. I. Edson, Prop.
married men sometimes ate at private
boarding houses or private messes,. hut
mora often, judging by the answers of
those whom I questioned, at the gov
ernment canteens, or hotels, where
the meal costs 30 cents to eseh cm:
pioyee. This thirty csnt meal struck
me as belus as good a meal as we get
In the United States at the ordinary
hotel In which a fifty cent meal Is pro
vided. I myself twk dinner at the La
Boca government hotel, no warning
whatever having been given of ray
coming. There were two rooms, as
genera lly in these hotels. In one tht
employees were allowed to dine with
out their coats, while iu the other they
had to put them on. -The thirty eeut
meal included soup, native beef (which
was goodi, mashed potatoes, peas,
beets, chili' con carne, plum pudding,
tea, coffee, each man having as much of
each dish, as he desired. On tbe table
there was a bottle of liquid qulniuo
tonic which two-thirds of the guests,
as I was Informed, used every dny.
There were neat tablecloths and nap
kins. .
My meal was excellent; and two
newspaper correspondents who had
been on tbe Isthmus several days la
formed me thnt it was precisely like
the meals they had been getting else
where at other government hoteis.
Ko f Tor Complaint Al.ont Food.
I came (o the conclusion that, speak
ing generally, there was no warrant
for complaint about the food, though
doubtless It grows monotonous aftor
awhile. Grumbling about food is a
common trait everywhere. On this
very trip on one of the warships a sea
man came to complain to the second
watch officer about the quality of the
cocoa at the senmcn's mess, saying that
it nas not sweet enough. It was point
ed ont to him that there wns sugar on
the table and he could always put It
In, to which h'? responded thet that
was the conk's business and not his! I
think that the complaint as to the food
on the Isthmus hns hut little more
foundation than that of the sailor In
question.
Chincxr and Other Labor.
Of the 10,000 or 20,000 dny laborers
employed on the cnnal a fv hundred
ore Spaniards. These do excellent
jsork. Their foremen told me thnt
they did twice as well as the West
India laborers. Some Italian labor
ers are also employed in connection
with the drilling. As might be expect
ed, with labor as h'gh priced as at
present in the United States, it has not
so far proved practicable to get ordi
nary laborers from the United States.
TLe American rngeworkcrs on the
isthmus are the highly paid skilled me
chanics. A steady effort is being made
to secure Italians and especially to
procure more Fpanlnrds. It has not
proved possible, however, to get them
in anything like the numbers needed
for the work, aud from present ap
pearances -we shall In the main have
to rely for tbe ordinary unskilled work
gsnrtly upon colored laborers from the
West Indies, partly upon Chinese la
bor. It certainly ought to be unneces
sary to point out that the .American
workingman in the United States has
no concern whatever In the question
as to whether the rough work on the
Isthmus, which Is performed by aliens
in any event, Is done by aliens with
a black skin or by aliens with a yel
low skin. Onr business Is to dig the
cnnal as efficiently and as quickly as
possible, provided always that nothing
Is done that Is Inhumane to nuy labor
ers and nothing thnt Interferes with
the wages of or lowers tho standard of
living of our own workmen. Having
In vlow this principle, I have arranged
to try several thousand Chinese labor
ers. This is desirable both because we
must try to find out what laborers are
most effleietrt and. furthermore, be
cause we should not leave ourselves at
the mercy of any one type of foreign
labor.
Nrro Whorer and Their Quarter.
The West Imlla laborers ore fairly,
but only fairly, satisfactory' Fome of
the men do very well Indeed. The bet
ter class, who nre to be found as fore
men, as skilled mechanics,- as police
men, nro good men, and ninny of the
ordinary day laborers nre also good.
But thousands of those who nre
brought over under contract (nt our ex
pense) go o'T into the jungle to live
or lonf around Colon or work so badly
nfter tho first three or focr dnys ns to
cause a serious diminution of tho
amount of lnbor performed on Friday
and Saturday of each week.
Ore of the greatest nei1 Is to pro
vide amusements both for white men
and blnclt. The Yov.rg Men's Christian
association Is doing good work and
diQiiid .he t'licoitrncc '.. but .thes?yera-
roent should do the main work: Any
thing. done for the welfare of the men
adds to their efficiency, and money de
voted to that purpose is therefore prop
erly to be considered as spent In build
ing the canal. I call the special atten
tion of congress to this need. " ;
This gathering, distributing and car
ing for the great force of laborers are
among the giant features of the work.
The nstonitshing thing Is that the work
has been performed so well and that
the machinery runs so smoothly. From
my own experience I nin able to say
that more care has been exorcised in
housing, feeding and generally paying
heed to the needs of the skilled me
chanics and ordinary laborers In the
work on this canal than is the case
In the construction of new railroads or
In any other similar private or public
work in the United States proper.
The Work of Contraction.
There remains to consider the actual
work for which these laborers are
gathered together. This Is under tbe
direct control of Chief Engineer Ste
vens, who has already shown admirable
results and whom we can safely trust
to achieve similar results In the future.
The three big problems of tho canal
are the La Boca dams, the Gatun dum
nnd the Culebra cut
In Cnlebra Cut.
The main work is now being done in
tbe Culebra cut. It was striking aud
Impressive to see the huge steam shov
els in full play, the dumping trains
carrying away the rock and earth they
dislodged. j.Tbe implements of French
excavating machinery, though , of ex
cellent construction; look like the 'veri
est ' toys -when' compared with these
new steam shovels, just as the French
dumping cars seem like toy cars when
compared with the long trains of huge
cars dumped by steam plows which
are now in use. This represents the
enormous advance that has been made
in machinery during the past quarter
century. The old French cars had to
be entirely discarded. The new cars
hold from twenty-five to thirty yards
apiece, and instead of the old clumsy
methods of unload Inj? them a steam
plow is drawn from end to end of the
whole vestibuled train. Immensely
economizing labor.
As soon as the typ? of cunttl was de
cided this work began In good earnest.
The rainy season will shortly be over,
and then there will be an immense In
crease In the (.mount taken out, but
even duriug the last three months
steady progress is shown by the fig
ures: In August, 242,000 cubic yards;
.In September, 2M.000 cubic yards, and
In Octolwr, 325,000 cubic yards. I hope
to see the growth of a healthy spirit of
emulation between the different shovel
and locomotive crews. Just such a
spirit as has grown on our battleships
between tho different gun crews In
matters of marksmanship. Passing
through the cut the amount of new
work can bo eeen at a glance. Ia one
place the entire side of a hill had been
taken out recently by twenty-seven
tons of dynamite, which were exploded
nt one blast. On tbe top notch of the
Culebra cut the prism is now as wide
as It will be. All told, tho canal ted
at this point has now been sunk about
200 feet below what It originally was.
It will have to be sunk about 130 feet
farther. Throughout the cut tho drill
ing. Wasting, slKiveling and hauling
are going on with constantly increas
ing energy, the huge shovels being
pressed up ss if they were mountain
howitzers Ints the mot unlikely look
ing places, where they eat their way
Into the hillside?.
IUa to nolld or Contract.
After most careful consideration we
have decided to let out most of the
work by contract If we can come to
satisfactory terms with the contract
ors. The whole work is of a kind
suited to the peculiar genius" of our
people, and our people have dcvelopod
the type of coutrnctor best fitted to
grapple with It. After much consid
eration the plin already promulgated
hy the secretary of , war wns adopted.
This plan was drafted, by Chief Engi
neer Fteveus, wns submitted to the
chairman of the commission, Mr.
fhonts, who went over It with Mr.
Rogers, the legal adviser of tho com
mission; and copies wre then sub
mitted to both Secretary Taft and my
self. Secretary Tnft submitted It to
some of the best counael at tho New
Tork bar, anil afterward I went over
it very carefully with Mr.' Tnft and
Mr. Fhonts, and we laid the plan be
fore Mr. Boot My conclusion Is that
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structlon' of the can at and a penalty
Imposed on ; djlay : and waste. Of
course It Is , possible that we cannot
come to an agreement with the con
tractors, in which case the govern
ment will do the work itself. Mean
while the work on the Isthmus is pro
gressing steadily nnd without any let
up. A seven headed commission is a
clumsy executive instrument. We
should have but one commissioner,
with, heads of departments and other
officers under him. We should he ex
pressly permitted to employ tha. best
engineers In the country as consulting
engineers.
I accompany this paper with a map
ehowlug substantially what the canal
will be like when it is finished. When
the Culebra cut has been mado and
tbe dams built (if they are built as at
present proposed), - there will be at
Loth the Fociflc and Atlantic ends of
the canal two great fresh water lakes,
connected by a broad channel running
at the bottom of it ravine across th
backbone of the western hemisphere.
Those best Informed believe that the
work will be completed in about eight
years, but It is never safe to prophesy
about such a work as this, especially
fa the tropics.
1 am Informed that representatives
of commercial clubs of four cities
Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati and St.
Louis expect to visit the Isthmus for
the purpose of examining the work o(
construction. I am glad to hear it, aud
I shall direct that every facility be giv
en them to see all that ia to be seen )r
the work which the government Is
doing. - .
Cunfldcnt of IKimcte Sucre.
Of the success of the enterprise I ora
as 'well convinced as one cap be of any
enterprise thst Is human. It Is a stu
pendous work upon which our fellow
countrymen are engaged, and, while
we fcbould hold them to a strict ac
cour.fsbillty for the way In which they
perform It, we should recognise, with
frank generosity, the epic nature of tho
task on which they nre engaged and Us
worldwide importance. They are do
ing something which will redound im
measurably to the credit of America,
which will benefit all the world and
which will last for ages to come.
Under Mr. Shonts and Mr. Stevens
and Dr. Oorgaa tola work has started
with every omen of cwd fortune. They
and their worthy associates, from tho
highest to the lowest, aro entitled to
the same credit that we would give to
the picked men of a victorious army,
for this conquest of peace will In It
grent and far reaching effect stand as
among the - very greatest eonquosts,
whether of peace or of war, which
have ever been won by any of the peo
ples of mankind. A badge Is to bo giv
en to every American citizen who for
n specified tjpne has taken part In this
work, for participation In it will here
after be held to reflect honor upon tho
man participating. Just as it reflects
honor upon a soldier to have belonged
to n mighty army in a great war for
righteousness.
THEODORE ROOSF.VELT. ;
The White Ilouse, Dec. 17. 1900. '
DAMVER8.
assachusetts.