The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-13

side OF the track was a section super
int dents home with broad, cool veranda,
upon which the lunch table wes
spread. Everything that money could
buy was Their. and che wine bottles were
cooling in ckets Of ice The superintend-
ent ana a few friends were seated at the
taole, while Cninamal noiselessly went
from one GUEST to another, offering the dit
ferent dishes. l was hot passenger on the
train, and envied those fortunate fellows
on the veranda. Close by. in full view of
the varanda, was a wretched howell
stretched out on a pine bier was the last
dead canal laborer. His broken-hearted
widow aud his ia nily of little ones were
Kneellng abous the corpse. while the priest,
with ilghted taper in his hand, repeated
the office of the dead. Poverty, sorrow,
despair on one side; luxury, contentment
and comfort on the OF er. The contrast
was too much. l was glad that 1 was not
seated on that yeranda. These are scenes
along the lima of the canal
Contract labor brought to the isthmus
the dregs Of the pOpul zion of the earth !,
and so much of it remains that stranger
feels that the very air of the region is
ainted. Both in ASpinwall and Panama
the dead wagon makes its rounds every
morning to pick up the homeless Migrants
who have dropped by tie wayside. The
CPASoPh VI ulduI WOulQ DO SiIlDiG, VIZ
"Drunk-fever- died" nothing more.
These people do not receive coffils The
dead cart has two or three in which the
corpses are placed; on arriving at the cem-
etery the box is tilted up and the body
slides out into the trench, which is length
ened daIlr Notaing marks the graves.
Nobody ever goes to see them. 1t is
unhealthy, because the graves are very
shallow I'd the ench is horrible. Except
the few Frenchmen who still receive la
ries, found no honest believers in the fu-
ture success of the canal, bsyond some half
breed French and Spanish youngs ers who
were formerly salarisd also by DeLesseps,
but who now have minor positions as
freight clerks for the steamship lines, and
their belief is strongly aided by their desire
to ogain secure the Sinec1res they have lost.
Evel the press of the isthmus has dropped
off its jealous support of DeLssseps 81! &c
the sums of money he sent from France
have dwindled to nothing.
One Of the bsst indications Of the aban-
donment of the enterprise is the immense
falling off in the Importation Of all food
supplies. The Pacific Mail formerly brought
great gu ntities of rice, but their steamers
now carry less than one-sixth of the amount
carried five years ago. Toe large firms on
the isthmus still hold on, barely paying ex-
penses. while the smaller concerns are either
closing out or going to the wall. Chinese
shops along the works are gradually closing
up, and when Chinaman leaves a ship she
must be siGking.
The Anne lean Dredging Company
Skinned the richest crean and is now
sending its machinery to be Used on the
Nicarag la route. How thu French sto e.
keeper acc 3unts even on paper for his
material is a mys5ery even to an army
QuaTtermaster. Engines here on their
backs and engines there on their sides may
all be accounted for, even if the Oh os of
the Culebra cut does remind one of the
Jolustown disaster; but for the buried IRON
work and machines he has only one re-
course, i. O., dig down to them now while
they are not deep under the ground; attach
a chain to them having on the upper or
the surfacs end an automatic sounding
buoy to determine their position in the
next overflow Of the Chagres, and to con-
tinue the same plap with those tiaJ will DO
buried annually as the years roll b..