The sun., 1902-06-07

Dues others o. accep, them hs wtll mis-
lsad others In the brief paragraph
quoted above there are not les than i've
capital errprs of fact
First. Mpmo,ombo s not about one
hundrrd milc- distant from the line of
the canal. - - b.'vecn eighty and ninety
miles distant. but u j. situated dire'ty
upon Lake Nanagll, who's" waters con-
meet directly with Lake Nicaragua, upon
the stability of which the entire Nicara-
qua project depends
secondly, Momotombo il not the near
,.-t volcano 90 the line of tho canal
Their. are probably dozen. active or
potential. nearer to the canal line than
Nomotpmbo: among the more imp"r-
tant tGng renorio and OroS, to the south,
and to the north MADEIRA, omctepe and
Mombachn
Thirdly. instead of there heing moth
ing to b. feared IA the lake, the ships
using the canal will have to sail almost
directly under both MADEIRA and One
tspe, the latter being a volcano with
record Of recent explosion and in con-
tinuous activity.
Fourthly, instead Of there being no
danger to the canal on the eastern side
from earthquakes the same shock which
IN lSu almost destroyed the city of Rivas,
which j. only four miles from the canal
line. did great damage at Grevtown, az
the extreme eastern end of the canal.
Mr. MORGAN will hnd our authority for
al. IN I, \AN.fph.gr mr. ~
nultima;e report Of the lsthmlan Canal
Commission. a document IN which he
has profe--ed great confidence.
Filthy. instead Of IL being tr,le that
CosegIna. in 1885, was the last Nicara-
guam volcano To GO into action. there
have been numerous erIptions since
then. including those Of Mombacho
about twenty years ago, Ometepe in
i>NS, the Plla~. and Momotombo.
A. To Sehor CoREAs volunteered
certificate that there - nothing TO he
feared on the lake. and no volcano nearer
than Nomotombo. eighty miles away,
the venerable senator has with engaging
simplicity printed Immediately after II
the testimony of Mr. CHESTER 4 DoS-
upsoS, the United States Consul AT
Managua, as follows:
o Are there volcanoes On the AXE
4 Yes there u one volcano In Lake SicarsEua
rising oIt % tse AXE Omstep-
@ About shat - Tie height ~ that volcano
4 bcn.y. u i' put down al n.arly e"'
feet
g Is III, on.,,p. volcano IN seuon' Is u
.nv,'
a I, hn the appearance Of being in seuon
a, thtr. u always smoke or steam srtsns from
a.
@ Ther- ~ smother volcAno. Nunhseho. mar
GranAiA rghI on IA. sLor- % ihs AXE
\ ItAI u also = i've voicano n ,he >ar- Say
a, onei-pe Il IS not siuari IN smoke doe,
SHOW but u i almost agAys cloudy. ~ that yol
cannot Sc anything prrA, onany the cloud,
br-as Auay. sni then % Np9-sr' A. fihrr-s a u'1e
.,At ,alo.c or steam f.,1s .ro-a the top Mor-
bAcao "a, In aruon tWeny y-,r' ago, before
wen, there .nd % 'r;ht,n-i TIE people shrre very
mlch Tac, have some sAT'h9.hAeA-
lfMr MORGAN talks again on the sub
ject. ami there u no reason to fear that
hc has We, exhausted his vocabulary, We
invite him To reconcile the statements
of his two witnesses Schor CoRFA and
Consul Donaldson. The fact i that
both Omc,era and Nomhao no. right IN
the lake. not 10 -paak Of Momotombo
on tho adjoining LAX" of Managua
present precisely the same aspect as
d.i Mont peite IN Mar inlque, during its
hf,y wears or 80 Of supposed benignltv
and harmlc>snc-S preceding the awful
outbreak ~ last month
No wonder that senator MORGAN felt
himself under Obligations 20 produce
some Cpunterbalancing volcanoes threat
en,ng the Panama route We observe
that he does not venture 10 exhibit tho
fabulous Mount Batan,- which hl-
enthusiastic disciples Of the Ncr York
Press thought they had discovered IN
tho heart Of the Encyclopedia Britain
nica The bcst that Mr.. MORGAN can
DO i Ia point out the Galapagos Islands
lie modcStly gives them five hundred
miles of distance. They are really
thousand miles ont IN the Pacific, almost
a. tar away from the Panama Canal on
one side as Martinique - on th" other
But Mr. MoRG.N's Galapagos. with
their menace to canal construction, un-
fortunately happen to be- about two
hundred miles nearer 70 his Nicaragua
route than 70 Panama and the dam az
Bohlo.
Nn,,h In