Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-13
MINISTER FROM PANAMA
Character Sketch of Philippe
 Bunau-Varilla~
PARIsIAN TO THE FINGER TIPS.


 Republic to the United States Is Credited With the Bou1evardier's Easy Manner Without Frivolity. Full of Energy and Enthusaasm, r Always In Barnest-His Umceaslng Work I'm Promoting the Canal.
 It has been announced that the revo- lution in Panama was planned in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York by Philippe Bunau-Varilla, a handsome French engineer and stockholder in the Panama Canal company, who has ap- peared in Washington as the diplomat ic representative of the republic of Pan- anna, says James Creelman in the New York World.
 It is 8 fact that M. Bunau-Varilla has been living at the Waldorf-Astoria this summer and has been in communi- cation with the men who are supposed to have overthrown the authority of Co- lombia in Panama. He has been the protagonist in the effort to force the Panama canal bargain through. As a heavy stockholder and as the engineer who assisted De Lesseps on the isth- lie and in private to secure for his com- pany the $40,000,000 promised by the United States. 7s have seen and talked many times with this remarkable man. He is Pa risian to the finger tips, we'll groomed witty and agreeable. He has the easy manner of the boulevard1er, without frivolity. He is of good figure, com pact, graceful and not too tall. His face is plump and oval, dark eyes, small black mustache, strong chin and good natured mouth. He is full of en- Iergy and enthusiasm, quick in his movements, radiantly conciliatory in his manner. He Is always in earnest The man who now speaks for the provisional government of Panama was at one time employed as an assist ant to De Lesseps in the isthmian ca nal work at Panama. It was he who persuaded that hapless genius to aban- don the idea of sea level canal and substitute the lock system until the enterprise should have an income large enough to justify the completion of the work on sea level basis. Before the great scandal in France compelled the ! abandonment of the canal as a French project M. Bunau-V Varilla was actual ly in full charge of the construction forces on the isthmus.
 His brother is the political editor of Le Matin, and he himself is writer of some ability. He was a classmate l of Captain Dreyfus and graduated as an engineer with honors. His acquaint- l ance with the prisoner of Devils is- l land gave him an opportunity to rem der an important service to those who brought about the captains restora- l tion to freedom. It was a note written by Captain Dreyfus to M. Bunau-Va- l rilla which convinced his brother, the I editor, that the alleged documentary evidence of treason upon which the ] osScer was condemned was not written 1 by Captain Dreyfus. Then followed lthe expose in Le Matin, which raised an outcry in France and resulted in the successful public agitation for 8 1 new trial.
 There is something daring in the whole man. When he went to Wash ington to work against the Nicaragua canal route-at that. time strongly in dorsed by the canal commission-he went boldly to the opponents of the Panama route and tried to talk them over to his side. He even visited Sena- l tor Morgan, the champion of the Mica ragua idea, and vainly labored to change the veterans mind. He made a tour of the western cities and lectured before commercial bodies on the supe- riority of the Panama route. Then he went back to Paris, convinced his fel- low stockholders that they must sell al the price named by the United States and overthrow Maurice Hutin, the l president of the company, who was holding out for more money.
 He moved rapidly, brilliantly, auda | ciously. Night and day he stuck to his l plans. Every instrumentality of in trigue or persuasion was wielded with tireless energy. He had 8 great for tune at stake, but he assured all who questioned his motives that he was in spired by his pride as an engineer, his desire ito see a great work in which he had taken part finished successfully