New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-15

United States will the only medium for the
chinery, employees etc, and that trafc win in
Vii &c enormously when active work begins. it
VIII De seen from the following statement that by
acquiring this road the government will come
The hT n1s19bap OF a productive asset
% "a RAILROAD in 1902 was 90Sos compared with
and 1886 second class; i'm the latter year 45S7
were first class and "a STA second class. Passenger
5000 es The tonnage movement In 1902 amounted
20 Ss2:.SSS OF which lSo257 tons westbound
leN was SS5 $50. showing decrease for 1902 Of ices
per cent ia per cent being in eastbound traffic
,,e Tie freight Transported has increased from
westbound freight in i5S5 ds02s7 tons s2S55 was
lccad from Colon TO Panama and way stations.
through freight from New-York OF the eastbound
10 Sv 59s 9 9Sr was Local cal from PaHs "a
Europe, and &6a through from ali points to New
INCREASE WILL BE ENORMOUS.
The total earnings of the Panama Railroad in
1902 were 259345 81, compared with 1856 170 SO in
the preceding year. OF the former amount 81
O6o was from freight and s6S S47 from passenger
tranc' S54S2O from mails and Sl5.95S from baggage.
Pracucaly all OF these sources Of income showed
The opportunity Tor increase in this business is
almost boundless. In the old days of French ac-
each way each day. Now there only two.
from either terminus and requiring three hours TO
cross The isthmus. The beginning OF canal work
more trains and With the fare at 81 cgod5 for a
single trip (S gold If the passenger carries bag;
tremendously. There will too be the Increases al
fesSy meHaones in freight receipts fro the
In the figures above given there appear the
which includes four vessels, averaging about SO00
IONS, operating on weekly schedule between
sells viii. doubtless have TO be increased; but the
faiiro3d men have contended that this service can
sun remain from the pronts during the next nine
years a sum SUFFICIENT TO defTay the cost or con-
structing the deviation required by the canal plans
=. MS deviation viii be no small piece Of work as
portion of the road now Situate on high ground.
stretching from BohiO, fourteen miles from Colon,
to PEDRO Miguel, on the Pacific side, distance
formed by a monster Gam at Bohio ana viii re-
sFit in su6merg1ng all Of the country for miles les
railroad between Bohto aud Pedro Miguel, and its
level t be- IA seventy fe5 se0y Tse lae
fore that the railroad must change its route.
Bohio and Colon. running TO the eastward and
eRRg the h ana an @ h the gp IL Of s
proposed lake. 1t will then run In tho direction Of
ing through an extremely picturesque country. will
connect with the present route a short distance
will be heavy, but so Will be the profits from the
operation during the nine years that VIII eiah1se
closed and the Chagres River Is made to sub
asagt the present line and all the country there
The heaviest cost of this work will probably be
IN human life for the sanitation measures to be
applied along the route OF the canal can hardly
ssRd to tH & the sa Gs o. 1t b lie % Ss
viii not. however. be as great as was the CORE.
canal construction. There is a story which has
gone around the world and become classic that
SCENTS human life lost n the building That is
OF sys MI aEbd Is Of the
Panama Railroad and a. few months ago he
fhe ssor WIN n h ar and o. VINO
Where are the graves of all those people who
Well you see, it was IKE this" Higbd an
rihed so as each OF those men died they buried
him right under a tie. 1t Is awful hard TO get
the soil, and the idea that when the crosstie
sotted tbs body q the man buried uTaer # would
the petridssd body ana in that way have stone
Hisbid's explanation was fitting answer to the
story which, while PTeposterous in fact. Is true
country, wherever excAvattng is necessary. exacts
terrible toll in human life It viii exact that
tary improvements the United States shall extend
to include the proposed new route Of the canal.
ROAD IS IsTHAnAN BENEFACTOR.
In fits operation at the present time the railroad
IS the great benefactor Of the isthmus no matter
what it may have once done toward depopulating
these parts of the earth Without # the isthmus
would now be in the virgin state OF undevelop-
ment. for the road is the support OF all these
people. In It's executive offices. located at Colon
pose also all Of its train crews and they are
excellent engineer
gold month. or the equivalent Of about $4co in
the monkey money" Of this country. But for
track i, and dock ab0rers along the entire line and
crews Of yard engines brakemen on freight trains
yards, native PanaInans or the more intelligent
West Indian negroes are employed. For these the
road maintains silver payroll. its disbursements
amounting to thousands OF de!lsrs monthly. From
a s except few sRopkeepaTs and professona
mend who pretends to live according to civilized
railroad pays them we'll IN the money current here
and they are z happy and csntented lot
men from the sta:es-the railroad deals generous
ly in matters other than salaries 1t provides
families. free Of charge; IL makes ice for them.
has provided the hotel IN Colon and leased it to
~ a. whS is Gnad contract 70 boar, board az
to charge no more than SIS fsod) month for each
adult One end OF this hotel has been set apart as
and there the company maintains billiard and pool
tables other gSneS socea n9T sT
weeldies and magazines published In the States.
over in Panama equally generous treatment is ao.
corded these white employees The residences Of
those permanently located at that end of the line
to stay overnight in Panama. but who reside in
Colon. the railroad has attsd the second floor OF
bathrooms. etc. These men are In the main, old
~ acclimated. and who are familiar with the com
panys requiFeInents down to their smallest detail
is a road which no wheel turns at night is 10
their advantage
road is generous it Is exactly the opposite ~, IN
enforcing rS | ao.. III 5ss OF It's
nonoIy of transportation facilities that except by
its trains there Is way Of conveying produce or
mites or by runners who carry enormous packs
SeveIoDment is shown by those fruits Of It which
appear in the form Of the small. two-wheeisd dom
about Colon and Panama. These entiquafted and
dnutye devices SERVE o a there is nS place
on the isthmus OUTSIDE OF thest .w0 cues "eie