The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-16
The Engineers View

my a nswer and L could not make It clearer
or stronger II ] talked half an hour
The Engineers View.
'Mr. Stevens what Is your Iilca as to
| whether the canal should be sea level or
lock r asked the correspondent 8 eg
AS yeti, WILDE impossible FOR me .,, 70
ject.. have not yet been to the is, linus,
and besides that It would be Idle for me to
express an opinion because that question
committee, Or board OF t|,c most eminent
sengines rs.of thfsSandS ot Her cJunt i8 o
meet and examine all Of the plans. This
board vii make a Recommendation. which
end must decide whether this shall be Il
lock cannl5ora sea level canal.
shon,s What Is your imprsssign
I'm answering that question 7 should
like to speak from personal observation.
personal observation on the isthmus yet.
l have no doubt that afterth work gets
fairly started down there, that Is. after
It gets under full Roadway, we shall go
ahcad$more rapidly than any one Is ex-
pectng. believe VIC will more than
make up for lost time. but It is going to
be a great job TO organize, because OF Its
size. si>,l Sl53 az 8s
'Mr Wallace estimated that we could
work ono hundred steam shovels at Guile.
bra cut, We have nine at work now. BY
the time we get one hundred at work y
WI run Us Into M n ron h see yqM
steam sl1ovels Just as you would buy; q
hundred feet OF hose 2s Then for every
steam shovel three locomotives Will be
hundred steam shovels We will need three
hundred locomotives. Just for that great
work at Culebra. This will, i think, give
yonfan Idea OF the magnitude Of the un,
5dcrtakng. Some men have estimated
that we could work continuously down
there, hut 1T must be considered that we
have eight months of.rain and there arc
q good many difficulties with wo rs o1 o.
ever, believe that when we get thor,
ouEhly organized we will make n record
that will astonlsh. the world. W FL
Stamping Out Disease.
"What Is being done In the way. Of
making the Isthmus heathful ana as stamp
is} THAT is under the control or Judge
Ma COON. Water has already been intro
duced I'M the city Of Panama from spring;
fad lakes, Panama has been severed. all
the houses are heing fitted With modern
plumbing and we haye ofa ietrInod b brI
for paving. Colon will soon have Its WA W.,
ter supply from the mountalns and i WI.
undergo the same process. Every ilu lti
Is TO be tumlgated and , eHery " dene ITO 10
stamp out the yellow FEVER ~ na !,
sprad over all the pools and swamps 20
Kill the mosquitoes. the OF se ~ , l' In
a dozen different directions tho actlylllies
OF the health officials ara being exerseGr:
'Judge Magoon has about fwo nuna.stti
mona1 Y haxe e 9oId MN that il &c hasn't
sufficient help he ,canGtak men. from 9us
present force up 70 hail. rs a ~; -, he
We haze ABOUT tw 'e n zone To-Day I do
po of ilike 70 be particularly optimistic about
our ability to entirely eradicate yeiioWy
fever nppreh,Ginnas tat r wsh ana ia else-
where are under full headWay there, VIZ ~
be an Increase IN malaria pvt We WI ,a ~
everything to gMard agamiist ,mdr nlu ca u
terra ct the had effects *, J. =. y ~, IN
M am one Of those men WI go " ,,p
sESte al Wh taHk I'D @y
our American newspapers Will helP s ,us,
and get the facts as they are. hGd dni 1liee
q t SsH 3 hssa a eMp aSa like VIZ
should help It along
Yellow Fever,
.s"Yvhat arc the actual facts as 70 y Y
fey %e e a tas Ii stfm sad qs
SAND employees down there, we nave ,,',h ~,
tween one thousand and twelve ,hnna Gre
the R'e e rsen nra 9 Amnscans
W. W. nav nave Sb between six thousand aud seven
thousand day laborers, natives of !, l ~
IN tie D SsiH Of Government and
sanltationImpre than two thousand t ON
Nov mark the extent Of yellow fever yer
On the isthmps The fever appeared " ns
Nav e there We're two deaths and twenty
liisAn oafSs q June there We're thrly cases
i nd follr deaths Of whom two We're Amer
t cans san and Two mo natives OF Panama There
we're also three cases OF yellow fever
amonES the employees OF the Panama r all
roa d and no death Up to date w July