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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-30

additional tools from the States we shall
have machine shops inferior to none.
Take the French locomotives. Those
which we are now repairing are of Bel
sian make. They are well designed and
of superior workmanship. but they are
pomplica5ed and IN some ways hard
to maintain. we can use them, how.
ever, and are repairing them for Culebra
and other points. VI s3
I'VE are also repairing the. old French
cxcavators, which, by an endless chain of
buckets, scoop up the earth and load it
on the cars. These are now In use. and
Chief Engineer Wallace will probably con
tinue to use them until no has enough
steam shovels or other superior Ameri-
can machinery to take their places. Just
now when, our machinery has not come
from the States much of this old French
stuff can be used. i. 81 &
"Indeed 1t is hard to estimate the. value
of the material which we got with tho
canal. The equipment Of the shops here
ISL judge worth at least a quarter Of
a million dollars"
How about your; labor, Mr.. strom? r.
"We have American foremen, with ma
tives under them. We have some ] a.
'maical negroes. who are skilled mechanics,
and who are especially good blacksmith
We have one blacksmith whom will
put up against any white blacksmith any
where. The majority OF the Jamalcans,
however are worthless as far as skilled
labor is concerned We can use them for
rough work only IA,
f''What other races do you ernploy?'' u
1--WE have a number OF spaniards some
Of whom are superior to the mechanics
from the States. We have some French
men and a. large nlmberfof Colombans.
We have a. Spanish locomotive gang, a
French gang and an American gang. We
work them side by side, and each tries
to see whether 1t cannot do the most
work So fart the French play second
fiddle to none
fare your men interested in their
work r. Y
"rhe spaniards ana French are much
Interested" RI 5iS
How about the Jamaicans7''
I'VE have to drive them all the time.
They have no energy, and no Individuality.
They drag along waiting for the whistle
to blow
Americans in Panama.
''yVhat Is the charaotersof your Amerl-
can Ia bor7., NJ I'M. b II 4 N iS Is
: I'VE have about the same class OF workv
men here that you find in the State ard
use them chiefly for foremen.. We pay
them As cents gold all hour, and In addi-
ton furnish them free quarters. This is
about 26 per cent moro than they pes
Soeiye In the States, We pay the COM
mon lahorer from is to 40 cents an hour,
In silver which IL equal to- from Z ia TO
20 cents m hour sold, The Jamaican me-
ohanics get moro. ~
81 "Can Americana work here In the
tropics ~ II
s&q'I think So. especially under cover as In
the shops, Bias Matachn Is high and
ahealt We have but little sickness, and
have had almost no malaria since the
the very best American mechanics we.
can get. and IL think they wi eventually
be satiNfled with their pay and with heirl
Saccommo ions. 4 81 Il. 81 ssg;
I What kind of men. have YOU IN syelrs
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technc institute OF Stockholm. one Of
the best engineering schools of the world.
After his graduation there he came to
the United States and learned the Eng
fish language while acting as engineer
for the Chesapeake and Ohio and South-
western Railway. When that road was
merged in the Illinois Central he went
with IT. and soon became the mechani-
cal engineer in chief OF that system.
with Its enormous shops and 5000 or
5000 miles Of track.
Found in the Jungles.
Said Mr.. Strom:
"Wc found these shops in the jungles.
We did not know they existed when
came here last June, and 1t was only
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IA
work at culebra- It Is where the old
French material is being made into new
for use on the canal. There are other
shops at Empire. and there are also
!; shops at $Culebra itself. where the actual.
work Of excavation is In progress: a
Empire there are, fully fifteen acres Of
buildings and storage tracks. and there
we have fifty locomotives, several hum.
dred cranes and a vast number of dump
cars. At Culebra one hundred mechanics
are making light repairs on the loo
cars, 30 locomotives. seven cxcaYators
and the new steam shovels which are
working there. We have also big machine
I shops al Colon on the Atlantic and some
AT In Boca OH the Pacific. We have q
saw ard planning mill running at Colon.
making the lumber for the new build
sings and repairs. and there are tinsmith5
and blacksmith shops for the same pur-l
nose at Ancon on the edge of Panama:
Indeed the man who thinks nothing Is
being dope on the Isthmns has hut to,
y SEQ these shops to learn his mistake.
"a Talk With Engineer Strom.
II am here at Bias Matachin with Mr..
Carl A.. Stronl, the mechanical engineer
of the commission. He has charge of all
Z the machinery OF the Istfmus and 1t is
Ibis duty th keep It lnsrepair. The COM
mission has told him to get what he can
ont of the French supplies, and he Is
doing this with Il corps OF mechanical
4 engineers, American foreman and a large
number of native laborers. Mr. Strom.
I is ono of the strenuous young men of
Uncle SAINTS corps. Hc Is about six
feet in height, broad -shouldered and mus.
cular,f md he looks as though he could
defy malaria, yellow fever or any kind
of hard work. He Is a swede by birth
and was educated at the Royal Poly
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engineering corps
eve have q large number Of college
graduates who are starting out to make
place for thernae1ves We have men
from Cornell, Purdue. Ann 'Arhor. the III.
nois State University and the Boston
School Of Technology. They are rechani.
cal engineers getting their first practical
experience and as q. rule they are doing
well7'
rs this good place for such menu
"Yes. Tho isthmus now offers unllmi-
ted opportunities for the training OF young
engineers we have all sorts of mechan-
ical difficulties to overcome, not only IN
the lack or materials and the working
over OF this old stuff into, new. Such
things bring out man g, Ingenuity and
develop his brain cells. Indeed, do not
know OF better school for an engineer
graduate than right here on the isthmus'
French Hospital Supplies.
Speaking OF the old material, quite a
lot OF It has been USED by the sanitary
department In one way or another. This
is so as to mattresses. The commission
found a great lot OF old hair bundled
up in the warehouses. It was put into
n vat and boiled and cleaned. The result
was five hundred good hair mattresses,
which did no cost over "A apiece They
could not have been bought at home for
five times that money
The sanitation officers needed launch
and II would have cost them $1,000 had
one been ordered from the States They
took an old boat at La Boca, and by an
expenditure OF $3.50 fitted out vessel
which docs very WE'LL The same depart
ment required q float to carry their disln-
fected clothing and baggage, similar to
the ones Used for that purpose at Ha-
vana. They took an old hulk with a
n q M ho no
at third the cost Of a ne& float.
French Stationery.
Among the other valuable things left by
cry. They bought things by the ton,
and this was 30 Of fine drawing paper.
In the basement OF the administration
building at Panama lies q carload or 80
Of drawing sheets, each as big as CEN.
ter table. The craftsmen tell me there
is more than can be used for all the
drawings that can possibly be made for
the canal work. and that the remainder
will be worth thousands OF dollars.
In the same basement there are print.
ing presses and Autograph presses, all Of
which have been brought into use by the
commission. The canal printers work
night and day. They make all the blanks
used III the work; they print all the re-
ports. and upon the Autograph presses
they are reproducing drawings and plans.l
There are hundreds Of letter presses
scattered through the warehouses here.
and there are also II about SIX tons Of
steel pens, 80 rusty that they are good
I for nothing. Some OF these have been
shoyeled out into the ocean, and the ball
ance. one OF the builders facetiousy
says, he intends to use for making steel
concrete, i
French Extravagances.
These six tons of pens give. one an idea
8of the extravagant methods Of the
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French. During the earlier years OF the
canal they bought everything in enormous
quantities, and the belief Is current that
the clerks received commission on their
orders Money flowed Ike water, and
purchases were cflrelessly made For
Instance, at one time quantity of bolts
and screws were needed OF special pat
tern. "A model OF wood was made to IN
dictate the shape and the wood was
painted black to show that the screws
were to be made Of iron or steel In
issuing the order, however. no mention
was made OF the material. 1t was SIM
ply stated that the goods were to be
according to sample. a few months later
they came on. barrels and barrels OF
bolts and screws made OF wood. painted
black. They were according to sample,
and had to be paid for.
Fifteen Thousand Dollar Pig Pen
Some OF theis greatest extravagaances
were In the buildings. Ordinary cottages
the Ancon stables there is a bath tub
made for the horses. which Is fifteen feet
wide. seventy-f1ve feet long and four feet
deep. It is so arranged that water can
be ca silly lot into It. 1t was the custom
OF the French engineers to have their
racing ponies washed of in this way.
instead Of currying them. There were
:
Judge is the most costly hog house on
record.
4 Riding up Ancon Hill the other night l
discovered It. had passed the hospitals
and took road that led off into the
Jungle. surprising It would bring me down
the hill on the other side. The road was
paved and guttered, and Mr.. Johnson,
who was with me, estimated that It must
have cost at least ten thousand dollars a
mile to build. We followed 1t, and it's
end was a pig pen. And such pig pen!
1T was 200 feet long. 100 feet wide and
built entirely of concrete with iron sup
ports upholding q galvanized roof. The
pen was divided into compartments, each
OF which had It's cement trough. and 1t
was, all told, large enough to have nc
commodated 200 hogs at one time. I
asked Mr.. Johnson what It would cost to-
build such a structure, and he replied
that low estimate would be $4,000.
Similar extravagances are to be seen
sboS. IA a It
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hanks In operation at this time noydton has
two; Chase City, three; ciatksyille, twS;
appear 10 be- doing good business;
temperance wave seems TO be rolling over
Meckenburs and the reins are being drawn
more tightly over the whlskey traffic, Every
distilery. except one, has been closed UP by
the court, and ut this one, no less than n
gallon Of wMskey can be sold; Roydtop,
syhers there is q dlspensary run by the Gown.
car buy llqlort by the small quantity.
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Charles City Notes.

Especial to The Tlmes- DIsn tel,
MALVERN HILL. VA. April @..-hitss Emily
Guy, OF Henrico, has been spending a short
tme viii, Miss Iavinpa Carter.
4 Mr. John Archer, 81 Richmond has been
visiting In Charles CITY county ~,
Miss Mary Randolph Carter Of High Hills. IL
with her aunt, Mrs, Robert Carter. OF shir-
Icy on the james. III
visiting her aunts, tho Misses Nelson. Of
q Miss Neilie nraxton OF Richmond, and Miss
Virginia Ruffen, of Prince George Will spend
severa I weeks with Miss NJ. L.. Carter, OF
Shirley Mills.
MI, Hugh Harrison. of '.Rverside, is spend
Ing some time Mt Mr.. John Isuffen's.
Mrs. G. NJ Walker, OF tho ''Glens." has
returned from Norfolk, where she has spent
several weeks.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-30

The tainted blood OF anc'
spring untold suffering by
blighting disease, Scrofula;S !
traced to some family blood t
to the laws of nature, Sw'
weak eyes, sores, assesses,
skin eruptious, white swell
ing, hip disease and other
deforlnities, with a wasting
of the natural strength and
vitality, are some OF the ways
this miserable disease man
ifests itself. The poison
transmitted throug y the
blood pollutes and Weakells t
nutritiye qualities flls.the 81
deposits, often resulting in c
family blood for generate
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9Mecklenburg Mites.

ESPECIAL to Tho Times Dspatch.)
BoYpTnN, VA, April ,--AIecklenburg has
al 4 good banking facilities as any county In
tbe tate. st There are no less than eleven
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-30

frhe Daughters o. Captain John Null,
Ian, III. 8, a. are running q Laundry In /
washington And are making success
gof the ventufe, though some OF thar
rs,aSsrs ara yeEv 49, M. n
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-30

Father John Henry Then, Roman
Catholic priest. Of Wichita. Kas,, has
been appointed chamberlain OF Pope Illus
y. The Office carries with II the hon.
orary title OF monsignor. f
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-30
.SCROFUL \ " P }ss:s;t

estors lays upon the shoulders Of innocent of h
transmitting to them, through the blood, that
rim nearly every instance the disease can be
rouble or blood-kin marriage which is contrary
cling ulcerating glands Of the neck, catarrh,
scrofula appeared on the head Of my little
grandchild when only I8 months old, and spread
rapidly over her body. The disease next attacked
the eyes and We feared she would lose her sight,
then that We DECIDED to try IS s. That
cure. She is now young lady, aud has never
had sign of the disease to return. IA.
1850 SIS th St., Salina,' Kan. MRS r, BERKLy.
hat Misunderstanding fluid and In place Of its4
scrofulous matter and tubercular
consumption. A disease which has been in the
j, perhaps, or at least since the birth Of the suf
!, requires constitutional treatment, S. s. S..
~ remedy best fitted for this. II cleanses the
d of all scrofulous and tuberculous poisons,
es it rich and pure and under the tonic effects
his great blood medicine the general health inn
IS away there is asure return to health. the dis.
lille posterity is protected. Book on the blood
shed by our physicians, without charge,
SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. TlANTA. q
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1905-04-10
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Wdnn ipilroe ME elm aefIidtts 3emo
ansitben = Iieber gar fein's!"
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1905-04-10

Die @eiebgebun bon &c c Ii.
funbIono bot lid iiber Die Germcr-
filng oes SonoelSpcrtrogS NIT Den
Gcreinigten Stnoten ourh Ben Sc
not in 8oibin9ton bitter gerd6t.
0os nelle @eiet 0os I'M ltnterbolls
nit 16 gegen 8 Stimmen oitgenont-
men moroen tit, beitimmt, Dab onte-
rifaniide 6iIderfabr5ciige innerbolb
oreier Meilen bon Ser Neilfitnolono.
fiiite nit Sober, SorrGtbcn ooer
Ausriiltiings -IrtifeIn, oie in einenl
Soften bon N%eufunolono .gefolift
noroen iino, betroffen iperoen, elm.
fod confis5irt meroen iouen. 6obr.
5elig, ausriiitung rno 2ooiitg iollen
lpegsenommen peroen. 9us lit Elm
ihmerer S6lag fir Die Slider Der
gteuenglonb.S tooten, oie bisber ao-
Der unb onbere ailsriiitungs-@egen
ltonoe inter ben 9iinitigiten 9eoin-
glt1gen eriperben fonnten. Iaein
man fam Den Ieufiunbldnoern bic
len S6riit nift perbenfen. sic meb.
rem lid) ibrer Sout. Die N~euenglano-
Slider fDnnen iid bei Senator
2oose fir feline 9oIitif bebanfen, Der
allies nebmen, ober ben Menfunolun-
bern nid)ts ~eefu1bren mollte.
Inh IT IN s.-9efonnter: $50
ben Sic idon grtr1gniiie alis Sbren
Iiteroriiten grbeiten er3ielt2"-Sirn
ger Gidter (itoI5): % ia, einmal
bat mir Elm Neaafteur cine Gigarrc
angeboten.~
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1905-04-10

~ VIZ ueI ~ W " Z III
It II T 3. NdRe IuBerpiqgraten, Sirpl.
tpnroe Elm Bauer BON elmer Canine ers
fabt; er erlitt einen SUB unb Rippens
brnh, lpuroe aber nod lebeno gerettet.
Sds bDloerne Saus bes Mignerbaiern
tpttroe our4 cine Canine tbeilpeiie
perfhoben. Se9s Climber unb einige
@dafe ipuroen setDotet. Ndhit apps
rama purbe ourd cine 2atpine ON
@aftbaus bas Dad fpeggeriHen.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09

the Queen City Printing Company is
the product of "scab" labor and under
"scab" conditions.
Resolved, further, That we urge
all members of organized labor, in
every trade and calling, to use all
honorable and lawful means to de-
feat the evident purpose of the
Queen City Printing Company, i. e.. to
"ParryiZe" the conditions under
which the wage-earners of the State
must labor; that they denounce the
open shop" as a delusion and a snare.
and that they put forth every effort in
their power to change this "open
shop" of the Queen City Printing
Company to a closed shop-or a
Union shop.
The above resolutions of the Raj
eigh Typographical Union are caused
by the binding over to court under a
$50 bond Of John J. Williams, foreman
of the Charlotte News office, a member
of the Union who is charged with in
ducing an employe to leave the SER
vice of the Queen City Publishing
Company, the warrant being issued on
complaint of Mr.. Hugh A. Murrill.
president and manager of the COM
pany. The trouble is concerning the
employment of non-union men IN the
office of the Queen City Publishing
Company, these being designated as
"scabs'' or rats by Union printers.
In the complaint it is alleged that Mr..
Williams provided G. F. Collins, the
non-union printer, with railroad
ticket and money to return to his
home in Indianapolis. The resolu-
tons of the Raleigh Union are in sup
port of Mr.. Williams and against the
Queen City Company, which does a
job printing business.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09
AGAINST "SCAB" LABOR.
Raleigh Typographical Union Pledge
Assistance to Brothers In
Charlotte.

At a special meeting of Raleigh
Typographical Union No. 81, held
yesterday, the following preamble and
resolutions were adopted:
"Our fellow craftsmen of Charlotte
Typographical Union having asserted
their rights as freemen, by refusing
TO work with "Scab' labor in the
office of the Queen City Printing Com
pany, of Charlotte:
"And an officer of said Union hav-
ing been arrested and placed under
bond for his appearance at next term
Of the Superior court; therefore, be it
Resolved. by Raleigh Topographic
cal Union No. a. That we pledge to
our brothers of Charlotte every as
sistance within our power to render;
that we denounce the methods of the
Queen City Printing Company as ini-
mical to the best interests of our
craft; that We call upon all friends OF
honest labor to adopt as their motto,
I'VE do not Patronize the Queen City
Printing Company" that we urge the
members of Charlotte Union to see to
it that no "scab" finds a haven In
Charlotte. and that the public is in
formed of the fact that the output of
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09
GIVE FIVE CENTS
Plans for Raising Funds
by Southern Cotton
Association.

At the meeting of the executive
committee of the Southern Cotton AS
ISOLATION held in Memphis it was de-
cided TO recommend to every associa-
ton, State, county and township. to
erect warehouses at once wherever
necessary. They further recommend
that this be done by local capital if 1t
be possible This plan of erecting
warehouses will be taken up by every
State in the cotton belt so that there
may be a sufficient number of ware
houses ready for cotton by fall 10
guarantee organizing a mutual insur-
ance company. The plan of this in
surance is as follows:
Each warehouse is to become
through the mutual insurance plan
security for every other warehouse be-
longing to or under the control of the
Southern Cotton Association In this
way the insurance will be reduced to a
nominal sum: and will guarantee~ab-
solute fire protection without being
forced TO subscribe to all of the plans
and specifications of the Southeastern
Tariff Association.
The cotton farmers and Southern
people will build their own ware
houses. organizing each State. and get
a charter for doing a commission
business, and then every warehouse III
the entire cotton belt carries its pro
rata share of the risk of every other
one so that if no cotton is burned the
insurance will cost nothing; and TAX
ing a ten year average, if the assocla-
ton can get enough warehouses built
and enough cotton stored, the estl-
mate is that il will not exceed cents
per bale for insurance. The farmers
themselves, having taken stock In the
warehouses. will have their storage
charges reduced to a minimum. in that
their stock will, if managed correctly.
very nearly pay for their storage; and
if sufficient funds are pooled by the
Southern. cotton grower and the South
ern people. and it is managed cor
rectly. there will be a loan fund suf-
ficient to carry the weak and dis
tressed cotton at a low rate of inter-
est. thereby giving the South and the
Southern. planter absolute control OF
the marketing of his cotton.
The Southern Cotton Association Al
so decided to ask every man. woman
and child in the South, who today
feel that they are under obligation 10
the Southern Cotton Association for
the present rise in cotton TO con-
tribute one nickle apiece. All North
Carolinians who feel so disposed, and
think they can afford this much for
this cause can forward their nickle
to the treasurer of the Southern Cot
ton Association, North Carolina dl-
vision. The association is in debt,
and thinks that this is a just and
equitable way of appealing to the peo-
r1lo for. ri
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09
SAVED BY A FRIEND
Yet Friends Later Almost
Wrecked His Life.
The Backward Step However was
Regained, and Today He Can
Cry, | am a Free
Man.

The gentleman who writes the fol-
lowing story found in his extremity Il
friend who proved a love as pure and
unselfish as that of Jonathan for
David. Later he found friends who
might we'll have been compared to
those of whom a king of France once
said: May God deliver me from my
friends. Yet these latter friends
We're sincere. 1t only goes
to show that Well-meaning people are
sometimes more dangerous to those
they love than are open and avowed
enemies. Here is what DR.. Moore says
of them:
Il am a graduate of the Kelley In
stitute at Greensboro and a strong ad-
vocate of the noble and effective work
it is doing daily for those suffering
from the dreadful maladieS brought
about by the too free use of alcoholic
drinks. or the drug habit. | feel that
cannot speak in praise too loud of
it's reclaiming powers, for l was one
of those unfortunates in the firm
clutches of the evils of strong drink
and realizing the fact that it was just
destroying my manhood, my useful
ness as a citizen, and as a physician,
and seeing my family, who were de-
pendent upon me for the comforts of
life helpless, and realizing the base
depth 10 which | was daily descend
ing. | resolved to quit and return
again to my normal condition. All
my efforts. for reform, however, We're
futile and my progress was gradually
downward. When all my efforts
proved of no avail I had a friend who
had taken the Kelley treatment who
persuaded me to go to Greensboro,
and even borrowed the money to pay
my expenses for the Kelley cure.
"In April, 1898, l went to Green's
boro for the treatment, and TO my
surprise left in four weeks absolutely
cured. In the spring of 1899 | con-
tracted tuberculosis. and whiskey was
prescribed for me by my physician. l
refused positively to take it, prefer
ring to die rather than go back to
drinking, but physician, family, and
friends insisted that / should take it
as a. medicine. This | continued to
do until the election in 1900. when |
yielded to the boys and tanked up and
kept ii up for several days.
II determined. however, to return at
once to the Kelley Institute and place
myself in the hands of its kind and
obliigng officers and physicians for
treatment. The cure resulting from
this trip has been marvellous indeed.
for I have not taken drink since that
time and do not want any. l strongly
urge all unfortunates to take the
treatment and take it before ii is too
late for they have cured hundreds
worse than you. and made many
homes happy.
with best wishes.
IF T. MOORE. MD"
Benson. n. c., Dec. II, 1904.
Send names and addresses of those
who may be benefited to the Kelley
Institute, Greensboro, n. G.