The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-12-13
THE ROOSEVELT CANAL.
Mi. Shont's New Title for the Ditch Across
.-.. the Isth1nus. .<.|<..,..
News and Courier.

Isthmian Canal commission. was ths
pripeipal speaker at a joint meeting
of dhe American Hardware Msnufac.
turers' Association and the National
Hardware Association OF the New
Willard Hotel tonight. There waa .
large attendance os members az both
associations, by whom Mr. Shonts was
given hearty reception 90 be entered
the Eall. H.. sbonts spoke as fol-
lows: g. ..&s;. ~, -.>$= -. ):
Seventy per cent Of Panama is now
supplied with pure mountain water,
fed from q storage large enough to
furnish sixty gallons; per day to each
inhabitant after its present population
shall have increased one.half. Fifty
per cent Of complete modern sewer
age System hes been installed, end
work on the remainder 10 being carried
rapidly forward. The first million Of
brick for paving its ssreets are ON the
ground. The city has been fumiga-
ted time; end again, first, house by
house, 70 atop the spread Of disease,
and again as unit; that ia, the entire:
city at one time. A large force is
just Flushing thorough cleaning es
tie city--the frat sorubbing it has
had during it's centuries Of exiesenee;
and Governor Magoon, under whose
jurisdiction all this work has been ae-
oomplished, is arranging to rage many.
of the worst shaoks and replace them
with modern sanitary buildings.
Within year it may confidently be
predicted. Panama will be @ city
we'll watered, we'll severed, we'll paw
ed, and olean and healthy: :. .:.s.. !. rs,
What has been done for Panama 10
being done for Colon. and every i'm.
portant labor camp across the 18th.
mus. Work on Colon's water reser-
voir is we'll under way. and tempo.
rary measures are being employed to
safeguard the oity's health pending
the report, of q board appointed to re-:
commend plans for permanent Inn
progements. An abundant supply Of
pure water from mountain springs
has been provided at Culebra and at
other: important labor. centres along
the line Of the canal, and adequate
drainage is being installed in them
also. III s S= 2s S 5 r $.:r+. 81;
-Four thousand, ,.yone hundred men
are now employed in these sanitary
undertakings. So effective has been
tie work that yallnsg feverE haa M fs.es..s heaa
virtually exsirpatsd from the Isthmus.
In june last, there wore 1913 sosses pS
yellow fever there; ID: july, 42;; Id
August, "a; 10 September 6, md ia
October, the worst month Of the year
for yellow fever, d i 3:,!:--:noo I one 5ofs the
lattsr among the + employers and all
originating many miles from the line
Of the canal. In regard 10 gsnersl
health fponditions, 5I wan told, when
onthe3: :Istbmussin October, that there
were over d hundred less patients in
Ancon Hospital than there Had bsen
forimany months although Wa had
brought! in# q, 600 adj ditional leborers
during The preyious b mon ths, md
it was fsSs the: new i arrivals that tha
'hospitalAs were ;usuali rseruited sl:eSs
.ToSully $undei iStanjd what has been
aooompli lishsd by our sanitary work it
is only. necessary eo oonp the press:
ent rate of sickrnp' lss with that which
prevailed sn she Iathnaus when 5shs
Frensh sWass & siii i1d & pcis,sessie 81 M Ats
gust, 1895, tho second ths!
French apanoy y MI d force 4 ofszs
900men Il ia aeath ssrasa Ras i2pas:
1000. sInI Angus Ritb q aoyee,
ct'l2,OOO5 5tnenf tih asss were OIL, eight
deaths ~ Itwo,t o / nan sparI
l,0O0.5S shaveS Sastab if:sed ;a hoapit-i
alsyltsua shioh nelnill ss + large hoas
pitai as aolomn m gs ana anoth thsr at Aneens 3
apaaEnnmb ber 81 s mn sler hoaspits slsa .sE
eanysnis points !. alohg lhas linsssl
The; enSs at tg,ssaon sis bptit 1n piers
oversize Atiantios ysea MI, snd psiiisnts
thers hsYa ass khs bsnsfk ossl
cool lsnd insieSraI iius III sssa at]
Ancon III ,nsSo {, M n 1 aisd s,aesl