The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-25
PANAMA CANAL ENGINEERS.
PRESIDENT GIVES INSTRUCTIONS
TO CONSULTING hoard,
And Directs That 1t Meet in Washin & on
on Sept. Tho Personnel OF the
board AnnOlinced'ro Decide whether
the Canal Shall he . Sea Level One.

WASHINGTON June 2A-In an executive
order issued to-day President Roosevelt
gives his Instructions to tine board o. oon-
sulting engineers of the Panama Canal
and also announces the personnel Of the
board. The President directs that the
board meet in Washington on Sept. /, to
investigate and pass on the plans of the
Canal Commission, and, II the hoard deems
it necessary. 1t may go to the lsthmus to
make an investigation Of conditions there.
The Canal Commission is instructed
by the order to turn over to the consulting
board all maps, charts, plans and other
data which have been gathered Scores
of plans have been submitted to the COM
mission by engineers from all parts of the
world No action has Eeen taken on any
OF these plans. the commission leaving
tho making OF the fnal decisions to the
consulting board. The most important
thing to be decided by the board is whether
the canal shall be sea level or lock struc-
ture.
The board consists Of fourteen members,
nine Of whom are prominent American
engineers from various parts Of the country.
and the other five are foreigners. France.
Germany and England have each desig-
mated an engineer who will be present
at the meeting on Sept. /. and tho Neither
lands Government has been asked to make
a nomination NJ. Quellennec. the con-
sulting engineer of the Suez Canal, is the
fifth engineer who has been asked to par
ticipate. The personnel of the board is as
follows
Gen. George ". Davis. Alfred Noble,
William Barclay Parsons. William Fl. Burr.
Gen. Henry l.. Abbott, Frederick p Stsarns.
Joseph Ripley. Herman Schussler Henry
Hunter dominated by the English Gov
ernment,. Herr Eugene Tincauzer nom
mated nv Germany NJ. Guerard NOM
mated by France) and NJ. Quellennec. The
fourteenth member will be named soon by
the Netherlands Government.
President Roosevelt determined upon
having board OF consulting engineers at
the time of the reorganization Of the 18TH
milan Canal Commission. He made several
appointments at that time, and through
the State Department asked Great Britain.
France. Germany and the Netherlands
to select engineers of a high standard in
their own countries to come to Washington
to assist in settling the veSing questions
which are sure to appear. The American
members of the board are all prominent
in their own lines.
Plans are being made by Gov. Magoon
of the Panama Canal Zone for the construc-
ton Of forty-two schoolhouses within the
Zone. Secretary Taft has approved
recommendation Of Gov. Magoon that
900 OF the funds Of the Government OF
the Canal Zone, derived from local revenue,
be used for public school purposes. / he
money will Re applied on the purchase of
real estate, the cons truction of school,
houses, rent of rooms and the general equip
ment Of the buildings constructed
A recent census Of tho Canal Zone shows
that there are $3.50 children in the villages
within a radius Of mile and a half of tho
line of the Panama Railroad. OF these
s7s are male and $50 female, and ,O45 be-
tween the ages Of Q and 10 and ssl between
the ages OF IL and 10. OF the total 1903 can
read and write and 935 can neither read nor
write The others can read and not write.