Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-30
DIGGING THE PANAMA CANAL
BIG DITCH TO BE DUG WITH TOOTHPICKS, CUT GLASS
 AND NIGHTSHIRTS.
Remarkable Equipment" Shown on Manifest of Supply Ship.-Twenty Dozen Dress Shirts and Large Sup ply of 5 O'clock Tea Sets.

New York. Dec. 29.-Hearty. old fashioned graft in Panama was indi- cated by the shipment from this port to the canal zone by the United States Canal Commission of a cargo of , o'clock tea sets, ladies' night robes, suit cases. imported English quadru- ,---.l<,-s-. +-~-5>-;-p1-e cut glass finge rbowIs and other evi- dences of Broadway luxury. Loaded to the gunWales, the good ship Mel derskin cast of from the commissions pier at the foot of Twenty-eighth street, on the North river.
 Shipments of similar equipment" for the greatest engineering feat the world has known are to be rushed to Panama henceforth every five days, according to Alfred Anderson. pur- chasing agent for the canal commis> sion.
 These shipments have been going on since the commission was organ ized.'' be added. in the commissions office in the Battery Park National Bank building in State street. Steam shovels are to be sent later. Orders have been placed for those instru- ments, and the goods will be dis patched immediately"
 In the meantime the other class of equipment" is accumulating in the
 commissions warehouse at Twenty
 eighth street and Eleventh avenue. The Melderskin, when she sailed, left there with enough goods to furnish thousand bridal couples with house keeping outfits for life. Among them were the following:
 Thirty-sN work tables for ladies. frrh l. ity, latest style gentlemen's collars. Six dozen best quality gentlemens s suit cases.
 Large quantity of Rogers best quai- ity table cutlery. quadruple silver
 plated.
 Dessert. table and silver spoons of best quality
 Case of o'clock tea sets.
 Five hundred umbrellas at s each, 100 shaving sets. 100 razors. Twenty dozen ladies night robes. Twenty dozen dress shirts. When this list was read to MT An derson he admitted that most of the goods had been purchased by him with
 portion of the $61 900, 900 which the United States has expended in the waterway to date. MT. Anderson could not remember having bought any ladies night robes or work ta- | bles.
 They must have been purchased ! by the medical supply department of the United States army in the army
 building here" he said. probably on
 an emergency order"
 l Asked in what branch of the hard and laborious work of digging thte canal suit cases, , o'clock tea sets. toothpicks, ladies night robes and work tables could be employed. he
 said, leaning forward in his revolving l chair and speaking earnestly: Well, you see, they are nscessities | for our employees down there, Take suit cases, for example. Some of the men may desire to visit others. How are they to carry their clothes if they have no suit cases2 Then their fami- lies may wish to entertain each other. Tea sets and cutlery are necessary, too I think you will readily admit" The same practical and business Ike spirit that has provided these lux
 uries for the colored laborers on the isthmus. and which recently imported
 shiploads of women relatives of those !laborers from Jamaica, has forestalled | practically every wish the men might ! express.