The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-27
THE EXPLANATION.

After reading the following. which we find in The New Bedford Mercu- ", we think our readers will agree with us that the canal work should go forward without further delay:
 According to a New York newspa- rer there was a shipment by the ca nal commission to Panama this week of o'clock tea sets. suit cases wom- ems night robes, silver-plated cutlery, tootbpicks and cut glass finRer bowls; commission says these shipments have been going on and will continue to be dispatched. In the meantime, ,;nG the the commissions warehouse at Twenty eighth street and Eleventh avenue. The Melderskin when she sailed left sand bridal co6pIes with housekeeping outfits. for life. Among them were the following:
 One hundred dozen hlEh. best quali- ty. latest style Eentlemen's, collars
 One hundred dozen turr down latest style Fentlemen's, collars. hest
 One hundred dozen various styles, best quality gentlemen's collars.
 Six dozen best silk pocket handker-
 one thousand. pairs best tan sewed shoes for gentlemen. and 1000 best colored leather shoes.
 Six dozen best quality gentlemen's '.iS Large quantity of Rogers's best quality table cutlery dnadIupIe silver O'fseS; Dessert, table and silver. spoons of l best quality.
 Case of 5 o'clock tea sets.
 Five hundred umhretlas at $5 each: | 100 shaving sets. 100 razors.
 Twenty dozen ladies' night robes. ! Twenty dozen dress shirts.
 Perhaps there may be some hard head people will say that street picks would be more useful in that worK than tooth picks, hut what do they know about canal building? They | wouldn't know a canal from a railroad. Toothpicks are essential in Panama, and no doubt all the delays in tho past have been due to the fact that 1 the diggers had no toothpicks. Also, we must bear in mind that ladies' work tables. gentlemen's suit-cases. >quadru- pie silver-plated table cutlery, tan | sewed shoes and the like are necessary if the work is to be done in the latest style. We certainly can't expect the gentlemen who are doing the work to wear leather shoes like the common people, or to eat their meals with steel ".
 Then the umbrellas at s each form another essential implement for modern canal digging. We have read that when it rains in Panama the rain | is very wet, and that the sun shines straight down from the heavens. Of course it wouldn't do for those latest style collars to get soaked, nor can we bear the idea that the plebian Pan- anna sun shall be allowed 10 tan the cheeks of the gentlemen canal dig gers. Perish the thought again! No-- thing but a high quality of silk um- brella will serve these favored prot eges of a Republican administration. And The Mercury goes on:
 When this list was read to MT. An ! derson. according to the New York ! newspaper, he admitted that most of | with a portion of the $61 ,O0O,00O which l the United States has expended on the waterway to date. MT. Anderson could bought any ladies night robes or work tables. They must have been pur- chased by the medical supply depart ment of the United States army in the Army building here" he said. ''prooa {,
 bly on an emergency order Asked
 In what branch of the hard and labo-
 rious work of digging the canal ladies
 employed he said leaning forward m
 his revolving chair and speaking earn estly: Well. you see. they are neces- Take suit cases. for example. Some of
 the men may desire to visit others How are they to arry thelr clothes
 they ffasa aaysa ag any wsh fo san ! each other. Tea sets and cutlery are