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CANAL IS ALL RIGHT
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k and betterments, including especially

work and betterments, including especially
the Panama railroad.
An inspection on the ground at the
height of the rainy season served TO con-
vince me OF the wisdom of Congress IN re-
fusing to adopt either a hgh-ievei or a
sea-ievcl canal. There seems TO be d UNI
vCrsal agreement among all peope CON-
potent to judge that the Panama route
the one actually chosen. is much superior
to both the Nicaragua and Darien routes
Preliminary Work Being Done.
The wisdom of the can-1 management
has been shown in nothing more clearly
than in the way in which the founda'i ms
of the work have been laid. TO have
Welded 10 the natural impati ence o. IL
Informed outsiders and begun all kinds of
experiments in work prior to thorough
sanitation of the iSthmuS. and to fairly
satisfactory working out of the problem
of getting and keeping sufficient labor
supply. would have been disastrous. Inc
various preliminary measures had TO ne
taken first: and these could not be taken
so as to allow us to begin the real work
of construction prior to January i OF the
present year. 1t then became necessary
to have the type of the canal decided ana
the only delay has been the necessary de-
lay until the 29th day of June, the date
when the Congress definitely and wisely
settled that should have an cighty-fve
foot-level canal. Immediately after that
the work began in hard earnest and has
been continued with increasing vigor ever
since; and ii will continue so to progress
in the future. When the contracts are
let the conditions viii be such to insure
constantly increasing amount of per.
Torrance.
Successful Sanitation.
The first great problem to be solved, upon
the solution of which the success of the
rest of the work depended was the problem
of sanitation. This was from the outset
under the direction of DR.. w. C. Gorgas,
who is to be made full member of the
commission, if the law to the compost
ton of the commission remains unchanged.
1t must be remembered that his work was
not mere sanitation as the term is under
stood in our ordinary municipal work
throughout the zone and in the two cites
of Panama and Colon, in addition to the
sanitation work proper. he has had 20 dc
all the work that the marine hospital serV-
Ice does as regards the nation that the
health department officers do in the various
states and cities, and that Col. Naring did
In New York when he cleaned its streets
The results have been astounding. The
isthmuS had been a bywUrd for deadly UNI
healthfuness. Now, after two years OF
our occupation the conditions as regards
sickness and the death rate compare fav-
orahly with reasonably healthy localities
In the United States. Especial care has
been devoted to minimizing the risk due to
the presence of these spec eS of mOsQuit oes
rial and yellow fevers. In all the settle
ments. the little temporary towns or cities
composed of the white and black empoy
which grow up here and there in the trOpiC
jungle as the needs of the work dictate,
the utmost care is exercised to keep tie
conditions healthy. Everywhere are to he
seen the d,ainagn bitches which in remov-
Ing the water have removed the breeding
places of the mosquitoes. while the whole
Jungle is cut away for a considerable space
around the habitat!ons. thus destroying the