The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-12-21
|0I'EHT.S PANAMA
'n|IL HEgSAGE.

.,dont Roosevelt transmitted to
, s,ss special message giving the
NJ of his Observations during his
inspe IN &c the Panama canal
and HI nP"dations there
Tho me J. cOmpanied by
S ,.onhs IN the isthmus and
rsrious o...Ial reports, mortality
Is, etc.
shining with his arrival at Colon
+bo battleship Louisiana at $50
Wednesday. Nov. IA, the presi-
. says:
r,s three days ashore-not a suf-
AMI length of time to allow of an
s,nStiye investigation of the mi
t,p of the work of any single de-
.ment, still less to pass judgment on
engineering problems, but enough
nable me to get clear idea Of the
gt features of the great work and
mo progress that has been made as
srls the sanitation of the zone,
an and Panama, the caring for and
ing of the employees and the ac-
digging Of the canal. The zone is
arrow strip of land, and it can be
nacted much as one can inspect fifty
sixty miles of a great railroad at
point where it runs through noun
s.
chose the month of November for
visit partly because it is the rain
h month of the year, the month in
ich the work goes forward at the
eatest disadvantage and one of the
% months which the French Canal
npany found most unhealthy.
after we anchored there
IS violent storm of wind and rain.
ON that time we did not again see
sun until Saturday morning. 1t
uld have been impossible to see the
rk going on under more unfavorable
ather conditions.
First Day Ashore.
~ Thursday morning we landed at
,ut half past { and went slowly over
line Of the Panama railway, end
with an expedition in a tug at the
,ifc entrance of the canal out to the
nds where the dredging for the
al will cease. We took our dinner
one of the eating houses furnished
the commission for the use Of the
cernment employees, no warning of
coming being given. l inspected
Ancon hospital, going through va
Is wards both for white patients
for colored patients. l inspected
ions of the zone police, examining
men Individually. | also examined
ain of the schools and saw the
0l children, both white and col
. speaking with certain of the
hers. In the afternoon of this day
Is formally received in Panama by
ddent Amador, who. together with
and all the people of
lma, treated me with the most
lderate courtesy, for which | here
xtend my most earnest thanks. l
driven through Panama and in a
c square was form ally received
welcomed by the president and
members of the government, and
ne evening l attended a dinner
| by the president and a reception,
b was also a government func-
l also drove through the streets
anama for the purpose Of observ-
What had been done. We slept at
Hotel Tivoli, at Ancon, which is
hill directly outside of the city
lnama. but in the zone.
Second Day.
Friday morning we left the hotel
o'clock and spent the entire day
: through the Guile IA cut, the
in which most work will have to
one in any event. We watched
different steam shovels working;
aw the drilling and blasting; we
many of the dirt trains (of the two
'ent types used, both carrying
earth away from the steam shov-
md depositing it on the dumps,
of the dumps being run out in
jungle merely to get rid of the
!, while in other cases they are be-
lsed for double tracking the rail
and in preparing to build the
dams. l visited many different
ges, inspecting thoroughly many
rent buildings, the local receiving
'italS, the houses in which the I'M
ried white workmen live, those in
III the unmarried colored work
live; also the quarters of the
e married employees and of the
led colored employees as well as
'ommissary stores. the lighthouses.
water closets, the cook sheds for
cOlored laborers and the govern
canteens, or hotels, at which
of the white employees take their
IS. | went through the machine
S. talked with scores of men
and heads of depart
Is, divisions and bureaus, steam
ell men, machinists, conductors, en-
1rS, clerks, wives of the American
Ioyees, health officers, colored la
RS, colored attendants and man
of the commissary stores. In
evening ] had an interview with
British consul, Mr.. Mallet, and the
ch consul. Mr.. Gey. saw the
enants, the chief executive and ad.
strative officers under the en-
ering and sanitary departments.
so saw and had long talks with
leputations-one of machinists and
representing the railway men of
Il tx.L L.. 4.