The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-18
Cettcrs to tbe Gditor
THE PANAMA CANAL.
Letter From Young Montgomery
 Man.

Empire. Jan. l, lsVe Editor The Advertiser. -
 Dear sjr-I have read in your issue
 of December 23, which reachea m' this morning, very interesting III t.e,,, view with Mir. Ben Parker, "no rsa,ns
 and I trust you will allow me snfflclens space to correct several errpneouS impressions that MT. Parker seems 'o
 His statement as to Panama, II IL relates to' Panama City, is In the na'dn aiaa correct Panama City is not nles not smell nice. I might even go so Ear as to agree with Mir Parker that theIe Is probably only one place thal thal hia name of that place would not LOOK Wei' in print. f Mir | Parker. l quote this one paanIin yvSn are not leaving Fanama,-one class it 1 the ignorant laborers who haven kpt sense enough to get away. ana bn the heven.t osr | got money enough to get away. With regard to the laboring ci1Sses' most of them are from Jamalca, hias asss l ston. the port from which ninety-hNs | per cent of these .laborefs come IS | very short distance rom Colon ane 1 steamship fare from Colon to hlng- l ston is $7 silver, or $3.0O gold. The NetE l lowest wages paid laborers is twenty l cents silver per hour, or eighty cents l gold per day. Their quarters are TUT | nished by the GONernmenl, anu meals cost them not exceeding thiTty cents gold. per day, leaving lthem nIty 1 cents, gold, per day. From thls you can readily see that II e,,,ai, wouih "Us on the Isthmus longer than two weeKs'Eas l they receive their wages every H3 tM9 | weeks, and in that time they, wouia ,.a have coming to them. oyer ana ap9DS i,S3ob | their living expenses. $6 gold, wnlcn would more than pay their passage home. So much for the laborers'
 As to the Americans, there ls ho reason on earth why they should pc compelled to remain on the lsthtnus l,n for lack of funds to take them nonipe, np | While it is true that man has 10 pc In the service of the government siN months before he is entitled to tne ti rate of $20. gold, on the Panama Itali to Ne% SSSS York, yet he can get passage s:se from Colon to New Orleans at any tlme ; for $25. gold, and via Kingston os aor $40. gold. The very lowest wages naid any American coming from the States, Is $75, gold, per month out of this is to be deducted cost or wasn- ing. and board. which sh9ur1 9urnished mot e bv the government, absolutely free anu . also the services of the janltor to keeh the rooms in order. gold ro empioyeI naiG in e gold. can leave the service and draw ;, lis pay at any time, and Tn two weeks Il time he will have earned more thal enough to take him to the states bS c way of New Orleans; and m mohtn lime he will have more than enough to take him to New York by way o
 great many of your readers pro
 bably remember Mir. ". c. Haskins who was chief clerk or the Southeri Bell Telephone ofnce III *rnsi5ent 2 a Panama City for more than a year. ha
 recently been promoted to Chief Ger
 ments of the Canal Commission, an
 ahont three weeks ago, his wife an
 little baby arrived and are pertectl
 satisfied with Panama, ms it ;s S not Jai aai
 ways a lack of funds that keeps one ! he Panama, nor a lackkof brains, as M w Parker ststes. iaborors u,or lit fewer hours than in the states TT
 gangs are at work every morning
 o'clock, quit at II: return thug getting .T woI
 at 1 and work until D. thus sett'ns
 eight hours every day. =. 1,z,
 Ss 10 the statement that at Panan
 one is far away from clVlllzalioh ,I ,4 if he was in Alaska, l would say th nt' there is a daily paper published
 Colon. and two daily papers publish
 in Panama,-one in the morning al =. ed in both English and Spanish, .a a lat while I do not pretend to say that tn
 compare with The Advertiser, yet In
 have pretty goSd good SapsS and we get lIGh ,I1l the important news oi eEenuS In ndditi lk- morning after they occur m a@qalti @ sRRa | to this there are HES IT.I, ere ere CTS between Colon ana the C,,ai, un!' per per States-the United Fruit O3liPd Ni 5sSSs from New Orleans, the RoyaL M ou ou steam Packet Company rom StW " \ t,oa t, leans. via Jamaica, the Ley f14i I5 aat tnt son Line from Galveston' she aa @ ,eet bure-A American Line from New 1o sht and rho Panama Railroad Steams
 Line from New York. Each one
 thesc lines has at least one ooat w .,- from colon 10 the States, the Il the between New York and Colon pc
 seven days and between New ore one and Colon five days. and in view or .. am at a loss to understand Why
 Parker should find any Iaui'
 with the mail service. . ,,,hv as
 Nor is there any reason WHY & &aS .o, says. "I was time- keeper ~anu DO iool' ISeener for a gang of workmeh on
 SuIehra Cut and right now l d D know what was going on TOUT or
 miles away on the Canal work
 entire length of the 1stnmus N sor G"rtv-seve1 miles, and men rom lo'- ferent parts of the work are GoIst' cons
 iv eoins un and down the line
 If Mir Parker had caIeu Hstda of
 thing about the Work od Nave I
 own jurisdiction, It WV2urr ali al ears. 8 very easy matter 70 le"'
 '' | have been little longGr, i' D statement than l eXpecttu' hsc.
 vou can find a place TOT terI
 the points in MT. Parkel ao o
 that | have taken up heleii- N'