Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-12-21

vTnivn most work VIII nave TO be done
in any event. | visited many of the
different villages, inspecting thorough
ly many different buildings-the To-
cal receiving hospitals, the houses in
which the unmarried white workmen
live, those in which the unmarried col
ored workmen live; also the quarters
of the white married employees and of
the married colored employees; as we'll
as the commissary stores, the bath
houses, the water closets, the cook
sheds for the colored laborers, and
at which most of the white employees
take their meals. | went through the
machine shops. During the day l
talked with scores of different men
superirfendents and heads of depart
ments, divisions, and bureaus; steam
shovel men, machinists, conductors,
engineers, clerks, wives of the Ameri-
can employees, nealth officers, colored
laborers, colored attendants, and man.
ayers of the commissary stores
where food is sold to the colored
laborers; wives of the colored en-
ployes who are unmarried. In the
evening I had an interview with the
British consul, Mr.. Mallet, who for
many years has well and honorably
represented the British government
On the isthmus of Panama l also saw
Che French consul, Mr.. Gey, of equally
Saturday we went through the Guile
bra cut, stopping off to see the ma
rines, and also to investigate certain
towns; one, of white employees, as to
which in certain respects complaint
had been made to me; and another
town where I wanted to see certain
houses of the calored employees. We
went over the site of the proposed Ca
tun dam, having on the first day in
spected the sites of the proposed La
Boea and Sosa dams. We went out
on little toy railway to the reser-
voir, which had been built to supply
the people of Colon with water for
their houses. There we took lunch at
the engineers mess. We then went
through the stores and shops of Girls
tobal, inspecting carefully the houses
| of both the white and colored EN-.
9loyes, married and unmarried, to
gether with the other buildings. We
then went to Colon and saw the fire
department at work We also rode
about Colon, through the various
streets, paved, unpaved and in pro
cess of paving, looking at the bitches
sewers, curbing, and the lights. ther
went over the Colon hospital. In the
evening l attended reception giver
by the American empoyes on the 18th
mus, which took pace on one of the
docks in Colon, and from there wen
aboard the Louisiana.
Each day from ~ to Is hours were
spent in going over and inspecting al
there was to be seen, and in exam
lining various employees
l wish to pay tribute to the
amount of work done oy the Frencl
canal company under very difficul
circumstances. Many of the building
they put up were excellent and arr
still in use, though naturally th'
houses are getting out of repair ant
are being used as dwellings only un
til other houses can he built, AM
much of the work they did in the Gu
Zebra cut, and some of the work the,
did in digging has been of direct AM
real bentfit. This country has neve
made a better investment than tn,
$40,000,000 which it paid to tn,
French company for work and better
ments, including especially the Pan
ANA railroad.
An inspection on the ground at tn,
height of the rainy season served t,
convince me of thef wisdom of con
gress in refusing to adopt either
high-level or a sea-level canal Their
seems to be a universal agreemen
among all people competent to judg
that the Panama route, the one aci
ually chosen, is much superior L
boththe Nicaragua and Darien routes
Preliminary Work Done.
The wisdom of the canal manage
ment has been shown in nothing NOR
clearly than in the way in which tn
foundations Of the work have bee
laid. To have yielded to the nature
impatience of ill-lnformed outsider
and begun all kinds OF experiments /
work prior to a thorough sanitation
of the isthmus. and to fairly satii