The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-23
CHONTS TELLS OF CANAL WORK,
LOCAL CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINING
hoard 70 BE CREATED.
Pacific Mail and Panama Railroad TO Work
In Harmony-An Emergency water
Supply Because Of Dry ~SPnson-Only 40
in J pOO Stakeholder Efficiently Kept.

When the Panama Canal will be finished
te now only a question Of the structural plan
TO be finally decided on, according 70 the
<~ntatement given out yesterday by Theodore
p. Shonts. chairman If the Isthmian Can
Commission. before he started for Washing
ton. Preparatory work is stiil receiving
the most attention, but in March without
making any special effort but following out
the general policy Chief Engineer Stevens
moved 2N 600 cubic yards Of material in
canal digging with an average Of 10 40
steam shove.s working. The reports to
April is, when Mr.. Shon's left, indicated still
greater efficiency, and from this it ishelieved
that the chief engineer hv Iuly or August
viii be able toinsta,lf forty shoreIs and be in
a position to move Approximately / 5000
cubic yards a month, The actual cost,
counting in all the items that a contractor
would include as expenses, for the work
done in MAJ n was III cents a cubic yard.
Assistant Chief Pnpreyman Of fhe Wash
4 ington office, who arrived with Mr.. Shopts
on the Colon, gave ont the ohair1ran's state
rnent, and said that it had been prepared
as q summary Of the work accomplished.
No reference had been made in il 10 Poultncv
Bigelow's stories, as MIR, Shonts believed
that the charges in the Tr6rpe1dcNt had
been made a dead issue by the answers Of
President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft.
81 talked with Poultnny Bigclow soma
weeks ago on the 1sthmus, said Mr.. Pep
II perman, "hut | do not know what impress
eions he received on his second visit. There
have been A. least forty special newsparer
eomntssiore-s rsvolinr through the Canal
Zone, according To Chief Engineer Stevens,
The two thing. that most impressed ma On
this trip was the high degree of law and
order that preyails and the absence of
NNs-,.a
"osIuiloes,
Wnep nov "oFhll-' me rnlPIoFt'N "'N
to a remarkable degree, when it is con-
sidered that the nopulation i, so cosmo-
,nliton orderlr and law abiding The
p"o"sat,, ~ ooio;a W nolioo foroo and thar
oause Il Vhe r'I't'''' p"'I' - "u' ~"
II was organized in oil details FeIore me
rush of employees. Law and order got 10
the Canal Zone ahead # the crowd. so that
.ha.o Va no,.er hoo, NV reirn If high
.nele has me-. 'c' aNy ~ >. misa
Il 5inks OF u'S"'ueI ~ we "'7','i' "i't'H
camp order. The polio" nav" lar greater
# power than q municipal force, for they
oovern the whole territory and have the
S,,,.anu arraai.a,i1n 81 rho Canadian
hlh'alE "sd"'N"''o" ~
" mounted ponce or any 9"'Ih-i'Il any "IC''
The force il made up Of Americans ana
negroes from the West indies. The COM
ynander i. q Western hustler and Rough
81 ra-u cLn..,- ~ I'D,
hnueI' ep' "T''tF = man.. ''" 'h''e
success IN similar WORN ~ 'i"'d'
son my previous trirs | was almost
eatan m nv MOSQUITOES. but this trip
aId a., , Li.a Tho ,,.a oF nil larearv
s'u no' ~ "a ! - -.
10 the s"aihiS anu ,''', .'''''i9''" ny
4 the canal work into healthier conditions
III of soil. with the baniShing Of the open
II otstern. and racarta Gle. TO catch and re-
80 ,.a 49, oa,sa. tla, bo,a
oaih am |d,e' ~ r. VIC! ,aS
ri Vanqulsheh the mosquito me INSTITUTION
of American sanitary conditions has ban
M isheJ vello,. fever in epidemic form in
N Cnba and the successful carving out Of
-, ~. ~. 1891 49, haIiora
similar VOTE IA 'H' ana, one ! oeie'e
has ohlltsrated the MOSQUITO pest"
Mr.. Shontss statement said:
"On this trip down to the Isthmus MIR.
81. eborts c.as ACCOMMODATED nv TnitaI States
S.Nn a p 80
III OVl service olNUh7"lu-"FS ''D!c} dnV