The San Francisco call., 1906-04-13
ANOTHER VIEW OF CANAL WORK.

UST now there is market for this country
Marvel the dscovere of popular grievances
- filling magazines Their articles
atmosphere of despair of the republic They further than this
present dpcab deserving the
gods evidence that these prosecuting
nes society the ripe judgment the capacity for honest
vesgon the high purpose for the public good to quality them
the profitable they themselves
Many selected canal fruitful
subject criticism which public attention Noneo them
any knowledge of such construction work They have
any job bossed its execution They
don't know what constitutes fair days work moving earth or
blasting rock They have knowledge of the diet required for
the greatest effectiveness of the different kinds OF people employed
the work They have high and mighty notions pretend to
have duty of the Government morally police the 18TH
They go there stay few hours only be able
to that they have been on the ground and then launch their
profound observations and wise conclusions by the medium OF
magazine look around for evils
What the country needs is the conclusion OF practical men
the done the canal and the methods its admnistra
ton The judgment Of hrstcass boss on railroad work who
doesn't know anything about fine writing is better than that OF
all the scrbbng tribe of critics that have been making the tropics
hotter for the hard working engineers and administrators ON the
canal
One such practical observer has given his views of the work
His is Bart E. Lnehan OF Dubuque Democrat who once
of affairs who what earth from shovel full to
wheebarrow full and dump car full he made long sooun on
the isthus more than year ago and has just returned from
other visit the lasting six months Comparing conditions
they those found he finds
oomendabe progress all along the line Not beng hne writer
he has in which to tell what
He merely long experienced in the engineering and
execution Of such construction only knows what fair day work
and has ideas about dieting and docong of worknen that
derived from observation and experience.
He found work progressing the great Cuebra cut, with
forty miles OF track fifty locomotives hundreds of steel dump
The eight halt miles long Ii make
will have deepen the made by the
French feet requiring the excavation of
cubic yards of earth and In this working fifteen five
dPp hove moving cubic yards of earth day
Of eight hours On the employed and
daons being provided for 5000 When this
peed may be said that the canal built the of the
work is simple
Mr. Lnehan asonished the of work done and
Of the opinion that is worth what He says the
lack getting labor and the obstruction the
eigthour The employ the sixteen hours leisure uru
ways drinking and otherwise ncapacitang themselves for eff
service.
Fcass mechanics needed and notVhstand
ing the high paid Many have obtained employment who
incompetent These things happen in the initial stage of all
construction Mr. Lnehan that why good
mechanics obtained take of the locomotives and
other machinery the false ord readable reports published
by the fine about the insufficient accommodations furnished
by the Government He that the knew the really
ceen provisions made for them hss mechanics would gladly
there and work The poor mechanics the dissatisfied class
be found the isthmus They fail make good their bungng
loss and friction and they supply the injurious gossip that
coined into fine writing by the magazine critics.
On the whole Mr. Linehans statement reassurng 1t bears
every evidence of being made by honest and practical
knows what he talking about but will reach the great
of Americans who take their information from the magazines
advertising depend their circulation that the
OF sensational stuff they publish from the professional