Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-01-12
FRIDAY. JANUARY l., 1906
THE CRUISE OF THE GOOD SHIP
MELDElSSKIS,

u SIkbInE WI "'"p
MELDEltSKIS.
Let those who cavil at the slowness OF
work on the Panama canal hide their
heads in abashed silence, and let those
who express doubts about the canals
final completion step forward and nm.
nounce their conversion from doubt to
belief in Immediate and triumphant
success.
A few days ago the good ship Meider.
skin sailed from New York, laden to the
Plimsoll line with just tho supplies
needed to push the canal to rapid COM
Fiction. 1t has becn difficult to gather
these supplies, and during the gathering
rogres work has been practically at Il
stand still. In a few days the Melder-
skiu will drop anchor at the isthmus, the
cargo will be unloaded, and as soon rs
the supplies are distributed to the proper
places we may expect to see the dirt fly
in suchshuge and numerous chunks hat
the light OF the sun wiD:be hidden. In
cluded in this cargo OF canal supplies is
the following:
"Tb:rty.six work tables for ladies.
zone hundred dozen high. best quail.
ity, latest style gentlemen's collars.
-One hundred dozen turn down, latest
style gentlenen's collars, best.
One hundred dozen, various styles,
best quality gentlemen's collars.
six dozen best silk pocket handker-
chiefs.
aOne thousand pairs best tan sewed
shoes for gentlemen, and 1000 pairs
best colored leather shoes.
@Siz dozen best quality gentlemen's
suit cases.
"Large quantity OF Rogers best quality
table cutlery, quadruple silver plated.
dessert, table and silver spouns OF
best quality.
Cease OF D o'clock tea sets.
aFive hundred umbrellas at 80 each;
DO shaving sets; 100 razOrs.
twenty dozen ladies' night robes.
@Twenty dozen dress shiris."
1t is not difficult to imagine that
when tho jamaican negroes are given
quadruple plated spoons with which to
throw dirt they will run the canal rap
idly towards the coast. Every taxpayer
will cheerfuliy admit hat it is foolish t.
expect men to dig canals without being
clothed in dress shirts, and only the
mean spirited wculd ask tho workuicn
10 walk in the trench with anything bu.
tan shoes upon their feet. And how
could we expect worrkmen to walk to
and from their wc.k with their picks and
sbovels over their shoulders instead OF
being conveniently carried in leather
suit cases? Once more, how cruel to
lsk men to work beneath the SIMS
tropic rayR, when umbrellas are only "a
zach! With $500 "gentlemen's collars"
Of tho latest pattern there seems moth
ing wanting to bring the canal to a com.
pletion. But we arc ut loss to know
why only seventy. two silk handkerchief
we're provided. Surely that is moi
enough to go around. and certainly it is
unjust. to let seventy'twO men wipo the
honest persplratlop from their brows
with silk handkerchief while several
thousands of others wipe it away with
their fingers or common 1uD'ianas. This
is the only apparent obstacle in the way
Of the immediate pushing OF The work.
but even this may be nm obstacle that il
temporary only, Tor Alfred Anderson
the purchasing agent, tells US that sinh
lar shipments to tho ono carried by tho
Melderskin will be sent TO Panama over,
five days.
tuU canal commission has been oper
to criticism for its apparent slowness
but eurely tho dilatory tactica will nov
DO abandoned and active work begun Al
at once. wo await with impatienee Tia,
unloading Of the Mcldorskin's cargo
CommoDcr.