The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-11
YOUNG MEN ON THE CANAL ZONE.
The Chief Responsibilities There Rest
 On Them.

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 The Chief Responsibilities There Rest
 On Them.
 Panama Star and Herald. The number of men on the Canal Zone between the ages Of twenty-five and thirty-five, who hold positions of responsibility and prominence, should influence many graduates now leaving the college of the United States to en- ter the government service.
 Fro mthe time that Lieutenant Mark army, at the age of twenty six. receipt ed to the representatives of the French Canal Company for the French plant on the Isthmus, for which Congress ap- proprtated 40,000.000, the canal work has offered. and men as young as Lieu tenant Brooke have availed themselves of exceptional opportunities.
 Executive Secretary H. D. Reed, who came to the Isthmus in 1903 with the very first party of American officials. when. on his record. the Ca nal passed a resolution autho- rizing him to practically act as the l Governor of the Canal Zone. while Gov Availing himself of his opportunity, MT. Reed so won the confidence and re- spect of the Commission that subse- quently during the nine months which ernor Magoon for Cuba and the arrival of ex-Senator Blackburn, MT. Reed was considerd by MT. Stevens as the Gov ernor of the Canal Zone.
 Maurice B. DePutron. who has just been taken by Colonel Goethals as his private secretary, is only twenty-six years of age, although his work brings to his desk men old enough to be his father. R. M. Sands, who has been private secretary to all of the Assis- tant Chief Engineers, is only twenty nine.
 During the next three months the famous Culebra Cut will be managed by MT. Louis K. Rourke, who is only thirty-three. MT. Rourke has been the superintendent of tracks and dumps in the cut for the last two years and because his work includes such feats as repairing his two hun ten days after their, inundation by the worst flood known on the Isthmus for thirty years, they could be used to make the highest daily record excava- ton made up to that time. Major Gall lard selected MT. Rourke to be acting Division Engineer in the absence of MT. Bolich. MT. Finn. the Resident En- gineer of the Culebra Cut. has two as- sistant engineers, Mark W. Tenny and William l.. Thompson. who are re- spectively thirty-five and thirty one years of age. Tenny and Thompson are responsible for the work upon which eX-Chief Engineer Stevens had to rely for the accuracy of the reports
 
 was taken from the cut each month.
 Earle J. Banta. the mechanical engi- neer of the Department of Motive Pow CT and Machinery. which has erected. cared for and maintained in efficiency all the machinery and rolling stock used on the canal york, is only thirty one years of age. John H. Flynn, Jr, the chief drattsman in Banta's depart ment. has his college diploma and his present position, notwithstanding that he is only tWenty-four
 Joseph A. Le Prince, the Chief sani- tary Inspector of the Isthmus, and the man to whom Colonel Gorgas looks more than to any other for the vigilant enforcement of all the rules that have made the Isthmus the healthy place it now is. Is only thirty-one years of age.
 John K. Baxter, the chief clerk of the Department of Civil Administra- tien. is a man of twenty-fouP. who in addition to his departmental work represents the Civil Service Commis- sion on the Isthmus with the same de- votion to it's ideals that. characterized President Roosevelt when he was a Civil Service Commissioner. F. O, Wright, Jr., the architect who has do-