Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-27

points. The personnel Of the division Of
schools included thirty-one teachers.
teachers It is hoped hoped that TT the eA standard
Of the force will be improved. and af-
ford to the children Of American en-
ployes school facilities as broad in scope
and purposes as those afforded by
The work of sanitation was carried on
throughout the year, increasing in
amount and extent as new egtneering
construction was undertaken. It's sue
cess depends upon the ability to protect
employees against the malarial mosquito.
and this Is accomplished by draining
and clearing the ground in the neighbor-
hood Of villages, in addition to proper
lquartering.
credit cannot be given, the sanitary de-
partment for the elimination Of yellow
fever. which permits the successful
prosecution Of the work. There was no
yellow fever originating on the isthmus
during the year. though one case was
having passed the period Of injection.
A comparison Of the death rates among
employees for the fiscal years 1866 and
| 1867 will show a marked Improvement
mainly due to sanitation, and also to
better housing facilities and better food
supplies.
| OF the 1885 buildings which were re-
ceived from the French Canal Company
252 were repaired during the year and
113 destroyed. There are 678 Of these
buildings vet remaining to be repaired
remodeled or demolished. -. $50.
| "A total Of 767 new buildings were con-
structed, and on June 80, 1907, there
classes. Six. buildings were started at
Porto Bello, about eighteen miles from
Cristobal for occupancy as quarters by
forces engaged in stonecrusher work at
Int L.
concrete in lock construction. Fire de-
partment buildings. jails, churches. post
Offices and fumigation houses to the
number Of twenty-seven were con-
structed along the line.
The average force employed was $3.50
men, and in the work outlined above
$4,357,5S7.57 were spent. The largest
single item of expenditures was for
quarters for gold employees, amounting
to $1.4s2.416.51. The next largest item
was for construction Of silver employees
quarters. amounting to $4S2.6028S. For
the construction Of buildings for hospi-
tai purposes there were expended $685.
1867 and for supervision and clerical
force $1s3,763.73.
New Line Of Railway.
/ Col. Goethals says that the completion
| Of the canal will necessitate the abandon
| ment of the present main line Of the Pan
anna railroad, and preliminary surveys
for location of a new line on the east
side of the canal were completed In No
| vember. The location Of the line involves
the excavation Of LOCO, 600 cubic yards of
material and the placing of $4,000. 900
cubic yards in entertainments.
The main line at Batun now passes
over a portion of the site that must be
occupied by the dam, and in order not
to delay work on that structure it be-
came necessary to commence SO much
Of
enable the abandonment of the existing
line and permit construction of the dam
upon this portion of the site.
In the construction work on the new
line total of 36, 661 cubic yards of ma
terial was excavated, and, including ma
terial from Culebra cut, $3.50 cubic
yards were hauled and placed In embank-
ment, permitting the laying Of 6,852 linear
work four steam shovels and one pile
driver and an average of LOO laborers
were engaged. ~
Urban Sanitary Work.
The operations last year, Col. Goethals
says. included the paving of streets and
construction of waterworks and sewer
systems in the cities of Panama and
Colon, paving, roadmaking, grading, con-
struction of waterworks and sewer sys-
TENS, and miscellaneous work of a SINH
| lar nature in the canal zone, necessitating
an expenditure of ST. 741 ,953, divided about
| equally between work in the cities of
Colon and Panama and work in the canal
zone. 80
In general. the work has been but a
continuation of the plan inaugurated at
| the outset of American occupation of the
! isthmus-to take such steps as were nee
essary to make the isthmus sanitary, so
as to further the work of building the
| canal.
| The cost of work done in the cities of
Colon and Panama will be reimbursed to
| the United States under the terms of
contracts entered into shortly after the
| expiration of the fiscal year, in which
the United States is authorized to collect
| such water rates as are sufficient to re-
imburse itself, as above outlined The
cost of these improvements in the cities