Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-08-28
TRANSFORMATIONS
SPECIALC0MMISSI0N REPORTS
To PRESIDENT.
Roosevelt is Pleased With Report
Which Tells of the Success of the
Work Being Done on Panama Canal
Colonel GoethaIs, Superintendent,
Gets Much Praise.

President Roosevelt has made pub
lie a report submitted to him on
August by special commission con-
sisting of James Bronson Reynolds,
Samuel B. Donnelly and Henry Beach I
Needham regarding conditions in
Panama. The commission was APP
pointed April 25 last
That the president is pleased with
the report is shown in a letter which
he sent to each member of the com
mission on Friday He expressed par
ticular pleasure over the fact that the
commissioners uphold the administra-
ton of Colonel Cocktails, chairman of
the Isthmian canal commission, and
the president has had a copy mailed |
to Colonel Cocktails requesting that |
the recommendations made by the |
commission be put into effect so far
as possible. The president will sub
init the report to congress with appro-
pirate recommendations.
The commissioners report that they
inspected the entire line of the canal
excavation from La Boca, the south
ern or Pacific terminus, to Cristobal,
the northern or Caribbean terminus,
and travelled through the excavation
several time interviewing the men at
work. Indicating the scope of the in
spection, the commission reports that
it visited the government workshops,
construction plants, warehouses, ship
yards, dredges, commissary stores,
living quarters Chat is, hotels, messes,
kitchens and camps), schools, club
houses courts, police stations and the
convalescent home at Taboga."
Success on Canal Astounding.
President Roosevelt's letter to the
investigators says:
? 81 doubt if there is any piece of
t work undertaken on behalf of the
: American people of recent years of
3 which the American people have more
3 reason to be proud than of the work
done on the Panama canal. The sue
cess has literally been astounding
Five years ago, when we undertook
4 the task, no sane man would have
l. dared to hope for the results which
o have already been achieved. The
9 work itself has been advanced more
!. expeditiously than we had venture(
a to think, and the rapidity of the rate
!. of progress has steadily increased.
Meanwhile the treatment of by
q gienic conditions on the isthmus hal
been such as to make it really thu
r, model for all work of the kind il
;, tropical countries. Five years ag'
s the Isthmus of Panama was bywor'
&c for unhealthiness of the most dead,
70 kind. At present the canal zone l
:. one Of the healthiest places on tn
n. globe and the work, which is bein
. prosecuted with such tremendous Ell
- ergy, is being prosecuted under cond
- tions SO favorable to the health an
w well-being of the workers that tn
mortality among them is abnormal
IN small
at Uncle Sam Model Employer.
III "Finally, in addition to the extrem
81 efficiency of the work under Colont
an Goethals and his assistants and tn
IT. extraordinary hygienic success ACHE
D. ed under DR.. Gorgas, there is the fu
RS Their and exceedingly gratifying faC
nd that on the isthmus the United State
is government has been able to show
al self a model employer. There al
nd matters to correct, of course, as yor
t.. trip showed, but on the other hand
"a is true that the United States is loo
lg- ing after the welfare and health an
C. comfort of those working for it as L
other government has ever done
work of like character"