The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-24

I want to tell you of peculiar ex- perience I had in Panama" said the professor. You may know that Colon, which is on the Atlantic. is farther 10 the west than Panama. which is on the Pacific. The ships that will go through the canal, you know, will be gong from northwest to southeast on thelr way from the Pacific to the Atlantic We'll that curious fact resulted in my awaking one morning to find the sun rising out of the Pacific, which was really to the east from me. It seemed a peculiar experience.
 In General Goethals motor car the professor went with him the whole length of Colebra Cut at the west end of the canal, where most Of the dlg- ging had to be done The cut Is nine miles in length and there as far as one can see in either direction there are | trains and trains tugging and haullns away the dirt. There are armies or men working with shovels. There are terraces upon terraces Of working-ieV- els with monster steam-shovels eating away the dirt on each of them me professor said he was nearly caught ul in one of these greedy shovels himself.
 The highest mountain that the canal will have to be cut through is called Pedro Miouel. There will be a huge lock. Professor Lounsbury said the Yankees down there regularly spoke oi the place as the Peter Magill Lock. Until he came to the place and learned the true name he said he always won dered how the place ever happened tc get such name off there in tn midst of everything Spanish.
 The professor said he was espec- ially impressed by General Goethals. He said that the general in turn spoke in the highest terms of MT. stevens. He said the general was quiet, un- assuming man. But" he continued, even such a stupid individual as am would not be slow to see that he knew his business thoroughly. And the same is true of all the officers as I found them down there. They were all unassuming men, who realized that they were sent by the govern ment to do a certain work down there and it did not concern them whether the canal was a desirable thing or not That was not their business.
 Professor Lounsbury said the goe- ernment is doing everything to make the place attractive to the men. They have well-constructed homes with screens about them to keep out all possible insects. The men are urged to bring their families with them I otherwise it Is well understood that their stay there would naturally be- come more and more irksome and they would only become discontent- ed. This way of doing things has been costly but it has permanent value.
 Tn the winter months down there it is nothing short of a paradise foi those exiles." he said, flor you sec , everything Is done for them. But { after all we must remember that ex' , il,s are exlles.'
 Professor Lounsbury was asked , what his opinion was as to the future , of the canal. He said: The wises ! as well as the most ignorant have lot to say about the future of the Panama canal. I remember when Alaska wal bought there were many who said i would be $7,o00.oo0 paid, but for SC much ice which would be worthless Ii proved. as we all know. otherwise Whether the Panama canal will prov the same nobody knows in my opin ion. know as much as anybody ant : no one knows for certain think. When do you understand the can al will be finished. Professor Louns bury?" he was asked. Barring no ac cidents or unlocked for catas trophes," he replied "I understan' the canal will be finished and read for use on January 1. 1915 At tn ,tulebra Cut they have already GU down over 1so feet and they still hay no feet to go."
 The professor said the most efficien 1, workmen at the canal were found [ be the Spanish. others followed i ,, this order: Italians, Greeks an negroes He said that as far as tn work of the French company wen it was passed on as being the best As an illustration of the chea prices paid for living Prof. Bounsbur told of a meal that he got for thirt 1, cents, just what the men down ther have to pay for if. and 1t was an ex
 cellent one. including everything fror soup to apple, pie, the latter fru' being difficult to obtain there. H said the government bought and sol
 everything and he accounted for tn
 cheap prices by explaining that h
 supposed the government did not SC to make a profit and thus could SC
 cheaply.
 , Mir. Beers Book.
 , As the reporter started to leave h'
 eye fell upon copy of C. W. Beer : new book The Mind That Found |
 self" lying on the professors stud
 table. Two of the highest recommer
 dations that MT. Beers has for h
 book are those of Prof. James {
 Harvard and Prof Lounsbury (
 Yale. He was asked what he thougf
 of the book
 well. you know I read the boo
 when it was in manuscript >shape
 he explained. 'I must confess that
 expected that 1t would he very ardl
 ous matter to undertake, but I al
 glad to say that I was agreeahly SUI
 prised. I found 1t very interestln
 hook from start to finish. l shall
 curious to see just how MT. Beer
 organization for bettering the cond
 ton of the insane works out. |
 certainly is an enthusiast about it. I me the most absorbing thing abol
 the book Is the fact that MT. Beers
 only one of great number of pei
 sons who have experienced just sue
 cruelties. The irony of 1t all is thi