Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-07-24

B the Canal, and the casual visito
= might 'starve before he got an off
! cial job The army department
= has the work in charge, under thu
direction of Col George w. Goeth
ais, an eminent engineer, who is
mixing great reputation since he
r was put in charge OF the huge en-
terprise.
While the home keepers are CIV
en- every facility for cooking and
serving their meals at home, ex-
cellent hotels are provided to care
for all the employees and their fam
lies. The West India negroes,
who do most of the ordinary labor,
pay 30 cents a day for their food.
which is about the same as served
In the regu ar army; plenty of it,
well prepared and of good vari-
ETY.. They hive to provide theiI
own dishes. The European work
men pay 40 cents a day for better
food, with wine twice a week, and
their own national dishes as the
principal part of their diet. For
the American employees, those who
draw good salaries, 80 cents day
is the regular charge This buys
what Mr. Mann ng says is a better
meal than one can find almost any
where in he States for so cents
Ice is cheap-delivered anywhere
along the line of the railroad, and
put in ones ice chest, for only So a
ton. This ice is made from distill
ed water, and is absoluely pure.
Distilled water IS delivered along
the canal zone, free, for drinking
and it is iced, too Elk
cellent water works systems have
been establ shed in all the camps.
though nowhere on the isthmus is |
the water equal to the mountain {
wa er of the West.
Mr.. Manning was in business in !
Nicaragua at one time. He ran '
80 miles of original surve G
through the heart of Nicaragua, v
through territory never before ira J
'ersed by white man. This work a
ook him 81 months, with only
wo months taken out for any pur- h
rose whatever. He an his wife =
lad the yellow fever at Costa Rica 4
'ut recovered Mr.. Manning says :,
hat the yellow fever, under tie d
resent methods of treatment, is to h.
e feared less than typhoid 1t is
tucker, and if it is fatal at all one
MI get a quick decision but ii
'aves no weak spots, no broken
institutions, like typhoid. bl
For the past two years and more
Ir. Manning has been with the Jt
resent canal commission as super in
sor OF the department of labor,
larters and subsistence, and had
'ery opportunity to get acquaint- w
with the general conditions.
e says that most OF tie criticism
is been from men or women, self g. o.
'p inted, who come there for YIN
y or two or possibly even week,
{ a little superficial information re
the subject, and rush lack 10 VIII
asst something that they did not moi
derstand or that could not be 1
lped. One critic, for instance, bui
ldt a great disturbance over the in
ter supply-though several hay
,Gsand workmen were at that ter
'ment putting in the water sup n
7 that is today more than ample. nes
other criticised the crowded bull
lrters, when every man who bio,
i'd use saw or hammer was then CEN
aged in building adequate r
lses. 1t is clearly impossible to ba,,
Id houses until the carpenters In
there to build them; and while ~.
building was going on, these ;zod
penters were crowded-just as -,
oenters building houses out in II
sage brush towns may have TO nav
q in tents, or in the open air. uAys
Il the buildings are completed. peop
commission is doing a monu- ,o"l
Ital work. There must be Tor
e small mistakes, some failures. Co
e friction. But Mr.. Manning ted a
there is absolutely not a sym lowir
of graft; and more is being whic
for the money than under Co.,
similar big enterprise in the occur
d. and t