The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-09
HAWAII WILL De
A ROAD HOUSE
Halfway Over" When Panama
Ditch Is Dug, Says Man
Who Toured 1t.

F'Upon the completion of the Panama
Canal" said R. K. BONNIE yesterday,
Hawaii will become road house IN
the Pacific. am sure it will be great
coahng station and the port of call for
twice the number of boats that now en-
ter the harbor.'
The moving picture expert was de-
veloping plates in his work room in the
Oregon Block and making stereoptieon
views from numerous photographs
which he took on the Big Ditch. Bo-
nine, in company with Editors Webster
and Paddock of the Denver Times, con-
stituted party that made tour of the
strip some time ago gathering
material for lectures. Bonine was of
fetal photographer for the party and
has splendid collection of photos as
well as moving pictures.
''Owing to the great Importance to
Hawaii of the canal, Hawaii should take
great interest in it, he said cit
is the doctors who are digging the
ditch, the American doctors and Amer
lean steam shovels. The French had
The very best machinery of that day
but they didn't have the modern
steam shovels.
"Talking with a doctor who knew
conditions, he told me that, in his opin-
ion, Gen. Leonard Wood is deserving of
more credit than anyone else He was
doctor and realized the Importance of
sanitation in tropical countries. Appre-
ciating this, he gave Doctor Gorgas, an
army doctor. a free hand in Cuba with
! the result that the latter stamped out
the dreaded yellow jack, the yellow
fever of the tropics.
"Gorgas went to Panama and did the
same thing there and today the strip ,
| as it is known. is as healthy as any
place on American soil. | have met
| friends there who have been on the
| canal for three years who looked better
than they ever did in New York
| 1.-THE American sanitation system
| there is wonderful and its full value
| made evident. There are now no mos
| quitos whatever, the tropic soil has
| been turned to the sun, rotting vegeta
ton has been cleared away and plague
and fever wiped out The doctors have
made it possible to dig the ditch.
"While We were there we met the
1 NN'A Ns'Hi"A't'i E't@A W iio ApuISu INK
canal from one end to the other. Dc
YOU notice that since they went down
there the canal has got everything from
congress that it asked for?'' Bonint
turned a plate over and squintej
through it, picking out in his mind tht
| tints that he would use on it..
| eve toured the whole works tt
the snakiest place you ever saw in you
life-snakes, monkeys and poll-parrots
We went over to the Gatun Dam an,
! the Culebra Cut and down to old For
| Lorenzo at the month of the Chagre
! River where it runs into Limon BAY
Fort Lorenzo is the old fort that 81
Henry Morgan, the buccaneer raide
and sacked when the Mosquito Coas
! vas the Spanish Main.
Talking about the doctors. there ar
| representatives from all the Sout
American republics who are going a
over with Doctor Gorgas and reportin
hrs methods to their governments.
. Few people know that the entrane
TO the canal on the Pacific side is abou
twenty miles east of the entrance o
\ the Atlantic side hut II s So The cana
has curves in it ranging everywhere Il
Z to that of a hairpin. Here g, one c
Ithem. He held a picture of the Bias