Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-03-30
MARITIME WITH
PROGRESsNES
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/ AOe1~stA1F1 k1S8 49,
District, stopped of in Washington
for a few hours yesterday while he
was on his way UP from the Isthmus
of Panama, where be went on the
| official trip of the American Society
of Civil Engineers, of which he IL q
member. Mr.. Wiley returns from
the canal zone tremendously enthu-
siastic over the way the government
is conducting the construction work
of the waterway that win link the
Atlantic and Pacific at Panama.
HAs we passed along the edge OF
the Culebra cut and looked down
was greatly impressed by the work, but
the next day, when we had a train
into the cut, 1 was even more I'm
pressed, and on the succeeding day,
when we visited the locks, the impress
sion was still greater,-. commented the
former Congressman. "And with each
additional visit to the work under
construction the magnitude of it grew
upon us, until now / regard 1t as one
of the wonders Of the world and will
classify it as the eighth but it really
overshadows all the other seven"
Mr.. Wiley calls the sanitation in
force in the canal territory as almost
the ninth wonder of the world. lie
says there are no mosquitoes or flies
or anything deleterious to health.
Among the forty thousand men employ
ed there the average death rate, he de-
~elares, is less than that of many nor
thern cities that are considered to be
very healthy.
"While I was on the Isthumus,' ,
Mr.. Wiley continued, afthe COMPRESSION
al party arrived, and / had q very
pleasant chat with many of the mem
bers. They invited me to participate
in their performances, but / was UNI
able to accept because Of lack Of time.
But / am satisfied each of them goes
back with a remarkable impression of
the way in which the work id being
handled, and better than all, the eco
nomical manner in which the construc-
ton is going on. OF course, Colonel
Goethals is the head and front of ev-
erything, and he is a man of remarka-
bic personality, of wonderful foresight
and thoroughly energetic action,p
" 4 y y y
Loudenslager Grieves.
Notwithstanding hat he has already
served eighteen years in Congress and
win begin his tenth term next Tues
day as the result of escaping the demo-
cratic landslide that converted many of
his political colleagues into 'tlame
ducks,' the Honorable Henry G.. Lou
denslager representative from the First
New Jersey District, is disconsolate.
The reasons therefor are three-fold ae-
cording to a ~veracious chronicler. First,
he Is made sorrowful by the approach
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islative body wherin the republicans
have for many years rur things to
snit themselves. Secondly, he is nearly
overcome with-aagulsh because, as mi
nority member in the incoming house,
he will be deprived of the chairman
ship of the Committee on Pensions, Of
which he has been a member for
eighteen years. and chairman for six
teen years. Thirdly, he is deep in
gloom as a result of apprehension for
the affairs Of New Jersey republicans.
On this latter subject Mr.. Loudensla-
ger, who speaks with the authority of
q seasoned politician following many
years of experience as secretary Of the
pubAaganaGonggessional ZCampaign
says that be acap~h hardly
anything hopeful for republicans
in New Jersey at this time. 81 am
discouraged" says Mr.. L%oudensla
ger, "but 1 fail to see just how the
cheer is going to come to us very soon.
There Is no one to blame for it. The
sftuation is simply rather diseourag-
ing at the present time. Governor
Wilson, the democratic college presi-
dent, who won last year seems to be
attracting much attention outside of the
state as q possible democratic candi-
date for president. He has plenty of
ideas of his own about running the
state government, and it looks as
though he is going to have success in
putting them into effect through the
Legislature, notwithstanding that the
senate is republican,