The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-05-06
COL. WILLIAM SEYMOUR Ed.
WARDS TELLS OF INTER
ESTING TRIP.
Writes Interesting Letter to InteIli-
esneer Describing the Work
In Detail.

Tothe Editor Of the I-ntelIiEencer.
~ Sea, =. 8. Printz August Wilhelm.
April IS. 1918.
sly Dear Sir:-Dr. McMillan's cable
gram To Mrs. Edwards and my self at
Ancon. telling that the children were
all well at C~oalburgh. reached us yes
terday az the TiNoii hotel and set our
minds at rest. We were sitting in the
vast dining room of the equally big
hotel eating a fragrant pineapple.
hen the ebony messenger with the
Jamaican accent handed us the mes
sage. We were thankful n rejoiced
tn get u.
y few minutes before. I had returned
Iom a starlight climb To the top Of
Anron iIiil that lifts UP a sudden six
hundred feet out Of the plain of Pana-
ma. Brilliant stars nllrd the deep
bl'ck heavens. Away down below me
twlnkled and cleaned the myriad elec-
tric lights of thu twin citi.s OF Pana-
ma and Ancon-thc latter soon To he
swallowed up in tn" new city of Bal
boa out beyond the cities stretched
the waters OF the Pacific ocean. Ny
ear could catch the roar of the rising
tide. for the tides rise 30 feet here on
the Pacific side and tho incoming wa
tiers rear across the intervening reefs
with doieful -di-sonance.
A. | strained my eyes toward the
east. a faint Crepuscular tightening ~
the sky began. I perceived. growing
Old in outline every moment. the
distant 'Urdilleras toward Darien.
where Nhscn Nunes DE- Balboa. that
fate'ui morning ~ September -. 1913.
must have stood when ne and his dar-
ing Spanish adVrnturers deserted and
discovered the Pacific seas.
A Knockout Blow.
The tightening advanced rapidly.
In fifteen minutes II was broad day
light. There is no twilight and no
dawn in the tropics. Rut saw no
sun. Then. all nj q sudden. a big red
ball lighted out Of the low lying mists.
The glowing heat Of n tropical day
was full upon me I had beheld q
miracle The sun had risen out or
tho Pacific Ocean, In a few days |
saw the sun set in the waters Of the
Atlantic-the restless waters OF the
Carribean ca Such have been my
hrst stunning blows % preconcsived
notions Of geography. for I used 10
think that upon this continent suns
rose only out Of the Atlantic and only
set in the Pacific. And was soon
10 receive some more knoCk-outs as
bad as these
Here Is a ditch fifty miles long and
some OF n FIVE hundred feet deep and
half 4 mile Wide wide al the top Of
the slopes now being dug at Panama.
and there ism = pick or a shovel or
a wheelbarroW being used on the lob
] watched for = fortnight and I saw
NIFTY thousand men AZ work. working
like Turks. n hdstling like h.
ummei-i and ! ~ saw a man lift
4 PICK or heaVe a shovel Of earth on
the Canal And vet. never have !.
nor has an Other man. seen so prodi
geouS IN non OF digging and NOV
ing Of earth and rock as have there
beheld' \ train Of twenty standard
Nat cars all loaded fail IN fifteen min
ute. and all emptied In seven Trains
OF Weniy full loaded cars moving out
OF the Culebra cut every minute and
q hair FOR eight hours every working
daN. which means every daN bat sun
DAYS And Yet never a pick. nor =
shovel. nor y R~heelharrow' Human
hlnd has never seen 30 gigantic au
enterprise done ia 50 gigantic q way
before. The world stands staggered
a. The sight
Stacqers the World.
Only YOU Americans could d. q
lob 80 bie o. this and so qlich. q
German said 90 me- see that old
French dredRe they are still irving
10 use. II looks ike a pee-Ves along
side an eagle. said an Engflsnman.
pointing 20 the mrnstrous drodg" q.
American mste digging beside %. Yes.
everything iS hc down here BIG
men are runnirc The iob Goo'hais
.-N I..H... sH..fF.-u - - So.
and Comher. DR.. Gorgas and Darling
are an big men snd thousands NOR"
big men are helping them Every