El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-23
GREAT WORK ON
PANAMA CANAL
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$4,000 men employed on the work
Americans, negroes and Italians. The
Americans are called gold men and
are paid in American gold; the others
are called Silver men and receive
their pay in the silver Of Panama All
IN specially constructed houses. and
are taken to and from work every day
on special trains Of cattle cars with
seats inside.
There is the best of order on the
zone, which is 10 miles wide and well
pOliced by fine looking young Ameri-
cans, all intelligent The government
operates u trains a day each way
across the isthmus to accommodate the
passengers-the influx of visitors is
something terrific-and runs three ex-
cursion trains q week 70 the work,
with a lecturer accompanying each
train, to explain everything in. detail.
The government runs the hotels and
offers splendid accommodations at the
rate, of S. day per person, including
meals.
Moving the Dirt.
The amount of dirt that is being
moved down there gives an idea of the
wonderful work that is being carried
on A trainload of dirt is sent out of
the cut every minute and a half, each
train carrying q cars and each car
carrying SO tons. Four big shoVels full
of earth fill each car and each shovel
fuu IS nine tons in weight It takes
but a quarter of a minute for the shovel
to fill and empty into a car.
The United States paid France $40
100000 for the canal and the socalled
Wreckage of the former French works
and machinery, and the American Of
fcials say that they actually got $45,-
100000 worth OF work and machinery,
SO that the United States is $4,000, 900
ahead on the deal. 1t has often been
criticized for paying too much
Good Sanitation; Perfect Order.
The sanitation on the island is per-
q NJ Low nd e
anywhere. Saloons are permitted IN
Ger strict regulations; they are all wide
open, without doors or screens; have
no amusement devices inside and. there
fore, do not attract the men, except
those who go for the deliberate pur-
pose Of getting a drink. There is moth
ing else to lure them No idlers are al
lowed in the zone and as soon as one
steamer out and he does it When a
man has a grievance, no matter how
humble he is, he goes to Col. Goethals,
the chief engineer, and his story is
heard and his troubles adjudicated: the
colonel devotes every Sunday to hear
ing complaints of this character. Every
man on the zone is represented in the
cOloneIS card index, and he has the
mans name. age, residence, birthplace
and complete history. 1t is kept cor
rected up to the very minute.
The negroes are the best behaved I
nave ever seen them anywhere. They
know their places and keep them In
stinctively, they get into separate
coaches on the trains; they never mix
nor even try to mix with the whites
altnouSh' 1 understand, there is no spe-
clal law or regulation compelling them
TO ride in separate cars.
A Great Work.
at is a wonderful work; it is some
thing that should make every American
1eeI proud 1t is a work that will for
ever command the respect Of the world:
II is SO gigantic, so immense, and so
SUCCESSFUL that every American ought .
to see it. Nobody can get an idea of
II without visiting it personally. 1 had
no idea of It until I went there al
tnough L had read a great deal about
II 1t IS worth the price Of the trip
SystelnaIlzed; how such a tremendous
task Is handled with such absolute pre-
clSlon and accuracy. No mistakes have
Deen made. The canal has been built a 3
Planned from the very first; American
engineering ingenuity did it and
of it,
Wonderful Relief Map.
Mr.. Rinehart got over a hundred
Spiendld photographs of his trip in the
three countries he ViSited-Panama
costa R1ca and Guatemala One of his
most priced pictures is of a relief man
OF Guatemala, which has been built in
the benefit of the school children.
Italsed platforms are built around it
50 the children can get above it and
look down upon a miniature likeness of
uIeif country Every mountain range
ana valley or plateau is shown in re-
lleI, and every lake, river and stream
IS shown with real water. which is
maze 10 run over the map lust as if
L1OWS over the country in reality The
map covers more than an acre of land.