Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-09-26

over again such employees have re-
turned to the canal zone to take work
at wages or salaries less than they
were receiving when they quit. One
foreman drawing $3.50 u month in Pan
anna decided be could do as we'll ut
home. In year he returned to the
canal zone and gladly took a position
at 65 cents an hour. or about $l32 a
month. The cost Of living and stand
ard Of pay In the United States made
him repent his action.
Any employee OIL monthly salary
basis may take, eighty-one days on at
full pay In every year. BE has Va;
cation of forty-two days on pay. sick
leave Of thirty days on pay and nine
holidays on pay. Il total Of eighty-one
days that the government voluntarily
deprives itself Of the employees serv-
ices. The, sick leave. too. Is pretty
generally rsed up by the employees.
who have little trouble In persuading a
district physician they need rest at
Taboga sanitarium or Ancon hospital.
II is apparent that the government has
invested some of its millions In way
no private contractor could follow. ex-
cept into bankruptcy. II an employee
does not take his vacation one year he
can accumulate It for the next year
and 30 get eighty-four days at full pay.
and his trip to the United States will
cost him only $50 or $50 one way
passage. ....... .......
Pay days until Oct. I. 1907. were
semimonthly. Since then monthly pay
days have been the custom. The dis.
bursemept office at Empire is a great
bank. handling nearly $3.OO0!0O0 q
month. Payments for wages have In.
creased from 100000 monthly In
1905 to nearly $2.OO0.0O0 month as a
maximum in 101O11-12.
Silver employees or common laborers
earn s. Z. 10. l3. 10. 20 and 25 cents an
hour. with a few exceptions at 30 and
A cents an hour. and a maximum
monthly silver rate Of SIS.
Gold employees. which includes all
the Americans. are paid from mini
mum OF S75 monthly to maximum OF
5000 monthly. not including In this
classification heads Of departments.
Colonel Goethals. as chairman and
chief engineer and president Of the
Panama railroad company. receives
S21 600 annually: the other members
Of the commission. $4,000 annually;
clerks, from $15 to $3.50 monthly:
craftsmen. 500 to $3.50: engineers. as
sistant, special and designing. $225 to
5000; foremen. $15 to S275; Inspectors.
S75 to $3.50: marine masters. $40 to
S225; master mechanic. $225 to $275;
physicians. $50 to $500: district quar-
termasters. $3.50 to S225; hotel yteward.
$50 to $175: storekeepers. soc to $225;
superintendents. SITE to $583.33: su-
pervisors. $500 to $3.50; teachers. $50
to S11O: trainmaster. $500 to 1915:
yurdmaster. $3.50 to $21o; nurses. $50
to $50: policemen. $50 to $107.5o; mas
ter car builder. $225; fire department
privates. $lO0: travelling engineer,
$3.50; accountants, $175 to $3.50; musi'
cal director. $1GG.67: mates, 500 to
SITS; postmasters. $50 to S137.50. ...,..
The canal was estimated to cost
1915. .OOO.OOO. Out Of that amount the
part which had gone into wages and
salaries to June 80. 1918. was approx
mately s135.OOO.OO0. By the time the
canal Is finished and opened for per
manent use. In 1914. this Item Will
reach the startling total Of S15O.OOO,-
900. From 20 to 25 per cent Of 1t has
gone into salaries Of officers and super
visory employees and from 70 to 20
per cent into wages to skilled and un'
skilled labor ....