The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-01-10
TxE wA8s,akAr AnD ssuunAsn, JANUARY 40, 1914

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he was ordered to Duluth, Mimi, in
charge OF the improvements Of the
Duluth Superior Harbor, built tho
huge concrete pier at the entrance
and begun and finished largest dredg-
ing contract, 100000 cubic yards.
ever at that time undertaken by the
United States government
On the concrete pier he erected HE
Instruments and completed the expert
iments on waves. begun fifteen years
before In st. Augustine. When the
general STAFF was organized his ability.
so we'll know, put him in the first de-
tai Of officers for that duty and on
June 9. 1903, he was ordered to Van.
couver Barracks as chief Of staff Of
the department Of Columbia. Later
he went to st. Louis on special gen.
eral staff duty under his old COM
mander. Gen. John G. Bates. In No.
vember. 1905. ne was sent to the War
College In Washington and in Oc-
tober. 1905. was sent to Cuba with tho
Army Of Pacifioation" as assistant to
the chief Of staff and head Of the bu-
reau OF military information.
In February. 1907, he and Col Goe-
thals wore the Hrst officers selected
when Roosevelt decided the Panama
Canal could be dug by the army en-
gineers. who would stay there until
ordered to leave"
Col. Gaillard knew nothing of this
selection, being still in Cuba. and
came to Washington in a binding
snow storm, dressed in his tropical
clothes, In obedience to an order from
tho Secretary Of War and not knowing
OF the honor awaiting him until the
Secretary told him.
Departure for tho Isthmus.
In another binding snow storm he
left Washington with Col Goethals
for Panama in February, 1907. Much
has been written Of his work there.
but unless one could have seen his
animated face, his telling gestures, no
one can realize how much his heart
was in the work"
Early and late he was at it. Break
fasting at $50 and going oct over
come part Of the work, walking any
where from five to fifteen miles, he
was thoroughly conversant with every
detail When urged that he spare
himself and make his observations
FROM the motor car devised to run on
tho railroad tracks he would say that
his insps tions were not motor car
ins. ions" He was everywhere on
tho work And his personal note book
shows such entries as there: NO hand
brakes set on down-hill cars
Bridge tower. no conductor till 7.5S."
Joseph Canchey loafing." "John
obrdon about 800 yards, no ernpties
at bridge" was the last entry ne made
before going to hospital July %.
The great interest in making the
dirt fly" felt by all the country reach
ed it's elimination In Col Gaillard's
home.
Every night. 80 soon as the returns
were made up ut the office In E1pire.
the total per division and per shovels
given was telephoned him at his home
in Culebra. The telephone calls always
came during dinner. generally coinci-
dent with the salad course, and onl.
once, when President Taft was dining
with him, did he fail to excuse him.
self, leave the table and receive the
''yardage." When the amount first
reached the total OF 100000 cubic
yards there was great enthusiasm. In
March, the height Of the dry season,
the highest point was always reached.
The yardage later rose to over S0.-
900 cubic yards per day. Col. Gall
lard was such an economist that his
wife used laughingly to say that IL he
tried to run the house as he did the
central division she would get q di-
vorce.
Every penny was considered and by
rearranging the system Of loading
trains he 30 increased the output and
lessened the expense that there was
practically q saving Of t17.000.444 over
the estimated cost. although the slides
had increased the amount to be taken
out by many million cubic yards. The
estimated cost was supposed to in
crease as the cut deepened. but in the
twelve months prior to Col. Gaillard' s
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