| Show tl pOOSEVELT E RT W WOES OES I IN T THE E BIG DITCH His Train stopped That Ho He Might Make Personal Examination Of 01 culebra Cut WATCHED STEAM SHOVEL JI ln jiu Has of of noo Rooe e eIt NOV 00 who Lt tho Iho It started ut at 7 thIs nIght Iut t ning with lr lt and the tite make an members ot of his party part to ether ot of Iha th cut rain presidential train arrived lit at tt tl S M th Fer MIguel pome II steam tea III 1 were at work lh s J Ira train In stopped f fr r tho ot of At kIng a persona itis point in 10 the cut the tito roil poll conditions c resulted In moro more or less land slides anti this fact Willi ns brought tO ta Iho th presidents attention President tram from Iti hl and climbed of oC the Itean taking 1 a II at t EngIneer Oral whom ho to 10 toA tire fire ot of questIons regarding 1 A the werk During his hiM coner En Engineer GIllY took toole opportunity on fn ot of ani anti thc tito ong engi to delare de lare that unlike the tho rail read they vero not ant paid for or overtime The promised to 10 look intO Inta thiS matter lIe on em Ih tho lum about 20 o minutes minute B iy time I P was wag ruining rainIng harel told old Chief teves that hp he to atil 1111 the works ork In connection with tho oxen atoa even enn to the temporarY of tracks With thIs In view lie he board boarded id ed a lark train near lear Pedro Miguel and ut nt on to the Iho next point where r were at work hero lIero there was IOS ot of landslides S Sno the no train fill on the th regular line toward The lork ot of the tha second m shovel waa anti tho ma president 10 till 0 a 11 IC de i tour to the tho ot of tito tho Pedro lock lIe He hook hands with tilt nil llie th Americans ho hi met while walking or the ground At about Z th the president entered the tle deep drep portion ot of Culebra cut his going slowly In order that t h ho observe ro the tho ot of tho drill and Ono One shovel wAa with n it sIgn reading Wo Vc Wom m do our Jest best to help you ou build lt It no spent some timo In the portion ot of the tho cut last I y 2 tons ot explosives h s were used tt I throw down dOlln cubic yards ot of Th raIn vai 1111 now coining lawn down In 1 and tho th water waler poured In nv Ie Irn the tho tunnel l ot of IH mOls cut charges Of It d were exploded in III order that the tnt might two the after atter he hc went bark to 10 his hili own train strain tt 1 mo flie Grande with the Iha rain sun failing Mr Ir out Cut to tho the Iho tm and nd construction thereon The ThI to levu leavo his train anti Inspect I Personally tho sleep If ht quarterS quarter or of the tho JamaIcans Ito He In iii InquIred how the tho men were rere fed and Till pa listened to ta theIr complaints H Ilu sent nt through the tho commissary where his was uhl also Into the living quarters ot of the tho famIlies of several Jamaican laborers ThIs rbt Inspection lasted tor or thle ten of an hour at the end of which the thc returned to Culebra wet through and with mud mail At Culebra the president went through the tho local ameN oce ot of the canal constructors The presidential party ate lunch with Ir stevens at I 1 and this th ladles ot of the party returned t Panama The pre president went os as far faras II as Gorgona through Bas al Obispo II a salute of oC it I charges ot of dynamite was fined At President went through the machine the tho foundries the plan In nc tc leaving a crowd ot of and cheered the Ho He replied t to thIs greeting alth II short The Th presIdent at Tivoli Thol tta pia II tio on at 5 oll ck afternoon To orrow beginning nt at 8 clock ho will It the rest ot of the canal ranal Upon bay hg g the train this afternoon lre President saId he felt In great shape |
