| Show PRESIDENT ON sends special message to co gress giving results of his observations in canal zone rep ies to critics and makes recommendations the following ie the text of I 1 res dent u to gress on the subject of the I 1 abaroa al to the senate and house of reprise ta alves in the month of no e tiber I 1 1 is ted tl e jsahn us of panama so u er tt anal zone with cons lera e ire and also visited the cit es of t ana and llalon which are riot in tl e zone under the united states hag but as to which the united states go rement through its agents exer t ol 01 for certain ean tary pu i I 1 cl e the month of november to ny vist partly because it is tle balne t ont f the year the in wl ch tl e ork goes forward at the s 1 bad abuse and one of the two n months chic tie cal department of tl ench canal fauni n ost u healthy folio ving tl e cintr I 1 alo to the me sige the pres dent g es a resume of 1 Is program me he atas on I 1 e isthmus 1 then says U the outset I 1 to pay tr b t the abou amou t of v k done by french canal ran ader deiy dm cult circumstances many of the bu 11 i gs they put up a e excellent and are still in use though nat rally tie houses are now bett s out of repair a d are being used as awe only 1 other houses can be b it and much of the work they did li the culebra cut and of the work t ey did in d king has been of d and real benefit this country has ne e made a better vestment vest nent than the which it a 1 to the company for work and betterments include ng especially the broad an inspection on the ground at the t of the rainy deaso served to con vince me of the wisdon of congress in le to adopt either a high level or lei el canal there seems to be a universal agreement among all people competent to judge that tl e panama boute the one actually chosen Is much perlor to boti tl e nicaragua and darlen routes preliminary work be ng done the wisdom ot the canal management been sl own in not ng more clearly than in the way in wh ch the dounda eions of the work have een laid to we yielded to the natu al impatience n ill informed outs ders and begun ail kin is of experiments in work prior to a tl sanitation of the isthmus and to a airey airly satisfactory working out of the problem of getting and keeping a p labor supply would have been disastrous the various preliminary f eastres had to bev taken first and t could not be taken so as to allow ua to begin the real work of construe alon prior to januar 1 of the present year it then becan e necessary to have type of the canal dec ded and the only delay has be n the necessary delay until the day of june the date when the congress defan tely and wisely S tiled that we should have an 85 toot lei el canal dimmed atel after that the work legan in hard earnest and has I 1 een continued viti increasing vigor ver sl te and it i ill continue so to the future hen tie con t a ts are let the cond t ons will be such to insure a constantly increase ng a n uni of performance successful sai tat on the first great problem to be solved upon the polut of wh ch tl e success of tie rest of the work depended was the of san th s was fron it e outset under the direction of dr W gorgas who is to be made a f 11 t en her of t e it n le remembered that his work was not mere sanitation as the term is understood in bu ord nar municipal vork roun out the zo e and in the two cit es of I 1 man a and col n in add t on to tl e wok proper has 1 ad to tio lt the k ne 1 asp tal s as th baon that e officers do in t e various states and cities al d that col waring dd in nev when le icle ned its streets the resu ts ha e een astound ng T e isthmus had bee i byword for deadly unhealthful fu ness now after t vo years of our occupant on the cond alons as regards akness and the death rate compare favo rabi wit feison ably healthy local ties n the united states al care 1 as been to n nl mizing the risk due to the presence of tl ose sp cles of mosquitoes which have teen found to propagate n aurdal a d yellow fevers in al the settlements tie atle temporary towns or cit es of the w te and black employed emp loyes wh grow up here and tl ere in the trop janle as needs of the work d tate the utmost ca e Is exercised to keep tl e cond t ons 1 balthy a e to be seen tie e w 1 ten in demov ng the water have reme ed tl e breed ng places of t e toes v 1 le tl e whole jungle is cut away for a considerable space around the habitations tl us destroy ng the places in wl the mosquitoes take she ter dra nige d aches and clear are in ev len e 11 every sett ement and together with t e invariable presence of mo quito screens around the piazzas and of mosquito doors to the 1 auses not to speak 0 the careful fun ignation t at has fione on in all infected houses doubtless the extraordinary absence of mosquitoes As a matter of tact but I 1 single n to and this not of the dangerous spec es was seen by any member of our party dur ng my three days on tl e asti mus equal care Is by the inspectors of the health de pait ment to sec re cleana ness n the houses and proper hi genie conditions of every kind I 1 inspected between 20 and water closets both tl ose used by the white employed emp loyes and those used bv the colored lab in almost every case I 1 found the cond alons perfect in but one case did I 1 find tl em really bad in th s case a settlement of dunmar aried white e es I 1 found them very II 11 ad indeed b t tl e bu id were al inherited from tl e french company and idere be ng used ten por arlly while other buildings were n the course of construe pon and right near the detective water closet a new and excellent closet with a good sewer p pe was in process of con and nearly finished nevert e less this did not excuse the tact that the bad ond tion had been allowed to pre vail ten ro ary accommodations even only bucl as sold ers use when camped n the fled s id lave been provided orders to this effect were issued I 1 ap lend the leport of dr borgas corgas on the in aident I 1 was str ck however by the tact that in t s instance as in almost every other vl ere a complaint was made which proved to lave any on whatever it api ea ed that steps had al ready been tal en to remedy the e 11 compla ned of and that tl e e was irn linly due t t e extreme difficulty and often immoss b 1 ty of brov d ng in every place for tl e constant increase in tl e numbers 0 e nalo es generally the pro vision is made in a ivance but it is not possible that th s should always be tie case when it s not there ensues a period of t me during which the condl eions are stac tory until a remedy ai be brov lei but I 1 never found case where tie ren edy was not be ng provided as spee 1 ly as poss ble improvements in t es the sanitation work in the cities of panama an 1 colon has been just as important as 1 i tl e zone itself and in many respects mud more be cause it was necessary to deal with the already population wh cl nat rail hil scant sympathy with ary cl e ses the value of wl ich they were tor a loner tin e not able to perceive in colon the a alon consists largely of colored labor who h ving me er from tl e west indies ta work on the canal abandon tl e v ll 11 and either take to the brush or lie idle in colon itself tins pe oiling colon with tie least de a 10 g the in ported laborers for th frood and steady men ot arse continue at the work let ing progress has been made in both pities in panama 90 per ce t of the streets that are to 1 e at all are already pay el with an excellent brick pavement laid in 1 a few of tl e streets being still in process of plying ahe and ater services in tl P cit are ot tl e n t modern 1 kienic type some of the ser ce hav i j st bee complete in colon tie cond alons ala peculiar an 1 it is as regards colo tl at most of the vei bitter complaint has been i ie colon Is b it on i low oral lan 1 covered at more or ie s shallow denti s v th vegetable or mold vl ch affo dh s ste nance and streng tl to mani clariet of low lyans trop cat plants 0 e 1 alt of the surface of tl e island Is covered with water at 1 agh tide the average height 0 the land be ng 1 feet above lo 10 v tide the undulant ons turn sh shallow natural reserve rs or tresi ater breed ne alices tor every var e ty of bosq to and the ground tends to be lowest n the middle when the to was or a nally bu it no attempt was to fi 1 tl low gro nd e ther in the streets or on the bul d n s tes so hift t rit r it r we t st t iff t an t mire became ampt certain of the were cr fie v in oro ed b nil ng espee illy bad mud holes w th soft rock or other material in september 1406 a systematic effort was I 1 agun to formulate a general plan or tl e prop er sanitation of the city in ary last ten horary relief n eastres were taken wh ie n july the p olec tion of the bork was beg n in good earnest lie res ts are already isable 1 the se draining guttering and adv of t e streets borne tour months ill be required before the work of a d street improvement will be completed but tl e progress pro fress already made Is ery marked D aches have been aug throng the town connect n the salt water 01 boti s des and nto these tl e ponds vh cl have served as reeding p zees for tl e toe are iri ned these ditches have answered I 1 tt e r purpose tor they are proa ably the chief cause of the aston shing d m nut on of n bosq itoe more d acl es j of the kind are being constructed colon katr supply it was not practicable ditl the force at the comm ss on s disposal and n lew of the need that the force sl be used in the larger to of panama to beg n this vork before parly list winter water mains were then laid in the town and water as ed to the people early in mancl from a temporary reservoir tl reservoir pr ved to be of insufficient capacity lefore tie end of t e dr season and the shortage was made p bs 1 abling vater er tl e panama railroad so that there was at all times in arnnie s nelv nf the bev best vater S nee tl at time the new reser voir back of mount hope has been practically completed I 1 visited tl Is reservoir it Is a lake over a mile ion and halt a mile broad it now carries some gallons of first class water I 1 forward herewith a photograph of this lake togeal er with bertal i other pi oto graphs of hat I 1 saw while I 1 was on the esth mus nothing but a cataclysm hereafter render it necessary in tl e dry season to haul water for the use of colon and cristobal colon pavements I 1 rode through the streets of colon seeing tl em at the height of the rainy season after two davs of almost un exampled dow when they were at their very worst taken as a bhole they were undoubtedly very I 1 ad as bad as pennsylvania avenue i i washington before grant s admin front street Is already in thoroughly satisfactory shape how ever some of the side streets are also in cond alon in others ti e change in the streets Is rapidly going on tl rough three fourths of the tov n it Is now possible to walk even during tl e period of tremendous rain in lo 10 v sl oes without wetting one s feet owing to the rapidity with which the surface water Is carried away in tl e es in the remaining one fourth of the streets the mud Is very deep about as deep as in tl e ordinary street of a low lying prairie river town of the same size in tl e united states during early spring all men to horn I 1 spoke were a unit in saying that the conditions of the colon st beets were per cent better than a year ago the most al examination of the to slows the progress tilt has been made and is be ng made in ma the streets complaint was made to me by an e reputable man as to the character of some of the material used for repa ring tain streets on investigation the corn pla nt pro ed well founded t ut it also appeared tl at the use of the material n question 1 ad been abandoned the coan isalo after hav ng tried it in one or t vo streets finding it not ampro tl e result of the investigation of tl e I 1 nar wao pvn 1 nf what mccu red 11 most of the oti cr 1 onest corr plaints n ade to me tl zt Is wl ere tl e complaints were not made cantoni wa or n aa clous ly tl ey almost a balb I 1 oled d e to failure to appreciate tl e tact tl it tin e was in the creation a d completion of tl s t tanio vork in a trop wilberne wil derne s it 1 impossible to avoid son e mistakes 1 b id ng a g ant canal tl bugl ji le cohered mountains an swamp vl lie at tie same time animating ani tating trop t es and providing tor tl e teed g and general care of from 0 O to 0 workers ts b gl t to me eitl er of proviso in car ng or some of the laborers or of allure to finish the pavements lave ments 0 colon or 0 failure to s appl ppl vate or of failure to 1 ulla wooden sidewalks for the i se of the laborer in tl e i ny on proved fil mot uth n t n trip a 1 e merely to the utter or the commission to do eer berthing thing at once unjust cr t care binl t lave been exer cl ed bi tl e coan ss on and noti ing 1 as reflected no e cred t upon tl em than their refusal either to go al ead too fast or to be 1 by tl e fear of criticism fron not go nf al eid fast enough it Is curious to note the fact that many of the most severe r tics of tl e commission crit else them for prec sely opposite rea so s some complain ng b itterly that the PRESIDENT ON A STEAM SHOVEL arom hereof ph ceper abt by vade wood jt underwood I 1 at pedro M guel culebra cut president roosevelt was photographed seated on one of the immense steam shovels u ii in the work of excavating 1 es ana eo sel to the best cyp of 4 er a so J e without ex appt on the po ce nen whom I 1 I 1 et boned laj ser ej biti e e br t sh army in t e jd a ct or barbados Lar bados pol ey were silently and v ere lo 10 ng the r work veil where possible t e pol e en are used to con arol e of t e r own color but in ans emergency no hes tat on Is felt in using tl en ind barim abely inas h as i ny both of tl e white an lo 10 ed en aloes lave brought their fan 1 es aitt tl e n schools have been sl e 1 tl e acl 1 ae v ce being un de mr 0 conno 1 or tl e wl ite pupils valte american teachers are en aloyed tor tl e colore 1 pup Is there are also some valte A tierica tea 1 e one spanish teace er an lo 10 decoo ela teach er i ost of them be ne colored teachers fron jan a ca and st lucia ahe set s vere feord and it was 1 pleasa t thing to see the ie that the teace e s w ere taking in the work and tl e r p p 1 presidential PARTY LEAVING HOI EL from copy beut by underwood A underwood N Y ot the pres dent and mrs roosevelt and party leaving the divoll hotel at colon taken during the recent inspection of the canal by the ch e executive Is not in a more ad cond I 1 on v alle the others compla n that it has been rushed with such haste that there as been insufficient preparation for the hygiene and fort of the employed emp loyes As a matter of tact e ther criticism Is it wo id hale been n poss ble to 10 qu acker than the comm aslon has gone for such quick ess would have n bant insufficient preparation prepa ratio on the other hand to refuse to do anything un 1 every poss future contingency 1 ad met would havea ca sed wholly A n warranted delay the rig t arse to tollow vas exactly the course which has followed every reasonable ton as n adf n al ance the 1 g enic cond t ons in I 1 P ng made as neatly perfect as pos vh ie on tte tier hani tl fre has bee no tim d re fasal to p s for vard the vork because of inability to ant cipale e ery poss ble e for of course man defects can only be s by the working of tl e hysten in a practice in add t on to attending to the health of tl e en plo es it Is of arse feces sary to pro de for pol cing tl e zone T s Is done by a pol e force wl ich at besent n ml ers er 00 men under capt shanton abo t one of the men are vt te 1 tl e others black I 1 d places I 1 q stio ed some or 30 of tl ese n en taking tl en at ran do n they we e a fl e set phi s call and in d ne one exception io all the white men I 1 quest boned had n the ame can arm s ally in the care of employed Emp loyes I 1 dext in importance to the problem of sanitation and indeed now of equal |
