Show TO FEED IN PANAMA new york sept S chairman ofa the panama commission canal announced today that be awarded a concession for feeding and housing the greater part of the canal em aloyes to J E markel of omaha following a months visit to panama mr markel has worked out a comprehensive scheme which includes he early establishment ot ten hotels along the canal and the railroad all of them to accommodate to lodgers and twice as many diners these hotels it Is declared will compare favorably with the better class of commercial hotels in this country and will be used chiefly by the high salaried employed emp loyes the average of rate tor board and lodging will be about tag a month for the laborers employed in the canal or in ny vay identified 1 with the project the concession will at airet establish twenty commissary camps and later additional ones each kitchen and dining room laborers will have the privilege of buying their food cooked or uncooked at these camps and in each case will be furnished with tho necessary travel appointments the average rate to laborers for cooked food wall he about a month part of contract provides for transportation at cost of all supplies and materials used by the concession flarea H intention or the concessionaire to runa train across the isthmus every da from colon supplying the proposed hotels and camps with fresh bread and laundry H balfe and company and hudgins and dumas tooth arms ot this city who were the only other bidders for the panama concession today sent telegrams and letters to president roosevelt at oyster day protesting against the award of the contract to J E market at the same time the two firms addressed letters to chairman withdrawing their bids la the belief that this action might invalidate an award to mr market by leaving only one bidder in the field in a statement given out loday the protesting firms declare that the panama contract involves no less than hudgins and dumas assert that after presenting their old they received a letter from mr in which he intimated that their figures were not mentioned in the draft of the proposed contract on holcli iho bids based hudgins ancl dumas declara they received this information about halt past three on wednesday afternoon and were ioia by mr secretary that his principal requited an answer by I 1 deducting the time consumed in type writing they assert they tad only ten minutes to revise their bid mr in an interview tonight declared the charges baseless and absurd JAPANESE SURGEON expresses disappointment over the terms of peace san francisco cal sept 8 dr S suzuka chief surgeon of the japanese navy and the companion of admiral togo throughout the russian war arrived here today on his way to the convention of physicians and surgeons soon to assemble at detroit lie was chosen to represent the japanese medical service at ine request of the united states government on being told of the terms of the peace treaty he expressed disappointment that tho japanese envoys had yielded the indemnity proposition this will be a great blow for our people who have made such sacrifices to prosecute the war he said 1 I am sorry to hear of the doting in boklo and fear the end is cot yet |