Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1898, Page 21

e DE LESSEP’S HOUSE AT COLON. PANAMA’S It Has Already Cost a Quarter of a Billion Dollar8, h bi AND YET If 1S NOT HALF FINISHED rm > iS railroad, and that all atiempts will be Money That Was Spent With the | 2" to get ships to land here instead of Wildest of Extravagance. si OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE! * (Copsright, 1898, by Frank G. Carpenter.) ti Special Correspondence of The Evening S: PANAMA, March 7, 1898. Fx: THE PAST da @ al a three years 3,000 men have been steadily working here on the Panama canal. There are 3,590 ne- groes at work here today, and a remark- able amount of cut- ting, dredging and building up of earth works has -be:n ac- complished. I have gone over the route of the canal and have taken a number of photographs of the work as it is in March, 1808. This morn- img I went on the cars out to the Culebra cut and watched 800 men working ther2, end was told that there were 2,200 empioy- ed withia three miles of where I stood. The Culebra is, you know, the highest point on the canal rout2. The scene was a one. Long trains of iron cars loaded with rock and clay moved over the canel tra carrying the excavated materials and dumping them on the banks. Immense steel dredges, each as tall as a two-story hous: and ten times as big as the largest thrashing machine, gouged out rocks and j ! gravel, and catching up loads of this heavy material in big iron buckets fastened to less chains, carvied them high inio and poured them out into cars. Here thirty Jamaica n>groes were drilling | t bh in the rock for immense charges of | and from away over there at the busy o = boom, boom, boom of the | out of money. They are preparing | sions of another geng’ mil> away. | for 2 canel commission from Paris, which | Station of Empereuor, a tew miles | Will pre where ‘before this letter is | further on, seven enormous ‘dredges w pubjished. thing is bemg painted up secoping up rock and raising it in buc | for the ce the future of the canal Connected with each dreage were S, upon Which the loaded buckets € cartied in the air off to the poin that everything was to be shown me, cut ef the steamers and sarng down to the Goors of the cars behind. At present all ships in by lighters. for througa freight will be charged on the sailing about Cape Horn or through the told me ht considered the canal more than half dene. the work, and I am told by others that one- ir. The old company worked eight years, and 19,000 men in their emplo; | new company w At Culebra the cutting at the deepest point is now about of the ditch looks higher as you s and the r: mois will be of inside source nd it is stated by them that within a a BIG DITCH comparatively short time ships will be able j to sail up to this wharf and transfer thei> | freight direct to the Panama railroad cars, This new wharf is-really a very fine struc- ture. | which is supported by steel pests. Travel- {ing cranes ren by engines move along a track on the edge of the wharf, and the It is made of steel, with a steel roof, ‘caviest of articles can be lifted by them ve to anchor far out in Panama and goods and passengers are brought I am told that when this ew harbor is dredged out- reduced rates traits of Magellan. One-Third of the Canal Finished. The French chief of construction who howed me over the Culebra cutting today This is probably a rosy view of hird would be nearer the proper figure. uring much of tgis time had an average of They spent a uarter of a billion dollars and excavated beut ty-five million cubic yards of earth nd rock. Then the bubble burst, and this ‘pent, | am told, on and have | a big cut in the work for the m fe f this was done by this company: he cut than a twenty-story New York flat, vine shows the immensity ofstae The new company are now very upon the report of the com- 5 If it s d by the French here that enough money ‘sed to complete the work, but if where the rock was ne Ther were | not it will probably be given up or sold. cther trains of iron cars here drawn rap- | The estimates of amoynt required to com- idy along by screeching locomotives, and plete the work range all the way from a thousand negroes were digging down ! § 0.000 upward, and it is probable that reck, loading cars and drilling for t $159,000,000 is somewhere near the proper blasting. I had letters from the chief offi- | figure. clais of the canal here at Panama direct- | From what I gather here from a variety i I was able through these to get some >a of the condition of affairs today. ‘Ther is no doubt but that the work now beiz done is honest, economical and effective, and also that if the pre company had ‘a myoney they could complete the canal As -o just how much ‘y need I have not been able to ascertain. I asked the chief of construction today what amount he thought was necessary. He shrugg-d his shoulders ard raised his hands and his eyebrows as he replied: “A great sum! A great sum!* The Canal Route. But before I further describe the work i that is being done now, let me give you the story of the canal in a nutsnell. The Isthmus of Panama is much like the neck of an hour glass, of which North America and South America are the two globes. It is a wonderful ender and an exceedingly tough piece of land. It is about as long as the distance between Washington city and Boston via New York, and ranges in width from ore hundred and e’ghteen miies to about thirty miles. irregularly through it. plains, and near the coast swamps and mora: Where the canal is being cut the distance from one coust to the other as the crow flies is probably not more than forty miles, but the railroad line is forty-seven miles long, and the route laid out for the Pana- ma canal is still shorter. Some of t mountains of the isthmus are over 1,500 geet high. Along the line of the ‘canal the c elevation is at the Culebra ridge, the point that I visited tetay. ins at the port of Colon, or, t a It has plateaus and | © as you may call it. Aspinwall. though Colon is the name used here. Colon is not far from the mouth of the Chagres river, on the little island of Manzanil nat the terminus of the Panama railroad. Starting here, the line of the canal runs through the valley of the Chagres, cutting the stream | in many places. uritil at about fourteen | miles or more the ground rises irregu y until it reaches the top at Culebra. T! is all told about twelve miles of deep cut- ting to be done, and thence to the s excavation is“comparatively easy. is much worse reck on any of our r. lines than that of the Culebra. cu There ilroad One diffi- ty is in taking care of the waters of the Chagr river. This is now about three hundred feet wide and two feet deep. It looked little more than a creek when I ed along it yesterday, but in the wet ason it sometimes rises thirty feet in a night and bears along everything in its floods. This river and the big excavation are the engineering problems of the canal. De Lessep's idea was to hold back the Chagres by a big dam and let it out grad- ualiy. The Chicago ehgineers who made the Chicago drainage canal and who are now in Nicaragua said while here the other day that the Chagres could be easily con- trolled, and also after looking over the en- tire route ef the canal ventured the state- ment that the building of a sea level or a lock canal here was feasible. What the French Have Done. Every one kas heard of the Panamf& ca- ral scandals. The truth !s worse than any- thing that has been published. I will, fur- ther on, give some stories which I have heard here of the extravagances and frauGs of the first companies, when cham- pagne flowed like water and gold was ul- ncst as plenty as copper is In some pa: fqy_that nothing for years. “ Then there is or eight miles finished at the Pa- help them. the Uniicd States. present commission should | thing and Congress He said to me last night sents no problems, finance that cannot be overcome. Low mountains run | that at is more probable, take in some other ntion or corporation outside of France to The director in charge, | am old, recently said that if the French chose to give it up he had parties in New York and Chicago who were ready +o put up the money to complete it. whatever in the Nicaragua canal scheme France has no faith as a national undertaking on the part of She believes it is all a 1 buncombe, and if our ly do any- hould follow with leg- there will be a change at once at er of politica slatio ; Panama. The Views of an Amerienn Engineer. One of the most sensible talkers 4 vanal matters amg to ig the men I have met here is Mr. R. G. Ward, the civil engineer and roadmaster of the Panama railroad. ‘The canal pre- il or mechanical, The trouble is have here 1s to mupdern the and machinery they vid defective according Canal Almest Follows the Railroad. methods. It will do the work, but in the most expensive ways. There have wveen ! many new inventions since the ¢ana! was begun and tens of millions of dollars were spent for these machines. The Chi- ; cago engineers said it was only a question of good machines and good work, and if 1 had to finish the canal myself I should first find a big hole and bury all the ma- chinery they are now using in it and start anew. I believe it would be cheaper in the end. We now have dredges that will scoop up rocks such as those quarried for puild- ing houses like dirt, and with the right tools work can be dcne at a low cost.” “How much will it cost to’ finish the canal?" “It is all guesswork, but I believe that $150,000,000 -would make a sea-level canal here, and I think a sea-level caral would be far better. than any lock system. If the French would give up the Parama caral I should like to sce Americans buy {t and run it. It 1s certainly the shortest ard, I be:ieve, the cheapest place on the isthmus for a canal, and here you can tell just about what it would cost. The French have paid the expenses of the experiments; they have done a great deal of work, and sooner cr later I believe there will be-a canal here.” Millions of Dollars Rotting Away. Mr. Ward’s remark about the antiquated | embankment, they let it lie and used some jor The top | and in } nould be favorable it is | I believe that the French | are tired and sick of the job, and that with- in a sho-t time they will either drop it 0, make a train halt way scross the jpthmus.| The variety of wasted. machmery rot- property is indescribable. I crumbled machinery near the Atlantic mouth of the canal. I saw sheds filled with ¢ but now comparatively usclers engines, ai as I looked at the evidences of waste and extravagance all about me I cculd not help thinking of the thrifty peasants, or ths Woolen Stockings of France, as De Les- seps used to call them, from where’ the mest of this vast sum came. The French officials poured out money here for years. They bought everything py wholesale. When the old company stopped work they bad on hand, amorg other things, 150 float- ing derricks, 180 towboats ard launches, 6,000 fron dumping wagons, 190 miles of railroad track for the canal work, and over 10,0°0 cars. This, you must remember, was feattered along a distance rot much grear- er than that between New York and Kalti- more. They had built beautiful cottages on every hill and sightly place from the Atlantic to the Pacific. There were 5,000 buildings alorg the line of the canal, and Some of these are occupied by negroes to- day. They had cone‘ructed -quarters for 20,060 workmen. Trey had 120 steam pumps, 200 reservoirs ard more than 100 miles of water pipe. Most cf this stuff 1s useless now, and a vast amount has beeu thrown aside, as the freights are so high er man had a contract to cut dewn a hill for $150,000, and I charged him $50,000 to put his hill in my hole. It gave me $100,000 without spending a cent.” Another man measur2d up a part of the Chagres river m_a secticn of his excavation contract and by a col.usion with the French accountants made a fcrtune. Houses which you could put up at home for $5,000 were charged for here at $25,000 and $9,000. I drove out this afternoon to the Pacific ‘mouth of the carnal past a big fram2 cottage not as good as many_a $6,000 house in the suburbs of Boston, which I was told cost its owner 0, and as we passed by it a resident banker of Panama, who hes long done brsiness here and whose guest I was for the time, said: “The same man who built that hous? constructed this three miles of read on which we are riding, and what do you think it cost?’ I can’t guess,’’ said I, S “It cost just $600,000. Oh, those wer flush times. Everybody made money then. Interest rates were 10 per cent a month and the profits were enormous. We had Sarah Bernhardt and other actresses from Paris to play for us, and one time I remem- ber Sarak got 59,000 feanes for ten per- fcrmances. Panama was then almost as icked as Pari: they were flush times. Flush times among the rich contractors in Paris as well as with the associat? contractors _ here. that it would not.pay to carry it ‘away. The official: made money out of nearly every contract, and the more they bought the more they made. So when a car or train ran off the track or fell down an the surplus’ remaining. such overturned cars on the old works, Money Flowed Like Water. e the days when money was the cheapest of all things here. Loads of it were carried acréss the isthmus on the cars, and men made fortunes in a month. Eifel, the man who built the big tower, kad on> contract which netted him five millions. New York parties, including Henry B. Slavin and the American Con- structing and Dredging Company, had con- tracts amounting to $20,000,000, The Amer- icans did honest work, too, and mad: for- Common engineers took contracts and got rich. I heard today of one man who was down on his uppers when his 2mployer, a New York contractor, dis- charged him as worthless. When the con- tractor returned to Colon he found this fellow going about with a black valet hold- ing an umbrella over hfm and apparently very prosperous. Being asked how he had gotten along, the man replied: “I am a 1ich man now. You see, I took a Gontract to fil! a hele along the line of the canal, and was to get $9,000 for the job. Anoth- Shiploads of costly machinery were found useless, but more of the same kinds were sent_on. Paris shared in the profits. Near- ly $5,000,009 were paid to subsidize the Frorch newspapers. The majority in the chamber cf deputies was bought with $6,- on 4, and a member of the cabinet got $10,000 for services rendered. This all came out when the bubble burst and “the woolen | stockings,” the French peasantry and mid- | dle claszes, awoke to find their savings gone and their canal stock worth nothing. ‘they were the same people who had come to the front and paid at the demands of Germany $1,000,000,000 in s2ttlemeni of the | Franco-Prussian war, and now when they ad again grown well-to-do many found | that they were penniless. It is from these | same hard-fisted, >conomical, patriotic citi- zens that France will have to get the great part of the money to finish the canal, They have been badiy bitten once, when their own trusted De Lesse the hero of Suez, S$ at the head of affairs. Will they risk ; thirg again when another hun- millions er so are required? They ay, but I should cay they will not. The caral may be built. It probably will be built, but that France alone will build it does not now seem among the possibilities. FRANK G. 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Jat5- ave.; CRAN! AND AMS York, RAINS VESTIBU! STEAM IN DINING STATION XTH AND B STREETS. Schedule in effect March 10, 2:20 P.M. DAILY—Cinehiunati and cial. invatl, Dull Lamisvilic Louis withont change. Cow a Va., for Virginia Hot Springs daily. inate Chteage 10 PM. AILY—F. F. V. Limited—Solid train for Cincinnati. Pellman Sleepers to Cinclunat!l, Lexington and Louisville without ze, open for reception of passengers at 9 p.m, Pwlinan Com- partment Ca: to Virginia Hot Sycings, without AMERICA, ELECTRIC CARS. 1898. Parlor change, daily except Sunday. Connection daily. Sleepers inn bicagy and St. Louis. . DAL © Gurdonsvilie, Charlottes- aunton, and for Richmond daily. Reservation and tickets at Chesapeake and Obio offices. 513 and 1421 Pennsylvania aveme, and at the st#tion H.W. PULLEI, mb10-20d General Passenger Agent. Old Point Comfort WITHOUT CHANGE OF Cars. 5Y4 hours from Washington PE: except SYLVANIA, R., F. & P., AND - FRENCH LINE. Compagnie Generale Translantiqu DIRECT LINE TO HAVR Saill From Pier La Nasar: La Bourgogu La Bretagne. Gen'l Ag’cy for U.S. and % Bowling Green, G. W. MOSS, £21 Pennsylvania BELL & Co 1408 G st. fel2-1y-15 April 16 a pril 23 } Washingt pril 30 | Poi Chesapeake and Ohio Railways. Schedule m fect Pebruary 22, 1898. WASHINGTON AND OLD POINT SPECIAL, 5p. uesdays, ‘Thursduys and Suturdaya, id“ vestibvled, Gleetric-lighted, steam-heated nation couch, parlor ear, diving ear—through without ‘change ) p.m.—Old Point. 9:45 p.m, except Sundey.—Paror car mond, and Richinond to Old Arrive Richmend, 2:45 p.m.—Old Point, Transfer at Richmond. and reservatica St offices Penn int. 230 vant Pat tn North FAST PLYMOUTH. Kaiser Wi <PRESS SE LONDON. > 22. 9 ara Havel. Tu.,Apr, TWIN SCREW PASS! SOUTH AMPTO. Bremen... Friedrich der Grosse, GIBRAL1AR, N Fulda .Mch. 26, E 2. 40 am K,Wm IL. . 16, 10 am Fulda, OELRICHS & CO. 2 BGWLING E. F. DROOP, 925 Pa. ave. Agent for Washington. Ems . Aller. ApL. A Apply to. German Lloyd. GRE! SOUTHERN RAILWAY. hedule 4n effect January 17, ive and leave at Pe . Connect Harrison‘urg and . and at Lynchburg with tern daily 11:15 AM.—Dally.—THR UNITED STATES FAST MAIL. Carries Pullmar Baffet Sleepers, New York and Washington to dackaowvslle,,.pHE: ing at Salistu-y with Pullman Sleeper Tor ville and Hot Springs N. C.; Knoxville and Chat tanooga, Tenn., and at Charlette with Pullman Sleeper’ for Angusta. Pullman Buffet Sleeper ‘ew York to New Orleans, connecting at Atiavta INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION American - Southampton Salling svery. Wedueed! every Wednesday at 10 a.m. york.nn.s Mar. 23 St Taal, New York New York Haslam, Elsie Miss Mary. Mins EM Husden, June Miss Walton” tie, Haywood. Frances Miss Wanser, Mollie Miss Haywood, Mary Areta Ware, inte 1s Miss is v: €a Mi Heely, A A Mrs Wanton, Clara i Hewitt, Sam‘l Mrs. % cks, Rowe Mra Miss don, Mary Alles . Tizzle 3 . Anole Miss Tiilfinger, Christine Mtes WF*4 Se ee Hill, Wirdle Miss Hill, Katie V_ Miss Heaz, Elste Ford W. F Helbrook, Blanche Miss Willtame, Hatt Hollet, E Mrs Williams, Mary Mrs Holmes, Meliie A Miss Wilson: Rubhic Miss. Hovghten, Nellie Miss Wilson, Gea. Mrs Howell, JV Miss Wilson, Henrietta Miss Wilson, Isabella Mrs Wilson, & W Mira Wilson, Lucy Mrs Wilson, Sally 1 Mme Winsbw. J RM Wood, Gertrude 3 Wood said, Cora Miss: Weodly, Jaxtmine Miss Wyvitl nie Margaret Jackson, Mary Miss (2) qi n, Melile Mi Jackson, Willow Miss Jackson, Susie E Mrs Jacobson, Mii Miss Mar: Jame:son, John Mra Younger, MB Misa GENTLEMEN'S LIST. + Addison, Thos G Dr Crist, Geerce Adkirs,’T S. Crddy, Matthias Allan, Joseph B Cuen. Allen, Robt W Mr & Mrs Cx ° Hon Matthew Ralley, ‘Geo Bailey, Robt $ Denn<tt. ‘Dey, Wm M Dinnrm. Joe Dixon, Henry Dixton, Wm + Dedg, Ma:tin Hon Bell, Jno Bende:, Henry Benson, J H Rellingabye Te ‘ack, WW i , ee z 4 aE i qe M. E. Church was admitted to the union. A discussion of the topic, “How to Interest tne Ulder Members—Especially Boys—Who Are Not Yet Ready to be Transferred,” closed the meeting. Rev. J. W. Gray, pastor First Methodist Protestant Church, will use a stereopticon in illustrating the temperance subject at the C. E. meeting.in his church tomorrow evening, and the Endeavorers of Mt. Ver- non Place M. E. Church South .will an automatic meeting on the safie subject in their churc At the meeting on the lth instdnt of the Woman's Missionary Scciety of First Pre: hyterian Church, Mr. Duncan, a missionary to New Metlakahtla, Alaska,spoke most in terestingly of the Indians of that part of our Union and of the progress made in christianizing them. Rev. Peter Ainslie of Calhoun Street Christian Church, Baltimore, begun a two weeks’ series of evangelistic meetings at Ninth Street Christian Church on last Mon- day evening. The young evangelist has been grected with large and attentive au- lences at the services twice daily. Solo- ists of xbility add to the interest of the meetings. ‘The latest report’ of Mr. Baer, general secretary United: Society of Christian En- Geavor, shows that there are now enrolled in the United States 40,536 Christian En- Geavor societies; in the whole world 52,717 societies, having 3,163,020 members. age ged Short Story Club. . The Short Story Ciub held a meet! Tuesday evening. The president being un- avoldably absent, the chair was filled by the vice president, Miss Gertrude Withing- ton. ° - ‘The story of the evening, entitled “A Lat- tle Fire,” by Mrs. Appleton P. Clark, was ‘Westernland. Southwark. Noordiund. NEW Yor WASHING’ WV. NEW Sailing evry W. YORK TO Apr, Mall evniand =» OFFRE. 6 LOWLING ‘TON OFFICE, COMPANY. Line. (London - Paris). Steamships, for Birmingham and Mempiis. Connects at Lpush- burg with C. and 0. Railway for Lexington ond Natural Bridge dali. Solid train Washington to w Orleans without change. Sunset Personally Cenducted Tourist Excursion Through Sleeper on this trnin every Wednesday and Saturday to San Franciseo withoat change. 4:01 P.M.—Locel for Front Koyal, Strasburg and _ POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. Harrisonburg, daily, except Sunda: 19 P.M.—Daily.—Local for Chai ing . servation, Library and Dining Cars, for Jackson- vile and St. Augustine, and Drawi for Augusta. with connection for At 1 {INGTON .AND SOUTHWESTERN ¥ N Z LIMITED, com- Posed of Pullman. Vestiboled Sleepers, Dining C: and Day Coaches. Pullma ‘asbviile, | Ten. Knoxville and Chattanooga i . via Charkete, Columb Savannah and Jacksonville. nniting at Dapvilie with Pullman Skeper frowm Richmond t Augusta, via Columbia, with connection for Alken, and 3 ork to Menipbis, via Birmingham, New w E. 8. RANDALL'S POTOMAC RIVER DINE. River ‘Sat Point Steamer H. View wharf Sundays, Tu: 7 junding at Goloniai wharves as far dow i and ali Returning on RY ANDALL and on Fridays about 3:30 p.m. ITED STATES MAIL ROUTE WASH will leay and Thi ch, Chapel as Lower Machodoc. Mondays and Wednesdays at % p.w., TON. D. C.. TO GLYMONT, MD., -and intermediate landings. The Sienmer ESTELLE RANDALL, datiy except Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Returning about "3 p.m. ager accommudations first-class. received until the hour of salling. E. 8. RANDA' Proprietor and Manager. GEO. O. CARPINTER, General Agent, WM. M. REARDON, Agent, Alexandi York te w Orleans, © Atlanta and Mon’ Vestibuled Day Coach Washington to A’ Scuthern Railway Dining Car Greensboro’ to M>: STRAINS ON WASHINGTON AND O10 _DIVE- SION leave Washington 9:01 a.m. daily, 4:45 p.m. daily except Sunday, and 6:10 p.m. Sundays only for Round Hill p.m. dally. except Saplay, for Leesburg, and 6:10 p.m. daily for Herndon, Returning, arrive at Washington 8:26 a.m. 3:00 p.in. daily from Round HIM, 7:06 a.m. daily, except Sanday. from Herndon, 8:34 a.m. daily, ex- oan Sunday, from Leesburg. o Freight | “Ti cugh trains tro thes tout arrive at Wash 342 "20pm. and 9:35 ington. 64 and es Sar fas 12: 9:35 pm. daily, except Sau jasbington. | Gee and B00 am, dally trem Chasloitenitte, + Ja2l-2ott | “Picket. Slesping Cat reservation and. informa. STEAMER Mondays. Abel's, Wednesday, 7 a.m., for intermediate landings to Colonial Beach, ‘Tushwoed. Mock ton Leonardtown, Tam. for i 7 am.. Colonial Beach. ‘Bushwood, ef CW Rib) “WAKEFIELD. . raved OE POTOMAG RIVER LANDINGS, en Yarhington, D. C. ‘st. ferry wharf), nay for intermediate Colton’s, termediate landings to Rock Potnt, Colin's, fember Genl. 1897.) t ished at offices, 765 15th st. nw. GLI Pennssivania avenue: snd a° Pennsylvania vallroad tion. passe R. GANNON, 84 Vice Prest. & Gen. MBr. 3. M. CULP. Traffic Manager. W. A. TURK. Gen. Pass. Agent. L. &. BROWN. Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. 2 AND OHIO RAILROAD. <:; Saeenete in effect Novewber 14.1897 ¥ from station corner Xx Leave Washington from station cd ‘and Northw For ‘Cincinnati. 11:25 a.m. press, 11:55 p.m. Pittsburg and 11:05 ain. and 8-50 p. For Columbus,