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ROWNSV
VOL. XV. NO. 22.
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS SATURDAY JULY 28 1906;
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Land Litigation and corporation
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Estimates Given.
OFFICE AND SBOP-Tilrbeu BU' 11th St.
ON
AMERICANS
IN PANAMA
How They Live on the Canal and
What They Do.
There is Not a Theater or Place Amuse
ment and Saloons Arc Everywhere
Birds Do Not Sing Flowers
Have No Fragance.
Louis Van de Putte who was
De-Lesseps' chief engineer and
under whose direction was made
most of the canal building progress
of the French has come back to
the isthmus to view again the work
he deserted a score of years ago
fleeing before a scourge of malarial
and yellow fevers which he says
brought death to every member of
his immediate party of 65 except
himself and one other.
Monsieur Van de Putte is a Par
isian. Alter a ween on tne istnmus
he will go to Colombia to look into
the practicability of a new railroad
system.
Van de Putte shook his head sad
ly as he stood at the foot of Cule-
bra hill mid the hum of the toil-
ing thousands with their steam-
shovels drills and locomotives.
"I shall never see the Panama
canal" said he. "No not if I live
to be what do you call it a cen-
tenarian. For at the present rate
of operation it will take 50 years
to complete the work and after
awhile they are not going to work
so well as now. Not that there are
any engineering problems. That is
the simplest part of the whole pro-
ject. But there's malaria down in
those swamps and there's yellow
fever in that jungle and there's
death awaiting eight men out of
every ten who come here. The
Americans it is true have done
much to improve conditions but
they can do no more than promote
cleanliness. But the fevers are in
the soils below and in tne rains
from above."
'Needless to say none of the
I Americans on the isthmus share
Van de Putte's pessimistic views
From Stevens the chief engineer.
down they say the canal will be
built and within 15 years; that the
mortality of the zone low already
will diminish instead of increase
and that there is practically no yel
low fever or malarial fever on the
isthmus at the present time-
An.d if there really is it is con
cealed with admirable success
There are people in the hospitals
but no one knows why. From time
to time men are missed from their
accustomed places of labor. Oc
casionally natives carrying a long
narrow box may be seen making
their way to the little graveyard
on the hillside. Still no bulletins
are posted and few people learn of
these things.
But there is sickness that the
naked eye of the layman can detect
among the Americans in every
town and camp. Nearly everybody
has it- That's home sickness. Some
men purposing to work on the
isthmus get as far as the camp to
which they are assigned where
they work a week or till they have
the price of the return passage;
others more fortunate have the
wherewithal when they reach
Colon. One glimpse at that hsnia'l
city and they invest it in a trip
home- About half heroes every-
one of them stick.
"Make a stake; then skidoo."
It's the big money that aUracts.
Here are some of the wages paid:
Steam shovel men $210 a month.
Railroad engineers $180 a month.
Plumbers 75 cents an hour.
Stenographers $125 to $150 a
month.
Boilermakers blacksmiths etc.
65 cents an hour.
The men who have been long!
upon the isthmus manage to pinch
out levity at the expense of each
party of new arrivals. It's their
only fun. They have a cheerful
little song with which they greet
the newcomers. It comes from
some popular air in the states and
it runs:
Another little job for the undertaker
A little more work for the casket maker. ' '
Their table talk is equally cheer-
ul. "Understand seven new cases of
yellow jack down at Empire and
that they are keeping it quiet."
"Yes; and I hear they're talking
of quarantining Colon. Then we
would be in a fix if It came hard
and we wanted to go home."
All this for the benefit of the un
tried. As if merely beinjr there
weren't trouble enough. It's the
simple life with a vengeance. You
eat you work you sleep if you're
well. Today is as yesterday was
tomorrow will be as today. So it's
a good place to save money. If
you don't drink gamble or import
uxuries from the states you have
a hard time spending $40 a month.
Exclusive correspondence to the
Sail Antonio Gazette.
A New Insulating Material.
An invention which should
prove oi great value to the elec
trical and technical world gen
erally has recently been perfected
by a Portuguese cork firm. It is a
general non-condnctor and has
for its principal component gran-
ulated cork and is called "cor-
ticite." Its application would
appear to be practically unlimited
as it forms a perfect insulator will
resist the utmost extremes of
climate and the attacks of insects
even white ants are powerless
againts it. It is not inflammable
and might be used for partitions in
buildings and to replace woodwork
in battleships as it can be sawed
and bored like wood. It is said
that if boiler tubes and boilers are
covered with sheets of corticite
there is not only a great saving of
heat but the temperature of the
boiler room is reduced to quite an
agreeable degree. From Harper s
Weekly.
A Kansas editor is thankful for
a good many things. Among them
he enumerates the following: "I
am thankful I do not have to
defend Bowie or John D. Rocke-
feller. I am thankful that I ain
not a Mormon; I have trouble
enough explaining things to one
wite. l am tnanKiui tnat l am
not a candidate ior governor on
either ticket. I am thankful that
I live in Kansas and therefore feel
under no obligation to prove by
scientific argument that California
is in no more danger from earth
quake than any other locality. 1
am tnanklul tnat 1 am not an
aspirant for office now or at any
future time and am therefore under
no obligations to sit on the barbed
wire fence that separates the rail-
road and Standard Oil factions
from the people and make goo-goo
eyes in both directions. I am
thankful'that I am not responsible
for other people's mistakes; I
make enough of my own to keep
me busy worrying. Ex.
Didn't Fear That.
A good story is told of a hungry
individual who was also "strap
ped" out in a mining camp in
Colorado a few years ago.
After enduring the pangs of
hunger as long as possible the
man walked into a restaurant
ordered a square meal and pro-
ceeded to replenish the inner man
Having satisfied his hunger he
walked up to the proprietor and
told him him he had no money.
"We'll see about that" said the
restaurant manr as he rushed be
hind the counter and returned with
a revolver in his hand.
"What's that!" asked the man.
"That sir is a revolver;" said
the boss.
"Oh that's all right. I don't
care anything about a revolver"
said the man who had just filled L
up "I was afraid it was a stomach
pump."
REYES DENOUNCES RUMORS
Governor of Nucvo Leon Says Uprising
In Mexico Is a Fabrication of Im-
aginative Journalism.
A dispatch from Laredo of recent
date says:
The Express correspondent se-
cured the following authorized
interview with Gen- Bernardo-
Reyes of Nuevo Leon with regard
to the reported uprising in Mexico
on the 16th of September and the
intimations in American news-
papers of his alleged participation
therein.
Governor Reyes said: "As ther
Governor of Nuevo Leon I am
subject to the authority in every
sense of the supreme Government
of the Republic. My policy is
guided entirely by that of the wise
and able President of the Republic
Gen. Porfirio Diaz to whom my
personal feelings are warmly friend-
ly and of whose personal friend-
ship and confidence I am proud to
boast.
"Outside of personal friendship
I am politically strong and radically
one of the Diaz party. Iu that
matter there is no room for ques-
tion. ' 'As for strikes Mexico is yet to
have her first successful one. It is
true that last year a strike was at-
tempted on one of the large rail-
roads but it was put down in
fifteen minutes.
"Every other disturbance that
has ever arisen in this State that
in the least had the color of an
uprising the Government has been.
most successful in instantaneously
suppressing. There have been sev-
eral notable examples to prove this.
While nearly every other
civilized country has had its labor
strikes Mexico is yet to have its.
first and the Government has ont
more than one occasion dem-
onstrated its ability to extinguish
in its incipiency every movement
that has had the least semblance to
an insurrection or rebellion.
'As for the Governors of the
different States showing auy more
than their usual concern in the
peace of the country Governor
Isabel of Sonora is the only one of
them who has gone to the City of
Mexico to confer with the supreme
Government. The Canauea affair
is entirely isolated and local. In
short there is nothing but farce in
the whole matter. It is a fantastic
fabric of imaginative journal ism."
Railroad Man's Prayer.
The following is the text of a
"railroad man's prayer" pasted on
the fireman's side of the switch
engine in the Northern Pacific
yards in Spokane:
"Now that I have flagged Thee
lift up my feet from the rough
road of life and plant them safely
on the deck of the train of salva-
tion. Let me Ube the safety lamp
of prudence make all the couplings
with the link of Jove and lei tuy
hand lamp be the Bible and keep
all switches closed that lead ofT the
main line into the sidings with
blind ends. Have every semaphore
block along the line show the white
light of hope that I may make the
run of life without stopping. Give
me the Ten Commandments as a
working card and when I have
finished the run on schedule time
and pulled into the terminal may
Thou superintendent of the un-
iverse say: "Well done good and
faithful servant; come into the
general office to sign the payroll
and receive your check for eternal
happiness.' " From the Mil-
waukee Sentinel.
The most ignoble character fri
the world is the mere money get-
ting American.
There is an awftii lot of money
wasted buying drinks on a hot day
when they are lost in perspiration.
It's awful poor judgment to tell
a girl she s pretty when another
can hear you.
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