Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — The Waste at Panama. [ARTICLE]

The Waste at Panama.

In confirmation of the privato account of tho doserted Panama Canal works, published by us the other day, a different correspondent Bonds us this oxtruot from another private letter: " While in Colon last voyage I made a careful tour of the Punama bogie, and the Btores, engine sheds, rolling and floating stock. Words cannot paint my astonishment at the sight. 1 never saw anything so sinful in my life ns to see all that stuff going to raok and ruin. I went through one ‘store’—of these there are six in all, at different places—bigger than any shipyard on Clyde could boast,; all tba thingi just as they came from tho makers. Files never unpacked; every englneer’i tool you can think of—English, French, American—was there—Whitworth stocks, dies and taps, about twenty cases comflete, good as when they left tho shop. walked for a mile over tho only road way passable along the canal side, vzi., the top of a train of eight-wheel bogie freight wagons, all sinking in, the wheels disappeared in tropical undergrowth. “ All around ft swampy ground, and all these wagons are rotting beneath that blazing sun. Engine steam-sheds, full ol fine, powerful engines, the sheds overrut and inhabited now by snakes and theli prey, the lizards, while tho six-foot it full of land crab holes. I saw eight fine, large marine boilers, just as they had been discharged from the R M. oarge boat that brought them over, and tne complete part of a set of a big compomartne engine, about 1,000 horse-powsr, lying on the shore; never been used; never fitted in. I saw dry-docks, splendidly built and equipped with fine, expensive pumping plant. And why say more ? Poor old Do Lesseps’s bouse od the point looks very melancholy.'*— [London News.