Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1911 — The Inspectors. [ARTICLE]

The Inspectors.

The work at Panama is an engineering convulsion. It is a jumble of heavy machinery, railroad yards, concrete mixing and distributing towers, dredges, tooting locomotives, squeaking, grinding--dirt trains, dynamite explosions, black men, brown men, white men and men hiding their complexions under coatings of mud Throughout the whole runs a purpose, a directing force and aim. But it is not for the stranger to see it. Nevertheless; the canal job is in for another spell of inspection. A party of congressmen, habited in duck clothes and equipped with an air of wisdom, are about to start for the isthmus. They must see for themselves that every man there is doing his duty, that progress is made and that the waterway is sure enough going to be. The Panama canal is the most thoroughly inspected piece of public work in the world. It was bound to be. seeing that the government owns the transportation lines and the hotels. Where it involves no personal expense it is folly not to look wise.