AMERICA’S UNDERTAKING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1528, 9 August 1905, Page 3

AMERICA’S UNDERTAKING.

THE PANAMA CANAL, (Per -R.M.S, Sierra, at Auckland.) New York, July 19. A special to the New York World from Panama says that the system of work on the Panama Canal must be radically reorganised. There must be ten times a 3 many steam shovels in operation, and 1000 times less Governmental red tape, else the canal will not be completed for 200 years. The statement is based incontrovertible on careful observation and study. People, the message states, think the French people did not work here. The impression is erroneous, as 75 per cent of the work done up to date wa3 done by the French company. Travelling along the line of the canal from Colon to Panama, one sees millions of dollars’ worth of abandoned French machinery. Thousands of small travelling cranes, little engines, and dump oars are standing on rails covered with vineß and trees, which have grown over and around them. Some of those excavators have been recovered and put to use, but to thoughtful people all this abandoned and rusting maebinory is a solemn warning that there has been ODe failure to dig the canal, and that time is passing;