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GENERAL NEWS

A Pioneer.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1913.

DIGGER OF CULEBRA CUT drainage. He checked up on the

Lieut.-Col. Gaillard Stricken when Task was Nearly Done.

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small things, and it is paid that the saving which he accomplished oversight amounted to $17,000,- by his individual and careful Nationsftonigcore their great-

000. It was the hard work, the est mon. There has recently died Washington, October 27.- nervous strain, the worry, and almost unnoticed in the United Lieut. Col. David Da Bee the tropical climate combined States the inventor of that typical Gaillord, of the Corps of Eng which broke the engineer's health American institution, the ice ineers, United States Army, who just after the hour of his fios! oream soda. He was a German, was invalided home from the triumph. There was nothing left Philip Mohr by name, who sold lathmus almost immediately after to be done but to remove the soft MEIRION, Nos 9 & 10, Peak, TO BE LEF-From 1st Jan- ice cream in soda water 30 years he had completed the digging of earth' of the alide at Onotrecha. ago, or 15 years before the com- the Chlebra Out, and had given The water has been turned in Cheap Rental, from 1st December unfurnished, 6 Rooms. bination was commonly on male an advance order to "tura in the the deposit in the one place is newly painted and colourwashed. in New York. He was 83 years. water," and who lies now in de being removed by dredges, and ROGATE, Austin Road, Kow- óí age. ....

aperate illness at the Johnat is said that, within a few weeks, loon; unfurnished. Coloured Mayors-

Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, hipa can go under theirown steam Church Mission Scoiety Bunga- No. 68 Peak, Mount Kellett, It would appear that Mr John held the position of chief of the unimpeded from ocean to ocean. low) from 1st October, 1913, 11 Richard Arober, of Battersea, in central division of canal constrac

Men on the letho us of Paneros 30th May, 1914, partly furnished. not the fret coloured man to at- tion from the day that the say that Gaillard, se a rule, gave Cheap rent.

Hoosevelt Adminiation tain Mayoral honours in England.

nearly elve hours of each day to the

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In 1904 the Mayor of Thetford, even years ago vilane work work in Culebra Cnt. As a mem-Peak, to let furnished for 1 year TO LET-Twe room Flats in in Norfork, was Mr Allan Miane,rom the hands of civiliansand put her of the Isthmian Canal Com- from 1st May. who was the son of a native of it into the hands of army officers.mission he had a voice in all the West Indies, where ho waa

When Gaillard reached the matters pertaining to the on-

FOR SALE or TO LET. Förn and educated. But Bir Canal Zode and looked over the incoring work in the zone, to Archer can certainly claim the scene of his coming labours, he civil administration matters, and

(From 1st November, 1913,) distinction of being the first found that the French had com to the general conduct of affairs. Bungalow containing drawing. No.1 Gough Hill, No. 103 Poak. coloured Mayor in London.

pleted 30 per cent. of the digging It has beau enid of him that he dining and smoking rooms and nt Culebra arcessary for a canal d'd not know how to reat. The five bedrooms. With ground for Cinque Ports. Earl Beauchamp, who anethe American engineer 70 per and day. He was a resourceful

200 feet in width. This left for landslides were with him night Tennis-Court ceeds Earl Brassey a Warden of cent, of the labour necessary for a cogineer, and by methods sug the Cinque Ports, has lately been 200-foot channel, and all the geated by the nature of the work part of Kowloon Inland Lot 1154. much before the public in con- additional work necessary for the he developed new nection with Mr. George's land 300 foot channel which the overcoming the tendencies of policy. He took the obair at the Americana had decided to con nature. On the day when the Chancellor's now celebrated Bed-stract. The Culebra Cut raps Gamboa dike was blown up let- ford meeting. Lord Beauchamp, through the backbone of the ring the water into the Culebra who is himself the owner of some American continent. It is eight Cut, this army engineer who had 18,000 acres, has been Firat Com miles long, and it was the only prepared the Out for the recep missioner of Works since 191, place on the Isthmus which pretion of the water was lying ill in and was at one time Governor of rented a continuous problem of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti. TO LET FOUR-ROOMED New South Wales,

ry digging. The work up to more, unconscious that to the . "Willett House."'.

HOUSES in Granville Although his son is better steam-shovel work.

October 10 last was entirely world was being given the final Avenue and Salisbury Avenue, known to the public on account The army officer dug the Cal-

roof of the integrity of hia labor. Kowloon, Cheap rentals. of his championship of the "Day-ebra Cut to the bottom, but at had it when Col. Gaillard wented, Nathan Eoad, KOWLOON.

As the record of construction SHOP with GODOWN attach- light Saving" Bill, the late Mr Cucuracha and in its immediatee to the Isthmus, he was put in William Willett, senior, was a vicinity the earth and the rocks charge of all excavations in

Kowloon Marine Lot No. 48 notable pioneer in domestic arab of the mountains, finding a part the cacal priem except that in

with Wharf. tectare. He founded the grest of their foundation removed, becidental to lock and dem con- building firm that has given us gas to move toward and into the struction." This meant that it the "Willett House," whosexcavation, sceking for a new was Col. Gaillard's duty to break characteristics are the combina-foothold. The engineer dug in- down the mountaine of the tion of comfort with external domitably; hill after bill found Isthmus of Panama. beauty and sound construction.is angle of repose, and the land-sketch of Col. Gaillard, is the Other features are the use of white slide stopped, gave at Cucaracha book called "The Makers of the tiles and the insistence on a de- and at points close to it, where Cankl,” it is said : sign that admits as much sun the sliding was persistent. Gai shine as possible.

Hard was battling with his laet the world always will regard as "It has been a project which | Child Welfare.

visibly weakened enemy when stupendious. Ho las unemotionally, In appointing Mr George A. he was compelled to seek rest. -hovelled the clay out of the way Aitken to the charge of the new Work nearly don when stricken. much as the householder" shovels, division of the Home Office en- The entire work of dry digging the snow from his sidewalk, and trusted to deal with questions in the Culebra cat was completed gone about the business of cutting relating to children, Mr McKenna when Lieut. Col. Gaillard was the backbone of Culebra." is taking the advice of the Depart-stricken and compelled to leave mental Committee appointed in the Zone. The little that is left cubio yards of all kinds of stuff When the figures showing the 1911, when Mr Churchill was to be done will be given to the which have been taken from the Home Secretary. Mr Aitken, who dredges to do. Cucuracha's de Culebra Cut are read they convey is a principal clerk in the Home posited material is light. It seems nothing to the mind except that Ofice, was previously in the Post to be the belief of the engineers cortainly if the opening of the Office. His duties embrace at the enction pumpa of the ('anal were delayed beyond the wide field, ranging from reform-dredges can take out in, and that time fixed the treachery of Scientiff sight Testing by must atory and industrial schools to when finally this persistent cook-the soil environment at the Children's Courts, and from roach, for that is what Cucuracha

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Lacquered driver both an audible and visi their their footholds were becom- he was commissioned a second member, on June 15, 1884, when

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sion, river and barbour work in THE IDEAL LAUNDRY satisfactory to note that it is naW While the work which con Florida, survey work in Alaska, fronted Gaillard at Culebra cat

and general engineering and was not perhaps the greatest in-construction work in Cuba, Storage of Celfufold.

dividual piece of engineering on Minnesota, the District of Colam- The Public Control Committee the Isthmus, it generally was bis, and Fort Monroe, Va. are recommending the Londos regarded as the most trying and He was appointed colonel of County Council to seek legislation probably the most difficult be the Third United States Volun- in 1914 for the control of places canse of the problems which were teer Engineers in the Spanish war,

which cinematograph films, presented. Gaillard during the celluloid, and Xylonite are man-early years of his contest with the serving at Chickamauga Park, Jefferson Birraoke, Mo,; Lexing ufactured, stored, or used. The landslides, never knew what a ton, Ky.; Macon, Ga., and in the Committee say they have arrived morning was to bring forth.

Over field in Cuba. He is the author Now is the time to join our at the conclusion that the storage night the mountains were likely of many standard professional of celluloid goods in quantities up to break loose and to cover with to 560lbs. in retail shops and their deposit the tracks and even papers and of a book on "Wave

Motion. elsewhere may reasonably be ex-the cars which were used to empted from special control, but remove deposited material: Steam ordered to the work of canal con- they think that the local authori shovels were likely to be over-straction in March, 1907, Lieut- ty should be empowered to issue turned, and there was always the Col. Gaillard was a member of

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