Personal reminiscences of James AScrymser, in times of peace and war . a and the Asiatic countries. Central America is on the eve of witnessing great events, nota-bly, the cutting of the Isthmus of Panama, which will give thoseregions an incalculable importance and will cause your system ofsubmarine lines in the Pacific to become indispensable. Your American spirit of enterprise reverses the estabUshed orderof things; henceforth to communicate from Europe eastward we willhave to go West. Accept with my thanks my most sincere wishes for the successof your important undertaking, in which you are
Personal reminiscences of James AScrymser, in times of peace and war . a and the Asiatic countries. Central America is on the eve of witnessing great events, nota-bly, the cutting of the Isthmus of Panama, which will give thoseregions an incalculable importance and will cause your system ofsubmarine lines in the Pacific to become indispensable. Your American spirit of enterprise reverses the estabUshed orderof things; henceforth to communicate from Europe eastward we willhave to go West. Accept with my thanks my most sincere wishes for the successof your important undertaking, in which you are so well secondedby your worthy Vice-President, Mr. de Sabla, my friend and co-laborer in the great work of the Panama Canal. Yours very truly, Ferd. de IvEssEPS. One of Count de Lesseps prominent associates was BonaparteWyse, who, with his wife, visited New York a year before theCounts visit. Mr. Wyse possessed also a most inspiring enthu-siasm in his faith in the Panama Canal project. It was Mr. Wysewho obtained the original concession from the United States of 90. COUNT FERDINAND DE LESSEPS Colombia, under which the de Lesseps Company was formed andexploited. Another prominent worker with Count de Lesseps was mycable associate, Theodore J. de Sabla. He was most active inthe Canal project and his large acquaintance in the United Statesof Colombia proved most useful to de Lesseps and Wyse in se-curing the necessary concessions and in developing the planswhich were finally adopted by the de I^esseps Company. The completion of the Panama Canal by the United StatesGovernment recalls those early days and the faith in the under-taking displayed by Count de Lesseps and others. 91 Value of American-Owned Cables to the American Government and Necessity of Governmental Jurisdiction THE great Kuropean War has taught the nations the immensevalue of strategic cables. For years Great Britain, Franceand Germany have been diligently engaged in establishing cablecommunication entirely indepen
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