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States without success. Finally a German 
raised the money in Hamburg and now every 
thing about the line from the electrical in 
stallation to the motorman and his uniform is 
“Made in Germany.” Being the first and 
only underground road in Latin America it 
was written about and talked of everywhere, 
and at all times the Germans got credit for 
the enterprise and were well advertised as 
efficient and wonderful engineers. This was 
another opportunity lost to us. 
Before the European War started a syndi 
cate of English, French and Germans had 
agreed to expend $200,000,000 in Colombia 
building railways and in making the Magda 
lena River, the only highway to the capital at 
Bogota, navigable at all seasons of the year. 
Due to present hostilities they had to abandon 
the project. The terms offered by Colombia 
were excellent, including 5 per cent, interest 
on the capital and the further provision that 
the government would ultimately within a 
specified period take over the road, paying an