Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . thetrouble of explain-ing any of the sightsto their is none ofthe bustle that at-tends the arrivalof a train in anAmerican city. Noraucous cries ofKeb, sir? Keb!no ingratiating eagerness to seize upon your baggage, no readyproffer of willingness to take you anywhere. Ifthe Panama cabby shows any interest at all ingetting a fare out of an arriving crowd it seemsto be in evading the one who beckons him, andtrying to capture someone else. One reason per-haps for the lethargy of these sable jehus is thatthe government has robbed their call
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . thetrouble of explain-ing any of the sightsto their is none ofthe bustle that at-tends the arrivalof a train in anAmerican city. Noraucous cries ofKeb, sir? Keb!no ingratiating eagerness to seize upon your baggage, no readyproffer of willingness to take you anywhere. Ifthe Panama cabby shows any interest at all ingetting a fare out of an arriving crowd it seemsto be in evading the one who beckons him, andtrying to capture someone else. One reason per-haps for the lethargy of these sable jehus is thatthe government has robbed their calling of itssporting feature by fixing their fare at ten centsto any place in town. Opportunity to rob afare is almost wholly denied them, hence theirdejected air as compared with the alert piraticaldemeanor of the buccaneers who kidnap passengersat the railway stations of our own enlightened only way the Panama driver can get the bestof the passenger is by construing each stop as theend of a trip, and the order to drive on as consti-. Photo by CJjideTwood & Underwood PANAMA from; THE SEA WALL; tuting a new en-gagement involv-ing an additionaldime. Touristswho jovially drewup to the curbstoneto greet acquaint-ances met en routeseveral times in ahalf-hours ride aresaid to have beenmulcted of a sur-prising number ofdimes, but in jus-tice to the Panamahackman—whoreally doesnt havethe air of rioting inill-gotten wealth—I must say that Inever encounteredan instance of thisovercharge. Your first intro-duction to thebeauty of Panamaarchitecture comesfrom a buildingthat fronts you asyou leave yourtrain. Three sto-ries high it has the massive strength of a confectionerscreations, and is tastefully colored a sickly green, re-lieved by stripes of salmon pink, with occasionalinterludes of garnet and old gold. The fact that ithouses a saloon, the proportions of which would begenerous on the Bowery or South Clark Street, doesnot explain this brilliant color scheme. It is merelythe
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