Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . THE NATIONAL GAME—COCK-FIGHTING in the foliage, but as the graves multiplied andthe monkeys vanished the rude unfitness of thename became apparent and it gave place to AmountHope. It is pitiful enough in any case; but if youwill study the dates on the headstones you will find COLON STREETS IN THE EARLY DAYS 35 the years after 1905 show a rapid lessening in thenumber of tenants. If you consider the pictures of certain streets ofColon during two phases of their history, you willhave little trouble in understanding why the deathrate in the town has b
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . THE NATIONAL GAME—COCK-FIGHTING in the foliage, but as the graves multiplied andthe monkeys vanished the rude unfitness of thename became apparent and it gave place to AmountHope. It is pitiful enough in any case; but if youwill study the dates on the headstones you will find COLON STREETS IN THE EARLY DAYS 35 the years after 1905 show a rapid lessening in thenumber of tenants. If you consider the pictures of certain streets ofColon during two phases of their history, you willhave little trouble in understanding why the deathrate in the town has been steadily decreasing. In atown built upon a natural morass, and on which reaching a floating board benevolently providedby some merchant who hoped to thus bring customto his doors. Along the water front between thesteamship piers and the railroad there was an effortto pave somewhat as there was heavy freight tobe handled, but even there the pavement wouldsink out of sight overnight, and at no time could it. HOW THE JUNGLE WORKSSilently but persistently the advance of nature enshrouds mans work in living green more than eleven feet of water fell annually, therewas hardly a foot of paving except the narrowsidewalks. In the wet season, which extends overeight months of the year, the mud in these filthyby-ways was almost waist deep. Into it was thrownindiscriminately all the household slops, garbageand offal. There was no sewage system; no effortat drainage. If one wished to cross a street therewas nothing for it but to walk for blocks until be kept in good condition. The agents of thePanama Railroad and the Royal Mail Steam PacketCompany, whose freight houses adjoined, dumpedinto the seemingly bottomless abyss everj^thingheavy and solid that could be brought b}^ land orwater, but for a long time without avail. Under thedirection of the United States officers, however, theproblem was solved, and today the streets ofColon are as well paved as those of any Ameri- 36 PANAMA AND T
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