Panama and the canal . )ended upon. No amount of rainyweather can keep them from the work. There are laborers of many other nationaHties here andthere on the canal work, but thev are few in Interior of a Mess Hall for European Laborers. Taking the Silver ^Icn as a whole, we shall find themof race and language, poor workmen, and hard tohandle. And vet, under the leadership of the Gold INIen,we feel sure that in the end they will build the canal. One more thing remains to be considered in respect tothe working force. It is the problem of feeding them and i68 A DIFFICULT PROBLEM
Panama and the canal . )ended upon. No amount of rainyweather can keep them from the work. There are laborers of many other nationaHties here andthere on the canal work, but thev are few in Interior of a Mess Hall for European Laborers. Taking the Silver ^Icn as a whole, we shall find themof race and language, poor workmen, and hard tohandle. And vet, under the leadership of the Gold INIen,we feel sure that in the end they will build the canal. One more thing remains to be considered in respect tothe working force. It is the problem of feeding them and i68 A DIFFICULT PROBLEM of providing them with clothing and other necessities. Over 40,000 persons to be fed and the markets 2,000 miles away! Certainly this is no small matter. But here, Supplies r 1 1 1 • 1 too, the same careful plans were laid asfor other parts of the work and the same satisfactoryresults followed. At Cristobal and at twelve other vil-lages stores were built, in which food and all other neces-
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