Panama pictures; nature and life in the land of the great canal . NATURE AND LIFE. 25 almost every corner, a Cold Storage Plant,which is replenished weekly with meats,frnit, and vegetables from the best marketsin the United States; a Steam Laundry andBakery; an efficient Fire Brigade, capableof coping with any conflagration; Free Pub-lic Schools in the Zone; a Wireless Tele-graph Station; a complete system ofDrainage; and, last, though not least, im-proved Sanitary arrangements—a blessinghitherto unknown in the history of the Isth-mus. When all these things are reviewed in theminds of impartia
Panama pictures; nature and life in the land of the great canal . NATURE AND LIFE. 25 almost every corner, a Cold Storage Plant,which is replenished weekly with meats,frnit, and vegetables from the best marketsin the United States; a Steam Laundry andBakery; an efficient Fire Brigade, capableof coping with any conflagration; Free Pub-lic Schools in the Zone; a Wireless Tele-graph Station; a complete system ofDrainage; and, last, though not least, im-proved Sanitary arrangements—a blessinghitherto unknown in the history of the Isth-mus. When all these things are reviewed in theminds of impartial critics, acquainted withthe conditions of the town, as I rememberthem in the years gone by, they should,certainly-, leave the impression thatour evolution, from a series of mud-flats andsalt marshes, has been most wonderful. Athome, we see ourselves rising, rapidly, onstepping stones from our dead selves tohigher things, and fast approaching a stagewhen Colon, metaphorically speaking, willfind herself dressed out in the full regaliaof a modern city. 26 PANA
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