Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Fhoto by Underwood & Underwood NEW AMERICAN DOCKS AT CRISTOBAL 35^ PANAMA AND THE CANAL It is an amazing•climate for icecream, however,.and the Commis-sary supplied110,208 gallons•of that. Someother annualfigures that helpto complete thepicture of meresize are butter,429,267 pounds;eggs, 792,043dozen; poultry,560,000 pounds;flour, 320,491pounds. As I said be-fore, the popula-tion of the Zone, fed mainly through the Commissary, numbers about?65,000. When one reads of the quantity of foodneeded one wonders at the skill and energy thatmust have been
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Fhoto by Underwood & Underwood NEW AMERICAN DOCKS AT CRISTOBAL 35^ PANAMA AND THE CANAL It is an amazing•climate for icecream, however,.and the Commis-sary supplied110,208 gallons•of that. Someother annualfigures that helpto complete thepicture of meresize are butter,429,267 pounds;eggs, 792,043dozen; poultry,560,000 pounds;flour, 320,491pounds. As I said be-fore, the popula-tion of the Zone, fed mainly through the Commissary, numbers about?65,000. When one reads of the quantity of foodneeded one wonders at the skill and energy thatmust have been employed in our Civil War to keeparmies of 300,000 and more in the field. However, in. \^i,>Sr-^£:i~ OX METHOD or TRANSPORTATION those days per-haps eggs and icecream did notfigure in theCommissariat,and we have nostatistics as topoultry, thoughthe poet laureateof Shermansarmy referredfeelingly to howthe turkeysgobbled that ourCommissariesfound. The Commis-sary is not whollypopular. Nativeshop keepers, ofcourse, are againstit. For a time Zone employees were permitted touse their books of coupons for purchases in nativestores, the storekeepers afterwards exchanging themfor cash at the Commissary. This practice for somereason has been ruled out, and the native stores losta certain amount of trade by the ruling. Nor arethe natives the only discontented ones. Americans in Panama, notin the employ of the IsthmianCanal Commission, are in-clined to grumble because ^.t , !a^ ^^i
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