. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . nts ; thereare several moving picture shows, and a magnificenttheatre, which forms part and parcel of the Govern-ment Building. But there are performances thereonly at intervals, when a company happens tocall here on its way to or from South America. Having come down the Pacific coast in a smalland slow boat, taking a month from San Francisco,one can hardly realize that Panama is within aweek of New York, and three days of New Orleans,and it is rather a shock at first to find whatswarms of tourists are continually overrunning theisthmus.

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. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . nts ; thereare several moving picture shows, and a magnificenttheatre, which forms part and parcel of the Govern-ment Building. But there are performances thereonly at intervals, when a company happens tocall here on its way to or from South America. Having come down the Pacific coast in a smalland slow boat, taking a month from San Francisco,one can hardly realize that Panama is within aweek of New York, and three days of New Orleans,and it is rather a shock at first to find whatswarms of tourists are continually overrunning theisthmus. Apart from the crowds of private in-dividuals, one party of two hundred from someeastern city arrived the same day as we did, and tookup their quarters in the Tivoli, the great touristhotel in the American town of An con, adjacent toPanama. And this is quite a usual occurrence. There are numerous boats running from Colonto New York and New Orleans ; of the formerseveral run direct, but four boats a week,belonging to various companies, call at Jamaica,. i \\ \i ZON1 HOI SI S, v R]

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