Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . pearance of thepublic roulette wheelsand the monotonouscry of the numbers atkeno. They complainthat the population hastaken to the practiceof wearing an inordi-nate quantity of clothesinstead of being con-tent with barely enoughto pique curiosity con-cerning the few charmsconcealed. But thoughthe city has been re-markably purifiedthere is still enough ofphysical dirt apparentto displease the mostfastidious, and quitesufficient moral un-cleanliness if one seeksfor it, as in other towns. The entrance by railway to Panama is not pre-possessing, but f
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . pearance of thepublic roulette wheelsand the monotonouscry of the numbers atkeno. They complainthat the population hastaken to the practiceof wearing an inordi-nate quantity of clothesinstead of being con-tent with barely enoughto pique curiosity con-cerning the few charmsconcealed. But thoughthe city has been re-markably purifiedthere is still enough ofphysical dirt apparentto displease the mostfastidious, and quitesufficient moral un-cleanliness if one seeksfor it, as in other towns. The entrance by railway to Panama is not pre-possessing, but for that matter I know of few citiesin which it is. Rome and Genoa perhaps excel inoffering a fine front to the visitor. But in Panama•when you emerge from the station after a journeyclear across the continent, which has taken you aboutthree hours, you are confronted by a sort of raggedtriangular plaza. In the distance on a hill to yourright is set the Tivoli Hotel looking cool and invitingwith its broad piazzas and dress of green and The fence is now removed. During SANTA ANA PLAZA the French days this Plaza was the scene of much gaiety and stillshows French influence To your left is a new native hotel, the International,as different from the Tivoli as imaginable, built ofrubble masonry covered with concrete stucco, withrooms twice as high as those of the usual Americanbuilding. It looks cool too, in a way, and its moststriking feature is a pleasingly commodious bar,with wide open unscreened doors on the level of thesidewalk. The Tivoli Hotel, being owned andmanaged by the United States government, has nobar. This statement is made in no spirit of invidious 226 PANAMA AND THE CANAL comparison, butmerely as a matterof helpful informa-tion to the arrivingtraveler undecidedwhich hotel tochoose. The plaza is filledwith Panama cabs—small open vic-torias, drawn bystunted wiry horseslike our cow poniesand driven by Pan-ama negroes whoeither do not speakEnglish,or,in manyca
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