Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . \^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 b
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . \^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. ROAD MAKING BY CONVICTS THE INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT ON THE COMMISSARY 353 they are not permitted to make purchases at theCommissary. That, however, was a matter ofserious agreement between the United States andthe Republic of Panama. When the United Statesfirst announced its purpose of takingover the Zone and building theCanal, there was joy among thebusiness folks of Panama and saw fat pickings in purveyingthe necessities of life for a new popu-lation of considerable size. Visionsof the return of the flush times ofthe French engaged their imagina-tions. All these pleasurable anticipa-tions were doused under the wetblanket of the Commissary into whichgoes the major part of the spendingmoney of the employees. But thereare Americans on the Zone, otherthan employees and their families,and these by a solemn internationalcompact are handed over to the Panamanianmercies. To buy at the Commissary you must havea coupon book, and without an employees number all very well, but lacks
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