Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . building are boxes of corrugatediron about 3 feet high, the top sloping upward likeone side of a roof and the inner side open. Theseare the kitchens—one to each family. Within isroom for a smoldering fire of soft coal, or charcoal,and a few pots and frying pans. Here the familymeal is prepared, or heated up if, as is usually thecase, the ingredients are obtained at the Com-missary kitchen. The reader may notice thatthe gold employees are sup-plied with food at a fixedprice per meal; the silveremployees at so much perration of three meals. Thereaso
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . building are boxes of corrugatediron about 3 feet high, the top sloping upward likeone side of a roof and the inner side open. Theseare the kitchens—one to each family. Within isroom for a smoldering fire of soft coal, or charcoal,and a few pots and frying pans. Here the familymeal is prepared, or heated up if, as is usually thecase, the ingredients are obtained at the Com-missary kitchen. The reader may notice thatthe gold employees are sup-plied with food at a fixedprice per meal; the silveremployees at so much perration of three meals. Thereason for this is that it wasearly discovered that the la-borers were apt to economizeby irregularity in eating—seldom taking more than twomeals a day and often limitingthemselves to one, makingthat one of such prodigiousproportions as to unfit themfor work for some hours, afterwhich they went unfed untiltoo weak to work the Commission lost by tniS practice at bOtn ends, p/joio tiu Uiutcrwooi it Unaerwooi the evil was corrected by. Photo by Underwood . ? ° ^^3 W^^^^^HH ^^^ -^ ^^E^jT^ ^^ ^l^B \/ ? J A workmens dining car 346 PANAMA AND THE CANAL / i ! \ .. n TM*¥^i^By^^^WMi ll ^^^^^^^^^^^^^Bl ^;^ iBfcV^ ^^JgP^^Pg » ? ^^p ^^&l^ - lS«l|HRi«Mt-iii^@ u(/t£ d, L ILdtfUuad OLD FRENCH BUCKET DREDGESSome of these dredges are still in use for wet dredging In 1909 the Commission reported with satisfactionthat the rations at the messes for Europeanlaborers have been i
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