Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . lers in natures garb as a specimen of the the parties, breedsbitter personal feel-ing and the UnionClub is said to befar from being thehome of politicalunity. It has, how-ever, an excellentbuilding, with aspacious ball-room,a swimming tankand a magnificentview of PanamaBay with its pic-turesque UniversityClub is more anAmerican clubthan a Panaman-ian, and it nolonger observesthe restriction asto membershipwhich its namewould imply. Ittoo has a spaciousball-room and is asocial center forthe Zone dwellerswho form themajor part of itsmemb
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . lers in natures garb as a specimen of the the parties, breedsbitter personal feel-ing and the UnionClub is said to befar from being thehome of politicalunity. It has, how-ever, an excellentbuilding, with aspacious ball-room,a swimming tankand a magnificentview of PanamaBay with its pic-turesque UniversityClub is more anAmerican clubthan a Panaman-ian, and it nolonger observesthe restriction asto membershipwhich its namewould imply. Ittoo has a spaciousball-room and is asocial center forthe Zone dwellerswho form themajor part of itsmembership. The CathedralPlaza is sociallythe center of town, though geographically the old French Plazaof Santa Ana is more near the center. Directlyopposite the Cathedral is the Hotel Centrale, builtafter the Spanish fashion, with four stories arounda central court. In the blither days of the Frenchregime this court was the scene of a revelry towhich the daily death roll formed a grim the occasional gaiety of the Centrale Patio. Photo iy Underwood tfc Underwood BUST OF LIEUT. NAPOLEON B. WYSE This bust stands on the sea wall. The picture shows it guarded by a UnitedStates soldier and a Panama policeman superior productsof Panama. On a nearbycomer of the Plazais the old Frenchadministrationbuilding, after-ward occupied bythe IsthmianCanal 1905 it was acentral point of in-fection for the yel-low-fever epidemic,and though re-peatedly fumigatedwas finally aban-doned by theAmerican engineerswho moved theirheadquarters outto Culebra. Life in PanamaCity is mainly out-door life, in thedry season at anyrate, and even inthe wet season thePanamaniansmove about in theopen like a lot ofdamp and discon-tented flies. Thealmost continuousline of balconiesshields the sidewalks from the rain, and nobody inPanama is too busy to stop a half hour or so atstreet crossings for the downpour to lessen. Sundaynights the band of the Republic plays in the Plaza,and there all t
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