Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . IHE GREAT FILL AT BALBOA WHERE THE CULEBRA SPOIL IS DUMPED CHAPTER XIII THE CITY OF PANAMA. OR an American not too muchspoiled with foreign travelthe city of Panama is a mostentertaining stopping placefor a week or more. In whatits charm consists it ishard to say. Foreign it is,of course, a complete changefrom anything within theborders, or for that matterclose to the bounds of theUnited States. But it is not so thorough a specimenof Latin-American city building as Cartagena, its. neighbor. Its architecture is admittedly common-place, the Cathedra
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . IHE GREAT FILL AT BALBOA WHERE THE CULEBRA SPOIL IS DUMPED CHAPTER XIII THE CITY OF PANAMA. OR an American not too muchspoiled with foreign travelthe city of Panama is a mostentertaining stopping placefor a week or more. In whatits charm consists it ishard to say. Foreign it is,of course, a complete changefrom anything within theborders, or for that matterclose to the bounds of theUnited States. But it is not so thorough a specimenof Latin-American city building as Cartagena, its. neighbor. Its architecture is admittedly common-place, the Cathedral itself being interesting mainly be-cause of its antiquity—and it would be modem in oldSpain. The Latin gaiety of its people breaks out inmerry riot at carnival time, but it is equally riotousin every town of Central America. Withal there is asomething about Panama that has an abiding it is the tang of the tropics added to theflavor of antiquity. Anyhow the tourist who abides inthe intensely modern and purely United States hotel,the Tivoli, has but to give a dime to a Panama hack-man to be transported into an atmosphere as foreignas though he had suddenly been wafted to Madrid.
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