Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Phato by IndcTirood & Underwood ^ CONSTRUCTION WORK SHOWING CONCRETE CARRIERS AND MOULDSThe buckets containing concrete are controlled from a station in the steel scaffolding—run out, stopped and emptied at the proper point 350 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. HOW THE NATIVES GATHER COCOANUTS ment for the good of the dwellers on the gathers together from the ends of the earth every-thing needful for these pampered wards of UncleSam, and sells its stock practically at cost pins to pianos, from pigs-knuckles to pate de foie gras you can get
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Phato by IndcTirood & Underwood ^ CONSTRUCTION WORK SHOWING CONCRETE CARRIERS AND MOULDSThe buckets containing concrete are controlled from a station in the steel scaffolding—run out, stopped and emptied at the proper point 350 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. HOW THE NATIVES GATHER COCOANUTS ment for the good of the dwellers on the gathers together from the ends of the earth every-thing needful for these pampered wards of UncleSam, and sells its stock practically at cost pins to pianos, from pigs-knuckles to pate de foie gras you can get every article of use or luxuryat the Commissary. At least you can in theory,in fact the statement needs toning down a little,for you will hear plenty of grumbling on the Zoneabout the scanty satisfaction derived from shoppingin that old Commissary. All the same its activites are amazing. It launderslinen at prices that make the tourist who has topay the charges of the Tivoli Laundry envy theemployees their privileges. It bakes bread, cake andpies for the whole 65,000 of the working population,and does it with such nice calculation that there isnever an overstock and the bread is always of course is done by machinery. Knead-ing dough for bread and mixing cement and gravel
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