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Identifier: panamacanalinpic01abbo (find matches)
Title: Panama and the canal in picture and prose ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis John, 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) Pub. in English and Spanish by Syndicate publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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SAN BLAS LUGGER PUTTING OUT TO SEA 32 PANAMA AND THE CANAL wings, now in the last stages of decrepitude and de-cay, but which you learn cost fabulous sums, was fur-nished and decorated like a royal chateau and was thescene of bacchanalian feasts that vied with those ofthe Romans in the days of Heliogabalus. At leastthe native Panamanian will tell you this, and if youhappen to enjoy his reminiscences in the environ- When the money flowed like likker ....With the joints all throwed wide open, and no sheriff to ; demur. Vice flourished. Gambling of every kind and everyother form of wickedness were common day andnight. The blush of shame became practicallyunknown.
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THE ATLANTIC FLEET VISITS THE ISTHMUS ment of a cafe you will conclude that in startingthe Canal the French consumed enough champagneto fill it. Mr. Tracy Robinson, a charming chronicler ofthe events of a lifetime on the Isthmus, says of thisperiod: From the time that operations were wellunder way until the end, the state of things waslike the life at Red Hoss Mountain described byEugene Field: The De Lesseps house stands at what has beenthe most picturesque point in the American townof Cristobal. Before it stands a really admirablework of art, Columbus in the attitude of a protectortoward a half-nude Indian maiden who kneels at hisside. After the fashion of a world largely indifferentto art the name of the sculptor has been lost, butthe statue was cast in Turin, for Empress Eugenie,who gave it to the Republic of Colombia when the THE BEAUTIFUL ROOSEVELT AVENUE 33 French took up the Canal work. Buffeted from siteto site, standing for awhile betwLxt the tracks in arailroad freight yard

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