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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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ONE WAY OF CARRYING BANANAS At the docks of the United Fruit Co., mechanical carriers, so perfected as not to bruise thefruit, have replaced the leisurely negro by her mistress. At its door, in a brazier, or a tinystove, she will cook the meal for the idle husbandand the children who arrive with mechanical regular-ity. After supper there is the gossip of the dozenor more women in the yard. 22 PANAMA AND THE CANAL The rebuilding of Kingston, compelled by theearthquake, is proceeding apace. The town willlose much in quaintness, one can see that by theruins of some of the older structures in which statelycolonial outlines can be traced. But it will gainin adaptation to the climate and the ever-present
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GWINE TO DE BIG JOB earthquake menace. The main business street—King Street, of course, being a British colony—■is lined on either side with arcaded concrete build-ings of a uniform type. Ceilings are high, win-dows large and one may walk the three long blocksof the busiest business section without emergingfrom the shady arcades. The government build-ings, occupying two full squares and setting well back from the street, are of a type that suggeststhe streets of India, and are also of reinforced con-crete. It is the belief of the authorities that thecomparative lightness of this material coupled withits resistant powers will enable it to survive anyearthquake. The whole period of the shock of 1907 barely exceeded ten seconds,but its wreckage will not berepaired in ten years. The cargo that we havetaken on from the spice-scented dock is technicallycalled a cargo of blackivory, made up of negroessailing for Colon to work onthe big job. Good-na-tured, grinning negroes these,though

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