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Title: With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton), 1864-1950
Subjects: Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Book print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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i8o,ooo ($400,000). Buildings heowned were leveled with the ground. His safe was lost, hissecurities, his stocks and his bonds were burned, his busi-ness was wiped out and his beautiful home destroyed. Inthe space of half an hour the work of a lifetime was undoneand he found himself in the same position he was when, apoor boy he started out to climb the ladder to fortune. Hecould still prove title to a small amount of ground in theburned district, but at the present time it was virtually value-less and he had no money to improve it. If he could ex-change that property for the hopefulness and the enthusiasm 232 WITH spe;aki:r cannon through the tropics. and the vim with which he began to fight his way he wouldgladly do so. But, far from giving up, he had gone out intothe country and started a little store. The people were com-ing to him. Hell get it all back, said the man who told me the story.Hes a crafty old fellow; honest, you know, but very shrewdand a regular Yankee for hustling.
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CHAPTER IX. COLON AND PANAMA. The Sailors Lament—Rising of the Tide—The Canal ArousesInterest—Our Purchase from the French—A Revolution ThatWorked Our Way—Hot Day at Colon—A Halt in the Program—Quarantined for Yellow Fever—The Obstinacy of Gorgas—TheWorlds Canal Primer—Tragic History of the Isthmus—Gambling as an Expedient—Effective Sanitary Work—Expellingthe Deadly Mosquito—American Methods in Favor—Conditionof the Laborers—The Terrible Chagres and the Lock System—Gatun Town and Dam—Culebra Cut and the Artificial Lakes—Opinions of the Engineers. As we drew away from Kingston, viewing sadly its vastarea of charred buildings, its dreary piles of brick andmortar, the situation reminded me of The Sailors Consola-tion, a poem attributed to William Pitt, master attendantat Jamaica Dock Yard, and afterward at Malta, who diedin 1840. Observe how it fits: One night came on a hurricane, The sea was mountains rolling,When Barney Buntline chewed his quid, An

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