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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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en yet sworn in—who wrotethat in visiting the Canal Zone he desired particu-larly to make an exhaustive study of the fortifica-tions, and take many pictures, in order that he THE VARIED POPULATION OF COLON 27 might be peculiarly fit for membership on the Mili-tary Affairs Committee, to which he aspired. Toro Point wiU, after the completion of theCanal work, remain only as the camp for such a de-tachment of coast artillery as may be needed atthe forts. The village will be one of those surren-dered to the jungle from which it was wrested.Cristobal will remain a large, and I should judge, group of children, among whom even the casual ob-server will detect Spanish, Chinese, Indian and negrotypes pure, and varying amalgamations of all play-ing together in the childish good fellowship whichobliterates all racial hostilities. The Chinese arethe chief business people of the town, and thoughthey intermarry but little with the few families ofthe old Spanish strain, their unions both legalized
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D STREET, COLON, PAVEDBefore being sewered and paved this street was as bad as Bottle Alley on preceding page a growing town. Colon which was created by therailroad will still have the road and the Canal tosupport it. Without an architectural adornment worthy ofthe name, with streets of shanties, and rows of shopsin which the cheap and shoddy are the rule, thetown of Colon does have a certain fascination tothe idle stroller. That arises from the throngs of itspicturesque and parti-colored people who are alwayson the streets. At one point you will encounter a and free, with the mulattoes or negroes are in-numerable. You see on the streets many childrenwhose negro complexion and kinky hair combinebut comically with the almond eyes of the celestial.Luckily queues are going out of style with theChinese, or the hair of their half-breed offspringwould form an insurmountable problem. Public characters throng in Colon. A town withbut sixty years of history naturally abounds inearly inhabitant

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