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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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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, the spot on which it stoodwhen viewed by the writer is sentimentally ideal,for it overlooks the entrance to the Canal and underthe eyes of the Great Navigator, done in bronze,the ships of all the world will pass and repass as white foam upon the shore, unlike the Pacific whichis usually calm. Unlike the Pacific, too, the tide isinconsiderable. At Panama it rises and falls fromseventeen to twenty feet, and, retiring, leaves longexpanses of unsightly mud fiats, but the Caribbeanalways plays its part in the landscape well. Un-happily this picturesque street—called Roosevelt
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ROOSEVELT AVENUE, CRISTOBAL, ABOUT TO LOSE ITS BEAUTY they enter or leave the artificial strait which givessubstance to the Spaniards dream. At one time the quarters of the Canal employees—the gold employees as those above the grade ofday laborers are called—were in one of the mostbeautiful streets imaginable. In a long sweepingcurve from the border line between the two towns,they extended in an unbroken row facing the rest-less blue waters of the Caribbean. A broad whitedrive and a row of swaying cocoanut trees separatedthe houses from the water. The sea here is alwaysrestless, surging in long billows and breaking in Avenue—is about to lose its beauty, for its waterfront is to be taken for the great new docks, andalready at some points one sees the yellow stacksof ocean liners mingling with the fronded tops ofthe palms. Cristobal is at the present time the site of thegreat cold storage plant of the Canal Zone, the shopsof the Panama Railroad and the storage warehousesin which a

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