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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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OCK CART IN CHORRERA 356 PANAMA AND THE CANAL save to satisfy a grudge against the Commission.But the organization of the police force stopped itall. In the cities of Colon and Panama is little orno public gambling, and the brood of outlaws thatfollow thegoddesschance arenot to befound there.On the Zoneis no gam-bling at all.Even privatepoker games,if they be-come habitUal, are brokenup by quielwarningsfromthe police. Itisnt thatthere is anygreat moralaversion topoker, butmen who situp all nightwith cardsand chips arenot good atthe drawingboard or witha transit thenext day.Everythingon the Zone,from the foodin the Com-missary to themoral code, isdesigned with an eye single to its effect on the working capacityof the men. It is a fortunate thing that bad moralsdo not as a rule conduce to industrial efficiency, elseI shudder at what Col. Goethals might be temptedto do to the Decalogue. The police force in its latter days was in the com-mand of a regular army officer. In 1913 it numbered
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Photo bif Underwood & Underwood SUN SETTING IN THE ATLANTIC AT LIGHTHOUSE POINT 332 policemen, two inspectors and a chief. Of thepolicemen 90 were negroes, all of whom had been inthe West India constabulary or in West Indianregiments of the British army. The white policemen had all servedin the UnitedStates army,navy or ma-rine corps.The men aregarbed inkhaki, andlook more likecavalrymenthan policeofficers—in-deed a stal-wart, well-set-up body of ahigh order ofintelligenceand excellentcarriage. Ar-rests arenumerous,yet not moreso than in anAmerican cityof 65,000people. Ofabout 150convictsnearly all areblack andthese are em-ployed in theconstructionof roads with-in the Zone.The work ofthe police isgreatly expedited by the celerity of practice in thecourts. That Anglo-Saxon fetish, trial by jury, isreligiously observed, but the juries are of threemen instead of twelve and are held strictly to theconsideration of questions of fact alone. There isa full equipment of civil and crimin

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