The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1902, Page 2

5 THE SUNDAY CALL. ) - and the authorities would not bury the the Central American countries how stan- from the steamer’s side. The broad Eng- lest we should dead. dards of business, progress and civiliza- lish a’s in their speech jangled; they were naively told u Fighting s going on constantly now. tion are based upon those of the United out of harmony with the melodious negro and in a voice t Each State has over 200 guerrillas.”” - ' States. American money Is preferred to voices. sweetness ““What was accomplished by last year's the currency of other countries. One does After forty minutes’ rowing we cama that the music revolution?” was asked. not need to trouble about exchange, for upon a Venetian scene. The windows of band would pl “Nothing for the Liberal party except all articles are sold at “so much of the the barracks, prison and houses look gather tp li o v by educating public opinion.. It was too currency of the country, or so much Am- down, at full tide, upon a t of row- along the would bad, for we all but won.out. It was this erican gold.” boats’ and sailboats. The colored hey w wey': The ride in the train across the isth- d of the boatmen, the snatches of “On the 3d of February, 2300 volunteers mus Is an experience that an -American and the musical calls helped the under General Porras left Chiriqul to woman would not care to repeat. The n. Skillfully the boat was pushed 2 g-room of the march to Panama. They took every vil- round trip costs $20 Colombian or $10 to the-one landing place of Pana- its stone floor, high ceili 1 lage and town and expected to take Pan- American gold. That is first class, yet i stone steps leading to the bdued ama so easily that the soldiers, being un- the asccommodations are not equal’ to disciplined, got drunk, and when we came those of a second class smoking car in upon the entrenched Goverment troops at the United States. It is virtually a ast and wer the railroad station we were overcome and smoking car in fact, for men, women ported from Venice to Seville in the days freshed, when had to surrender.” and- children smoke all -around ‘one the of Columbus,, The narrow cobbled street; Ing of ‘small = y ce! vay wi y ay through. The canal and the tropical lined with low. adobe houses o ed joining table e ang,vou officers got awey with your Jay LorOURl ate the- tedioneness of Pete- roofs: the meotiey half-clad crowd of na. ing about. ‘Look at t “Yes, the Government was very good quent stops and the (;iluse.‘ ill-smelling hrrrl]rm;;hhusdons llvf"f‘rull(_"n]!' g un»\_..r the party ve t a U h car, or one could not endure if % on their heads, and e little carts “Yes, they belong to the house plovtaate thaveitotay wlins ivit by with clumsy wooden wheels drawn by Iy answered the waiter. . small horses or mules made a picture one re now on the table eating the could hardly believe belonged to the twen- v h century. The street leads to the Yes, like people, they must eat.” Tge shediike building cover- We next wended our way through . where every one goes in the crooked streets and past various smells to ng for the day’'s supplies. the telegraph office, where it took us forty hSof Endor sat flat on the minutes to send into the next State twe nce of the mar- telegrams containing four words each and ettes and telling for- costing $7 60 apilece, Colombian currency— tunes: black wisps of unkempt halr fell about $3 50 American money. It took all + over her shriveled face, yellow as parch- this time to hunt up the directions, and ment. Like all the others, she expected get the change. We were about to go in \ke a good thing out of the forelgn- Dpeace when one of the Americans of the e and leered as she held up her pack- party sald: ages enticingly- “Youw'll send the telegrams right away® Out of a population of 15000 Panama Git them off soon. ’ has only 8000 Colombians. The rest are Oh, no, senor; they will not go untfl L4 il ¥ s o] i 4 A o] 4 to-morrow; they will be inspectea by the Governor, and will doubtless be allowed 0 B “Well, get them right over to the Gov- ernor’s house and send them along.” “No, senor; it is impossible, the Gover- nor is having his slesta at this hour of Chinese, Jamaicans, English, Germans the day. He will see the telegrams to- and French, who came into the country mMOrrow. It is because of the revolution.” during the Panama canal boom. All We stopped in at a girls' school. Em- commerce is in the hands of forelgners. . broidery and drawn work were all that The Chinese have the best stores and appeared to be taug! The teachers. are liked the best. As a nondescript citi- ©one a Colombian, the other a Jamaican zen on the street put it, “The Chinese are Mulatto, didn’t anything coneern- honest traders and accommodating. A Ing the revo n or the history of Pan- poor man can take 10 cents to ‘a China- ama. They knew that t thing man's store and buy ten different arti- the Government did when ed to cles, while a Colombian would sell him economize was to st hools. only two, and no other foreigner here The teachers looked comparatively intel- would make change under 10 cents.” }'5;‘1', and we atly dressed, but bare- Facing the four sides of the plaza are . el d P blocks of two and three story buildings, _Later., upon leaving th m}l‘_‘;tvd we | for my' freedom as long as I remain in the The best landing place and wharf on built in_the eightles, the flourishing ‘:L‘ {“; country, and, of course, I am expected to the Pacific Ocean in Central America is times. They are mostly business houses. " keep the peace. the wharf at La Boca, the terminus of One, called the Bishop's house, is espe- Ly 30U « e e the canal. Here ail freight is landed for clally imposing. 1t is three stores high: [y <.C'turned Panama is the gateway of the world, the Panama Canal Company and the on the roof is a large gilded cross that ;w8 % Ict the ol city ‘remains ’ distinctively Darlen Gold Mining Company. Not far gleams afar in the dazzling morning sun- : jpanish, and for the most part of ancient away is the large warehouse of the canal shine; the third story has a figure, heroic was an * civilization. Progress passes through company. It contains all kinds of dredg- size, of “Joseph holding the infant g c.y mp Panama and leaves but little impression Ing machinery, boats and old iron, all in Jesus”; the second stery has a balcony, .t the great in transit, while the record of lost hopes & state of dilapidation. On the hiliside is and over the ornate railing hang vines o and many lives is seen on every hand. the “French village,” where the work- and brilllantly colored flowers. And in no place is it more evident than Iingmen used to live. The houses are well The old cathedral faces the plaza. It along the Panama canal. }Jnuélslt, hwithbhlgh utot‘;jg tlo\]mdatln’ns. and |s the most £mpaslrig edifice In Panama, In golng from Banama to Colon on the Must have been an objéct lesson in thrift covering a block. It was estabiished in Rporr- e Talirond. Fort e A O one sees miles 2nd sanitation to the people of Panama. a7, three years after the present site of oD s e after e to the ery oppo- of abandoned machinery. and evidence of , But now the desolation is depressing. Panama was occupied. The large stone here are found the momuments sad o #ister republic, Colombia, is in millions of dollars spent carelessly and The only mark of French progress is the pillars rise sixty feet from the flagged (.’ tombs. The Panama v he cause of liberty and civil n. criminally, too; for handreas of contracts fine hospital, the only one in Panama. floor and are surmounted by a dome girange custom. A family é’«elfpol:r-xhg"xfi “Colombia has & population of four mil- were let that no one ever pretended to It is well kept and the grounds are the twenty feet higher. Two towers on the jirge enough for the grave of the ‘fm lions; three millions are Liberals, although fulfill. The canal is finished twelve miles Mmost beautiful in the environs of the north end rise another eighty feet and wpo dies first; the other members of m: Dot opénly. from the Pacific side, and twenty miles City. A mile away from the French vil- are good lookout towers in times of in- family are placed In due time over this “The Historic party is now in rwar from the Atlantic, at a cost, the Colom- 1age 1s the De Lesseps mansion, three surrection. There are seven altars and grave, each one occupying a separate Doctor Jose Manuel Marroquin the blans will tell you, of $120,000,000, and 350 stories, overlooking a magnificent ter- several good pictures. One masterpiece prick or stone apartment built over the President, and has been since 1800. men to the mile, Fever has stricken them raced garden and Panama Bay. Sitting 1, life size, is “The Flight Into preceding one. These tombs are more or “The oric took adventage of as they worked. Work is now going on On the wide Rorch, breathing the dellcious The north and east sides are less imposing, the war between the Liberals and the Na- st'the highest point, “Culebra cut”; 157 &ir and looking down over the beautiful with ordinary tombstones of mar- +Jose Mapuel's tonalists, or Conservatives that yesr, t out of 560 Jeet dre now through, It tropical garden to the blue water of the ble and granite, memorials of wealthy Funerals are large and put themselves at the e is the most ive part of the work, Day, smooth as a mirror, refl the citizens. s no display about Government; now the other parties have for the hill is o; h“dapo?bm‘ ; islands covered with luxuriant follage Panama is full of Interesting ruins of of “Culebra” are ¢ attended, but there m, for all citizens are borne to the field In the same o ] combined nst the Historic. Since In the nelghborhoos from the water's edge to their summits, old churches, towers and walls. The known as “coffin o Same coffiy HREE million people down in Co- ery day of thelf lives. They are on & Subrussy & 10, thers have bocn 237 et to b Gonsteriod coven artificial Jakes, or It Was easy o ses how the old mat Rofak fiond 15 satisfled. ‘One oid riln, the " The dsive to ol Fanama Lo S oned lombia want to tip over the govern Steady debauch of temper. bats, over $0,000 killed and $62,000,000 spent. locks, that will be fed by the water from dreamed dreams too wonderful to be sSanta Domingo Church, has a “square {ant tropical follage lines tha: ooy ment. One million are trying to _ EOMe people wonder if either side knows “Last year, on the 2lst of July, over 600 the “deadly Chagres River,” and hun- Tealized. To-day four native familles, arch that is a sreat curiosity to all tour- ains and old walls tell the. goo: Hold it upright. what it wants. people were killed here in-Panama, but dreds of small streams besides, The With a swarm of twenty-two unclean jsts, It is considered a great feat in Sy e Saceans i e e They are fighting 1k 4 A young man, a native Colomblan who the English Government does not allow canal is 500 feet wide and 40 feet deep, children, desecrate the old mansion. architecture for the old Spanish fathers ed, driven from their Noras & P sk g i o :ouct;:m::: bad ‘been educated in the United States, any fighting now within twelve miles of and this means that much water A - The town of Panama, which lles walt- to have accomplished. the ralds of that famous pirate, John Mor. . 3 vi eral the city. eded. ng for that dim good fortune i ing through the plaza we met a Pan- . . One to e old_cathed o They scratch and claw and growl and &rmy last year, gave this explanation of “What has England to do with 1t? A “If the Americans will only come and Wwas the first place we visited on onur"tcr'-:;f M‘{:'gmgeue, -!grc sed Dln the gala attire E?l?l sxé?q-nég?’“’sé"m’u“é’h onliib:?am::;alc ll' bark and bite. They are in a continuous the &ffair the other day. It is from the great deal. She protects her 3000 Jamaican finish the canal, Colombia will be saved It is somewhat of a might-have-been, of a feast day. She was so preity and lected on top that large shrubs and a tan- of fight the year round, aud no man Liberals’ point °§.‘,‘°’i“ b o subjects. It was England who saved the and civilized,” is the cry heard from one somewhat of a may-yet-be. picturesque that we found an excuse for gle of vines are thriving there. ‘ le to @oothe them. Pighting is thelr ‘s1ont I oos K1od To toll ol to Bhea: gty from "“?"“’"Cfi,g“f;a,y:h“‘;,b{o ASle, St int the R R s T e Lt e Ll talking with her. She had no historical What story will the “ruins of new Pa- 4 SAgHiIng Is Sheir. /ston? 1ad to tell you; iways ing marines from gners and natives alike. It makes an _ “Laik a boat, ladies; 1 & cdge. She couldn’ ; 5 ? tpation anll thay dissipate & #1af o havs Americans Know. WHEE HHEIE. fie Dodien The Deoplo DAl llen dn terutrs LAmetas oo e L I O ot chllad (o Tomieaose 1o Fa- | knowledge e P N e e Jamaican boatmen about the ancient days of Panama; but, ABBIE F. PHILLIPS,