The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-01
Glts 8utIana Iailu Gtobe.
TUESDAY, JUNE l, 1875.
Especial Correspondence OF the GLoBE.l
Letter From Panama.

AsPINwALL, May 7.
know of no field as broad as this, nor
one where such quantity of work can be
done by ladies' temperance association,
or band of crusaders. really think | am
telling the truth when l say that in this
small town (not over 5000 inhabtants)
there are one hundred liquor stores. Dry
goods sloreskeep it for sale, grocery stores,
/ drug stores, and every store in town sells
liquor. You pass dwelling house, the
the front room is liquor store, and from
our office we can look into ten places
where 1t is sold. 1t Is cheap, and all the
natives use it; yet / cannot see for the life
OF me how the stores all live. The princi-
pal drink is brandy cocktail, which is sold
| for dime. Claret wine and Hennessey
brandy only cost a dollar bottle, and ia
maica rum is still cheaper, and the very
best kind Of bay rum sells for $l25 per
gallon. Notwithstanding the amount of
liquor drank, have not seen dozen cases
of drunkenness since came here, and ma
jority of those were sailors from some of
the vessels lying at the docks.
Next to liquor comes tobacco. Every
body, men, women and children, smoke,
and very little tobacco is chewed. Eighty
cents buys one hundred very fair (rat-taiD
cigars dollar, and dollar and quar-
ter buys a hundred proco-temps. about as
good cigar as lack Clark's battalions,
and for four or five dollars we get good
Havana. We use the proco-temps mostly,
as by doing that we can smoke eight or ten
day. and yet not have it cost us more than
it would to smoke one at home To smoke
pipe is considered very low habit, con-
sequently use mine most of the time in my
room evenings, when | wish to enjoy good
quiet smoke.
Thus far | have said little it anything
about the railroad, and in this can say but
little. Business is not very good. At pres
ent we are running two trains a day each
way, each train averaging about eighteen
loaded cars, although very often they are
much larger To-day Sunday train
came over from Panama consisting of
thirty-nine cars, drawn by two engines.
Twenty-six of them were filed with tea,
averaging eighteen tons to car; eight
were filled with bananas three were pas
| senger cars and the balance being baggage
cars, the destination of all being New
York, for which place it starts tonight on
the Colon" In addition to that a special
train of eight cars loaded with bananas
came in also. There are about 500 tons of
this fruit shipped to New York every
month, of which shall have more to say
hereafter. 1t is not customary to work
on Sunday, but in this case it could not be
avoided Since Mr.. White took charge of
the road the expenses have been greatly re-
duced, while the condition of the road is
kept up as it should be, and many improve
ments have been made by him which can
not fail to be of great advantage to the
road. During the month of March the road
was more prosperous than ever before in
the same length of time, and since then the
stock has gone up from 113 to 1929, which
is in great measure owing to the changes
made by Mr.. White, the result of which
cannot fail of being gratifying to his
friends in Vermont.
Everything here is very dry and rain is
very much needed. During the month OF
April, 1874, over II inches of water fell
and during the past month but 25-10(
of an inch. Much as the rainy season is tc
be dreaded it is anxously looked for a,
present by all, even if it brings sand-flies
moqutoes, and other insects which are very
apt to bother Yours, ETC.,
d. G. b.