The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-09

rows and ranks Of engines and cars. such
fleets Of tugs and steamers and dredges and
narges are lying there idle as will Keep MN I'm
forget about them in his wonder at the other
On the days when. steamers arrive In tho
morning snecial train leaves Colon Tor
Panama Mt 80 in tho afternoon. i haI pnr /,
chased u ticket to Colon only, aud when tried
| TO buy one from Colon to Panama l could
nG adv no Of sG o tSS & IN
pier shed and waited till It ran out t? the St.,
2n and then got on Sr AZ s6e Sy ON
company IL New York. THO price Of tho So:
trst.c laas, SO gold; In Colon ~, second.class
costs $3.50, Columbian silver and the first
class s. gold. a dollar gold sold for $l.Io
There is difference in the cars. In. the
second class he seats stand lengthw!se OF the
elevated road. In tho first class they are like
those OF ordinary country roads In all other
COMMUNICATIONS, they are precisely alike. The
social distinctions Will he found Just as they
were on the shin, Tor the train carries but n
car worse sr than in the FIRST The town
curios caps made from tho bark OF tho
,in, Of 4 palm tree, canes from ma;
are not allowed to enter the pier. but once tho
train leaves the protecting yard ience behind,
mskSs eaHy Rs @ class ea the
heddiers are arrant swindlers every one,
There was one old man who wanted to sell out
cents each, he said. But he would give the six
stances. | remembered hearing that same
story and seeing the same Did face two years
sssrS SnSn &b ne S EGsp III ssg p HS
over tbs Nicaragua Canal route. said:
Great Scott Isn't that baby buried yet?",
10 1,Npl ...l ltr N.,r NM
...Whar done see yo' ,beio'?"
=. one evening when the Colon sailed Tor New
York about two years ago" 49,
"Fo' de Lawd done forgot ye. shuah." His
eyes glanced slyly from side to side u m oment
was anoder one. shuah."
just before the train started he came back
having two caps loft. He offered the two for
dime. and one Of my companions bought one
for five cents.
At last the train moves out and Colon is left
behind quickly. From dirty shanty town
the eye turns 10 a tropical wilderness On one
hand is a lagoon Of the Chagres River, its dead.
ton. Dn the other rises II hill so thickly COW
cred with brush, vines, and trees that the eye
cannot penetrate below the green surface.
moment later tiny clearing. in which bare;
looted negro swings machete.is seen. and
the chances, are that half the passengers will
wonder and shy sol how he dare work there
barefooted; They wi think he is in imminent
danger OF deadly snakes.
From this clearing to the solid green again
and from that to another clearing, the transit
i rapidEtoo rapid for the tourist. for he would
settlements OF shanties with cactus hedges
Train 'r'G man %HS viii show Money Hill @hero
40 many Thousands of the victims OF the fever
After little the endless, idle procession Of
hundreds on hundreds Of shanties cottages.
and villas. built for the work men and officials
e the S good While on FEW
u the buildings are tumhinG down. in spite
Of the destroying influence OF hot. moist
In the collections Of barracks colonies OF ne.
Crocs and Chi namen are found. Naked babies
draws UP to the stations. and this evidence OF
Il tropical climate is for some reason one OF
moro interest t" the ordinary tourist than any
to turn this interest OF the tourist to account
by holding up the sduirmnG youngsters be-
fore the car windows and saying:
Give him q dime. boss"
But for every hegGar there will he found a
The bananas are delicious nd the flowers are
exIusitcly beautiful. but one does not need to
buy, flowers to- see them. Tie isthmus is n
whole journey across. the space occupied in
the landscape by trees covered with flowers is
remarkably large. TO most tourists the llow-
ers rank next in interest to the naked babies:
but a remnant think most Of the flowers
may be, he can find something to attract him
along this little railroad from lanama to
Colon, 1t is doubtful whether any other piece
with more matters OF interest to the stranger
along its route. From the impenetrable
tang!e of vegetation To- the barren sand bar.
from the intricate dredge TO the wooden cane
suueeZers worked by hand; from the shapely
wench dancing while her sweetheart plays tho
hunIo. to the grave with its black cross, is only
n step at any point on the road The eye turns
from enc rrInarkanle picture to another with
such speed that but few of the whole gallery
can DO rrmem hered. and then while yet tho
train seems only to have started on is lonr-
ney Panama is reached. and that Is found to
be the most Interesting point OF all.
JOHN r. SPEARS,