Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1908-02-22
CURFEW At PANAMA,
Employee Suggests That One Is
Needed In Canal Zone.
TWO MEASURES ADVOCATED.
One of the Workers, Living In Bache-
Ior Quarters, Wants Protection
Against the ConviviaI Among His
.Numher-views Of Daring Dis
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Bachelors employed by the isthmian
canal commission and living in the ca
nal zone, at Panama, are debating
heatedly whether they need a curfeW
| law for protection against the bibu-
lous and convivial among their num-
ber. The suggestion that a curfew law
be established for night roaming bach
| elors on the isthmus came from one
! Of the employees living in bachelors
| quarters. says a Washington special
correspondent of the New York Post
| The trouble began when this employee.
! who is stationed at Paraiso, taking ad-
vantage of the canal commissions in
vitation for suggestions looking to the
betterment of the Service, made these
two:
First-The establishment of curfew
hour, not later than 10 o'clock in the
| evening, when lights in bachelors quar-
ters should be extinguished.
Second.-The absolute prohibition of the
practice of bringing liquor into quarters.
The employee added ingenuously in
making the second suggestion that he
did not know whether it was against
the present regulations to have liquor
In bachelors quarters, 'but If not 1t
should be-
In advocating these two measures
"for the uplift" the employee urged
these reasons:
There are many employees of the COM
mission whose duties are both arduous
and exacting, and at the end Of the days
labor they are in actual need of undis-
turbed rest TO fit them for the duties of
the morrow When this is denied them
through the action of various roisterers
who periodically make their quarters an
assembly of brawlers whom a respecta-
BILE ~ saloon keeper would not tolerate
(the writer is aware that whosoever
this shoe pinches will be the loudest in
denunciation Of him), it is evident that
the service given to the isthmian canal
commission by all who come within the
zone of their disturbing influence Is not
and cannot be as efficient as it should be-
For the benefit of dipsomaniacs who
will indulge in stfmulants regardless of
detriment to personal health. and the
writer would not deny them their rights
in this respect, 1t might be we'll to estab-
lish canteens in the various towns with
''boozing ken" attachments, where their
orgies could be INDUCED in without dis
turbfng those who have no desire to take
part in them and who have rights" which
should be respected.
The response was instantaneous and
vivacious. An employee at Culebra
heartily indorsed the plan, but sug-
gested that the curfew should not be
rung until IL o'clock. Eleven o'clock
would suit everybody better than 10
p. M, because those who attend Y. M.
G. A. classes, tournaments, entertain
ments, lodge meetings and more init
mate rendezvous would be put to |
great deal Of Inconvenience If not al /
lowed to turn on lights on retiring"
One seldom thinks of the hordes OF /
canal employees returning nightly in
throngs from 7. M. G. A. classes.
The Culebra employee wasn't SO sure
about the advisability Of the second
He thought 1t would re-
quire the presence Of zone police
man to keep the bachelors from bring
ng whisky into their quarters. but