The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-12-09
apital of the republic, one can man
ge to get along on English.

ge to get along on English.
DR.. Fable Aroseman, president OF
he republic speaks English fiuently,
S indeed do the majority of the up
,er classes. The daughters of nearly
Ill prominent citizens are educated In
:ither the United States or abroad,
md many of their sons likewise.
While Panama is an Independent
republic, gaining freedom with the
lacit knowledge, if not actual COOP
Grafton Of the United States, she is
bound very close with America. Mer-
cants and business men in the re-
public have grown rich by the $780,
100000 which Uncle Sam spends
there yearly. Moreover, America ex-
ercises what is very like protector
ate over the country. The treaty
| by which the United States acquired
! the canal zone guarantees Its indie
pendence. More than that Uncle
Sam undertook the task Of making
the principle cities of Colon and Pan
anna sanitary-laid pavements and
| forced the destruction Of pestilential
danger spots. There have been no
cases of yellow fever on the isthmus
near or in the canal zone since 1905.
The herculean task of Transforming
a belt racked with tropic fevers and
alive with pestilence- a Job COM
parable to the engineering work on
the canal has been accomplished
by corps Of military physicians UNI
der Col. Gorgas, with wonderful eff
ficiency.
Today the deadly yellow fever
mosquito is practically eradicated.
There is no diminution in preventa-
tive work, however, and swamps and
stagnant water pools all over the
zone are regularly oiled. Panama
and Colon have been made clean and
healthy cities-the latter being
transformed from veritable swamp
alive with deadly fever.
The department of sanitation even
sees to it that the citizens of the free
and independent republic Of Panama
keep their streets clean, and it re-
quires sanitary and modern cOl1ec-
ton of garbage as we'll as the ex-
termination of rats and mosquitoes.
An American need not fear to live
!; and work on the Isthmus nowadays.
Despite the heat there has never
been sunstroke in the history of
three-fourths of those OH the zone
were infected with malaria and hos
pitfalls were kept busy treating about
80 per cent of the canal force. Now
days scarcely one-third of this mum
Der are affected. The eight-hou1
work day prevails and the hours are
from Z to IL a. M, and from l tc
S p. M, with two hours for luncheon
and siesta. There are Y. NJ c. A.
stations, churches and clubs for the
> employees. The government fur.
nishes quarters, light, fuel, and il
desired, food. This latter at prices
: which appear radiculously in com
;. parison with those of the States
. Free schools, free medical and hos
pital attendance, and pay salaries a
So to SIS per cent higher than those
paid for similar work in the United
States. A laundry, owned and oper
v ated by the government, does worl
for all employees, and charges Is tt
: 10 per cent less than those in thu
. United States. Employees receive
. distilled water free. They get ic
from the government at low figure
10 If they desire they can live at tn
% government hotels, and pay just 81
. cents for meal which cannot be OBJ
tanned in the United States. for z
= cents or one dollar. This is onl
: open for government employees TIL
- worker on the canal can smoke eli
D CARS which would cost IS cent
- straight in the States, but which a
= obliging commissary sells for 81
~ cents each. His wife may purchas
le real Irish linen at one half the pric
~ to her sister in the States. The rea
20 son is that there is no duty on in
% ports to the zone when they ar
~ brought in by the government.
- The United Press corresponds
with President Taft asked an eng
neer on one Of the big locomotive
y to tell him what he thought of tn
W work in the zone. "Well," he sale
~ Il am not main line engineer, an
: / get $50, gold, a month, as aganS
~ their S210. But I save 500 ever
az month in the year, and live bette
- than Id even hope to live in th
IL States
- How long have you been here?
% was asked.
'e I've only been back seven mont
this last time" he replied. Prior {