The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-02
Attorney King Is Full Of Stories
 Of ISthmian Life Tells Interesting Tales of Customs of the Canal
 Zone. Believes Land Teens With Opportunities for Pro- gressive People = Opens New Office With Attor- ney J. P. Gray.

Attorney Chtus H. King, who as announced in the Farmer several weeks ago has been visiting Panama returned to a new suite of offices prepared in his absence, in the War ner Building, and with John P. Gray as his associate resumed his legal work here.
 The lawyer is brimful of interest ing anecdotes of the Isthmian coun- try, it's life. customs and opportuni- ties. He predicts that within a short important cities of the globe, for he believes with the rush of shipping the canal must bring, there will be wonderful strides, comm ercially and agriculturally, among the people who for centuries have been content to lead a typical tropical existence.
 The sanitary conditions of the country are now so perfected, he says, that the visitor with ordinary precaution need hesitate no more about visiting Colon or Panama than the average American city. English is spoken practically everywhere. The only person with whom Attorney King sought an interview where he was unable to talk in English was a policeman.
 "The basis of the population" says Attorney King, "is black. The aver age person is sickly yellow. No one works very hard. The soil is productive, unusually so, and practi- cally everything will grow there. Yet the natives won't set their hands to tilling the soil and practically every thing that is eaten is imported. There isn't cold storage plant on the Isthmus. There is only one hotel in rlor roC wit I@N telries, that is the Tivoli, originally established by the United States for men engaged in its work, but others made such persistent demand for accommodations that now the hotel is opened to the public, and the rates are $10 a day.
 There are a great many policemen in this country. They are little more than 4 feet tall, stocly and efficient Every block you meet a policeman and every three blocks there is a mounted policeman besides. Old wo- neen stand between the blocks. selling lottery tickets. and drawings are held every Sunday.
 Practically every store handles li- quor. The barber shops are not in dtvidual institutions. They are mere ly annexed to saloons. Even the Chinese stores have their bars. I didn't see a single drunken man.
 Colon isn't an inviting city for the visitor. There are no hotels, though 1t is likely that both the United States government and the United States Fruit Company will erect modern ho- tels within a year or SO.
 Panama is a wonderful and fascin- ating city. The city waIl-which was so expensive that the King Of Spain asked whether it was built with sil- ver-stands a monument to the skill of the early people of the new city The daty is solid, built compactly up to a certain line, and then begins the country. Streets are we'll paved and kept we'll cleaned. Before the sani- tary improvements were made in Colon and Panama the natives used to say there were two seasons for foreign CTS, the healthy and the unhealthy. In the healthy seasons foreigners liv- ed three days, and the unhealthy sea- sons, one day.
 Now there are nine thousand men employed in the health department of the Canal Zone. Sixty thousands of gallons of crude oil are used every month In the continuous campaign for the extermination of the mosuuito.
 The average native of Panama is content to take small piece of gov ermnent land, build a little shack. live almost outdoors, plant a little soil with barley enough for himself, then work a couple of days now and then along the water front or in the canal. to get enough money to buy a few clothes and an occasional lottery ticket"
 MT. King and Mr. Gray are under stood to be associated in the promo tfon of an IsthnHan enterprise Ea said his visit was successful but would not discuss his DIans